“The issues of global warming will not be solved by software alone, but we cannot solve them without software.”
Rob Bernard
Microsoft Chief Environmental Strategist
Microsoft believes in the power of software to enable the changes required to address the environmental challenge. To that end, the company is working to develop innovations to help its customers:
Being green – it’s not just what you do; it’s how you do it.
When you rethink business processes, you might find that previously held hard-core beliefs are shattered. For instance, many believe that in order to work effectively, they must go to the office. What if that was not the case? Microsoft Dynamics CRM can help you enable a distributed work force so that your business can reap numerous environmental and societal benefits.
Benefits include:
Less pollution. Eliminates the carbon footprint of all those commuting miles.
Employee savings. Minimizes fuel costs and wear and tear on employees’ cars.
Work / Life balance. Cuts time wasted between work and home.
More robust workforce. Increases the sheer number of people who are employable through telework options.
Less stress on infrastructure. Decreases wear and tear on roads, traffic congestion and accidents caused by everyday commuting.
Healthier, happier workforce. Reduces the potential for spread of illness, lowers turnover and absentee rates, and improves employee morale.
Best of all, it can increase productivity!
A report by Telework Exchange, based on the results of workers in Virginia who participated in a Telework Day, reveals increased productivity by participants and increased satisfaction with their teleworking experience.
69% of those who participated in Telework Day reported they accomplished more than they would on a normal day at the office.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM can enable you to reap benefits like these. With an intuitive interface and integrated capabilities of the Microsoft Office system to boost productivity and streamline communications, including a 360-degree view of the customer to help employees gain valuable insights, Microsoft Dynamics CRM can be a strategic asset to any organization.
Sustainability Drives High Return on Investment with Microsoft Dynamics ERP!Read this article to find out how Microsoft Dynamics partners have helped their customers benefit from using Microsoft Dynamics business management solutions to enable environmental and social benefits along with a strong return on technology spending and unprecedented efficiencies.
The Environmental Sustainability Dashboard for Microsoft Dynamics AX
The Environmental Sustainability Dashboard for Microsoft Dynamics AX is a cost-effective solution that can help you track your energy consumption, the resultant carbon footprint, and related costs. This add in lets you be more proactive in your approach to environmental issues and identify opportunities for cost reductions that translate directly to your company’s bottom-line, including:
Education: How to implement software for insight into environmental issues
As part of the Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step implementation methodology, the Environmental Sustainability Dashboard comes with detailed guidance to help customers and partners gather the data needed to create a greenhouse-gas inventory. In addition customers and partners can organize that information in the dashboard so that they can easily gather accurate, auditable, and actionable environmental data.
In addition, Environmental Management Accounting guidance for Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft Dynamics GP, and Microsoft Dynamics NAV, is available to inform you on how to setup your system to better track environmental costs and impacts.
To learn more about how the Environmental Management Accounting and Environmental Sustainability Dashboard guidance can benefit your company, read Microsoft Dynamics AX helps businesses track their “green” performance - today and tomorrow (DOC 18.5 KB).
To learn more about Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step implementation methodology, contact your local partner.
Next steps
- Learn more about sustainability at Microsoft.
Read this blog about social and environmental sustainability efforts at Microsoft.
- Read a customer story.
Learn about Seventh Generation—a pioneer in socially responsible business practices—and their selection of Microsoft Dynamics. They chose this solution not only because of its impressively comprehensive ERP functionality, but because it is able to support the company’s core environmental values.
- Contact us.
Learn more about how you can drive environmental sustainability practices with Microsoft Dynamics. Contact us with questions and for help finding a Microsoft partner.
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