HCLTech Sustainable IT Framework for Pega

HCLTech believes that Sustainability is no longer optional but essential for businesses to thrive and differentiate themselves in the post pandemic world. Our approach towards decarbonizing IT is predicated on a comprehensive strategy of combining elements of people, process & tech. HCLTech Sustainable IT Framework for Pega quantifies the emissions and assesses sustainability performance of Pega based application across the software development lifecycle – SDLC (i.e., discovery & define; design & develop; deploy & operate phases). The various dimensions based on which the Pega applications are weighed include, architecture & design patterns, implementation practices, maintenance/operations effort, automation hotspots, governance, democratization of technology, security, integration with surround systems, user experience, bot implementation and underlying infrastructure to name a few. The grading of the application outlines the capability adoption maturity based on defined archetypes.

Key Features

• Assess application/application portfolio utilization of infrastructure to quantify and report carbon emissions, aligned to GHG protocol (i.e., Scope 1, 2, & 3).

• Conduct a qualitative assessment of the application/application portfolio across multiple dimensions (e.g., Architecture & Design, Development & QA, Maintenance Services, Engineering Practices etc.), covering the full lifecycle i.e., from design to run.

• Sustainability awareness amongst the workforce is included in the assessment as it is a key aspect of a holistic approach.

• Emissions from practices such as Business travel, Employee commute and work location are quantified and reported.

• Helps customers facilitate informed decision making & create an adoption roadmap.

• It tracks 50+ metrics across categories of Application Development & Maintenance lifecycle. The metrics cover the 3 sustainability pillars (i.e., Planet, People & Prosperity) for a comprehensive view of sustainability performance and progress.