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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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Design for a Circular BusinessFeb 15, 2023 — Organizations are increasingly facing the burden of solving or at least reducing the climate crisis. Businesses must consider new ways to reduce their carbon emissions and produce less waste. One of the leading solutions is to implement a circular economy. This involves reshaping the flow of materials around the world, creating items that can be easily deconstructed and returned, which can take advantage of recaptured materials and reduce reliance on single-use materials and packaging.
In this article, you will gain important insights from SAP on how organizations can being to implement a circular business model and help contribute to creating a more sustainable world for the future. It contains tips on solving for single-use plastic, leveraging technology, reusability, and even how companies can actually profit from circularity.
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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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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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Basware Sustainability Report – 2025May 2, 2025 — At Basware, sustainability isn’t just a commitment – it’s embedded in how we do business. We are bold in our ambitions, and we take ownership in the pursuit of driving meaningful change.
In 2024, we continued to make real progress in making sustainability a core part of our people and growth culture strategy – a key pillar to our corporate strategy. Having an established and dedicated cross-functional ESG team, backed by our leadership, executive team and Board, we are able to ensure that sustainability isn’t just an initiative but a fundamental part of our operations.
Download the report to explore how Basware is bringing ESG principles to life.
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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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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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Building a Renewable Enterprise on Your Terms and Timeline with Your Cloud ProviderFeb 9, 2023 — Organizations today have an unprecedented opportunity to redefine their enterprise including new and more agile methods of working and boost innovation. But they must also enhance customer experiences while realizing new revenue opportunities and reducing cost. This is also an opportunity to build a platform for sustainable innovation or disruptive innovation. But does your organization fully understand the problems you are trying to address?
RISE with SAP offers the opportunity to digitally transform your business into an intelligent enterprise on your terms and using your timeline. Working together with SAP, Capgemini can provide an accelerated path to the value and flexibility you need without up-front capital expenditure. We engage with business teams to understand your needs and challenge assumptions, look at the solutions that will address those challenges, and implement technologies that will drive success.
Attend this webinar to:
Learn how to successfully drive your move to RISE with SAP
Explore the capabilities of the solution to support innovation
Gain access to SAPInsider’s RISE with SAP report
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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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