Tag: sap
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This is a very opportune time to be investing in sustainability management software!
I wrote about SAP’s launch of their Sustainability Performance Management software recently. This is a space which is of massively growing importance given the increasing regulations around greenhouse gas emissions, for example. I was heartened then to hear in a recent discussion with SAS that their Sustainability Management software was launched in April 2008! For…
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SAP’s Sustainability Performance Management software launched
I wrote a piece on SAP’s new Sustainability Performance Management (SPM) tool a few weeks back. At time of writing it was very much in the realms of speculation as the product was, as yet, unreleased. Last Thursday, Dec 10th, SAP announced the release of the software and having been given a preview of the…
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November chat with IBM’s Rich Lechner
Rich Lechner is IBM’s VP of Energy and Environment. He is a regular interviewee here where we discuss various matters related to energy and environment. This interview was recorded while I was at the SAP TechEd 2009 event in Vienna in a crowded interview room so I apologise in advance for the poorer than normal…
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SAP’s new Sustainability Performance Management tool could be a real game-changer!
Sustainability reporting is a bit all over the place. Standards, such as they are, are many, not widely agreed on, and are loosely observed. One of the better sustainability reports to emerge this year was SAP’s. Unlike the staid PDF documents most companies put out, SAP’s is a website which allows reasonably deep linking (…
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Never run a conference at a venue that can’t provide water dispensing machines, instead of bottled water
I attend a lot of conferences. The two most recent ones I was at were both run by SAP. The first was the International SAP for Utilities conference in Munich, the second was the SAP TechEd conference in Vienna. Both events were very interesting for a variety of reasons but both conferences left a nasty…
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Klaus Heimann espouses SAP’s smart utility of 2020 at International SAP for Utilities conference
I attended the 7th International SAP for Utilities event in Munich last week. Having attended the SAP for Utilities event in San Antonio last year, I had reasonably high expectations from this conference and I wasn’t disappointed. At the San Antonio event SAP talked very much about the ‘State of the Now’ talking up their,…
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DLD Conference Highlights
I spent the early part of this week in Munich for the DLD Conference in Munich. It was an amazing experience. The conference itself is a free invite-only event. The speaker list is unbelievable. The speakers included politicians, business people and convicted criminals! Apart from the usual tech rock stars (Clay Shirky, Marissa Mayer, Matt…
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Any questions for Jeff Nolan?
Jeff Nolan is a former executive at SAP (Jeff led the Apollo Strategy Group for SAP – aka the Oracle Attack group) and recently joined a silicon valley startup called Teqlo. I will be interviewing Jeff tomorrow for the IT@Cork pre-conference podcast series. If you have any questions you would like me to put to…