Presentation
Description
The ALTEN Group supports its customers’ R&D and digital strategies. They contribute to develop innovative products & services, and enabling business to optimize their organization, tools and process.
Their innovation labs in cutting-edge technology fields (Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality…), the quality of their human and technical organization, network of engineering centres around the world, and excellent knowledge of customers’ business environments, make the company the preferred technological partner for key accounts in industry, telecoms and services
Digital activity
Digital eco design
Good practice targeted
Digital
To go further
Good practice
In France, ALTEN secures its infrastructure via two physically separate data centres managed by an ISO 14001-certified supplier.
The ALTEN Netherlands servers are hosted in eco-friendly data centres which use liquid and natural convection technology for their cooling systems. This system reduces the energy footprint by 50%.
To limit the amount of data stored on the networks, ALTEN provides its employees with digital tools such as Skype for Business and SharePoint. At the same time, the energy consumption of non-productive systems has been examined and optimised.
Finally, ALTEN chooses energy-efficient IT equipment: in France, every single computer and screen for support function staff and the sales teams has the Energy Star label.
Costs
unknnown
Starting date of the good practice
unknown
Time to implement the good practice
unknown
Tools/partners/suppliers of the good practice
all branches of the company in the world
What are the benefits of the project ?
Improve awareness of the environmental impact of digital technology
adopt the concept of digital sobriety as a policy principle for digital transformation, especially in terms of video usage, control of digital copies and replacement of infrastructure equipment and terminals, as well as the inclusion of the carbon footprint of digital projects among the decision-making criteria.The implementation of these digital sobriety principles would contain the current explosion of the digital environmental footprint without undermining the very principle of digital transformation, and would bring the increase in digital technology energy consumption back to 1.5% – namely a similar level to the global trend across all sectors.
What were the constraints faced by the company ?
The communication with public and private organisations who play a key role in ensuring that digital transition is as ecofriendly as possible, for example by measuring the environmental impact of their IT choices or predicting the carbon footprint of their major digital projects.
Which advice would give to another company ?
To convince different companies to use more energy-efficient digital infrastructure and equipment
Other questions or comments
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