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Greening The Internet
Joseph AlhadeffVP Global Public Policy and Chief Privacy Officer
Avoid false dichotomies
• The carbon footprint of ICT is important,
But • The potential of ICT
to measure, contain, mitigate, and solve environmental problems is much more critical to a sustainable future.
Eco-EfficiencyOptimize resource utilization
Minimize carbon footprint
Eco-TransparencyProtect business reputation
Promote green brand
Eco-InnovationDesign green products
Implement green processes
Path to a Greener Future
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Sustainability:A Market Perspective
The Sustainability Paradigm
Source: Brundtland Commission Report, 1987
InnovationRisk Management
Margin ImprovementGrowth Enhancement
Job CreationSkills EnhancementSocial Investments
Business EthicsSecurity
Clean Air, Water & LandEmissions Reductions
Zero Waste, Releases & Spills
DiversityHuman Rights
Community OutreachLabor Relations
Safety & HealthEnvironmental Regulations
Global Climate ChangeCrisis Management
Resource EfficiencyProduct Stewardship
Life-Cycle ManagementProducts to Service
Social Progress
Environmental Stewardship
Socio-Environmental
Socio- Economic
Eco-Efficiency
Economic Growth
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• Resource Depletion / Rise in Commodities
• Push for Accountability and Transparency
• Move Towards Regulations
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Pull from Financial Markets
• Peer Pressure on Rise
• Need to Be Part of DNA and
Corporate Governance
Trends & Drivers for Sustainability
Oil prices, Energy consumption, Commodity prices on Water usage, Air pollution and climate change
awareness
Demands on companies from major stakeholder groups, such as shareholders, employees, and financial institutions
Corporate transparency (the Global Reporting Initiative, OECD guidelines, the UN Global Compact)
Dow Jones Global Index and the Dow Jones Sustainability Index showed that the Sustainability Index significantly
outperformed the other index, Socially Responsible Investment (SRI), Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)
Peer pressure is influencing companies to be more transparent
Sustainable development becomes more engrained in companies and their governance structures, it will challenge and eventually change the parameters of
acceptable corporate behavior
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Functional View of SustainabilityIntelligent Management of Carbon, Energy and Other Natural ResourcesRisk & Performance Management
Data Collection & Contextualization
IT Infrastructure
Supply Chain & Operations Management
Sustainability Business
Intelligence
Sustainability Management
Environmental Compliance & Risk Management
Environmental Compliance & Risk Management
Sustainability ReportingSustainability Reporting
Natural Resource Planning and Budgeting
Natural Resource Planning and Budgeting
Carbon Cap & Trade, Offset Management
Carbon Cap & Trade, Offset Management
Digital Content Management
Digital Content Management
Workload ManagementWorkload Management
Application ConsolidationApplication Consolidation
Software-as- a-ServiceSoftware-as- a-Service
Server & Storage Virtualization
Server & Storage Virtualization
Design for the EnvironmentDesign for the Environment
Sustainable ProcurementSustainable Procurement
Supply Chain PlanningSupply Chain Planning
Green ManufacturingGreen Manufacturing
Environmental Health and Safety
Environmental Health and Safety
Intelligent Asset Management
Intelligent Asset Management
TransportationTransportation Reverse LogisticsReverse Logistics DematerializationDematerialization Smart Utility
GridsSmart Utility Grids
ERP & SCM IntegrationERP & SCM Integration
Emissions CalculationsEmissions Calculations
Meters, Building & Energy Systems Integration
Meters, Building & Energy Systems Integration
Shop Floor Control and MES
Shop Floor Control and MES
Data AggregationData Aggregation
Operational AnalyticsOperational Analytics
Enterprise AnalyticsEnterprise Analytics
Policy MgmtPolicy Mgmt
Controls MgmtControls Mgmt
Data Verification
Data Verification
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The Business Case for Sustainability
• Measurable Reduction in Operating Costs
• Stock Markets Rewarding Leaders
• Strengthened Brand and Reputation
• Improved Stakeholder Relations
• Indirect Savings Through Avoidance of Environmental Risk
• Innovation/Differentiation Opportunities
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Enabling the Eco-Enterprise
ICT – An Enabler of Sustainable Design
• Think in terms of ecosystem (value chains etc)• Use ICTs to gather information and model processes• Make information actionable by reconsidering
process, flow, and organization of activities• Better understand impacts and identify waste• Balance between just-in-time and cost saving loads• Optimize the ecosystem to capture the potential
benefits of ICTs and related technologies – much more than “paperless”
• Find the cultural and motivational dimension that applies to your enterprise/staff
• Traditionally supply networks are optimized on time and cost
• Model carbon emissions – Manufacturing Lines– Product Sourcing– Transportation Lanes
• Build in cap-and-trade constraints• Run scenario analyses to align
network design in the context of strategic business objectives
• Analyze supply network risks
Eco-Innovative Supply Chain DesignRe-evaluating the Optimization Equation
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• Load Optimization– Increased weight & volume utilization of
transportation assets results in lowered energy consumption and emissions
• Dock Optimization– Increased loading/unload efficiency
results in reduced truck idle time and emissions
• Route Optimization– Increased efficiency per unit of
distance traveled results in lowered energy consumption and emissions
Eco-Efficient TransportationReduce Financial and Environmental Costs
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• Oracle Real Application Clusters• Commodity hardware, smaller servers• Improved hardware utilization• Hardware consolidation
• Oracle Virtual Machine• Most efficient use of available system resources• Three times more efficient than other server virtualization products• Reduce power and space requirements
• Oracle Active Data Guard• Leverage your existing disaster recovery site• No additional storage or servers required• Offload resource-intensive activities from the production database
• Oracle Advanced Compression• Use resources more efficiently• Reduce disk space requirements• Lower storage costs
Eco-Efficient Data Centers
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Some of the things we’ve been up to…
And how our products help us, and our customers, go green
Oracle Corporate Citizenship
Oracle is committed to using our technology and resources to advance education in innovative ways, protect the environment, promote diversity, and enrich community life.
www.oracle.com/commitment
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• First software company to participate in the U.S. EPA Climate Leaders Program
• Member of the U.S. EPA Green Power Partnership Program
• Member of the Climate Savers Initiative
• Participate in Demand Response Programs
• 14 European and South African operations are certified to the ISO 14001 environmental standard
• Best Workplace for Commuters Award Winner
• Conservation and recycling programs ranging from water, paper, waste, etc.
Oracle Environmental Stewardship
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• > 6% of renewable energy > 6% of renewable energy • Energy usage reduced to < Energy usage reduced to <
0.5kWh supporting each kWh of 0.5kWh supporting each kWh of IT equipment IT equipment
• Support energy use is >50% Support energy use is >50% less than typical industry less than typical industry practicepractice
Austin Data CenterTowards an Energy Efficient Benchmark
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"Technology vendors have a critical role to play to enable more sustainable business practices," said Cody Sisco, Manager of Advisory Services at BSR (Business for Social Responsibility). "The emphasis on sustainability at Oracle's global customer and partner event demonstrates how important it considers these opportunities. Through Oracle's "Enable the Eco-Enterprise" awards, Oracle is rewarding more sustainable business practices, and demonstrating how other organizations can use technology to cut costs, improve business efficiencies, and minimize their environmental impacts. We encourage Oracle and the software industry to continue to accelerate their customers' progress in addressing sustainability challenges."
Enabling the Eco-Enterprise Award
Oracle products that help reduce costs by optimizing resource utilization and minimizing an organization’s carbon footprint:
• Oracle Real Application Clusters allow customers to add capacity on demand with one inexpensive PC server at a time. This helps save on electricity, cooling, and floor space.
• Oracle Active Data Guard offloads resource-intensive activities from databases in the primary data center to an underutilized standby site. This enables greater hardware efficiency and lower operating costs.
• Oracle Advanced Compression compresses any type of data, including structured and unstructured data such as documents, images, and multimedia, as well as network traffic and data generated in the process of being backed up. As a result, companies can significantly lower storage requirements, increasing energy efficiency.
• Oracle VM is server virtualization software that fully supports both Oracle andnon-Oracle applications. With Oracle VM, companies
can consolidate servers and reduce power consumption.• Oracle Self-Service Applications automate formerly paper-driven processes. With these
applications, companies can reduce a company’s carbon footprint by cutting consumption of natural resources through elimination of printing and distribution. Oracle Self-Service Applications include the following:
- Oracle Procurement— manages the procurement of goods and services online- Oracle Internet Expenses— manages the expense reimbursement process- Oracle Payables—automates invoice processing- Oracle eBilling Manager—enables online bill access and payment - Oracle Web Conferencing— enables virtual meetings, with the ability to view visuals
Oracle products that help companies design green products and implement green processes:
• Oracle’s Agile Product Lifecycle Management solutions enable companies to accelerate product innovation and maximize product profitability by managing product information, processes, and decisions throughout the product lifecycle and across the global product network. Companies using Agile Product Lifecycle Management are able to implement “cradle-to-cradle” product design processes that assume no waste at all.
• Oracle Asset Lifecycle Management consists of many solutions that are part of Oracle E-Business Suite Financial family of applications. These products give an organization the ability to monitor assets—from service and maintenance, to upgrade, transfer, or configuration—during their entire lifecycle. Companies can also reduce energy use and improve asset performance through reliability-centered maintenance.
• Oracle Lean Manufacturing allows companies to implement processes that eliminate the wastes that inflate costs, lead times, and inventory requirements. With Oracle Lean Manufacturing, companies can more easily adhere to environmental compliance initiatives and develop processes that promote environmental sustainability.
• Oracle Reverse Logistics manages the handling and disposition of returned goods, improving a company’s ability to put returned goods back on the market, while providing better data on why goods are returned. Companies implementing reverse logistics processes can dramatically reduce the waste going into landfills and increase opportunities to reintroduce returned products to market.
• Oracle Strategic Network Optimization helps companies optimize global supply chain operations and deploy improved risk mitigation strategies. With “what if” scenario capabilities, companies can model and predict impacts of implementing green networks.
• Oracle Transportation Management delivers transportation planning and execution capabilities to shippers and third-party logistics providers. It integrates and streamlines transportation planning, execution, freight payment, and business process automation on a single application across all modes of transportation, which allows companies to build more efficient and environmentally friendly distribution networks.
Oracle products that improve brand by making sustainability efforts transparent to the market:
• Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) is a portfolio of technology and applications that provides the industry's first integrated, end-to-end Enterprise Performance Management System, including category-leading performance management applications, BI applications, BI foundation and tools, and data warehousing. With Oracle Business Intelligence, companies can identify metrics and create dashboards to monitor environmental sustainability activities. With holistic visibility into sustainability efforts, companies can confidently promote socially and environmentally responsible activities.
• Oracle Governance, Risk and Compliance Manager (GRC Manager) delivers end-to-end support for GRC processes—including best-in-class infrastructure services for content and records management, identity management and access control, and change and configuration management—along with integrated intelligence for insight into the status of all GRC activities across the enterprise. With Oracle GRC Manager companies can monitor and report on compliance with global regulations, while safeguarding their brand and reputation through information reliability and data protection.