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And, given the growing regulatory pressure around sustainability reporting highlighted by Mary, it’ s also likely that customers are using PCF data to support their own ESG reporting and regulatory compliance efforts.
Denise leads the development of dashboards that merge SDF data with real-time product data and telemetry. This integration allows for immediate insights and advice to customers on optimising their operations sustainably, showcasing how climate tech can drive real-time sustainability improvements.
She emphasises the importance of credible and verifiable data sourced directly from Cisco devices, which is crucial for scaling sustainability efforts.
“ You can’ t fix what you can’ t see,” she declares, highlighting that visibility into energy management is foundational for effective analysis and insight generation.
“ That visibility then allows you to do the analysis and gather those insights. We are working on transgressing this maturity between visibility analysts and insights and then eventually to automation and control.
“ That automation control can do everything from troubleshooting as well as meet our compliance and reporting goals. Even the most sophisticated customers who have very rigorous goals are out there with a lot of ambitious targets are doing this either ad hoc or hiring many, many dozens of add-on tools and consultancies to help them understand this. But ultimately you need the data and that data can only come from either Cisco or the customer.”
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