Various aspects of a printer's design determine its impact on the environment. Of top importance is power efficiency. Additionally, printers can be designed to accomodate the use of environmentally friendly supplies, such as paper witha high degree of post-consumer recycled content and remanufactured toner cartridges.

Having made significant efforts to engineer environmentally friendly devices, this company knew that it was contributing to corporate responsibility and having beneficial impact on the environment but the impact was challenging to quantify.

This printing service company selected Ecosystems to tackle the challenge of quantifying the positive environmental impact associated with the engineering of its devices. Ecosystems determined that while the environmental impact of an individual printer may not be of consequence, when this company supplies a customer with a fleet of hundreds of thousands of printers, the impact is substanstial. In fact, through an interactive dashboard that allows the enterprise to simulate various fleet configurations, Ecosystems proved the company's solutions can avoid the annual production of tons of carbon dioxide, the consumption of cubic meters of landfill space, and the destruction of hundreds of trees.

For most organizations, the backbone of the IT infrastructure is data centers, which house, back-up, and provide continual access to massive amounts of corporate data. And as the volume of corporate data expands rapidly from year-to-year, so has the scale and complexity of data centers. In fact, the energy required to power and cool the servers and devices within data centers has become a major focus of corporate environmental responsibility.

As many of this security solution company's solutions and services empower the enterprise to better utilize data ceter recources, this company wanted Ecosystems to quantify the positive impact these efficiencies have on the environtment. Through a multi-faceted analysis, Ecosystems evaluated the application virtualization, server virtualization and clustering, and storage optimization enabled by this security solution company and quantified the impact that these capabilities have on curbing a data center's energy requirements. To make the benefits for tangible to the company's customers, Ecosystems packaged the analysis in an interactive dashboard that empowers customers to simulate "with security solution company" versus "without security solution company" environments and compare the overall energy requirements - which commonly vary by millions of Watts per year.

This company is the industry leader in office supplies. The indirect procurement programs of many of the largest corporations in the world utilize this office supply company to keep offices supplied and functioning. This company prides itself on a comprehensive product offering, but is even more proud of its suppy of environmentally-friendly alternatives that use less virgin material, avoid landfill disposal,and lend themselves to post-use recycling. With approximately $20 billion in annual sales, this office supply company knew that providing environmentally-friendly alternatives has a major impact on the environment and looked to Ecosystems to quantify this impact for customers.

Ecosystems first paired this company's product with environmentally-friendly alternatives, capturing key attributes such as the wieght and the percent of post-consumer recycled content. This product-by-product analysis set the foundation needed to quantify the impact of a comprehensive produrement program that leverages envrionmentally-friendly alternatives. The interactive "Eco-Alt" dashboard designed by Ecosystems empowers procurement managers to simulate various product portfolios, toggling between conventional products and environmentally-friendly alternatives, and review the impact on the environmental footprint in terms of carbon dioxide production, tree consumption, and landfill utilization.