Siemens Adds Natural Hazard Risk Mitigation Feature to its Digital Business Optimizer (DBO™) Tool

By: Siemens Financial Services, Inc. via Business Wire

September 18, 2025 at 09:00 AM EDT

The new capability enables analysis of dozens of natural hazards and offers more than 100 adaptation strategies
Feature strengthens site resilience, operation continuity and competitiveness for businesses
Expanded capabilities for residential properties bring tool’s energy performance and natural hazard intel to the residential housing sector

Siemens continues to expand the capabilities of its free web-based Digital Business Optimizer (DBO™) platform with the launch of the new natural hazard risk mitigation feature. Developed in collaboration with academic partners, the feature empowers US businesses to assess and benchmark the resilience of their buildings and facilities against over 20 types of location specific natural hazards such as floods, wildfires, earthquakes, hurricanes, and more. The tool utilizes trusted sources such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s National Risk Index which maps U.S. natural hazard risks and adaptation measures that outline climate-resilient planning methods to provide essential insights for risk and resilience strategies.

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Manufacturing Facility Showcasing Resiliency Features

Leveraging existing facility information such as location, building type, size, and annual energy usage alongside ROI analysis, the DBO tool identifies the most significant hazards at each site. Additionally, tailored mitigation strategies are generated from a library of over 100 proven adaptation measures including installing flood barriers, applying heat-reflective window film to reduce indoor temperatures, reinforcing roofs for snow loads, and deploying solar panels with battery storage for energy independence. This integrated, data-driven approach helps businesses safeguard operations, protect assets, and strengthens resilience in the face of constant environmental shifts and a rapidly 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, Inc. “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 official launch in 2024, the Siemens team has continued to ideate, along with collaborators and students primarily from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. Through Siemens Tech for Sustainability Campaign, a global initiative for start-ups, researchers, and students to leverage technology to solve real-world challenges, WHU and other innovators developed new features designed to further extend the capabilities and accessibility of the DBO™ tool to help a wider spectrum of customers—from large businesses to individual homeowners – become more resilient.

DBO™ Tool Brings Resilience and Efficiency Planning to Residents

The DBO™ platform now supports residential properties. Leveraging trusted datasets already integrated into the platform, alongside the newly added ResStock dataset from NREL, a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory, the platform provides tailored insights into energy performance, emissions, and exposure to natural hazards for single-family, multifamily, and manufactured housing. Users receive a detailed snapshot of their property’s current energy performance, along with energy efficiency and cost savings opportunities that may be available.

To learn more or access the Digital Business Optimizer, visit dbo.siemens.com

Siemens Corporation is a U.S. subsidiary of Siemens AG, a leading technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, transport, and healthcare. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers customers to accelerate their digitalization and sustainability transformations, making factories more agile and productive, buildings more efficient, power systems more intelligent and transportation more sustainable. Siemens also owns a majority stake in the publicly listed company Siemens Healthineers, a leading global medical technology provider pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare. In addition, Siemens holds a minority stake in Siemens Energy, a global leader in the transmission and generation of electrical power. In fiscal year 2024, which ended on September 30, 2024, the Siemens Group USA generated revenue of $21.2 billion, with 24 manufacturing sites across the U.S. and more than 45,000 employees serving customers in all 50 states and Puerto Rico.

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"In today’s changing risk landscape, the cost of inaction is too great. Natural Hazard Risk Mitigation helps businesses protect shareholder value, business continuity, and competitiveness." -- Anthony Casciano, President & CEO, Siemens Financial Services.

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