SAP Adds Sustainability Reporting to BusinessObjects Software Suite
WALLDORF, Germany — Business software giant SAP AG last week unveiled its latest effort in helping apply the power of IT to corporate environmental goals.
The company’s Sustainability Performance Management addition to its BusinessObjects BI (business intelligence) software line aims to integrate the collection and measurement of environmental data into the already-commonplace data gathering methods companies have adopted.
By folding the green elements into existing practices, SAP’s new software suite will help companies make the transition from green practices as a nice-to-do element of operations to one that is table stakes in any industry.
“Sustainability is increasingly mission-critical across the corporate world,” Stephen Stokes, vice president of Sustainability and Green Technologies at AMR Research, said in a statement. “Managing and reporting an organization’s sustainable performance via transparent and high quality data collation, analysis, optimization and modeling is a new basis for defining and communicating operational …
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