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What Is Sustainability?
Sustainability means meeting our own needs without compromising the future of generations to meet their own needs.
It is inclusive of not only natural resources but also social and economic resources. Sustainability is all about the slight changes we can each make to look after our planet, like working toward zero emissions, zero waste, and zero inequality.
What Is Sustainability?
Sustainability means meeting our own needs without compromising the future of generations to meet their own needs.
It is inclusive of not only natural resources but also social and economic resources. Sustainability is all about the slight changes we can each make to look after our planet, like working toward zero emissions, zero waste, and zero inequality.
What Is SAP Sustainability?
Four areas of SAP solutions for sustainability are:
- Sustainability and ESG Reporting: Add environmental, social, and governance (ESG) to finance real-time data reporting.
- Climate Change: Reduce carbon footprint and minimize greenhouse gas emissions with embedded analytics.
- Circular Economy: Design products with sustainability, eliminate waste, and build a sustainable supply chain.
- Social Responsibility: Integrate ethical and social responsibility into sustainable business practices.
The importance of sustainability is to improve environmental quality. The goal is to improve our existence without depleting natural resources for the future and improve the quality of our lives. But from a business perspective it adds brand value, meets consumer demands, increases efficiency, and creates new opportunities.
A comprehensive cloud solution can help to integrate real-time data and processes to manage your carbon footprint, reduce waste, and achieve social sustainability.
Enterprise solutions from SAP to provide specific sustainability features include:
- ERP Cloud: SAP S/4HANA embeds sustainability into core processes to improve data, insights, and visibility.
- Business Technology Platform: A foundation for a sustainable enterprise by integrating applications into business networks.
- Supply Chain Management: Supports sustainability and governance in the product lifecycle.
- Business Network: Increases transparency, reach, and effectiveness into sustainability initiatives.
- Cloud Analytics: Unifies BI, analytics, and planning to provide insights from sustainability-related data.
- Implementation Services: Bridges the gap between business strategy and execution.
Vendor partners to support your sustainability intelligence efforts are: SAP, FORCAM, and Baton Simulations.
Key Considerations for SAPinsiders are:
- SAP Customers Expand Global Footprints. Review this article to learn about SAP’s vision to help the world run as an intelligent, sustainable enterprise. Intelligent enterprises today are doing more than just spanning companies processes and technologies; they span global and local footprints and entire workforces.
- Don’t Let Your Sustainability Footprint Leave You Behind. Read the Q&A with FORCAM and learn how global sustainability and SAP customers can make an impact.
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SAP Enterprise Adoption Is GrowingOct 5, 2021 — With the advent of SAP S/4HANA and the cloud, enterprise adoption has changed and accelerated. SAP customers need more from their software strategies and investments in order to digitally transform, but they are faced with multiple challenges, including a need to balance business needs, remain compliant with global and local regulations, and enable and empower their workforce in an ever-changing environment continually subject to disruption.
SAPinsider’s Chief Research Officer Rizal Ahmed sat down with SAP’s Global Head of SAP Enterprise Adoption, Eva Zauke, to learn about why SAP customers are adopting today.
Global expansion, says Zauke, is becoming a growing trend among enterprises that want to transform and continue on their intelligent enterprise journey.
The value benefits of business and technology adoption the way Zauke sees them are similar to those that can be achieved by the intelligent enterprise — enabling customers to make impactful changes to run their business and in turn become more resilient, perform better, and be more sustainable — in essence, a best-run business.
Resiliency – With ongoing global requirements and constantly evolving local legislations and regulations, Zauke defines this as the ability to adapt quickly.
Performance – This can be measured in two facets: The efficiency of digital processes (i.e., tax reporting, invoicing, exchange of documents) and employee performance.
Sustainability – SAP contributes to sustainability in the areas of reduction and optimizing the carbon footprint by reporting on respective regulations and also by helping companies manage the resource of the employee and evolving the digital transformation in a sustainable way.
Watch this video and learn about SAP’s goals around enterprise adoption and how SAP is helping customers achieve theirs.
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FlexPod and SAP: Powering Sustainable, High-Performance Data CentersApr 24, 2025 — FlexPod, a collaborative solution by Cisco and NetApp, offers businesses a sustainable, high-performance infrastructure for running SAP applications, enabling faster deployments, reduced data center footprints, and flexibility in hybrid cloud environments.
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SAP Sustainability Control Tower: Integrating A Suite of Technologies to Enhance ESG ReportingJan 9, 2023 — This article provides an overview of SAP’s Sustainability Performance Management goals and focuses on holistic steering and reporting with SAP Sustainability Control Tower (SAP SCT). The article highlights SAP SCT’s value proposition and growing vitality, and its positioning as the perfect partner for companies to monitor and report their Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals.
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Gamifying SustainabilityJan 9, 2023 — Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations are an increasingly significant part of the decision-making process for organizations. It can be difficult to for organizations to forecast the impact of some of these decisions. Some are now turning to gamified simulations to play out scenarios. Baton Simulations offers its ERPsim solution to gain insights into the role that ESG data will play in the future.
After nearly 100 sessions with thousands of participants, Baton Simulations CEO Guy Couillard compiled some key observations from the simulations. In this article, you will learn some of the key takeaways and how they impact businesses going forward. They include insights on the pervasiveness of carbon emissions KPIs, the need for new organizational roles and behaviors around carbon analytics, machine learning applications, and more.
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SAPPHIRE NOW 2018, Day 3: How SAP Technologies Are Improving People’s LivesJun 12, 2018 — While machine learning, artificial intelligence, and robotics technologies have certainly been lauded for the time savings and productivity gains they can bring to the digital business world, often overlooked is what these technologies can do for people in a humanitarian sense. This was not the case during the closing keynote at SAPPHIRE NOW 2018, which […]
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Sustainable CTOs Balance Sustainability and DigitalizationJul 6, 2023 — Intel takes a central role in the challenge to balance sustainability and digitalization. AS the 2030 deadline to reduce CO2 emissions gets closer, pressure is intensifying on organizations to make meaningful contributions to climate action. At the same time, they must manage the increasing demand for computing power to accommodate new technology like AI, automation, IoT, and edge computing.
Finding the balance between climate action and digital growth has become imperative for progress writes Greg Lavender, Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, and General Manager of the Software and Advanced Technology Group at Intel Corporation.
While global computing contributes to carbon emissions and electronic waste, global computing also holds the answer to this problem. The challenge lies in sustainably meeting the growing demand for computing performance and transforming organizations and business models to create a cleaner, greener, and nature-positive future.
Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) assume a pivotal role in aligning business strategy, technology, and sustainability. Their comprehensive, long-term view drives the necessary changes within their organizations. This transformation requires reducing IT-related emissions and harnessing technology's power to revolutionize business practices.
To support this transformative journey, Intel has launched the Sustainable CTO Initiative, aimed at uniting the global CTO community. This initiative fosters knowledge exchange, insights, and best practices to for a tech-positive future.
A global study conducted by Intel shows the challenges as well as the potential of technology to achieve net-zero emissions and sustainable transformation. Most senior IT leaders recognize the pivotal role of technology in their organizations' sustainability strategies. Aspiring to become sustainability leaders themselves, they acknowledge the potential of CTOs to drive sustainability within organizations. Technological transformation can lead us towards a greener, fairer, and smarter future with the support of CTOs and CIOs that embrace a tech-positive approach.
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How Organizations Can Achieve Enterprise SustainabilityJan 13, 2023 — Sustainability is more than just a buzzword. It is a key element of the ESG (environment, social, and governance) puzzle. Organizations can no longer merely pay it lip service. Today, sustainability efforts must satisfy employees and shareholders, and provide a global positive impact. Sustainability discussions today often begin and end around the measure of a carbon footprint. But more and more, organizations are taking a holistic view of sustainability. This means extending the concept beyond environmental impact and ensuring the long-term well-being of employees and partners. In this article, you will learn how organizations can adopt a philosophy known as “enterprise sustainability” as a way of taking that holistic view of sustainability. Enterprise sustainability which strives to bring scalable processes, strategies, and tactics without compromising the future.
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A Fresh Look at Ongoing ESG and Carbon Accounting DevelopmentsJul 9, 2024 — Previous posts in this blog series on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and carbon accounting have spotlighted carbon accounting as a trend to watch, looked at ESG impacts on M&A, and tracked the emergence of new ESG standards.
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Putting the ‘AI’ in Sustainability with AvalaraFeb 18, 2025 — In 2025, the success of AI in enhancing economic efficiency and supporting sustainability initiatives hinges on companies utilizing accurate, high-quality, and standardized data, as demonstrated by Avalara's partnership with Oxford University to create self-auditing datasets that empower AI while safeguarding data integrity.
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