Being a responsible corporate citizen today means more than reducing smokestack emissions and toxic waste. Understanding that there must be a concerted effort to further reduce damaging carbon emissions throughout the enterprise, many organisations are building a business case for using renewable energy sources for designing and producing energy efficient products.
In pursuing green IT, technology organisations in particular have already made a start with initiatives to more efficiently manage power and cooling in data centres.
Then there are visionary organisations that are seeking to take green IT to a higher level as they pursue an environmentally conscious approach to managing software applications and the processes they support.
“Application life cycle management (ALM) can help companies achieve green IT processes or software application management,” explains Haydn Pinnell, MD of Gallium, an EOH company. “Business software applications also create carbon footprints by utilising hardware resources that consume energy and create CO2 emissions. Making software applications greener is an innovative way to achieve green IT goals.”
Automating and modelling core development and business processes to control energy use throughout the life cycle is the foundation of green IT - and this requires integrated ALM solutions. These can help organisations promote green IT by improving efficiencies of people, business operations and products by using embedded software in products to monitor, control, and reduce the energy consumed.
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Gallium
Gallium, a member of the EOH group of companies, supplies business technology optimisation solutions from HP Software, specialised technology based professional services, training, managed services, test factory solutions and ad hoc quality and performance testing services.
EOH
EOH is a business and technology solutions provider creating lifelong partnerships by developing business and IT strategies, supplying and implementing solutions and managing enterprise-wide business systems and processes for medium to large clients.
EOH operates in the following three clusters of business units as a fully integrated business:
Technology - Through a number of subsidiary companies, EOH is able to sell, implement and support a range of world-class business applications, including ERP, CRM, business intelligence, advanced planning and scheduling, e-commerce and manufacturing execution systems (MES).
Consulting - Concentrated under the EOH Consulting brand are business units offering services ranging from strategic and business process consulting, project services, change management, supply chain optimisation and education.
Outsourcing - EOH offers comprehensive maintenance and support of client's IT infrastructure and applications through the rendering of full IT outsourcing, application hosting and managed services. In addition EOH offers full business process outsourcing (BPO) services.
EOH has a presence in all major centres in South Africa and operates in the rest of Africa.
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