Schneider Electric | Perforce Staying Competitive Schneider Electric is a French multinational company with 150,000 employees. Its products and services help customers improve energy efficiency in their homes and businesses. One of its five main divisions, Buildings, develops systems for energy management of large buildings — integrating subsystems such as lighting, access control, cooling, and electricity distribution. Like many industries, the energy management industry is increasingly software-driven. What that means is that Schneider Electric, historically a manufacturing company, is now competing with a very different generation of companies. Google’s Nest division is one example. To maintain competitiveness, the Buildings division reevaluated how to manage their complex portfolio of

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