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Buyer Case Study: Sustainability Partners Has an Innovative Business Model for Improving Essential infrastructure

Publisher IDC
Published Mar 13, 2023
Length 6 Pages
SKU # IDC17809776

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Buyer Case Study: Sustainability Partners Has an Innovative Business Model for Improving Essential infrastructure

This IDC Perspective is a buyer case study, which describes how end-user organizations have applied a consumption-based, as-a-service model to essential infrastructure like water systems. Sustainability Partners, a public benefit company, has developed an approach where it purchases and retains ownership of essential infrastructure, which is operated by an entity (e.g., city, municipal utility, school district, municipal hospital), and for which the entity pays it a usage fee, just like organizations do for the consumption of cloud services from providers like Microsoft Azure."If you've ever wondered whether the as-a-service delivery model would work for infrastructure beyond servers, storage, and networking, it turns out the answer is yes," said Gard Little, research VP, Global Services, Markets, and Trends at IDC, "And we know this because Sustainability Partners has demonstrated an innovative business model that aligns the interests of infrastructure providers, users, and financiers."

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6 Pages
Executive Snapshot
Situation Overview
Project Examples
Cities — Smart Water Meters with Leak Detection
State Governments — Electric Vehicles and Charging Infrastructure
Hospitals — Building Efficiency Improvements
Schools — LED Lighting, Artificial Turf, and Other Essential Equipment for Facility Operations
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