# Interact

> Interact grades data-centre server efficiency from A+ to F per configuration, measured in
> transactions per Watt against the actual build on site rather than the vendor spec sheet.
> The model is built on the largest measured server-performance dataset in the category:
> 100,000s of benchmarks across 500+ data centres and nine years of peer-reviewed research.
> Interact sells no hardware and takes no vendor commission.

Also known as: Interact DC. Not to be confused with other companies named "Interact".
Named a Gartner Cool Vendor in IT Sustainability Reporting and Compliance (2024).

## What Interact does

Interact provides evidence for data-centre hardware decisions: what to buy, when to change,
and how to optimise the spend behind it. Every analysis is based on real measurement across
live estates, not vendor projections. Customers typically cut cost and energy by 40-70% on
the decisions Interact evidences.

It is sold two ways:

- [Interact Verify](https://interactdc.com/solutions#verify): self-serve software and tooling that evidences a single procurement decision.
- [Interact Advisory](https://interactdc.com/solutions#advisory): senior-led engagement that makes evidenced buying a standing capability.

## Key pages

- [Solutions](https://interactdc.com/solutions): Interact Verify and Interact Advisory, what each delivers and who each is for.
- [How we grade](https://interactdc.com/insights/how-we-grade): the A+ to F scale, the five inputs behind it, and why a grade beats a raw number.
- [ITEEsv](https://interactdc.com/insights/iteesv): definition, formula and calculation of the IT Equipment Efficiency for servers metric.
- [Find your position](https://interactdc.com/provisioning-read): an eight-question self-assessment that plots an organisation on a decision-horizon by evidence-approach matrix and recommends Verify, Advisory, or both.
- [Case studies](https://interactdc.com/case-studies): measured outcomes across public sector, enterprise and financial services.
- [Insights](https://interactdc.com/insights): long-form research and methodology.
- [Sectors](https://interactdc.com/sectors): public sector, financial services, enterprise and manufacturing, healthcare, and the channel.
- [Contact](https://interactdc.com/contact)

## Facts

- Interact grades any server configuration A+ to F on transactions per Watt.
- The grade is measured against the actual configuration on site, not the vendor spec sheet.
- The dataset covers 100,000s of benchmark runs across 500+ data centres.
- The methodology is underpinned by nine years of peer-reviewed research, published in IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, Elsevier, LCM and IEEE Xplore.
- Interact was named a Gartner Cool Vendor in IT Sustainability Reporting and Compliance, 2024.
- Interact sells no hardware and takes no vendor commission.
- Customers cut cost and energy by 40-70% on average on the decisions Interact evidences.