Given the significant environmental impact of digital technology, it has become essential to adopt effective tools for assessing and reducing our digital footprint. However, the growing number of available tools—each with different features and use cases—makes it challenging for organizations to choose the right solution for their specific needs.
In this article, we explore a selection of these tools to help you find the one that best fits your goals.
Why use a tool to reduce your digital footprint?
Behavioral changes and technological advancements are reshaping businesses, especially in the service sector where digital processes are now omnipresent. This transformation, combined with rising demand for IT resources, is driving up the environmental impact of digital usage—which accounted for 4.4% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2022, a figure that continues to rise.
To reduce this impact, the first step is to measure your digital footprint in order to understand the levers for action. From there, you can prioritize initiatives and track progress over time.
In this context, adopting a Sustainable IT approach becomes essential—not just as an ecological necessity, but as a driver of business value, resource optimization, and sustainable innovation.
Sustainable IT: the value of impact measurement tools
Adopting a Sustainable IT strategy allows companies to align innovation, cost control, and ESG commitments. Organizations are under increasing pressure to manage costs, drive innovation, remain competitive, and ensure long-term viability.
Measurement and management tools can help companies to:
- Reduce costs: by streamlining processes and implementing strategic digital best practices. This includes promoting hardware reuse, reducing expenses tied to unused equipment, cutting back on excessive data storage, and optimizing IT resource usage and hardware refresh cycles.
- Anticipate legislation: staying compliant with current and future regulations (such as CSRD, EAA, IAA, or WCAG for example), protecting brand reputation, and avoiding penalties.
- Lower environmental impact: by assessing and monitoring GHG emissions to identify improvement areas and reduce associated risks.
- Support ESG strategy and drive competitiveness: meeting ESG objectives while optimizing business processes, encouraging innovation, improving services, and fostering job creation. It's a powerful way to stand out from the competition.
Shifting to a more resource-efficient strategy is key to building a sustainable future and reaping the benefits of sustainable digital practices. But with so many tools on the market—each with its own unique features—it can be difficult to know which solution truly meets your needs while effectively reducing your environmental footprint.
That’s why we’ve broken down the sustainable IT tool landscape for you…
Tools to measure and reduce digital impact
To help you find the right solution for your business, we’ve analyzed five tools that stand out in the Sustainable IT space:
Fruggr: a 360° analysis and IT management platform
Fruggr provides a multi-criteria automated assessment of your digital impact through five specialized modules:
- Digital accessibility: ensures services meet RGAA accessibility standards through semi-automated audits and a recommendation engine, helping to make digital services inclusive for all users.
- Infrastructure: performs in-depth analysis of carbon footprint and cost, followed by infrastructure and network rationalization to reduce environmental impact.
- IT asset management: improves IT asset oversight using reliable ESG reporting KPIs and actionable optimization levers to significantly cut costs.
- Digital services: reduces the environmental impact of digital services with eco-design recommendations and lifecycle assessment (LCA) analysis.
- Digital workplace: assesses employee digital usage and includes awareness programs to promote sustainable digital practices.
As a SaaS solution, Fruggr integrates several recommendation engines to provide tailored simulations and action plans. It measures both the overall IT system impact and the footprint of individual digital projects. All methodologies are developed and validated by a PhD researcher specialized in Green IT.
Verdikt: evaluation and optimization platform
Verdikt helps companies assess their Sustainable IT maturity and track their performance. It also includes gender diversity and inclusion evaluations via questionnaires. Verdikt offers two core services:
- Corporate IT: to measure and manage IT-related ESG performance and guide CIOs in making their systems more sustainable.
- IT provider: enables IT service providers to offer low-carbon projects to their clients, improving their competitive edge in RFPs and promoting Green IT project development.
Aguaro: application developer for ecological transition
Aguaro offers SaaS solutions integrated with ServiceNow to help companies automate the management of their environmental impact and reduce their carbon footprint. It streamlines hardware inventory retrieval and presents the data through intuitive dashboards.
Sopht: environmental and financial performance management
This data-driven platform measures, manages, and automates IT decarbonization through modular features:
- Cloud & Infrastructure: helps rationalize infrastructure choices based on environmental performance.
- Workplace: assesses and manages the environmental footprint of software portfolios and digital services.
- Application management: aligns IT systems with business needs to better meet strategic goals.
Resilio Tech: green IT transition platform
Resilio Tech evaluates the digital and IT-related carbon footprint of organizations and defines reduction strategies. They also provide tools and methodologies to support the rollout of Responsible digital practices.
By using these tools, businesses can measure, understand, and reduce their digital footprint while raising awareness among teams and implementing best practices in Sustainable IT. Adopting such tools is a critical first step toward a more sustainable, ethical, and efficient digital future.
Fruggr offers a comprehensive 360° view that enables companies to assess their digital carbon footprint, access essential KPIs, and better manage their decarbonization strategy.
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