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Case studyMarch 6, 20244 min read

IT footprint and Sustainable IT maturity assessment for a Swiss bioinformatics institute

A scientific computing organisation tested the Sustainable IT approach as a lever for both environmental and economic performance.

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Ivan Mariblanca Flinch

Founder & CEO, MIKUJY

IT footprint and Sustainable IT maturity assessment for a Swiss bioinformatics institute

Context

A scientific computing organisation wanted to test Sustainable IT as a lever for both environmental and economic performance across its IT operations.

Sector backdrop. Education and research institutions combine large user populations, very long device life cycles and significant scientific-computing workloads. Their Sustainable IT story is also pedagogical: what they measure and publish shapes how the next generation of professionals will think about digital impact.

Approach

  • IT footprint assessment proof of concept on the MIKUJY platform.
  • Lifecycle analysis (ISO 14040/44 + GHG Protocol).
  • Reduction scenario simulation.
  • Sectoral roadmap to industrialise Sustainable IT across infrastructures.

Why this matters

A baseline measurement is rarely the end of the story, it is the input that makes every subsequent decision (procurement, lifespan, cloud regions, application portfolio) defensible with numbers rather than opinions.

A few patterns came out of the engagement that tend to repeat across organisations of similar scale: the largest share of the footprint almost always lives in end-user devices, not in the data centre.

How the MIKUJY platform supported the work

The MIKUJY platform was used end-to-end to structure the engagement, host the data and consolidate results in dashboards the teams could revisit at any time.

More specifically, the Measure module powered the IT footprint and Sustainable IT maturity assessment, turning scattered inventories into a single comparable baseline.

MIKUJY consultants brought hands-on professional support throughout the engagement, facilitating workshops, validating data and helping translate the platform outputs into a concrete action plan.

Want a similar trajectory?

MIKUJY helps organisations turn Sustainable IT in scientific computing into a measurable, governed and recognised Sustainable IT programme. Reach out to discuss your context and goals.

#Education & Research#250-1000 employees#Research#POC#Scientific computing

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