Oracle solutions enabling sustainability

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Oracle Solutions Enabling Sustainability

Helping Oracle customers reduce their environmental footprint

August, 2020

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ORACLE SOLUTIONS: COST-EFFECTIVE AND ENVIRONMENTALLY BENEFICIAL

Leading businesses recognize that environmental sustainability is good business. Whether these projects are driven by

an organization's desire to protect the environment, reduce costs, produce eco-friendly goods to meet growing

consumer demand, or comply with increasing levels of regulation, the results can be both good for the environment and

good for the bottom line.

In order to be successful, organizations need to integrate sustainability initiatives into their core business activities

across the entire value chain, not isolated in one department or a few processes. This approach yields more impactful,

wide reaching and cost effective results.

At Oracle, we have a dual focus: internally on initiatives that support our own sustainability goals, and externally on

delivering solutions that empower our customers to do the same. Every year we are proud to recognize customers that

are using Oracle solutions to deliver environmental value while also improving financial performance with the Oracle

Sustainability Innovation Awards and we share their success stories.

Oracle’s solutions cover an unmatched breadth and depth of capabilities for all industries to design more

environmentally friendly products, source materials responsibly, transport goods in more sustainable ways, manage

risks, and analyze and report on environmental impacts. Emerging technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT), Big

Data, and Blockchain are providing unprecedented opportunities to fundamentally shift how organizations are

impacting the environment as they conduct their business.

With its Cloud solutions, Oracle offers an even more sustainable alternative for companies looking to minimize their

environmental impact. Oracle manages and maintains a very dense computing environment, attaining much higher

utilization rates than an organization can achieve with an on-premises system. Oracle Cloud further reduces its

environmental footprint by leveraging state-of-the-art energy efficiency technologies at our data centers and

maximizing the reuse and recycling of hardware equipment.

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CLOUD OPERATIONS

Oracle Cloud provides both environmental and business benefits by leveraging

Oracle’s experience in data center management, maximizing energy efficiency,

using renewable energy, promoting a sustainable supply chain, and optimizing

the reuse and recycling of aging equipment. Oracle Cloud Applications and

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provide a unique opportunity for organizations to

not only drive business value but also to align their IT infrastructure with the

circular economy and its environmental benefits. A key tenet of the circular

economy is that physical assets should be decoupled from the service they

provide. Individuals or organizations do not necessarily need to physically own

computing hardware, they just need access to the ability to compute. This is

exactly what the Cloud delivers.

With Oracle Cloud’s sharing of computing resources among a large number of

customers, organizations gain enormous economies of scale, especially when it

comes to carbon and energy consumption. Oracle Cloud enables customers to

take advantage of Oracle’s highly efficient cloud infrastructure with its

centralized server processing and optimized energy usage. Oracle’s data centers

leverage state-of-the-art intelligent energy management and cooling

technologies that are based on Oracle’s industry-leading expertise and best

practices.

Oracle also manages an elastic computing platform that can grow dynamically

with an organization as needed, eliminating excess capacity builds for future

demand. Furthermore, Oracle reduces environmental waste by maximizing the

reuse and recycling of its hardware, further aligning with the circular economy.

100% renewable energy is used at 94 of Oracle’s leased data centers across ten

countries. Oracle works closely with its colocation partners to improve data

transparency and drive renewable energy adoption. These considerations are

part of our selection process for new vendors, and they also factor into our

engagements with existing vendors. Oracle believes it is important for our

sector to collaborate and advocate for the availability of cost-competitive

renewable energy. To support these goals, Oracle participates in related

initiatives and events.

Oracle’s Cloud Operations support solutions for:

 Oracle Cloud Applications

 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

The use of emerging technologies holds the promise of putting the world on a

much more sustainable path. Emerging technologies such as the Internet of

Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), big data, and blockchain are driving

unprecedented environmental and business innovation by supporting real-time

data collection and holistic decision-making that include environmental impact.

From thriving startup communities to large companies, Oracle customers are

leveraging these technologies to deliver new solutions—and, in many cases, to

build entirely new business models, such as the sharing economy.

The Internet of Things (IoT) enables physical assets, and value chains as a

whole, to be operated significantly more efficiently by reducing waste and

minimizing energy use. An example is the use of IoT, robotics, and big data to

enable efficient food production and delivery for the world’s rapidly growing

population within growing resource constraints. Roughly one third of the

world’s food is wasted each year and smart sensors can reduce that waste by 25

to 40 percent across the value chain. Modelling and predicting environmental

patterns help build resilience to climate-related impacts. Blockchain enables

transparency and traceability in complex supply chains to expose risks of

human rights abuses or unsustainable natural capital management. These new

“With Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

and Oracle Cloud Platform, we

significantly reduced IT operational

costs, cut energy consumption by

20 percent, simplified

administration and compliance,

and delivered the scalability we

need to meet our sustainable

growth plans in the oil and gas

industry for years to come.” -Vlad Moca

Deputy Group IT Director,

KMG Rompetrol SRL

The Oracle Cloud: A More Sustainable Alternative

This video explains how companies

can reduce energy costs and improve

their environmental footprint using

Oracle Cloud.

Volvo Cars, China in First Blockchain Project for Recycled Cobalt

Volvo Cars has produced the first cars

containing recycled cobalt mapped using a

platform built by Circulor on Oracle

Blockchain. Now Volvo Cars and their

customers can be assured of the integrity of

their car parts, responsible cobalt sourcing,

and regulations compliance.

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technologies are also supporting new business models like the sharing

economy which can dramatically reduce the resources needed to deliver goods

and services.

Oracle's emerging technology solutions include:

 Artificial Intelligence (AI) to bolster human reasoning, recognize

patterns in your data, and automate complex or mundane tasks using

Oracle AI and Oracle Adaptive Intelligent Applications.

 Blockchain to record results in a secure and unalterable manner,

bringing new levels of trust and auditability to business transactions

using Oracle Blockchain and Oracle Intelligent Track and Trace.

 Cloud computing to take advantage of Oracle's highly efficient cloud

infrastructure with its centralized server processing and optimized

energy usage using Oracle Cloud.

 Internet of Things (IoT) to extend your supply chain and automate

business processes by transforming a world of things into a world of

data using Oracle IoT and Oracle IoT Applications.

BUSINESS OPERATIONS

Successful organizations today are embedding environmental and sustainability

practices in all aspects of their operations. This includes sourcing sustainable

materials, producing and shipping products in a sustainable way, reducing the

product's energy consumption, managing waste and recycling at all stages of

the product development life cycle, and reporting on sustainability initiatives.

Organizations that run lean and green can be more productive, more profitable,

and less polluting. By taking an environmental stance, your organization can cut

costs, reduce risks, drive revenues, and improve your brand.

Oracle's solutions to support sustainable business operations enable companies

to:

 Design for the environment by taking environmental impacts into

consideration during the design of products and comply with

regulatory directives using Oracle Product Lifecycle Management

Cloud and Oracle Product Data Management Cloud.

 Sustainable sourcing to build a sustainable supply chain and select

suppliers based on your sustainability-related selection criteria using

Oracle Procurement Cloud.

 Sustainable manufacturing to streamline your manufacturing

production cycle to eliminate waste and reduce resource consumption

using Oracle Manufacturing Cloud.

 Supply chain planning to design your supply network with

sustainability in mind by optimizing the use of constrained

environmental resources using Oracle Supply Chain Planning Cloud.

 Sustainable logistics to optimize your transportation load, dock, and

routing activities for reduced energy consumption and emissions using

Oracle Logistics Cloud.

 Facilities and asset management to maximize the use of your assets

while ensuring best sustainability practices and quality compliance

using Oracle Primavera Unifier Facilities and Asset Management.

 Smart Utilities Grid to optimize your distribution of energy for a

smarter grid and help consumers reduce energy consumption using

Studying Bee Behavior with Oracle Cloud

The World Bee Project uses Oracle Cloud to

study bee behavior through sound acoustics

to help uncover health threats and help save

them. They are learning how habitat loss,

single crop farming, and pesticides affect the

bee population. The World Bee Project

generates masses of important data using AI,

data visualizations, and analytics to identify

patterns, trends, and correlations.

Unilever Reduces CO2 Emissions

Unilever drives sustainability and cuts

transport costs with help from Oracle

Transportation Management.

Drive Business Value with a More

Sustainable Supply Chain

Read the Sustainable Supply Chain Digibook

to explore seven key supply chain functions

that you can leverage to make your

organization more sustainable, including

logistics, sourcing, and manufacturing.

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Oracle Utilities Opower.

 Sustainable Cities to empower citizens to influence their behavior and

provide a city infrastructure to optimize data center efficiency using

Oracle Smart City Projects Solution.

RISK AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

A critical characteristic of a sustainable enterprise is the ability to measure and

report the environmental performance of the organization. In order to prove

they are environmentally compliant, organizations must provide stakeholders

with accurate and verifiable measures of their sustainability-related efforts.

Well-designed and implemented risk and enterprise performance management

solutions help organizations set environmental goals, build them into their

operating plans, track and report progress on a regular basis, and optimally

leverage their resources to maximize profits and stakeholder value.

Oracle’s solutions to support sustainability risk and performance management

include:

 Sustainability analytics to improve environmental data collection and

comply with global regulations using Oracle AI-Driven Analytics and

Oracle Big Data.

 Sustainability reporting to integrate financial and sustainability

reporting using Narrative Reporting in Oracle Enterprise Performance

Cloud.

 Environmental planning to gain an in-depth look at sustainability-

related business operations and their impact on financials using

Profitability and Cost Management in Oracle Enterprise Performance

Management Cloud.

 Predictive modelling and forecasting to model, forecast, simulate, and

optimize your sustainability initiatives using Planning in Oracle

Enterprise Performance Management Cloud.

 Risk and compliance management to establish targets and measure

progress for improving environmental performance using Oracle Risk

Management Cloud.

CONCLUSION

Oracle’s solutions cover an unmatched breadth and depth of capabilities for all

industries to help design more environmentally friendly products, source

materials responsibly, transport goods in more sustainable ways, manage risks,

and analyze and report on environmental impacts. Emerging technologies like

the Internet of Things, Big Data, and Blockchain are providing unprecedented

opportunities to fundamentally shift how organizations are impacting the

environment as they conduct their business. Oracle encourages its customers to

move to the Oracle Cloud, a more sustainable alternative for delivering

information technology.

“National Grid deployed our first

Opower Energy Efficiency program

back in 2009 to help customers

better understand and manage

their energy use. Since then, we

have seen significant energy

savings and a positive impact on

our customer sentiment as they

look for greater control over their

energy spend. This program is

essential to our future success in

navigating the rapidly changing

energy landscape, especially as

customer expectations continue to

shift.”

- John Isberg

Vice President, Customer Solutions

National Grid

Exelon Helps Customers Reduce Energy

Consumption with Oracle

Exelon is helping its customers reduce their

energy consumption using insights through its

energy services powered by Oracle Utilities,

Big Data, and Analytics solutions.

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Author: Evelyn Neumayr

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