A big part of the work involved in driving toward sustainability is pulling together all of a company’s data sources and capitalizing on that data to understand the current state, progress that’s taking place, and actions to take. Microsoft will help customers do so by pulling together diverse data sources into a ‘data estate’ then applying business intelligence, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) on top of the data estate to derive the greatest insights.
As one example of its work in this area, Mastrandrea cited a Microsoft customer – the NFL’s Los Angeles Raiders. The organizations worked together on a custom machine learning algorithm so management could analyze weather patterns and get more efficient in how it manages temperature and other variables inside the stadium.
