Globant and Rockwell Win Digital Engineering Awards for the Top Sustainability Initiative Category

• The recognition is a result of the development of the "Sustainability Calculator for Repairs: Quantifying the Environmental Impact for Repairing vs. Buying New”
• The development enables end customers to make informed and sustainability-oriented decisions based on energy, H2O consumption, CO2 emissions and waste generation, associated with the products and services purchased

SAN FRANCISCO – March 22, 2024 — Globant (NYSE: GLOB), a digitally native company focused on reinventing businesses through innovative technology solutions, and Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK), an American provider of industrial automation and digital transformation technologies, announced the winning of the Digital Engineering Awards 2023. The “Sustainability Calculator for Repairs: Quantifying the Environmental Impact of Repair vs. Buying New” was selected as the winner in the Top Sustainability Initiative category.

Globant’s Sustainable Business Studio unveiled a groundbreaking sustainability calculator, meticulously back-engineered to quantify energy, waste generation, and CO2 emissions in repairing industrial automation assets vs. buying new.

This innovative collaboration combined Globant's Sustainable Business Studio prowess in ESG subject matter expertise and customer-centric design with Rockwell's Automation, Inc. proficiency in data-driven solutions. The result was the creation of this tool that offers unparalleled insight into sustainability metrics - specifically the complex Scope 3 data - tailored to each customer's unique needs, whether it's analyzing environmental impact at a specific location or evaluating the sustainability of a particular service interaction.

“We're stepping up our sustainability game by bolstering our internal data capabilities to measure emissions and footprints. At the same time, we're crafting a client-facing dashboard for clear sustainability disclosures. This showcases our dedication to delivering tech-driven, data-centric sustainable business solutions,” said Elena Morettini, Globant’s Sustainable Business Studio Director. “The development and its recognition signifies an impactful step in our pursuit to transform the present, creating the future of sustainable enterprises through numbers and by design.”

“This sustainability calculator is a first-of-its-kind, patent pending solution that helps to enable the circular economy by allowing end-customers to understand the environmental impact, savings, and advantages remanufacturing and repair has over ‘buying new’”, said Jason Mannion, Global Program Manager for Sustainability Services at Rockwell Automation, Inc.

The Digital Engineering Awards, in association with ISG, L&T Technology Services, and CNBC-TV18, represent a pioneering initiative, designed to recognize the accomplishments of business, sustainability  and technology leaders at the forefront of sustainability disruption of current industry and linear business models. This endeavor is dedicated to creating a brighter future for the planet and generations to come and to all the people who believe in sustainable value creation through artificial and human tech.

To learn more about the Sustainable Business Studio, click here. 

To learn more about the Sustainability Calculator for Repairs, click here.

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About Globant

We are a digitally native company that helps organizations reinvent themselves and unleash their potential. We are the place where innovation, design, and engineering meet scale. 

• We have more than 29,000 employees and are present in 33 countries across 5 continents, working for companies like Google, Electronic Arts, and Santander, among others.
• We were named a Worldwide Leader in AI Services (2023) and Worldwide Leader in CX Improvement Services (2020) by IDC MarketScape report.
• We are the fastest-growing IT brand and the 5th strongest IT brand globally (2024), according to Brand Finance.
• We were also featured as a business case study at Harvard, MIT, and Stanford.
• We are active members of The Green Software Foundation (GSF) and the Cybersecurity Tech Accord.

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Globant win Digital Engineering Awards