Salesforce And Accenture Combine To Help Businesses Achieve Sustainability Goals

Accenture and Salesforce are increasing their alliance to assist firms embed sustainability into their enterprise, meet rising buyer and stakeholder expectations, and contribute to advancing the United Nations Sustainable Improvement Objectives (UNSDGs).

The highly effective mixture of Accenture’s Sustainability Companies, Salesforce Sustainability Cloud, and Salesforce Buyer 360 will, for the primary time, convey sustainability to the entrance workplace and supply the C-suite with true visibility into their firm’s historic and real-time environmental, social and governance (ESG) knowledge. Firms will have the ability to monitor, measure and act on a spread of sustainability initiatives, together with reporting on carbon utilization, supporting buyer engagements, creating optimistic shopper experiences, assembly regulatory necessities and creating new enterprise fashions.

“Our purchasers’ dedication to sustainability has by no means been larger,” mentioned Accenture CEO Julie Candy. “As industries reimagine and rebuild from the pandemic, they’ve the chance to embed sustainability by design to drive their buyer agenda. We’re delighted to develop our partnership with Salesforce to assist organisations each create worth and ship on their values.”

“Each CEO is recognising their obligations don’t cease on the fringe of the company campus or Zoom,” mentioned Marc Benioff, Chair and CEO, Salesforce. “By integrating sustainability deep into the material of our firms, our companies will develop into extra profitable, our communities extra equal, our societies extra simply and our planet more healthy. We’re extremely proud to be working with Accenture to assist clients extra readily drive sustainability packages that profit all stakeholders and create enterprise worth.”

Salesforce Sustainability Cloud, constructed on Salesforce Buyer 360, will present a trusted platform that provides clients a 360-degree view of their company environmental influence to assist them measure and handle their carbon footprint and transparently report investor-grade local weather knowledge. Accenture will assist combine Salesforce Sustainability Cloud into their enterprise methods, working fashions, applied sciences, and core processes and methods with industry-specific necessities and develop sustainability insights that scale throughout organisations and their ecosystems. Later this 12 months, Accenture and Salesforce will develop the platform and providers to trace and analyse broader ESG metrics—from water and waste administration to range & inclusion.

Sustainability is now a enterprise crucial, and customers more and more count on enterprise to play a management function in taking tangible motion on the UNSDGs, which embrace gender equality, poverty, and local weather change. The businesses leveraging the mix of sustainability and know-how are 2.5x extra prone to be amongst tomorrow’s strongest-performing companies than others, based on new Accenture analysis.

“The partnership will permit Accenture and Salesforce to make use of their joint forces to deal with the quickly rising end-user demand for data-based insights round sustainability efficiency and metrics-driven approaches that assist flip ESG matters into drivers for optimistic enterprise outcomes,” mentioned Bjoern Stengel, senior analysis analyst, Worldwide Enterprise Consulting & ESG Enterprise Companies at IDC. “Our analysis exhibits that increasingly more firms realise {that a} sustainable enterprise technique means extra than simply ‘doing good’ – it means ‘doing effectively by doing good’, and initiatives like this can assist them on this journey.”

Accenture and Salesforce each have vital relationships with the World Financial Discussion board and long-term commitments to advancing the UNSDGs, giving every of the companions a deep understanding of tips on how to concurrently drive enterprise progress and long-term sustainable worth for shareholders and stakeholders.