DATA CENTER OPERATIONS INTELLIGENCE (DCOI) FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES

Finance and banking data centers – reduce operational risk and unlock capacity with EkkoSense DCOI

Q: How do I cut PUE in a bank data center without replacing the cooling plant?

That's the key question! EkkoSoft® Critical is AI-driven thermal optimization software that sits above your existing building management system, so there is no rip-and-replace of the cooling plant. It maps every rack in a live 3D thermal model, then tunes set-points and airflow to remove stranded hotspots. Cooling energy typically comes down 10-15% and PUE improves measurably, across more than 500 optimized data centers.

Q: How do I get audit-grade energy evidence for ESG/sustainability measures such as CSRD and the EU Energy Efficiency Directive?

EkkoSoft® Critical measures cooling energy and PUE and records it continuously, so the numbers your IT and governance teams disclose are evidenced rather than estimated. For an owned estate this is your Scope 2 data-centre line; for colocated or cloud compute it is the Scope 3 line you still account for. The same dataset that reduces the energy also produces the audit-grade evidence for Federal, State, EU and other global regulatory ESG reporting and disclosure activities.

Q: Will cooling optimization software disrupt a live, always-on financial-services estate?

No plant is replaced. EkkoSoft® Critical is a light-touch software orchestration layer that sits over your existing DCIM, SCADA, EPMS and BMS control systems, so it deploys without downtime in a live estate. It gives operations, sustainability and facilities teams one live view of efficiency, capacity and thermal resilience, and it reduces the hidden thermal risk of downtime in the halls that cannot go down.

In financial services, downtime is not an option. Your data center powers the mission critical trading platforms, payment systems and critical operations that demand continuous availability, resilience and performance.

EkkoSense Data Center Operations Intelligence (DCOI) gives your finance operations teams the real-time visibility they need to mitigate downtime risk whilst optimizing uptime performance.

AI deployments and agents are already pushing many financial services racks past 250kW – far beyond what most data halls were built for. At the same time IT costs are under pressure, energy prices are rising, and sustainability regulation is tightening – the need for effective Data Center Operations Intelligence (DCOI) is even more critical.

Our EkkoSense Data Center Operations Intelligence (DCOI) platform unlocks the unified insights and next best actions that allow finance data center teams to release additional capacity, reduce Opex spending, and keep your sustainability goals on track.

Remove power, capacity and thermal risks

Release stranded data center capacity

Reduce cooling energy and deliver on ESG targets

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The proof across 500+ global data centers…

15%

reduction in data center cooling energy use

15%

increase in energy efficiency, releasing capacity for compute

100%

thermal hotspot elimination

months to ROI through cooling and energy cost savings

EKKOSENSE FOR BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES

EkkoSense DCOI dramatically reduces operational risk for financial data centers.

EkkoSense equips financial data center teams with the Operational Truth needed to ask and answer the big infrastructure and AI questions you’re being asked every day.

While your legacy BMS, EPMS, SCADA and DCIM systems may capture volumes of operational data, it’s hard to access quickly. EkkoSense’s Data Center Operations Intelligence (DCOI) is an operations intelligence platform that aligns your team around the same, observable data center reality.

Drawn from thermal, capacity, power and space data across all your facilities, trading floors, comms rooms and other sites, EkkoSense DCOI turns data from your legacy systems into the critical judgement calls that decide what financial teams should do next to optimize data center performance.

ABOUT DCOI

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The results are powerful… 

Reduced operational risk: EkkoSense identifies and addresses previously hidden cooling, capacity and power issues before they start to impact services across your extended network.
Stranded capacity released: Optimizing power and cooling releases capacity for AI deployments, delaying potential Capex expenditure.
Auditable ESG and sustainabilty results: Concrete, auditable data on data center energy improvements and emission reductions – with automated ESG reporting allowing leaner operations.

Real-time operational intelligence for finance and banking data centers.

From branch systems through to hyperscale halls and AI factories, the EkkoSense DCOI Platform delivers real-time visibility, built around a single orchestration layer – not a stack of separate tools.

Our optimization software EkkoSoft^® Critical draws thermal, power, capacity and space data from across your entire estate to create your Operational Truth – a unified, trusted picture that aligns your Facilities, IT, Finance, Sustainability and Leadership teams around the same observable reality. EkkoSense then uses AI and machine learning to convert this Operational Truth into clear, prioritized actions that ensure as much safe compute from as little resource as possible.

Truly comprehensive visibility combined with machine learning and AI-driven continuous optimization means that financial services data center operations teams can deliver on solving challenges that were previously in direct conflict with one another. For example – expanding high-density AI/HPC compute while at the same time securing significant energy efficiency improvements to support sustainability and ESG goals. Or introducing new AI compute loads while also mitigating risks in a proactive way across every rack in every facility across the business.

EkkoSense’s AI-driven optimization, from anomaly detection and smart alerting to automated reporting, also eases the burden on high-pressure operations roles. It’s a powerful force multiplier for stretched teams.

Immersive digital twin

Vendor agnostic

Deploys in days

EKKOSOFT CRITICAL

Intelligent power and capacity management

Unlock stranded capacity and run your finance facilities leaner with EkkoSense’s intuitive, real-time power and capacity planning. The EkkoSense DCOI platform lets you manage all your current and future cooling, space and power needs through a single, intuitive Digital Twin visualization.

Optimizing legacy facility performance

Many legacy financial services facilities were originally built for much lower density levels. EkkoSense rack-level visibility finds the hotspots and overcooling, while our Cooling Advisor tunes the cooling plant you already have.

Improve resilience across data center estates

Financial services firms need to ensure resilience across their data center estate. Full digital twin visibility, anomaly detection and automated reporting across every hall, integrated with the DCIM and BMS already in place makes this a reality, with EkkoSense customers adopting this approach on a global basis.

The risks your DCIM and BMS software cannot see

In many data centers, the biggest downtime risks and energy waste stay hidden. DCIM and BMS platforms monitor the cooling units, but they miss what matters most: rack inlet temperatures, airflow imbalance and real-time thermal risk at the rack. EkkoSoft^® Critical works alongside your existing systems to show what’s happening at every rack.

Auditable ESG and regulatory metrics

No estimates. Just fully evidenced, audit-grade automated reporting for data center ESG reporting, including the ISO 30134 KPIs, PUE, CER, CUE and WUE. Scope 2 for owned sites and Scope 3 for colocated compute. The statistics you can take to the board at the click of a button.

Cooling efficiency without touching uptime

Cooling Advisor uses AI and machine learning to calculate thermal optimization continuously and recommends the set-point and airflow changes that hold the room safe as loads increase and the room changes. Cooling energy typically falls 10-15%, delivered while IT loads rise, with rack performance confirmed inside ASHRAE TC9.9.

Support right across the network from edge sites through to the largest facilities

EkkoSense supports all sizes of financial service data centers, from remote edge branch or communications sites to the largest enterprise and hyperscale facilities.

Track optimization against weather conditions

Financial services data center teams can track power and capacity performance in real-time against both current and historical weather conditions through advanced Multi-Factor Regression Analysis.

CUSTOMER STORY

Global Bank makes $500,000 data center energy cost savings in just 11 weeks.

A major global bank recently partnered with EkkoSense to unlock cooling energy savings, operational visibility, improved compliance standards, and real-time risk insight across its data centers in North America, EMEA and APAC regions.

With EkkoSoft^® Critical in place the bank’s data center operations can operate smarter, reduce risk, and meet their data center sustainability commitments with confidence..

READ THE CASE STUDY

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PROVEN ACROSS FINANCIAL ESTATES

Proven across the largest global finance estates.

EkkoSense equips the world’s leading financial services organizations with a way to scale expert operations judgement across all their data center sites.

Our EkkoSoft^® Critical data center optimization software can be deployed in sites of all sizes, from remote edge facilities through to the largest multi-room facilities and extended estates. EkkoSense’s ability to free stranded M&E capacity, remove thermal risk, lower energy consumption, and reduce CO₂ emissions, enables financial services firms to secure tangible data center carbon savings extremely quickly – often in weeks.

The EkkoSense DCOI platform allows teams to manage resilience, compliance and cost across potentially sprawling high-stakes estates – all from one trusted basis for decisions, not a patchwork of dashboards and after-the-fact reports. This translates directly into scaling operational expertise across critical infrastructure, not simply monitoring more of it, and provides a powerful way for financial services operations teams to drive the transition to a more efficient and automated operating model.

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“We realized that standard BMS reporting wouldn’t give us the answers that we needed. Instead, we wanted an optimization solution that would give us definitive visibility into any thermal risks, how resilient our facilities were, and what cooling capacity we had in place to cope with inevitable workload increases.”
Global Head of Critical Facilities
“Our key drivers for engaging EkkoSense to optimize performance at our major North American data center sites were to reduce risk, cut energy consumption, and increase our operational insight.”
Global Head of Critical Facilities
“The EkkoSense platform’s ability to capture and visualize the complex thermal performance of thousands of racks across multiple rooms and sites gives us the real-time operational insight we needed to help run our facilities more efficiently.”
Global Head of Critical Facilities

CASE STUDIES

HOW IT WORKS

How EkkoSense works with global financial institutions to deliver proven results across their data center estates with EkkoSoft^® Critical.

EkkoSense combines thermal, power, capacity and space data into a single trusted picture, then uses AI to convert this Operational Truth into clear, prioritized actions that enable as much safe compute from as little resource as possible.

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Rapid, light-touch deployment

Deploy rapidly through a non-intrusive, light-touch architecture – installed at sites within hours, with no requirement for customer resource to support implementation.

Integrate with existing systems

EkkoSense provides a unified orchestration layer that draws together data from your existing BMS, SCADA, DCIM, PM3, EMS, Asset Management and monitoring systems to create a single Operational Truth.

Build live digital twins

EkkoSense creates a live 3D model of every site across your extended estate, letting you visualize optimized performance, ensure resilience and unlock stranded capacity for additional compute.

Monitor in real-time

EkkoSense lets you map across individual racks, sites and estate-wide in real-time, while also storing historical data for immediate comparison with current performance.

Automate ESG reporting

EkkoSense gives you the reporting framework you need to stay ESG compliant, with automated data center ESG reporting keeping your operations lean.

View estate-wide

EkkoSense becomes your single data center Operational Truth, tracking performance across every site from remote edge facilities through to your largest data centers.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Your banking and financial data center questions answered.

Release the cooling capacity already stranded in your estate. EkkoSoft^® Critical maps thermal and power conditions to the rack in real time, finds the cooling headroom trapped by hotspots and over-provisioning, and lets you land denser racks in the footprint you already have. Cooling energy typically falls 10 -15%, which returns usable capacity for AI and high-density workloads without a new build or unnecessary Capex expenditure. The software sits over the existing BMS with no rip-and-replace.

That's the key question! EkkoSoft^® Critical is AI-driven thermal optimization software that sits above your existing building management system, so there is no rip-and-replace of the cooling plant. It maps every rack in a live 3D thermal model, then tunes set-points and airflow to remove stranded hotspots. Cooling energy typically comes down 10-15% and PUE improves measurably, across more than 500 optimized data centers.

EkkoSoft^® Critical measures cooling energy and PUE and records it continuously, so the numbers your IT and governance teams disclose are evidenced rather than estimated. For an owned estate this is your Scope 2 data-centre line; for colocated or cloud compute it is the Scope 3 line you still account for. The same dataset that reduces the energy also produces the audit-grade evidence for Federal, State, EU and other global regulatory ESG reporting and disclosure activities.

AI density breaks legacy air cooling first in exactly these estates. EkkoSoft^® Critical gives you rack-level thermal visibility for hybrid air and liquid environments, including direct-to-chip, so you can see exactly where the heat is, cool the dense racks safely, and add density without stranding capacity or risking a thermal event. It integrates with your DCIM and BMS rather than replacing them.

A large financial group often runs upwards of 200+ small, unmanned comms rooms across trading floors and offices, each linking back to the data center and each thermally unmonitored. EkkoSoft^® Critical extends the same rack-level thermal and energy visibility to these rooms, so you cut their cooling energy, see thermal risk before it becomes an outage, and keep a data-connected room online. It is a distinct, repeatable land-and-expand alongside the main data-center estate.

The typical 10 -15% reduction in cooling energy delivers return on investment within 12 months through cooling and energy cost savings, before counting the released capacity for compute and the audit-grade reporting evidence. EkkoSoft^® Critical deploys through a light-touch, non-intrusive architecture over the existing BMS, so the payback is not gated on a plant replacement.

No plant is replaced. EkkoSoft^® Critical is a light-touch software orchestration layer that sits over your existing DCIM, SCADA, EPMS and BMS control systems, so it deploys without downtime in a live estate. It gives operations, sustainability and facilities teams one live view of efficiency, capacity and thermal resilience, and it reduces the hidden thermal risk of downtime in the halls that cannot go down.

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