January 3, 2025
As we move into 2025, the sustainable technology solutions market is continuing to expand. This growth is tied with a heightened demand for companies to operate in a sustainable way. Not only do businesses face pressure from key stakeholders, they face pressure from their customers because customers will not shop with companies who are not energy conscious.
One of the ways that businesses can be more energy conscious is to embrace sustainable technology solutions. These are a business asset, and they can be used to measure and reduce a brand's social and environmental impact of operations.Let's take a look at some of the things reshaping industries in 2025.
One of the most cutting edge solutions for 2025 is high density colocation. It's designed to optimize data center space and energy efficiency, ensuring that businesses are able to house more servers, but with a smaller footprint. Not only does this maximise sustainability, but it allows for scalability, cost effectiveness, and environmentally friendly alternatives to the traditional data storage solutions.
Environmental, social and governance reporting, or ESG is so much more accurate than manual models when it's done with AI. It can also produce results in a much shorter time frame required for human calculations. This way, organizations can see the impact of sustainability changes without delaying. The AI technology can be used to analyse keywords and read through documents while saving data from the relevant files. When you automate this process, you'll save time and money.
If you want to analyze your company's positive and negative social and environmental impact, impact management software will help. You can then figure out ways to mitigate the negatives and maximise the positives, and do so in alignment with your goals. It accounts for all areas of your business operation and that includes carbon use, waste disposal and community service.
A great way for businesses to be sustainable is to utilise the cloud with digital documentation. Removing paper from business operations doesn't just reduce office waste to about 70%, but it also helps to reduce your risk of damaged documents. When things are moving to the cloud in digital documentation form, it can be a tricky process. But there are programs out there that offer optical character recognition and can scan physical pages. This turns them into digital documents quickly.
For your business to be more sustainable, you need to look at the way that your people work. With people now able to skip the commute and forgo the heavy carbon cost of driving, you're able to utilize workflow management software, e-mail, screen recording apps and instant message to support the shift.
Finding digital solutions to your business can be revolutionary and it can help you to grow as a company. By leaning into this technology, you can become more sustainable and grow your business brand as a community-focused company, ensuring people are aware of your ESG goals.