Long View is proud to announce that the company has been recognized as a leader in sustainability by its key partners Microsoft and Cisco -- having been named a Sustainability Changemaker by Microsoft Canada and winner of Cisco's Digital Sustainability Challenge 2022. Microsoft recognized Long View as a Sustainability Changemaker in 2022 for its heavy investment in creating a government machine learning solution that will protect oceans from overfishing and communities from the harmful impact of severe flooding events. They did this by building repeatable, scalable, cross-industry solutions for the modernization of business-critical systems and deploying state-of-the-art artificial intelligence platforms for better business and sustainability decisions. Cisco has awarded the company for its work over the past year in partnership with Sensible Building Science to offer clients innovative solutions to automate ventilation, heating and cooling in commercial buildings to zones where occupants are located. This has been proven to provide 5-10% in carbon reductions which, if scaled across a market of 5.5 million commercial buildings, would result in a carbon reduction of 3 to 6 million tonnes.

Cisco's acquisition of artificial intelligence and machine learning startup MindMeld is a direct shot at unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) rival Microsoft, according to partners. "What Cisco is doing is directly going after Microsoft that is integrating all different pieces of software that we collaborate with in real time and have access to data in real time," said Jamie Shepard, senior vice president for health care and strategy at Lumenate, a Dallas-based solution provider and Cisco partner. "Microsoft is getting very much into AI and machine learning and analytics and things of that nature – they're trying to compete with the Googles and Amazons right now … Microsoft is a good model to emulate here and that's kind of what Cisco's doing." Cisco and Microsoft have been battling it out for years for leadership in the UC&C market. The San Jose, Calif.-based networking giant has been edging further ahead of Microsoft for market supremacy, owning 15 percent of the total UC&C market, compared to 12.5 percent from Microsoft, according to fourth quarter 2016 data from research firm Synergy Research Group.