Saving Energy with Online Service and Software
Reduce your hardware costs
The Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery model offers a two punch combination to carbon dioxide emission reductions. The first punch is purely from the economies of scale realized from centralized processing and a shared services model. Instead of thousands of customers individually operating thousands of servers and the power hungry facilities to support those servers, the SaaS multi-tenant model centralizes data center operations to use less equipment and a small fraction of the supporting facility costs. When you recognize that supporting facility costs outweigh the cost and emissions production of the servers and related computer equipment you get a handle on how material this savings really is.
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Data integration manages the process of combining data from multiple sources into a single, comprehensive view of enterprise data. The ability to transform cross-organizational data from heterogeneous sources into actionable, insightful information has quickly become a competitive advantage for companies that have embraced data integration.
Customer feedback confirms that companies are achieving significant benefits from their data integration, including increased productivity, improved customer loyalty, and lower deployment and maintenance costs.
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