Context
A Swiss cantonal bank wanted to better understand the environmental impact of its information system and identify concrete levers to make it more sustainable, in preparation for the Sustainable IT Label.
Sector backdrop. Banks combine large fleets of end-user devices, dense data-centre footprints and a heavy reliance on third-party cloud services, three categories where Sustainable IT levers compound quickly. Regulatory pressure on non-financial reporting also makes a defensible IT footprint a near-term necessity.
Approach
We mapped the full lifecycle of office equipment, servers, network and cloud, identified the main optimisation levers, and proposed a simple, operational action plan.
- Extend equipment lifespan and improve renewal management.
- Reduce physical resource consumption (printing, devices).
- Strengthen Sustainable IT culture through internal communication and training.
Results
The bank now has a clear and shared view of its information system, measurable priorities, and an improvement plan aligned with its sustainability strategy.
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.
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