ISELIN, NJ, Sep 22, 2025 – Siemens has expanded its Digital Business Optimizer (DBO) platform with a hazard risk mitigation feature designed to help U.S. businesses strengthen facility resilience against natural disasters. The tool evaluates exposure to more than 20 location-specific hazards, including floods, wildfires, earthquakes, and hurricanes. It draws on sources from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s National Risk Index and links to adaptation measures that guide climate-resilient planning. By combining facility data with national hazard mapping, the feature enables companies to benchmark risks, assess vulnerabilities, and build strategies for resilience plans.
Siemens is arming businesses with data-driven tools to confront climate and disaster risks through its Digital Business Optimizer (DBO) platform. The hazard risk mitigation feature uses facility information such as location, building type, size, and annual energy use, combined with ROI analysis, to identify threats at each site. From there, it generates strategies drawn from more than 100 adaptation measures, including installing flood barriers, reinforcing roofs for snow loads, applying heat-reflective window film, and adding solar panels with battery storage. By linking operational data with targeted mitigation, Siemens enables companies to protect assets, sustain operations, and adapt to environmental shifts and a changing risk landscape.
“We at Siemens are constantly asking ourselves how we can expand our data-driven tool to help US businesses remain resilient, efficient and competitive,” said Anthony Casciano, president and CEO, Siemens Financial Services. “That’s why the natural hazard mitigation feature was created. In today’s changing risk landscape, the cost of inaction is too great. This feature helps businesses protect shareholder value, business continuity, and competitiveness. In a similar way, cybersecurity is just as critical, so we are currently developing an assessment that helps companies safeguard data and remain resilient in the face of today’s many challenges.”
Since its launch in 2024, Siemens has expanded the Digital Business Optimizer (DBO) platform with input from collaborators and students at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. Through the Siemens Tech for Sustainability Campaign, start-ups, researchers, and students contribute solutions that address challenges. These contributions have added new features to the DBO tool, improving functionality and usability. The platform serves businesses seeking planning and risk management to homeowners looking for ways to prepare for environmental risks.
DBO Tool Brings Resilience and Efficiency Planning to Residents
The DBO platform supports residential properties. It combines trusted datasets with the ResStock database from the NREL. The platform provides insights on energy performance, carbon emissions, and exposure to natural hazards. It covers single-family homes, multi-family units, and housing communities. Users receive a snapshot of their property’s energy use. The tool also identifies efficiency upgrades and potential cost savings.
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About Siemens Corporation
Siemens Corporation, the U.S. subsidiary of Siemens AG, operates across industry, infrastructure, transportation, and healthcare sectors. Founded in 1847, the company has operated for more than 175 years and is headquartered in Munich, Germany. In fiscal 2024, which ended Sept. 30, 2024, Siemens reported revenue of 76B euros. In the United States, Siemens USA generated 21.2B USD in fiscal 2024 revenue and maintains its U.S. headquarters in Washington, D.C. By combining automation, software, electrification, and mobility solutions, Siemens supports digital transformation and infrastructure modernization across global industries, with offerings that connect engineering, operations, and maintenance to improve productivity, reliability, and sustainability.
About Siemens Financial Services (SFS)
Siemens Financial Services (SFS), established in 1997, is the financing arm of Siemens AG and is headquartered in Munich, Germany. The division provides a range of business-to-business financial solutions, including leasing and equipment financing, vendor finance, asset-based lending, project and export financing, structured finance, and banking and insurance-related products. SFS supports industries such as energy, infrastructure, healthcare, and manufacturing, offering capital solutions that help organizations manage investments and working capital needs.