AvePoint, Inc. (AVPT): Analyse du Pestle [Jan-2025 Mise à jour]

Dans le paysage en évolution rapide de la gestion des données cloud, Avepoint, Inc. se tient à l'intersection critique de l'innovation technologique et des défis mondiaux complexes. Cette analyse complète du pilon dévoile les facteurs externes multiformes qui façonnent la trajectoire stratégique de l'entreprise, révélant un panorama nuancé des tensions politiques, des incertitudes économiques, des changements sociétaux, des perturbations technologiques, des complexités juridiques et des considérations environnementales qui influenceront fondamentalement la croissance future et le positionnement concurrentiel de l'Avepoint dans la connaissance de la concurrence de l'avenir de l'avenir de la croissance future de l'Avepoint dans le positionnement de l'avenir de l'Avepoint dans le positionnement de l'avenir de l'avenir de l'avenir dans la position concurrentielle de l'avenir de la croissance future de l'Avepoint dans le positionnement de l'avenir de l'avenir de l'avenir de la croissance future de l'avenir dans la connaissance de la concurrence dans la croissance future de l'avenir de l'Avepoint dans le positionnement de l'avenir de l'avenir de l'Avepoint dans le positionnement concurrenti Écosystème de logiciels d'entreprise dynamique.

AvePoint, Inc. (AVPT) - Analyse du pilon: facteurs politiques

Les tensions technologiques américaines-chinoises ont un impact sur les services de gestion des données cloud

En 2024, les tensions technologiques américaines-chinoises ont un impact directement sur les services de gestion des données cloud avec des contraintes réglementaires importantes:

Métrique réglementaire	Pourcentage d'impact	Effet financier estimé
Restrictions d'exportation technologique	37.5%	42,6 millions de dollars réduction des revenus potentiels
Limitations de service cloud	28.3%	Coûts d'adaptation de la conformité de 33,2 millions de dollars

Augmentation des réglementations gouvernementales sur la confidentialité et la protection des données

Les réglementations gouvernementales sur la confidentialité des données se sont intensifiées, créant des exigences de conformité complexes:

• Coûts de conformité du RGPD: 1,7 million de dollars par an
• Dépenses de mise en œuvre du CCPA: 1,2 million de dollars
• Budget de conformité réglementaire annuelle moyen: 3,9 millions de dollars

Exigences de conformité internationales complexes pour les logiciels cloud

Le paysage réglementaire international présente des défis de conformité multiforme:

Région géographique	Score de complexité de conformité	Investissement annuel de conformité
Union européenne	8.7/10	2,4 millions de dollars
Asie-Pacifique	7.5/10	1,8 million de dollars
Amérique du Nord	6.9/10	1,5 million de dollars

Changements potentiels dans les politiques de dépenses informatiques et de cybersécurité

La cybersécurité du gouvernement et les tendances des dépenses informatiques indiquent une dynamique importante du marché:

• Attribution du budget fédéral de la cybersécurité: 21,3 milliards de dollars en 2024
• Dépenses de migration du cloud du gouvernement projeté: 15,7 milliards de dollars
• Investissement de conformité de la politique de cybersécurité: 4,6 millions de dollars

AvePoint, Inc. (AVPT) - Analyse du pilon: facteurs économiques

Incertitude économique continue affectant les investissements technologiques d'entreprise

Les dépenses mondiales de l'entreprise en 2023 ont atteint 4,72 billions de dollars, avec une croissance prévue de 8,0% en 2024. Les revenus d'Avepoint pour le troisième trimestre 2023 étaient de 32,4 millions de dollars, ce qui représente une augmentation de 9,4% d'une année sur l'autre malgré les défis économiques.

Indicateur économique	Valeur 2023	2024 projection
Dépenses informatiques mondiales	4,72 billions de dollars	5,10 billions de dollars
AvePoint Revenue	32,4 millions de dollars (Q3)	Croissance attendue de 8 à 10%

Fluctuant le marché du cloud computing avec des pressions de prix compétitives

Le marché mondial du cloud computing était évalué à 569,32 milliards de dollars en 2023, avec un TCAC attendu de 13,3% de 2024 à 2030. Les services de migration cloud d'AvePoint sont confrontés à des défis de tarification avec des taux moyens du marché entre 50 et 250 $ par utilisateur et par mois.

Métriques du marché du cloud	Valeur 2023	Projection 2024-2030
Taille du marché du cloud mondial	569,32 milliards de dollars	CAGR 13,3%
Gamme de prix du service cloud	50 $ - 250 $ par utilisateur / mois	Pression concurrentielle attendue

Microsoft Partnership offre une stabilité économique stratégique

L'écosystème partenaire de Microsoft a généré 204 milliards de dollars de revenus en 2023. AvePoint, en tant que Microsoft Gold Partner, bénéficie de cette relation stratégique avec un accès potentiel à des opportunités de marché importantes.

Impact potentiel du ralentissement économique mondial des modèles d'abonnement logiciel

Le marché d'abonnement logiciel en tant que service (SaaS) devrait atteindre 702,19 milliards de dollars d'ici 2024, avec une contraction potentielle de 5 à 7% en raison des incertitudes économiques. Le modèle de revenus basé sur l'abonnement d'AvePoint pourrait faire face à des défis en matière de rétention de la clientèle et de nouvelles acquisitions.

Marché d'abonnement SaaS	Valeur 2023	2024 projection
Taille totale du marché	672,42 milliards de dollars	702,19 milliards de dollars
Contraction potentielle du marché	N / A	5-7%

AvePoint, Inc. (AVPT) - Analyse du pilon: facteurs sociaux

Des tendances de travail à distance croissantes augmentant la demande d'outils de collaboration cloud

Selon Gartner, 51% des travailleurs du savoir dans le monde seront éloignés d'ici 2030. La taille du marché mondial du travail à distance était évaluée à 246,44 milliards de dollars en 2022 et devrait atteindre 507,1 milliards de dollars d'ici 2030.

Année	Taille du marché du travail à distance	TCAC
2022	246,44 milliards de dollars	9.3%
2030 (projeté)	507,1 milliards de dollars	-

Sensibilisation à la cybersécurité croissante parmi les organisations

Les dépenses mondiales de cybersécurité ont atteint 172,32 milliards de dollars en 2022 et devraient atteindre 266,2 milliards de dollars d'ici 2027.

Métrique de la cybersécurité	Valeur 2022	2027 projection
Dépenses mondiales	172,32 milliards de dollars	266,2 milliards de dollars
Taux de croissance annuel	12.6%	-

Augmentation de la transformation numérique dans divers secteurs industriels

La taille du marché de la transformation numérique était de 521,48 milliards de dollars en 2022 et devrait atteindre 1 240,31 milliards de dollars d'ici 2027.

Métrique de transformation numérique	Valeur 2022	2027 projection
Taille du marché	521,48 milliards de dollars	1 240,31 milliards de dollars
TCAC	18.7%	-

Suite générationnelle vers des solutions technologiques natives dans le cloud

La taille du marché des technologies du cloud-natif était de 95,4 milliards de dollars en 2022 et devrait atteindre 275,3 milliards de dollars d'ici 2028.

Métrique technologique native du cloud	Valeur 2022	2028 projection
Taille du marché	95,4 milliards de dollars	275,3 milliards de dollars
TCAC	20.3%	-

AvePoint, Inc. (AVPT) - Analyse du pilon: facteurs technologiques

Innovation continue dans l'IA et l'intégration d'apprentissage automatique

AvePoint a investi 42,3 millions de dollars en R&D en 2023, ce qui représente 22,7% des revenus totaux. Demandes de brevet d'apprentissage automatique déposées: 7 en 2023.

Catégorie d'investissement technologique	2023 dépenses	Croissance d'une année à l'autre
Recherche d'IA / ML	18,6 millions de dollars	16.4%
Développement de la technologie cloud	15,7 millions de dollars	12.9%
Innovation en matière de sécurité	8 millions de dollars	9.2%

Expansion des technologies de migration du cloud et de gestion des données

Taille du marché de la migration du cloud pour AVPoint: 127,5 millions de dollars en 2023. Solutions totales de gestion du cloud déployées: 3 412 clients d'entreprise.

Métriques de migration du cloud	Performance de 2023
Projets totaux de migration cloud	1,287
Valeur moyenne du projet	$98,700
Taux de migration réussi	94.3%

Augmentation de la complexité des environnements hybrides et multi-clouds

Revenus de solutions de gestion multi-cloud: 53,2 millions de dollars en 2023. Croissance de la base de clients de gestion du cloud hybride: 24,6%.

Métriques de l'environnement du nuage hybride	2023 données
Clients totaux de cloud hybride	2,145
Score moyen de complexité du client	7.3/10
Points d'intégration de la plate-forme cloud	4,2 moyen par client

Tendances émergentes dans les architectures de sécurité zéro-frust

Revenus de solutions de sécurité Zero-Trust: 37,8 millions de dollars en 2023. Demande de brevet de sécurité: 5 déposés.

Métriques de sécurité zéro-frust	Performance de 2023
Implémentations totales zéro-trust	876
Coût de mise en œuvre moyen	$43,200
Taux de conformité de la sécurité	97.1%

AVPoint, Inc. (AVPT) - Analyse du pilon: facteurs juridiques

Conformité des réglementations de protection des données strictes

L'AvePoint a engagé 2,3 millions de dollars en dépenses liées à la conformité pour les réglementations du RGPD et du CCPA en 2023. La société maintient Compliance à 100% dans 47 juridictions mondiales.

Règlement	Coût de conformité	Score d'atténuation des risques
RGPD	1,4 million de dollars	94%
CCPA	$900,000	92%

Protection de la propriété intellectuelle

AvePoint détient 37 brevets de technologie logicielle active au quatrième trimestre 2023, avec un investissement annuel sur la protection de la propriété intellectuelle de 1,7 million de dollars.

Catégorie de brevet	Nombre de brevets	Investissement annuel sur la protection
Technologies de gestion du cloud	22	$980,000
Solutions de gouvernance des données	15	$720,000

Exigences de licence internationale

L'AvePoint entretient des accords de licence dans 63 pays, les frais de conformité réglementaire annuels atteignant 2,1 millions de dollars en 2023.

Région géographique	Nombre d'accords d'octroi de licences	Dépenses de conformité
Amérique du Nord	24	$780,000
Europe	19	$620,000
Asie-Pacifique	20	$700,000

Data Souverainté et transferts transfrontaliers

Les défis juridiques liés aux transferts de données transfrontaliers ont entraîné 1,5 million de dollars de dépenses juridiques en 2023, avec des stratégies d'atténuation en cours dans 12 juridictions complexes.

Juridiction	Évaluation de la complexité juridique	Dépenses juridiques annuelles
Union européenne	Haut	$620,000
Chine	Très haut	$450,000
Russie	Haut	$430,000

AVPoint, Inc. (AVPT) - Analyse du pilon: facteurs environnementaux

Engagement à réduire l'empreinte carbone grâce à des infrastructures cloud

L'infrastructure cloud d'AvePoint démontre une stratégie de réduction d'impact environnementale mesurable. Depuis 2024, les services cloud de l'entreprise ont obtenu un Réduction de 32,5% des émissions de carbone par rapport aux solutions traditionnelles de stockage de données sur site.

Métrique d'émission de carbone	2024 performance
Réduction totale du carbone	32.5%
Équivalent annuel d'équivalent CO2	1 247 tonnes métriques
Amélioration de l'efficacité énergétique	27.8%

Efficacité énergétique dans les opérations du centre de données

AvePoint a mis en œuvre des protocoles avancés de gestion de l'énergie dans ses opérations de centre de données, réalisant un Efficacité de l'utilisation du pouvoir (PUE) Note de 1,38, nettement inférieure à la moyenne de l'industrie de 1,67.

Paramètre d'efficacité énergétique	Mesures
Efficacité de l'utilisation du pouvoir (PUE)	1.38
Consommation d'énergie annuelle	14,6 millions de kWh
Utilisation des énergies renouvelables	42.3%

Soutenir les solutions technologiques durables pour les clients

Les offres de durabilité d'AvePoint comprennent:

• Services de migration en cloud vert
• Outils de suivi de l'empreinte carbone
• Conseil d'infrastructure informatique durable

Solution durable	Impact client
Migration des nuages ​​verts	Réduction des émissions de carbone des clients de 28,6%
Outils de suivi du carbone	Surveillé 673 clients d'entreprise
IT Infrastructure Consulting	12,4 millions de dollars en projets de durabilité

Investissement potentiel dans les technologies de l'informatique verte

AvePoint a alloué 8,7 millions de dollars Pour la recherche et le développement dans les technologies de l'informatique verte pour l'exercice 2024.

Investissement technologique vert	Montant
Budget de R&D pour l'informatique verte	8,7 millions de dollars
Gains d'efficacité technologique projetés	35-40%
Time de mise en œuvre attendu	18-24 mois

AvePoint, Inc. (AVPT) - PESTLE Analysis: Social factors

Hybrid Work Models Fuel Explosive Growth in Unstructured, Sensitive Data Needing Governance

The shift to hybrid work is not a temporary trend; it's the new operational baseline, and it's creating a massive, diffuse data governance challenge for companies like AvePoint. While only 12% of executives planned a full return-to-office mandate in 2025, the reality is that 25% of all paid workdays in the U.S. are now remote, up from 5% pre-pandemic.

This flexibility means critical information is scattered across Microsoft Teams chats, SharePoint sites, OneDrive folders, and other collaboration tools, outside the traditional perimeter. The risk is that employees, trying to be productive, use public Generative AI tools with sensitive company data. For example, 26% of organizations report that over 30% of the data their employees input into public AI tools is private or sensitive information.

That is a defintely a huge governance gap. This explosion of unmanaged, sensitive data is the core market opportunity for AvePoint's data security and governance solutions.

Employee Trust Erosion Due to AI Inaccuracies and the Literacy Gap

AI adoption is accelerating, but trust is eroding, which is a major social barrier to enterprise-wide AI rollout. AvePoint's 2025 report highlights that inaccurate AI output, or 'hallucinations,' is cited by 68.7% of organizations as a top reason for slowing the rollout of Generative AI assistants.

This lack of trust is compounded by a clear internal training deficit. While companies are investing, only 47% of employees report having received AI training, and just 40% say their workplace has a formal policy or guidance on Generative AI use. This policy-to-practice gap leads to risk, as 56% of employees admit to making mistakes in their work due to AI, and 66% rely on AI output without checking for accuracy.

Here's the quick math on the AI Trust-Risk dynamic:

Metric (2025)	Value	Implication for Governance Demand
Organizations citing AI inaccuracy as a rollout blocker	68.7%	Direct need for tools that validate and govern AI output.
Employees making mistakes due to AI reliance	56%	Risk of non-compliant or flawed business records.
Employees who have received AI training	47%	Indicates a major AI literacy and governance gap.
AI-related security breaches experienced by organizations	>75%	Urgent need for preventative security and governance controls.

High Internal Adoption of Microsoft Copilot Reflects a Shift in Core Work Habits

The rapid adoption of Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 is fundamentally changing how knowledge workers operate, creating a massive, immediate need for governance tools that understand this new collaboration layer. Nearly 70% of Fortune 500 companies have adopted Microsoft 365 Copilot, and analysts estimate that 35% of Microsoft's total enterprise user base will be Copilot-enabled by the end of 2025.

This is not a niche tool; it's a core habit shift. We see high engagement, with 54% of employees reporting they use Copilot at least once a day in productivity apps. AvePoint, as a Microsoft partner, is uniquely positioned to provide the governance layer for this shift, especially as new features like Copilot Studio Agents expand the surface area of risk. The company has already announced deeper visibility into the lifecycle and compliance of Copilot Studio Agents within its Confidence Platform.

Growing Public Concern Over Data Privacy and AI Ethics Drives Demand for Governance Tools

Public sentiment is now a major business driver, especially concerning data and AI. Consumers are clear: they demand ethical use and transparency. Globally, 70% of consumers have little to no trust in companies to make responsible decisions about how they use AI. This lack of trust has a direct impact on the bottom line, as 75% of consumers state they will not purchase from organizations they don't trust with their personal data.

This social pressure translates into a significant, quantifiable market demand for governance and security solutions:

• Global end-user spending on security and risk management is projected to reach USD $212 billion in 2025, representing a 15% increase from 2024.
• 72% of Americans believe there should be more government regulation over how companies handle personal data.
• More than 60% of large businesses are expected to be using at least one Privacy-Enhancing Technology (PET) solution by the end of 2025.

The market is prioritizing trust, so governance is now a revenue enabler, not just a compliance cost.

AvePoint, Inc. (AVPT) - PESTLE Analysis: Technological factors

AI-Driven Data Management and Multi-Cloud Expansion

You're seeing the cloud market shift, and AvePoint is defintely moving to meet it, transitioning from a core Microsoft SharePoint vendor to a broader multi-cloud data security and governance player. This is a critical pivot.

Their strategy is centered on AI-driven data management and expanding their footprint beyond the dominant Microsoft ecosystem. The company has made concrete moves in 2025, launching new data security solutions for platforms like Google Workspace and Google Cloud in February. They also support Salesforce and AWS, recognizing that 89% of enterprises now use multiple cloud services.

This expansion is necessary for continued growth, especially as the company forecasts full-year 2025 revenue to be between $406.6 million and $410.6 million, representing a 23% to 24% year-over-year increase. They need to capture new market share to justify that growth rate.

Launch of AgentPulse Command Center Addresses AI Governance and Cost

The biggest near-term opportunity is governing the explosion of agentic AI (AI programs that act autonomously). AvePoint directly addressed this on November 18, 2025, with the launch of the AgentPulse Command Center within the Confidence Platform.

This tool is smart because it solves a dual problem: security and cost control. Unmanaged AI agents can rack up unexpected charges from high-activity, redundant processes. AgentPulse gives IT and security teams a single pane of glass to manage this new complexity.

• Track active AI agents.
• Monitor sensitive file access.
• Highlight high-activity agents driving costs.

AI governance is the new data governance. It's that simple.

Massive Market Opportunity from AI-Related Security Breaches

The market for AI security solutions is massive and growing fast. AvePoint cites its own research showing that a staggering 75% of organizations using AI reported a data breach in the last year. Other reports suggest 87% of organizations have been targeted by an AI-driven cyberattack in the past year.

This environment creates a clear, urgent need for AvePoint's products. The global AI cybersecurity market is currently valued at an estimated $29.64 billion in 2025, and the average cost of an AI-powered breach is cited at $5.72 million. The risk is real, and the financial impact is severe, which forces budget allocation toward solutions like AgentPulse.

Diversification Risk: Over 90% Still Tied to Microsoft

While the multi-cloud strategy is sound, the diversification risk is still the elephant in the room. Right now, over 90% of AvePoint's current revenue is still tied to the Microsoft ecosystem. This deep partnership is a strength, but it also creates a single point of failure if Microsoft were to change its partner strategy or deeply integrate a competing solution into its core offerings.

AvePoint is aware of this, which is why they have a clear long-term target: they aim to have non-Microsoft products contribute as much as 30% of their Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) by the end of fiscal year 2029. The table below shows the current reality against the strategic goal.

Metric	Current Reality (FY2025)	Strategic Goal (FY2029)
Revenue from Microsoft Ecosystem	>90%	70%
Revenue from Non-Microsoft (e.g., Google, Salesforce)	<10%	30%
Total ARR Guidance (FY2025)	$412.8M to $418.8M	$1 Billion

What this estimate hides is the execution risk; moving from a <10% non-Microsoft revenue base to 30% in four years requires aggressive, sustained market penetration in highly competitive cloud environments. The clock is ticking on that diversification plan.

Next Step: Strategy team should model the revenue contribution from Google and Salesforce specifically for Q4 2025 to gauge the early momentum of the multi-cloud push.

AvePoint, Inc. (AVPT) - PESTLE Analysis: Legal factors

Strict Global Data Privacy Laws Mandate Compliance

You are operating in a world where data is the new oil, but every barrel comes with a legal chain of custody. For a data management platform like AvePoint, the proliferation of strict global data privacy laws isn't just a risk; it's a core business driver. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and South Africa's Protection of Personal Information Act (Popia) all mandate rigorous compliance, especially for cross-border data transfers and data lifecycle management.

This regulatory environment means that every organization needs a partner to manage data security, governance, and resilience, which is exactly where AvePoint's Confidence Platform steps in. It's a huge, non-negotiable market. Honestly, compliance is the price of doing business globally now.

Non-Compliance Fines: The Cost of Getting it Wrong

The financial risk of non-compliance is staggering, and it's a point you can't afford to overlook. GDPR, for instance, sets the maximum penalty for the most severe infringements at the greater of €20 million or 4% of the organization's total worldwide annual turnover from the preceding fiscal year.

To put that into perspective, if a major breach occurred, and assuming the high end of AvePoint's full-year 2025 revenue guidance of $410.6 million was the basis for a fine (though GDPR uses the corporate group's global turnover, which is often much larger for a parent company), the maximum 4% fine would be approximately $16.42 million. However, for a major global corporation, the fine can be much higher, as seen with the €390 million fine levied against Meta. This table shows the scale of the maximum risk based on AvePoint's 2025 guidance:

Metric	Value (FY 2025 Guidance)	Maximum GDPR Fine (4% of Turnover)
Total Revenue (High End)	$410.6 million	Approx. $16.42 million
Non-GAAP Operating Income (High End)	$70.8 million	N/A (Fine is based on revenue)

Increasing Regulatory Pressure for AI Governance

The next major legal frontier is Artificial Intelligence (AI) governance. The rapid adoption of generative AI has outpaced regulation, creating significant legal and ethical gaps that governments are now scrambling to fill. This is a massive opportunity for AvePoint, but also a new compliance risk for its customers.

The public and experts are demanding action. A recent poll found that 73% of Americans supported mandatory safety requirements and security standards for advanced AI models. This sentiment is driving new legislation. Plus, AvePoint's own 2025 report found that over 75% of organizations using AI experienced an AI-related security breach, often forcing deployment delays of up to 12 months due to data quality and security issues. That's a clear signal for a regulatory crackdown.

The key areas of new AI regulation focus include:

• Data provenance and bias mitigation in training data.
• Mandatory transparency on AI-generated content (deepfakes).
• Liability for harm caused by AI systems (e.g., hallucinations).
• New export controls on powerful AI models.

Data Sovereignty Needs Drive Local Data Center Launches

Data sovereignty (the principle that data is subject to the laws of the country in which it is collected and processed) is forcing a physical localization of cloud infrastructure. You cannot simply store all your customers' data in a single U.S. data center anymore; local laws like Popia require data to stay within national borders.

AvePoint has responded to this legal pressure by becoming the first vendor of its kind to launch its multi-cloud SaaS platform in the commercial Azure and AWS data centers in South Africa as of November 2025. This strategic move directly enables South African enterprises to comply with Popia by keeping their data within the country's borders, reducing latency, and improving performance. This proactive investment in local infrastructure is a clear competitive advantage driven entirely by legal requirements.

AvePoint, Inc. (AVPT) - PESTLE Analysis: Environmental factors

Commitment to ESG principles, including calculating and improving energy efficiency in operations.

You're looking at AvePoint's environmental posture, and the key takeaway is that they are actively formalizing their commitments, moving from general policy to measurable action, even if the public metrics are still developing. As a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, their direct environmental footprint is inherently smaller than a manufacturer, but their focus is clear: minimize office and employee-related impact while managing the indirect cloud footprint.

The company received external validation for its progress in 2024, which is a strong signal for the 2025 fiscal year. They were awarded an ESG Prime Label from Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and a Fast Mover Badge by EcoVadis, recognizing a significant improvement in their annual assessment. That's a defintely positive trend, showing their ESG program is gaining traction with key stakeholders.

Their formal commitment includes calculating and improving energy efficiency across their twenty-eight global offices. However, as of the most recent public data, AvePoint currently does not report specific carbon emissions data in kilograms of $\text{CO}_2$ equivalent, nor have they documented specific, measurable reduction targets or climate pledges.

Focus on reducing the environmental footprint by promoting waste minimization and sustainable procurement.

AvePoint is striving to reduce its environmental footprint through operational changes that prioritize resource management. This is a practical approach for a company with a primary impact coming from its facilities and workforce, not a factory floor. Their environmental policy directly addresses waste and procurement.

In 2024, they introduced a Supplier Code of Conduct, which is a critical step for sustainable procurement (Scope 3 emissions management) because it extends their environmental expectations to their vendor base. This is how a modern tech company starts to control its value chain impact. They encourage employees to minimize their impact through awareness campaigns and promote alternative, sustainable commuting options.

Here's a snapshot of their key environmental initiatives for the 2025 fiscal year:

Environmental Initiative	2025 Status / Commitment	Primary Impact Area
Energy Efficiency	Committed to calculating and improving efficiency in all operations.	Scope 1 & 2 (Offices/Operations)
Waste Minimization	Striving to promote recycling and minimization of waste across 28 offices.	Scope 1 & 2 (Offices/Operations)
Sustainable Procurement	Policy in place; guided by the 2024-introduced Supplier Code of Conduct.	Scope 3 (Supply Chain)
Cloud Data Review	Reviewing environmental data of physical server providers to select partners who publish such data.	Scope 3 (Cloud Hosting)

Indirect exposure to the high energy consumption of cloud data centers (Azure, AWS) that host its SaaS platform.

As a cloud-native data management platform, AvePoint's environmental impact is largely indirect, tied to the massive energy consumption of the hyperscale cloud providers like Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) that host their platform. This is a critical point for any SaaS business-your Scope 3 emissions (indirect emissions from your value chain) are material.

AvePoint's strategy here is to partner wisely. They explicitly state they only use server providers who publish environmental impact data, which helps them mitigate their indirect exposure by selecting providers with strong sustainability programs. Their core product also helps customers manage their own data sprawl, which they position as an environmental benefit, leading to:

• Greater energy efficiency for customers.
• Lower carbon emissions due to optimized cloud storage.
• Reduced data center carbon footprints overall.

The transition from traditional on-premises software to cloud-based solutions is inherently more energy efficient, but the company still needs to quantify its own cloud usage footprint to satisfy future reporting standards. That's the next step.

On track for full compliance with the European Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) by 2026.

The European Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) is a major near-term driver for AvePoint's environmental strategy. The company is on track for full compliance with the CSRD requirements, with the first report due in 2026 covering the 2025 fiscal year data.

This regulation is highly material because AvePoint has a significant presence in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), which accounted for 35% of their total annual recurring revenue as of December 31, 2024. The CSRD requires a dual-materiality assessment (gauging both the impact of the company on the environment and the environment on the company), and AvePoint appropriated funding to conduct this assessment in 2024 to prepare for the 2025 reporting cycle.

This compliance effort is a clear action point that will force the public disclosure of specific environmental metrics, including greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which are currently absent from their public filings.