Schneider Electric Invests in Planon Beheer B.V. (“Planon”) to Digitally Transform Buildings into the Healthy and Sustainable Workplaces of the Future

Source: · SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC · | December 6, 2020

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MISSISSAUGA, ON, November 17, 2020 – Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, announces a strategic minority investment in Planon Beheer B.V. (“Planon”),, a leading cloud-based software provider in Integrated Workplace Management Systems (IWMS). Subject to normal regulatory and legal approvals, the deal will extend Schneider’s unique digital building lifecycle software offering, increase its market penetration and enhance the value and sustainability profiles of building assets.

Schneider Electric and Planon will jointly collaborate on innovation to deliver a suite of software and services to digitize the building lifecycle for both existing and new buildings. This will improve building sustainability, operational efficiency, and wellbeing for multiple customers in the Government, Education, Real Estate, Healthcare, Finance, Data Centers and Insurance sectors.

Buildings today are highly inefficient: they consume over 50 per cent of the world’s electricity, one third of all energy and account for 40 per cent of global carbon emissions. Schneider Electric believes that in the future buildings will be increasingly digital and electric and such end-to-end technologies will be critical in driving energy efficiency and carbon reductions, while ensuring enhanced comfort for building occupants and financial returns for building owners.

To achieve net zero, nine out of ten buildings that exist today will need to be digitally retrofitted. Planon’s portfolio of workplace management, maintenance and operations solutions leverages real-time analytics to achieve hyper-efficiency, increase building operators’ productivity and transform building users’ personalized workplace experience.