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SAP talks e-mobility!

December 20, 2010 by Tom Raftery
with 662 views

Tweet I visited SAP’s facilities recently on their energy efficiency day and talked to them about their e-mobility initiatives and the rollout of their 16 Coulomb Technologies electric vehicle level 2 charging stations for their employees. Tom Raftery: Hi everyone! Welcome to the GreenMonk TV. With me, today, I have Geoff Ryder... [read more]

SAP’s Palo Alto energy efficiency and CO2 reductions

December 15, 2010 by Tom Raftery
with 976 views

As mentioned previously, I was in Santa Clara and Palo Alto last week for a couple of SAP events. At these events SAP shared some of its carbon reduction policies and strategies. According to SAP Chief Sustainability Officer Peter Graf, the greatest bang for buck SAP is achieving comes from the deployment of telepresence suites. With... [read more]

SAP Sustainability Report 3rd quarter updates

December 1, 2010 by Tom Raftery
with 729 views

Tweet I have posted here in the past on just how way ahead of the pack SAP’s 2009 Sustainability Report is, however having gone through it in detail when it came out, I didn’t revisit it much until the other day. Why did I go back to visit the Sustainability Report again recently? Because I was on a call with SAP’s Chief Sustainability... [read more]

Smart Grid Heavy Hitter series – SAP’s Stefan Engelhardt

February 18, 2010 by Tom Raftery
with 168 views

In this, the second of my Smart Grid Heavy Hitters’ interviews, I talk to SAP’s Head of Industry Business Unit for Utilities, Stefan Engelhardt. It was a great interview – in it we talked about: Stefan’s definition of a Smart Grid The benefits of Smart Grids to both the utilities and the customers of the utilities The... [read more]

This is a very opportune time to be investing in sustainability management software

February 15, 2010 by Tom Raftery
with 427 views

Photo credit James Jordan 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... [read more]

Green Jobs Booming

December 27, 2009 by David Levy
with 380 views

But troubling outlook for manufacturing in the U.S. by David L. Levy Last week a student at our university sheepishly poked his head into my office and asked if I knew where the Center for Sustainable Enterprise and Regional Competitiveness (SERC) was located, as he was interested in the new University of Massachusetts clean energy... [read more]

SAP’s new Sustainability Performance Management tool could be a real game-changer

November 3, 2009 by Tom Raftery
with 141 views

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 ( here’s the... [read more]

Klaus Heimann espouses SAP’s smart utility of 2020 at International SAP for Utilities conference

October 20, 2009 by Tom Raftery
with 144 views

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, then... [read more]

Not so Smart Grids, doomed to fail?

July 20, 2009 by Tom Raftery
with 255 views

I was invited by James McClelland and Maureen Coveney to participate in a panel at SAP’s Sapphire conference earlier this year discussing Smart Grids. One of the key points I made was that utilities are not used to having to deal with customers. The only real interactions utilities have with customers are 1) sending out bills and 2)... [read more]

SAP’s Peter Graf on the World Business Summit on Climate Change

July 10, 2009 by Tom Raftery
with 182 views

I spoke to SAP’s Chief Sustainability Officer, Peter Graf about his attendance at the World Business Summit on Climate Change which took place in Copenhagen recently. When you hear of businesses getting together to discuss climate change, you could easily be tempted to think they are trying to lobby for less regulation or for licenses... [read more]

SAP’s Peter Graf discusses his role - Chief Sustainability Officer

March 18, 2009 by Tom Raftery
with 153 views

ERP software maker SAP is, according to Wikipedia, the world’s 4th largest software co. in the world (presumably after Google, Microsoft and Oracle). It is a big deal then when a company of SAP’s size announces the creation of the position of Chief Sustinability Officer, as SAP did earlier this month. In the same announcement SAP also... [read more]

In Boston for the Summit

December 3, 2007 by James Farrar
with 128 views

I just arrived in Boston for the SAP Influencer Summit. I’m especially pleased to host a session on CSR on Tuesday afternoon. We have invited some really top notch thinkers including: Graham Baxter from the International Business Leaders Forum in London. Until this past summer Graham was the long time head of CSR at BP and served as... [read more]

Lunch with Shai Agassi: What I Can Talk About

September 28, 2007 by Robin Carey
with 88 views

Cleantech Collective member Shai Agassi was in New York this past week for the Clinton Global Initiative. As many of you know, since he left SAP earlier this year he has been hard at work developing a business whose goal is nothing less than a solution to both Mideast peace and global climate change. What I can’t talk about is the... [read more]

Can the software industry close the CSR ratings gap?

September 16, 2007 by James Farrar
with 182 views

Last week the socially responsible investment community equivalent of the Oscars – the annual review of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) was unveiled and for the first time SAP has taken the lead in CSR performance for the software sector. It’s certainly a cause for celebration but maybe it’s more an occasion for Sekt... [read more]