Integrating Operational Sustainability Management (formerly ESG) with Urjanet
Urjanet is a cloud-based platform that extracts different utility bills directly from the source, and delivers it into the business systems and applications that rely on it. As an ESG program manager or a metrics manager you can get your utilities data automatically from Urjanet and avoid manual data entry from your various facilities or office owners.
A utility bill is a detailed invoice, issued and paid once a month from utilities, including electricity, natural gas, water, and waste. With the Operational Sustainability Integration with Urjanet, organizations can obtain historical or real-time utility data from Urjanet into the ServiceNow AI Platform in the form of metrics. These metrics can then be tracked using the Operational Sustainability Workspace and are associated with other operational sustainability components such as goals and targets thus enabling organizations to take the necessary actions for sustainability.
- Water and electricity consumption
- Waste generated and so on.
- Create entities: Each utility data for all your locations is tracked as an entity in the Operational Sustainability Management application. For example, your electricity consumption in your Atlanta office is considered to be an entity. Therefore, you must create entities for all the utility data that you want to track. If you've already created the entities, then you must map the utility data that is imported from Urjanet with the entities created. Certain fields such as Entity class and Entity owner in the entity forms must be manually filled in by the users of the integration.
- Activate the metric definitions: For the Operational Sustainability Integration with Urjanet, ServiceNow® provides a few metric definitions by default. You must activate the ones that you require for your metric collection. Only those metric definitions that are active are considered and their data is loaded into the system. Certain fields such as Unit, Frequency and Enterprise owner in the default metric definitions must be manually filled in by the users of the integration. If you don’t want to use the metric definitions provided by default, you can create your own metric definitions.
- Import the data for the metrics: After the user activates the required metric definitions, the data for those metric definitions and their entities will be imported into the Operational Sustainability Management as metrics and metric data.