FEATURE : SUSTAINABILITY @ COP28
Managing AVEVA ’ s partnerships
Sara Volpe , Senior Vice President , Enterprise and
Regional Marketing , AVEVA
Typically , when our customers come to AVEVA to help them on their sustainability journey , it starts with some of the challenges that they are up against .
If you are looking at energy transition , a lot of our customers are asking how they should design and build new energy facilities faster . Or if it is emissions reduction , how do they actually operate their facilities in a more carbon neutral way .
Our partnerships are to help us broaden that ecosystem and work better . Partnering up with some of the greatest technology names in the industry is really helpful for us to broaden our strategy and ultimately serve customers better .
We usually try to keep the boundaries wide with our strategic alliances . We make sure we bring each other in where we need each other ’ s domain expertise . We jointly sell with Schneider Electric into some of our customer accounts and we sell to Schneider Electric , who actually use our technology in some of their industrial facilities .
They often embed AVEVA technology and integrate it with their existing technology stack as well . And so wherever we need to better serve our customers , we plug and play with our alliances .
We can feed a lot of our data and analytics into Azure to make it easier for customers to visualise that data at scale . With partners like Microsoft , it is more about ease of accessibility , ease of integration , ease of getting the right data to the right people at the right time .
Our technology partnerships are usually brought in based on the customer ’ s need . So if they are using a lot of Microsoft technology , we can help them get more value out of it as well .
One example of something that we work really closely with Microsoft is AVEVA Insight . It leverages Azure to consolidate and share that data with our customers in the cloud . We have joint solutions that we work with Microsoft on as well . and to drive circularity and efficiency across the value chain . We want the software we create to transform how industries are designed and how they operate , to accelerate climate action and reduce inequalities ,” says Caspar Herzberg , CEO of AVEVA .
Harpreet Gulati , Senior Vice President , and Head of PI System Business at AVEVA , said : “ Harnessing the potential of green hydrogen could avoid up to 80 gigatons of cumulative CO 2 emissions by 2050 , contributing to as much as 20 % of total abatement required to drive the net-zero economy .
The green hydrogen sector will require a new transportation , distribution , and regulatory approach to operate successfully as an alternative fuel . Combining this with the latest digital twin and AI-enhanced capabilities , industries can discover new paths to drive efficiency and decarbonise .
Nayef Bou Chaaya , Vice President MEA at AVEVA , said : “ The positive impact our solutions bring to customers is our single biggest opportunity to make a difference in the world .”
Partnerships and alliances
According to Lisa Wee , Head of Global Sustainability at AVEVA , the vendor wants to lead by example in the fight against climate change . AVEVA has already cut its scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by 93 % and is actively working to reduce the environmental impacts of its value chain .
AVEVA has made have made significant progress in delivering solutions that are low carbon by design and have in-built capabilities to enable industries to decarbonise , drive circularity and adapt to the impacts of global warming .
“ Exchanging insights and forging partnerships with forward-thinking businesses , governments and civil society leaders is critical to finding solutions that increase the scale and scope of climate action across the globe . COP28 is the forum to have these discussions , given the breadth of stakeholders capable of contributing to our endeavour for decarbonisation ,” says Lisa .
Evgeny Fedotov , Senior Vice President , EMEA , at AVEVA , added : “ Collaboration is essential to driving efficient global value chains . Collective action is also essential to drive decarbonisation . This is why we want to be part of the conversation at COP28 to advance necessary and inclusive climate progress by building bridges across international communities .”
Microsoft and AVEVA
AVEVA expanded its strategic collaboration with Microsoft to further strengthen both companies ’ data integration platforms and incorporate AI in key industries across the world .
The agreement will see synergy between industrial cloud platform AVEVA Connect and data analytics solution Microsoft Fabric , which is currently in public preview .
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