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Sustainability at ista

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Technology Category	Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms
Applicable Industries	Utilities
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Energy Management System
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration
Challenge	ista, a sub-metering company based in Germany, had set ambitious sustainability goals and needed to measure their success. For the annual collection of sustainability data, roughly 20 data sets from about 174 sites are collected, involving around 130 people. When the company decided to expand their sustainability initiatives, the existing approach was no longer adequate. Instead of focusing only on data collection and reporting, ista also needed to analyze the existing data to improve future performance. The challenges they faced included extensive and time-consuming data collection via Excel and email, plausibility checks required to improve data quality, and a lack of tools for analytics and advanced planning features. Read More
About Customer	ista is a sub-metering company founded in 1957 and headquartered in Essen, Germany. The company has a deep understanding of sustainability and is committed to not only taking ecological and social action, but to empowering others to do so as well. ista operates in 22 countries globally, with over 5,500 employees and a revenue of €908.8 million. The company collects sustainability data from 174 sites across 27 different subsidiaries, involving around 130 people. Read More
Solution	Over six months, ista implemented the SpheraCloud Corporate Sustainability solution. This software was chosen for its intuitive design and comprehensive sustainability functionality, including the critical emission factor databases the solution offers. ista then implemented the compliance and control module with an extended rule set to further improve data quality. With the new software solution running reliably and data collection underway, revisions and reporting time was significantly reduced. Next, ista plans to use the software to derive further insights from data and improve overall performance. They plan to implement Targets and Actions module for detailed specification of planned measures, related costs and the resulting benefits, and import additional non-financial data to develop new business ideas. Read More Log in to view content
Contents

Technology Category

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms

Applicable Industries

Utilities

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Energy Management System

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

System Integration

Challenge

ista, a sub-metering company based in Germany, had set ambitious sustainability goals and needed to measure their success. For the annual collection of sustainability data, roughly 20 data sets from about 174 sites are collected, involving around 130 people. When the company decided to expand their sustainability initiatives, the existing approach was no longer adequate. Instead of focusing only on data collection and reporting, ista also needed to analyze the existing data to improve future performance. The challenges they faced included extensive and time-consuming data collection via Excel and email, plausibility checks required to improve data quality, and a lack of tools for analytics and advanced planning features.

About Customer

ista is a sub-metering company founded in 1957 and headquartered in Essen, Germany. The company has a deep understanding of sustainability and is committed to not only taking ecological and social action, but to empowering others to do so as well. ista operates in 22 countries globally, with over 5,500 employees and a revenue of €908.8 million. The company collects sustainability data from 174 sites across 27 different subsidiaries, involving around 130 people.

Solution

Over six months, ista implemented the SpheraCloud Corporate Sustainability solution. This software was chosen for its intuitive design and comprehensive sustainability functionality, including the critical emission factor databases the solution offers. ista then implemented the compliance and control module with an extended rule set to further improve data quality. With the new software solution running reliably and data collection underway, revisions and reporting time was significantly reduced. Next, ista plans to use the software to derive further insights from data and improve overall performance. They plan to implement Targets and Actions module for detailed specification of planned measures, related costs and the resulting benefits, and import additional non-financial data to develop new business ideas.

Impact #1	Sphera’s Corporate Sustainability software enabled ista to collect sustainability data from all sites worldwide in an even more efficient, accurate and fully verifiable way.
Impact #2	ista can now evaluate and communicate its sustainability performance in real time on personalized dashboards and on-demand reports.
Impact #3	The software has simplified documentation and traceability to support audits.

Impact #1

Sphera’s Corporate Sustainability software enabled ista to collect sustainability data from all sites worldwide in an even more efficient, accurate and fully verifiable way.

Impact #2

ista can now evaluate and communicate its sustainability performance in real time on personalized dashboards and on-demand reports.

Impact #3

The software has simplified documentation and traceability to support audits.

Benefit #1	Significant savings from reduced data collection time and effort
Benefit #2	Improved data quality and reliability with alerts and plausibility checks
Benefit #3	Relevant and up-to-date emission factors built on reliable databases

Benefit #1

Significant savings from reduced data collection time and effort

Benefit #2

Improved data quality and reliability with alerts and plausibility checks

Benefit #3

Relevant and up-to-date emission factors built on reliable databases

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Sustainability at ista

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