SIGNATORY RECORD

Biosystemes

Date of signature : 04/12/2023

  • Signatory of the Sustainable IT Charter

Digital Services Companies

Food industry

10 contributors

Couternon, France

cstein@biosystemes.com

https://www.biosystemes.com

Presentation

Biosystèmes est un acteur majeur de l'édition de logiciel d'évaluation sensorielle depuis la première version de FIZZ en 1989.
Le premier domaine d'activité de notre suite de logiciels FIZZ est l'industrie agroalimentaire, où la société est rapidement devenue l'un des leaders sur le marché des logiciels d'analyse sensorielle.
Biosystèmes a également développé ses ventes dans d'autres domaines non alimentaires (cosmétiques, soins personnels, services de santé, chimie...) et dans d'autres applications (instruments de laboratoire, contrôle de procédés biologiques).
Biosystèmes a ainsi répondu aux besoins de nombreux utilisateurs dans le monde entier.

Planned commitments and actions

  • Certify your employees
  • Communicate to its stakeholders on the actions taken
  • Deployment of a security plan for its digital environments (antivirus, VPN, supplier audits, permanent monitoring)
  • Evaluate the robustness of its infrastructures (regular tests) and prioritise European infrastructures
  • Favour the purchase of sustainable equipment (reparability and durability criteria)
  • Engage with actors in the reuse sector and/or the social and solidarity economy in the management of the end-of-life of my equipment
  • Integrate environmental requirements in my calls for tender and establish a dialogue and measurement elements over the duration of the service with my suppliers
  • Measure the energy consumption and impact of my Information System (multi-criteria analysis)
  • Avoid unnecessary energy consumption e.g. by switching off at night, weekends and holidays
  • Ensure the development of useful and efficient digital services
  • Reduce the environmental impact of its services: weight of images, videos, plugins, by favouring simpler or less energy-consuming solutions
  • Make its digital services accessible to as many people as possible (even in the event of poor connection quality, disability, etc.)
  • Ensure diversity in the recruitment of IS teams (initial and continuing training, diversity of training, origins, disability status)
  • Encourage gender diversity in the digital field at all levels
  • Favour the use of local and European tools in order to encourage the consolidation of players who respect the sovereignty of European data

Actions started

  • Raise awareness on Sustainable IT (e.g. information workshop, MOOC, dissemination of good practice guides)
  • Enter a Sustainable IT labelling initiative
  • Organise a Digital Cleanup Day
  • Training in Sustainable IT (e.g. attending a training course lasting several days)
  • Establish a Sustainable IT Working Group within the organisation
  • Implementing data governance of your organisation and GDPR compliance or by following the principles of the GDPR in compliance with locally applicable data protection rules locally applicable data protection rules for other countries
  • Deployment of a security plan for its digital environments (antivirus, VPN, supplier audits, permanent monitoring)
  • Manage my fleet with an inventory by category
  • Measure the lifespan of my equipment by type
  • Ensuring that its suppliers and service providers comply with their GDPR requirements or follow the principles of the GDPR in compliance with locally applicable data protection rules for other countries, environmental, social and diversity
  • Plan the archiving and cleaning of data with its teams to reduce their environmental footprint
  • Reduce the environmental impact of its services: weight of images, videos, plugins, by favouring simpler or less energy-consuming solutions
  • Encourage gender diversity in the digital field at all levels
  • Promote work-life balance by, for example, respecting the right to disconnect and arranging for teleworking measures
  • Favour the use of local and European tools in order to encourage the consolidation of players who respect the sovereignty of European data