SOLOCAL_Registration Document_2017

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 3.3 Environmental responsibility

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES 3.3.3

SoLocal Group is concerned about the environmental impact of its digital activities, which account for most of the Group’s sales. There are many processes that have been implemented to digitise paper documents and processes within the Group. These include, for example, all commercial transactions from customer ordering to collection, employee pay slips, the supplier purchasing portal, meal vouchers, etc. To participate in the market reflections on this subject, in 2017 SoLocal Group was a member of the Club Green IT, which brings together other large French companies.

number of servers required for new projects and applications increases. Measures to reduce power consumption include: reorganising datacentre premises to enable more efficient l cooling of servers by changing room layouts, confinement and anti-UV filters; replacing existing servers with more energy-efficient models l that give off less heat; strong decommissioning activity; l massive deployment of cloud computing and virtualisation l technologies, which not only reduce power consumption of individual servers hosting applications, but also enable more efficient overall use of IT infrastructures and operational flexibility. Consequently, most of the systems currently used are virtual machines. 75% of the Group’s servers were virtualised in 2017.

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DATACENTRES

3.3.3.1

The PagesJaunes, Mappy, SoLocal Marketing Services and QDQ subsidiaries use internal and external datacentres. Each year the power consumption of these datacentres is optimised as the

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Datacentres’ power consumption at 31/12

SoLocal Group

PagesJaunes

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2015

2016

2017

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2015

2016

2017

∆N-1

Electricity consumption by datacentres (in MWh)

5,125

4,992 -2.6% 5,196

4,835

4,699 -2.8%

5,545

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The declines in consumption observed between 2016 and 2017 are connected with the use of equipment consuming less energy, the rationalisation of equipment and the ongoing efforts made in the virtualisation of the servers.

In addition to the significant decrease (-44%) in the number of sheets “sent to print” (June-October 2015 vs same period 2016), this new system saved 20% of sheets that were not actually printed. Between 2016 and 2017, the trend continued: -6% of sheets sent for printing (June-October 2016 vs June-October 2017), of which 22% were not printed. In Q3 2017, this virtuous system was implemented at the Rennes and Eysines sites. At the same time, the number of Group printers continued to decrease between 2016 and 2017 (-2.9%).

IT EQUIPMENT

3.3.3.2

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Reducing the environmental impact of office operations also means integrating a responsible digital strategy, translated into a series of actions such as adopting a strategy of automatic computer standby modes (whether short or long), replacing desktop computers with laptops that consume less energy, purchasing computer equipment with international environmental certifications such as EPEAT or Blue Angel (almost 100% of the fax machines at the head office). In connection with the relocation of the head office to the new premises in Boulogne-Billancourt in early 2016, a print flow management system was adopted to release printouts only after using an individual badge.

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2017 Registration Document SOLOCAL