The cloud has become a tool that many
companies cannot do without anymore. In essence, a cloud is a virtually
limitless storage space that can be accessed anywhere with any device, making the
concept invaluable for both local and international businesses. Though the
cloud has been a huge leap forward in the realm of efficiency, there's also an
impact it's starting to make on the environment.
By making companies more efficient with time,
the cloud is automatically helping in the realm of sustainability. However, the
cloud has also started to make a more purposeful impact that's going to be
refined more in the future. By bringing all information across one business
together within the cloud, the company can look at all environmental data at
once, making big waves in the future of efficiency.
Environmental
Data's Future
Environmental data is information collected
throughout all aspects of the business that records resources, waste, emissions
and any other foreseeable impacts on the natural environment. The larger the
company, the more difficult this task can become, making a business'
sustainable practices crawl to a standstill.
However, with technology like the Salesforce
Sustainability Cloud, the data can be gathered much
easier. The Salesforce Sustainability Cloud is made specifically for
environmental data. This particular cloud is made to easily track, analyze and
address reliable data to help reduce carbon emissions.
The entire idea of a cloud is to connect data
from anywhere in the company, but having a cloud made and used specifically
with a single task in mind can mean the difference between quick, efficient
work and a slow slog through tedious, irrelevant data.
Why Businesses
Choose Sustainability
When businesses are efficient enough to
reduce waste and use renewable resources, they're also saving a lot of money in
the process. Not to mention many consumers notice what a business is doing in
regard to things they personally care about, like the environment. In fact, 88% of consumers
are more loyal to companies that have environmental
missions in mind.
Huge businesses like Google,
Microsoft
and Amazon
are also committed to sustainability despite no longer needing to reach out to
their clientele. Big businesses like these are the sort of entities that make
the largest impacts on our environment, but they also lose massive amounts of
money through wasted resources, emissions driving down the health of local
employees and even creating an increasingly smaller amount of server space.
The cloud, like all aspects of the internet,
exists in massive server farms that need to have a lot of space and resources
to keep as cool and abundant as possible. By using part of the cloud
exclusively to collect data on sustainability, a business can lower its needs for
server farms by consolidating more and more of their data. Clouds being used
for environmental data even work to help themselves.
Why the Change Is
Needed
Collecting and sorting through environmental
data isn't exactly a new line of work. The way this position used to run and
still runs in many businesses is with outdated, incomplete data. Information
that's constantly changing is difficult to understand completely when there
isn't a steady stream of data coming in. Working in greenhouse gas or
GHG accounting can be frustrating without the needed
tools.
Technology like the Salesforce Sustainability
Cloud is what makes GHG accounting a lot easier. Information is constantly
flowing in through the cloud, whether by user input or sensors throughout the
company. The change in process from gathering data through third parties and
outdated spreadsheets to one cloud can make a whole company run more
efficiently.
How Cloud Sustainability
Impacts the World
Our harm to the planet comes in many forms,
some that we don't even mean to create. Population, for example, will continue
to grow and force us to feed more people with less land and resources. Every
change we make now can help us in the future.
Cloud sustainability is a very large win for
environmentalists. As said, the big businesses of the world are the ones making
the most impact. Changing their practices with more reliable environmental data
doesn't just help their profit but also the planet. With more sustainable
clouds, we can better secure our future on a much larger scale.
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About the Author
Kayla Matthews is a tech-loving blogger who writes and edits ProductivityBytes.com. Follow her on Twitter @productibytes to read all of her latest posts!