Tag: sustainability
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Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 02/19/2010
Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up: World’s top firms cause $2.2tn of environmental damage, report estimates | Environment | The Guardian Report for the UN into the activities of the world’s 3,000 biggest companies estimates one-third of profits would be lost if firms were forced to pay for use, loss and damage of environment…
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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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IBM’s Software Analyst Connect event, Smarter Planet and sustainability
I attended IBM’s eighth annual Software Analyst Connect (#Connect09) last week in Connecticut. The theme of the event was “IBM Software for a Smarter Planet”. You have to admire IBM for coming up with the Smart Planet branding strategy. Now anything Smart (Smart Cities, Smart Water even Smart Work) is automatically, subconsciously associated with IBM.…
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How to Reduce Energy Consumption in Retail: Change The Font On Your Cash Register
Yesterday I got an update from an ERP company called Epicor that primarily serves the mid-market. While I am not an ERP specialist its always interesting, as a middleware guy, to get a view from the app side. Greenmonk for obvious reasons also takes a keener view than the RedMonk mothership in applications in areas…
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(Lack of) Sustainability in the Mobile industry
(Lack of) Sustainability in the mobile phone industry View more documents from Tom Raftery. I realised recently that although I have referred to the talk I gave in Barcelona on Mobile Sustainability (for the Mobile 2.0 conference) in a couple of posts I never talked about the talk directly here, so now it is time…
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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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Reducing your Costs and your Carbon Footprint – presentation
I gave a talk at the it@cork Green IT event yesterday entitled “Reducing your Costs and your Carbon Footprint”. The talk goes into some detail on how Cork Internet eXchange, the cork-based data centre I am a director of, achieves hyper energy efficiency. http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=reducing-your-costs-and-your-carbon-footprint-1204720215720098-2 | View | Upload your own It is also worth noting…