adesso Blog

The life cycle assessment of digital solutions reveals that client devices are responsible for a significant portion of the environmental impact of these solutions. In our guidelines for concept developers and designers, we at adesso have laid out ways in which the digital design process can help reduce their environmental impact. I will show you how sustainable digital design works in this blog post.

Green coding on its own is not enough to really make software sustainable, since the impact of decisions made at the source code level is limited. That is why we at adesso have developed sustainable software architecture guidelines as a way to anchor sustainability at the structural and conceptual level.

Sustainable IT is a question of software quality. Excellent software is sustainable and has as little negative impact on preserving a habitable environment as possible. In this blog post, we will look at what sustainability as a testable requirement in software quality assurance means and how we implement it.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has started receiving bad publicity since Midjourney and ChatGPT came on to the scene. Not only are the ethical and economic implications of large-scale AI models the subject of much discussion, concerns about their environmental impact are getting louder, too. With that in mind, I will use this blog post to explore the question of how sustainable AI really is and – spoiler alert – what we need to do to make AI more sustainable. You will also learn why training the models is not the biggest problem from an environmental standpoint.

Regulations require a great deal of time and effort, but at the end of the day, how can companies generate added value from their hard work? In this blog post, we will explore how regulatory changes are not only an obligation, but can also be an opportunity for insurance companies to take a leading role in shaping a sustainable future.

One of the exciting statistics on digital sustainability revolves around the energy efficiency of programming languages. The most well-known paper on the subject gives the impression that some programming languages could be up to 80 times more sustainable than others. But is that really the case? In this blog post, I will clear up some myths about digital sustainability and show what really matters.

The narrative that sustainability is time-consuming, expensive and contradicts business goals still persists. Critics of regulation in particular stubbornly uphold this dogmatic belief. Therefore, in this blog post, we will take a look at how much truth there is to this and why digital technologies are a decisive factor when it comes to environmental and economic sustainability.

Green IT is no longer a new trend and many people are already familiar with it. But what role does sustainability play for the public sector and can the purchasing decisions of the German government, local authorities and federal states have a significant impact on the market and the environment? I want to use this blog post to explore these questions and others.

How can companies truly become more sustainable? Sustainability goals and voluntary commitments are proper and important, but many companies fail to put these plans into practice. In this blog post, you will be able to read about the challenges companies face when it comes to achieving sustainability goals and how digital technologies can help.