Category: Green

Companies are starting to integrate sustainable practices into their core business processes. So what does this mean for SAP professionals? Watch this Mentor Monday webinar recording, in which host and SAP Mentor Jon Reed talks with Jeremiah Stone about how to "green your SAP skills."

I had a great chat with SAP’s Jeremiah Stone (Senior Director, Sustainability Solution Management) while we were at Sapphire Now in May. Craig Cmehil was good enough to video it for us, so here we are talking about SAP’s Sustainability solutions and SAP’s move to letting its customers recount their sustainability success stories.

Is effective corporate sustainability the product of top-down policy or innovative and self-interested pragmatism? While every forward-thinking company has certainly become aware that it’s good business to be more efficient, to create less waste, and to monitor energy usage and expenses closely, what’s going to drive real changes in behavior that lead to those ends: [...]

IBM is moving deeper into its smarter buildings initiative with the acquisition of sofware developer Tririga. "Smarter Planet" projects are a key strategic growth area for IBM, estimated to drive $10 billion in revenue by 2015. Tririga's software helps companies optimize building use and make long-term real estate planning decisions. It can analyze building conditions, help prioritize investments in upgrades, as well as monitor a facility's environmental impact to pinpoint systems that need improvement. The acquisition will accelerate IBM's smarter buildings initiatives by adding advanced intelligence that improves real estate performance, capital project management and the outcomes of sustainability initiatives. Property and real estate typically represents the second-largest expense on a company's income statement, after employee compensation. Facilities investments and operating costs can exceed 30% of corporate spending each year.

SAP has shaved a further six per cent from its greenhouse gas emissions in 2010, despite strong revenue growth, it has reported in its 2010 SAP Sustainability Report.