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WALLDORF — SAP today announced it received the PR News CSR Award for its 2010 sustainability report. (more…)

WALLDORF — SAP today released its 2011 sustainability report, targeted at customers, partners, employees, shareholders and the public. The new report covers the company’s innovations in the areas of software for energy management and sustainable operations, its own transformation into a more sustainable company and its social investment strategy. (more…)

SAP has built a “Do Your Part” section into its latest sustainability report, in order to start dialogue and discussions with people as they read the report. By leaving comments, sharing ideas and thoughts via social media, and working with the materiality matrix, SAP receives structured feedback and encourages the readers to take action.

Interested in getting involved? Read the GreenMonk blog on “SAP’s 2010 Sustainability Report demo” and watch the video.

SAP today released its quarterly sustainability update and shared that it has saved approximately EUR 170 million between 2008 and today as a result of focused sustainability initiatives. The report also details preliminary, unaudited greenhouse gas emissions for the first quarter ending March 31, 2011, which totaled 111 kilotonnes (not including Sybase), an increase of six percent compared to the first quarter of 2010. Read the press release.

With sustainability core to its strategy of making the world run better, SAP released its fourth annual sustainability report.  The report details the company’s progress in driving impact via the delivery of innovative customer solutions that turn sustainability into a business opportunity, leveraging innovation to improve SAP’s own sustainable operations, and pursuing social innovation to help meet people’s basic needs and create sustainable growth and economic opportunity. To encourage an ongoing dialogue with stakeholders, the report is available in an online, interactive format — accessible via mobile devices, including iPad — that features tight integration with social media platforms. For more information on this report, visit the Sustainability newsroom.

With the aim to encourage active dialogue, SAP launched its 2010 sustainability report, including creative use of social media. Peter Graf, SAP’s chief sustainability officer, explained that the new report went beyond the typical exchange between visitors and SAP to encourage cross-pollination among visitors who are “encouraged to share how they are driving cultural change.” Read the full article.

“What is noteworthy is that 2010 is an amazing year because we have for the first time really decoupled emissions from revenue,” said Peter Graf, SAP’s chief sustainability officer, and thus striving towards something many companies aspire to do: reducing its greenhouse gas emissions while increasing its revenue. In its latest sustainability report, SAP details how its efforts to reduce its carbon footprint are paying off, including boosting green power to nearly half of its electricity use, nudging its employees toward low-carbon commuting and investing in videoconferencing technologies. At the same time, business is booming. Read the full article.

With sustainability core to its strategy of making the world run better, SAP today released its fourth annual sustainability report.  The report details the company’s progress in driving impact via the delivery of innovative customer solutions that turn sustainability into a business opportunity, leveraging innovation to improve SAP’s own sustainable operations, and pursuing social innovation to help meet people’s basic needs and create sustainable growth and economic opportunity. To encourage an ongoing dialogue with stakeholders, the report is available in an online, interactive format — accessible via mobile devices, including iPad — that features tight integration with social media platforms. Read the newsbyte.

Matthew Wheeland from greenbiz.com blogs on the questions: How do you measure the value of your sustainability report? and What challenges have you faced in publishing your reports, or getting ready to publish your first report?

“For companies that are out there trying to build a business around sustainability, it’s important to say that you’re walking the talk,” said Scott Bolick, SAP’s vice president of sustainability. For example, ” how do you apply your own equipment in your own installations? If you’re not publishing the case study of yourself, then it asks and begs questions.” (more…)

SAP Chief Sustainability Officer Peter Graf is convinced that it is vital for companies to anchor sustainability in their corporate strategies and to strike a balance among business, environmental and social aspects.

Graf outlines why he thinks it is an ardous but worthwhile journey toward sustainability in an interview recently published in SAP SPECTRUM Magazine. Read the article.