Accenture and Salesforce Expand Partnership to Help Companies Embed Sustainability into the Core of their Business - Seite 2

“Climate change continues to be one of the most critical challenges facing business and the broader planet,” said George Oliver, CEO of Johnson Controls, the world-leader in smart, healthy and sustainable buildings. “We are pleased to be working with Salesforce and Accenture in accelerating sustainability activities for JCI, for our customers and our communities, especially as momentum for action continues to grow.”

Sustainability is now a business imperative, and consumers increasingly expect business to play a leadership role in taking tangible action on the SDGs, which include gender equality, poverty, and climate change. The companies leveraging the combination of sustainability and technology are 2.5x more likely to be among tomorrow’s strongest-performing businesses than others, according to new Accenture research.

“The partnership will allow Accenture and Salesforce to use their joint forces to address the rapidly growing end-user demand for data-based insights around sustainability performance and metrics-driven approaches that help turn ESG topics into drivers for positive business outcomes,” said Bjoern Stengel, senior research analyst, Worldwide Business Consulting & ESG Business Services at IDC. “Our research shows that more and more companies realize that a sustainable business strategy means more than just ‘doing good’ – it means ‘doing well by doing good’. This initiative can help customers on this journey by letting them capture relevant ESG data as well as manage and measure performance against their sustainability targets.”

Accenture and Salesforce both have significant relationships with the World Economic Forum and long-term commitments to advancing the SDGs, giving each company a deeper understanding of how to simultaneously drive business growth and long-term sustainable value for shareholders and stakeholders.

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