Why sustainability is key to long-term business success –

With that in mind, our experts have created the Bosch Digital Sustainability Assessment for Bosch units. We look at Bosch’s IT infrastructure and projects from a holistic standpoint and highlight ways in which they can be set up more sustainably. As an immediate outcome, clients receive a report with a management summary, the relevant sustainability KPIs and an overview of the respective project’s ecological impact. A guide shows areas of improvement which can then be implemented by the business unit.  

The offer has been up and running since the third quarter of 2022 and the responsible team has completed four projects to date. One major result was improved capacity planning for virtual machines. The number of available machines is adjusted to fit the planned workload and machines that won’t be used are turned off to save electricity. To reduce CO2 emissions, development and quality environments are hosted in regions with a better CO2 mix, for example Norway. The result is impressive: On average, the projects were able to save over 30 percent in infrastructure costs and over 40 percent of the overall CO2 emissions.