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Ben Coleman, Founder and CEO of Performa IT

As a passionate technical diver, I’ve witnessed firsthand the immense beauty of our ocean environments – and the impacts of human activities like pollution, overfishing and climate change. Protecting our planet’s delicate ecosystems is not just an ethical imperative; it’s a business-critical priority for long-term viability and growth.

The tech industry has an outsized environmental footprint. Energy-intensive data centres produce over 2% of global greenhouse gas emissions – rivalling the aviation industry’s share! E-waste from discarded devices and hardware has surged 21% in just five years to over 53 million metric tons annually. Unless we drive innovation toward more sustainable practices, our environmental burden will only intensify with increasing digitization.

At Performa IT, we’re committed to being a force for positive environmental change by minimising our ecological impact and leveraging technology as a sustainability solution multiplier across industries. Although we are proud to have achieved a carbon-neutral status in 2023, we aim to be Net Zero by 2030. Our Key initiatives include:

• Sustainability assessments for premises and remote workers
• Application to become BCorp certified
• Supplier environmental impact reviews
• Using AI and IoT for energy optimisation, emission tracking and predictive maintenance
• Asset depreciation and usage assessments to design for environmental efficiency
• Implementing circular economy principles to reduce, reuse and recycle e-waste
• Incorporating sustainability and waste reduction as a focus for all employees

Our efforts have already produced tangible results. We’ve achieved carbon neutrality across operations through a combination of energy efficiency, renewable procurement and credible offsetting projects. Beyond our direct footprint, we aim to empower corporate partners and ecosystems with digital solutions that enable sustainable transformation and a net-positive environmental impact.

To support restorative and protective environmental initiatives, our team have nominated organisations such as Humane Society International and the Marine Conservation Society as chosen supported charities – with employee-led efforts to protect wildlife and ecosystems; we hope to embed environmental advocacy in our culture.

While the tech sector’s environmental challenges are significant, I’m confident we can rise to meet them through collaborative innovation and public-private partnerships. Digital technology catalysed much of the environmental strain – it must now be marshalled to build a truly sustainable path forward for the planet we all share.

References

Masanet, E., et al. (2020) Recalibrating global data center energy-use estimates. Science, 367(6481), 984-986.

Forti V., et al. (2020) The Global E-waste Monitor 2020. United Nations University.

MuleSoft is a company that provides an integration platform for connecting applications, data, and devices across an organisation’s on-premises systems and cloud services. Their flagship product, Anypoint Platform, enables organisations to design, build, and manage application networks through APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). This allows different software systems to communicate and share data seamlessly, regardless of their underlying technologies or where they reside.

Instead of IT teams spending hours creating endless APIs requiring ongoing maintenance, MuleSoft can recycle existing connectors and reapply them with clicks, not code. MuleSoft’s integration solutions help businesses unlock data across legacy systems, streamline business processes, and deliver connected experiences faster, promoting greater agility, efficiency, and innovation.

There are several indicators that your business could potentially benefit from using MuleSoft’s integration platform:

Multiple disparate systems: If your organisation has many different applications, databases, and systems that need to share data and communicate with each other, MuleSoft can help integrate these systems seamlessly through APIs, removing silos and enabling smoother business processes.

Cloud adoption: As businesses move more workloads and applications to the cloud, integrating cloud services with on-premises systems becomes critical. MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform is designed to connect cloud and on-prem environments.

Digital transformation initiatives: If your company is undergoing digital transformation and needs to modernise legacy systems, expose data and functionalities as reusable APIs, and build new customer experiences, MuleSoft can accelerate these efforts.

API strategy: If your business aims to create, manage, and secure a robust API ecosystem to share data and capabilities with partners, vendors, or customers, MuleSoft provides API management tools.

Mergers and acquisitions: After M&A activity, companies often need to integrate inherited systems and data sources. MuleSoft can help streamline this consolidation process.

Lack of IT resources: MuleSoft’s pre-built connectors and low-code tools can accelerate integration projects for companies with limited integration expertise or resources.

Chances are, if you are a smaller organisation with only a handful of tools and devices, MuleSoft might not be the right investment just yet. However, if any of these scenarios resonate with your organisation’s current challenges or goals, it may be worthwhile to explore how MuleSoft’s integration capabilities could bring efficiencies, agility, and competitiveness to your business processes and systems.

Ready to transition your business to a new level of connectivity? Give us a call on 0117 230 2390

An Introduction to the technical architecture behind Mulesoft

MuleSoft is a hot topic in the CRM world, and for good reason! The software equips IT teams with the mechanisms they need to orchestrate seamless data transfer, foster holistic visibility across their organisation and provide a 360-degree view of each customer. This article explores the technicalities of MuleSoft in detail.

If you’re looking for a more entry level introduction to the MuleSoft Anypoint platform and overview of the benefits , take a look at our article ‘So, What Does MuleSoft Actually Do?’.

What is MuleSoft?

The Mulesoft Anypoint Platform is the world’s leading integration platform for APIs, Software as a service (Saas), and Service-oriented architecture (SOA). Essentially an ESB (Enterprise Service Bus), tne of the biggest advantages of] MuleSoft is its unmatched ability to provide exceptional business agility to organisations of all sizes by connecting devices, data, and applications, both in the cloud and on-premises. MuleSoft is middleware that acts as an intermediary between different apps, systems, or components to facilitate communication, data exchange, and integration.

What is an Enterprise Service Bus?

An Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a software architecture pattern used for integrating various applications and services within an enterprise. As middleware, it provides a centralised platform that facilitates communication and the exchange of data between different systems, applications, and services.

Key features and functions of an Enterprise Service Bus include:

Message Routing:

An ESB allows for the routing of messages between applications and services. It acts as a central hub that intelligently directs messages based on defined rules and configurations.

Message Transformation:

An ESB can handle the transformation of messages between different formats or protocols, ensuring that systems with varying data structures can communicate effectively.

Service Orchestration:

An ESB supports the orchestration of services, allowing for the coordination and sequencing of multiple services to achieve a particular business process or workflow.

Protocol Conversion:

An ESB can manage protocol mediation, converting messages from one communication protocol to another. This is beneficial when integrating systems that use different communication standards.

Integration with Legacy Systems:

ESBs often provide connectors or adapters to facilitate integration with legacy systems, allowing older technologies to interact seamlessly with modern applications.

Security and Transaction Management:

ESBs often include features for managing security aspects such as authentication and authorisation. They also help in handling transactions across distributed systems.

Monitoring and Management:

ESBs typically offer tools for monitoring the flow of messages, tracking performance metrics, and managing the overall health of the integrated systems.

Scalability:

ESBs are designed to be scalable, allowing organisations to expand their integration capabilities as the volume of data and the complexity of integrations grow.

Loose Coupling:

ESBs promote a loosely coupled architecture, where applications and services are connected without strong dependencies. This flexibility makes it easier to modify or replace individual components without disrupting the entire system.

The beauty of MuleSoft is that it delivers all of the above, and more, applying declarative code for a user-friendly and efficient deployment process. Using repurposed API connectors stored in the software, Developers and other users can easily deploy new integrations in the platform’s ‘Composer’. Leveraging MuleSoft, organisations can swiftly create scalable integrations that harmonise the breadth of data across all facets of the business.
To learn more about how Mulesoft can support organisations looking to scale seamlessly, give us a call on 0117 230 2390 or email us at hello@performa-it.co.uk. Take a look at our article ‘So, what does MuleSoft actually do?’’, for MuleSoft use cases and benefits!