What non-financial results can IT providers expect?

How do they perform in environmental terms? Which IT providers are the highest-ranked and make up the top five in the overall ranking? What are the rankings by major market segment for carbon, energy and water indicators – the most closely watched indicators that have a significant impact on overall performance? Discover an extract from our report “Sustainable IT — Alliancy Top Leaders by AdVaes® Ranking”.

Combining financial and non-financial performance is a strategic lever for tackling the economic pressures and technological disruptions currently affecting digital infrastructure, software and services. Issues surrounding carbon and energy are becoming crucial and have a direct impact on results and performance, and indeed extend beyond that to resilience and autonomy (even touching on matters of sovereignty).

🏆 Which IT providers are best positioned?

Take a look at the extract below showing the top three in our overall assessment, across all market segments:

1️⃣ HP

2️⃣ Hewlett Packard Enterprise

3️⃣ Sopra Steria

4️⃣ Google

5️⃣ Criteo

AdVaes Best of Sustainable IT Vendors — Meilleurs Résultats Environnementaux — Top 5 Général
Excerpt in French from the AdVaes report "Best of Sustainable IT Vendors, 2026"

A rigorous methodology

Our rankings, underpinned by a rigorous, data-driven scoring and evaluation methodology, are compiled in a report entitled “Sustainable IT — Alliancy Top Leaders by AdVaes® Ranking”, published in exclusive partnership with Alliancy.

The 110 IT service providers analysed, which form the basis for our benchmarking framework for these rankings and scores, are representative of the following five major segments:

🔸 Digital Services Companies (ESN)

🔸 Software publishers

🔸 Hardware and component manufacturers

🔸 Data centre operators and telecoms providers

🔸 Cloud service providers

The overall score, which is based on the assessment of seven key indicators, is supplemented by a specific ranking addressing the three most closely monitored environmental indicators: GHG or carbon emissions, energy consumption and water consumption.

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