Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability is a comprehensive platform that helps organizations achieve their sustainability goals and commitments. It offers a range of tools and solutions that enable organizations to measure, manage, and reduce their environmental footprint, such as carbon accounting, supply chain optimization, renewable energy sourcing, and more.
In February 2024, Microsoft announced new data and AI solutions in Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability, which provide capabilities that organizations need to move faster and further in their sustainability journey.
These include:
Microsoft Fabric: A single analytics platform for sustainability data
Copilot and Intelligent Insights in Microsoft Sustainability Manager: AI assistance for better, faster decisions
ESG Value Chain Solution: A holistic approach to ESG management across the value chain
In this blog, we will explain how to use or enable these new solutions and how they can help your organization achieve its sustainability objectives.
Microsoft Fabric: A single analytics platform for sustainability data
One of the challenges that organizations face in their sustainability journey is the lack of access and visibility into their ESG data. ESG data is often scattered across different sources, systems, and formats, making it difficult to collect, integrate, and analyze.
Microsoft Fabric is an end-to-end, analytics SaaS platform that solves this problem by bringing together all of your enterprise data, including ESG data, in a single place. With Microsoft Fabric, you can connect to data from anywhere, uncover insights using AI-powered analytics tools in a unified experience, and embed those insights in the applications your people use every day to drive action and improve decision-making.
Microsoft Fabric provides out-of-the-box ESG data model, connectors, and reporting, which allow you to accelerate your time to insights and sustainability progress. By connecting your ESG data with Microsoft Fabric, you can turn volumes of sustainability data into meaningful insights and progress.
To use or enable Microsoft Fabric, you need to:
Sign up for Microsoft Fabric and create a workspace
Connect your data sources using the built-in connectors or create your own
Explore your data using the intuitive interface and the powerful analytics tools
Create and share reports and dashboards using the pre-built templates or customize your own
Embed your insights in your applications using the APIs and SDKs
Copilot and Intelligent Insights in Microsoft Sustainability Manager: AI assistance for better, faster decisions
Another challenge that organizations face in their sustainability journey is the complexity and uncertainty of decision-making and reporting. Organizations need to make informed and impactful decisions based on their sustainability data, as well as communicate their progress and performance to their stakeholders.
Copilot and Intelligent Insights in Microsoft Sustainability Manager are new AI capabilities that help you with these tasks. Copilot is a generative AI assistant that can answer your questions, analyze your data, and draft your reports using natural language. Intelligent Insights is an interactive AI model that can help you understand and optimize your emissions data.
With Copilot and Intelligent Insights in Microsoft Sustainability Manager, you can:
Quickly analyze your environmental data and surface reduction opportunities in areas like carbon and water use, saving work and time
Talk to your sustainability data using natural language queries and get answers and insights faster
Draft your sustainability preparatory reports using Copilot's suggestions and feedback, reducing time and freeing up resources to focus on other priorities
Explore and optimize your calculated emissions data using Intelligent Insights' scenarios and recommendations, improving your performance and outcomes
To use or enable Copilot and Intelligent Insights in Microsoft Sustainability Manager, you need to:
Sign up for Microsoft Sustainability Manager and create a profile
Connect your data sources using the built-in connectors or create your own
Enable Copilot and Intelligent Insights in your settings
Ask Copilot questions or request reports using the chat interface
Access Intelligent Insights from the emissions dashboard
ESG Value Chain Solution: A holistic approach to ESG management across the value chain
A third challenge that organizations face in their sustainability journey is the lack of visibility and control over their ESG impacts and risks across their value chain. Organizations need to manage their ESG performance not only within their own operations, but also across their suppliers, customers, and partners.
ESG Value Chain Solution is a new solution that helps you with this challenge. It is a holistic approach to ESG management that covers the entire value chain, from sourcing to consumption.
It leverages the power of Microsoft Azure, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and other Microsoft solutions to provide a comprehensive and integrated platform for ESG data collection, analysis, reporting, and action.
With ESG Value Chain Solution, you can:
Collect and integrate ESG data from your internal and external stakeholders using the built-in connectors or create your own
Analyze and monitor your ESG performance and risks across your value chain using the pre-built dashboards and reports or customize your own
Report and communicate your ESG progress and performance to your stakeholders using the pre-built templates or create your own
Act and improve your ESG outcomes and impacts across your value chain using the built-in workflows and actions or create your own
To use or enable ESG Value Chain Solution, you need to:
Sign up for ESG Value Chain Solution and create a profile
Connect your data sources using the built-in connectors or create your own
Explore and customize your ESG dashboards and reports using the intuitive interface and the powerful analytics tools
Create and share your ESG reports and communications using the pre-built templates or customize your own
Enable and execute your ESG workflows and actions using the built-in capabilities or create your own
Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability is a comprehensive platform that helps organizations achieve their sustainability goals and commitments. It offers a range of tools and solutions that enable organizations to measure, manage, and reduce their environmental footprint.
The new data and AI solutions in Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability provide capabilities that organizations need to move faster and further in their sustainability journey.
These solutions are designed to help organizations access and organize their ESG data, uncover and act on insights, and report and communicate their progress and performance.
By using or enabling these solutions, organizations can accelerate their sustainability transformation and create a positive impact for their business, society, and the planet.
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