IBM App Connect: The sustainability tool you didn’t know you needed
Data is one of the key drivers for an effective sustainability agenda. When data flows freely throughout your enterprise, you can gain transparency into your operations to support informed and effective sustainability efforts. As the saying goes, Information is power.
Integrating key applications can help you leverage valuable data and drive high-level communication across business functions needed to run your enterprise sustainably. IBM App Connect, a powerful application integration platform, allows organizations to easily connect applications and data across on-premises, public or private clouds.
App Connect provides the ability to transfer valuable operational data from your applications to ESG reporting tools, allowing you to:
- Identify opportunities to reduce waste, energy consumption and emissions.
- Audit Preparation
- Realize cost savings
IBM Envizi ESG Suite customers have a limited license to IBM App Connect for use with a collection of predefined integrations between IBM Maximo Application Suite (MAS), IBM TRIRIGA Application Suite (TAS), IBM Turbonomic, and Envizi.
Some of these are described below.
- Asset Data and ESG: From Maximo to Envizi: Corporate sustainability managers can collect and maintain accurate sustainability data for their asset portfolio directly from Maximo, where those assets are managed. Maximo’s location data serves as the basis for all of Envizi’s other sustainability reports. Continuously updating meter reading data captured by Maximo (electricity, gas, water) enables accurate GHG accounting and performance reporting in Envizi.
- Facility Data and ESG: From TRIRIGA to Envizi: Corporate sustainability managers can collect and maintain accurate sustainability data for their entire global real estate portfolio directly from the TAS where those facilities are managed. Location data from TAS is used as the basis for all other sustainability reports at Envizi. Space classification, floor space and occupancy data allow sustainability managers to normalize data (by square meters or staff) to identify opportunities to reduce environmental impact through meaningful comparisons between buildings across the entire portfolio.
- IT Data and ESG: Made Simple with Envizi: Sustainability managers can check and compare energy usage across all data centers within Envizi. Understand energy efficiency between data centers based on number of active hosts, number of VMs. By understanding the density of VMs on hosts in each data center, you can identify opportunities to optimize efficiency.
Extend functionality with App Connect
A full license of App Connect allows every application or data set in your environment to be part of your sustainability practice, which helps support consistent reporting, coordinated operations, and improved decision-making.
Supporting a wide range of integration styles, App Connect provides a single integration tool for your entire business. Users of all skill levels can easily connect applications with no-code UI, AI-powered support, and hundreds of pre-built connectors that support common applications like ServiceNow, Workday, SAP, or Salesforce. It also provides a powerful toolkit that enables advanced users to collaborate, reuse, and support more complex integration flows.
data integration
Maximize your investment with the ability to integrate any application, including traditional and modern cloud-based applications, without worrying about architecture and data formats. Intelligent mapping allows you to transform data in transit and prepare it for sorting by the destination application. IBM App Connect also supports batch, bulk, and real-time synchronization for maximum flexibility.
Building an API
App Connect manages the complexities of application connectivity and data transformation, providing a simple way to build and manage APIs with a fully integrated API management solution.
The model-based approach provides a simple way to build robust and powerful APIs, and allows experienced users to leverage powerful tools to expose all data and protocols for modernization.
Actions on Events
App Connect allows you to capture events from your applications even if they were not designed with an event-driven architecture. App Connect contextual tools allow teams to apply event data to provide context to quickly build and change integrations as requirements change. Take the next step in your sustainability journey with IBM App Connect.
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