I keynote, write, and podcast about Sustainability, CleanTech and Supply Chain
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Back in September 2012 I saw a Kickstarter campaign entitled LIFX: The Light Bulb Reinvented. The campaign promised to deliver a WiFi enabled, multi-color, energy efficient LED light bulb that you control with your iPhone or Android This sounded great.…
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SAP Startup Focus in newly industrialised countries
As we have said before here, sustainability job number one is putting bread on the table. To that end, it was great to see SAP’s Startup Focus program take off so well, gaining over 1,000 companies signed up in less…
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Internet of things, wind turbines and ThingMonk the conference.
This post was written by Tom Raftery and was published at Internet of things, wind turbines and ThingMonk the conference. Back in 2009 I remember attending Logica’s analyst day in Lisbon and being very impressed with their Renewables Management System…
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Utilities should open up API’s to their smart meter data
The world of utilities is changing with the roll out of smart meters. One of the biggest changes will be the wealth of data that utility companies will suddenly be flooded with. As we noted in a previous post on…
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How SAP achieved LEED Platinum certification for their headquarters in Pennsylvania
As I was in Pennsylvania to attend SAP’s Analyst’s Base Camp event earlier this year, I took the opportunity to get a tour of the new LEED Platinum certified Headquarters building. I was shown around the building by the facilities…
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IBM tackling water issues globally
Water, water everywhere… Water is becoming scarce resource globally – even more-so in rapidly growing urban environments.In fact, according to the UN, water use has been growing at more than twice the rate of population growth in the last century.…
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Ariba’s AribaLive conference reviewed
I attended the AribaLive event in Berlin last week – this is the European conference for Ariba customers and partners to share stories, network and learn from one another. Ariba is a company which provides electronic sales and procurement solutions…
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SAP Afaria in the Cloud – enterprise functionality, consumer pricing
One of the most interesting announcements which came out of SAP’s SapphireNow conference in Orlando last week was the Afaria in the Cloud update. This is a real game-changer (an expression we use very rarely) for a number of reasons.…
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