The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP

Varian Medical Systems has embarked on a mission to understand the chemical composition of its products, enabling it to redesign its components and products to reduce or eliminate hazardous substances and comply with regulations. The company turned to SAP to embed compliance across its business processes and achieve this more quickly, effectively and profitably. Read the press release.

Executing on its commitment to help the world run better and improve people’s lives, SAP today announced its preliminary sustainability performance results for 2011. As a leading provider of sustainability solutions, SAP also strives to implement sustainable business practices across its own global operations. Read the newsbyte.

The Grupo Pão de Açúcar, the largest retailer in South America, has selected SAP Carbon Impact OnDemand to monitor and manage carbon emissions and energy consumption in each of its 1,832 stores. The announcement was made at the NRF 101st Annual Convention & EXPO. Read the newsbyte.

On Saturday, November 19, SAP will be featured on the season premier of “The Green Room” with John Holden, airing on the Discovery Channel. The following feature showcases SAP – and interviews with Peter Graf and Rami Branitzky – as well as SAP customer Autodesk on “Sustainable Business Technology Software.” (more…)

SAP today announced that Atos will rely on SAP BusinessObjects Sustainability Performance Management to help achieve its sustainability goals. The solution will help Atos gather data from across the company regarding its sustainability performance, providing insight into how well the company is faring against those goals. Atos also offers services for sustainability solutions from SAP to customers worldwide. Read the newsbyte.

Executing on its commitment to making the world run better, SAP today released its quarterly sustainability update for the third quarter of 2011. Read the newsbyte.

SAP and the UNFPA today unveiled two interactive population dashboards using business analytics technology from SAP to help create greater transparency and awareness around core UN population data and trends. The dashboards are available to the general public at www.7billionactions.org. For a closer look, view the screenshots here.

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This year, world population will pass 7 billion. However, projecting future population is an uncertain business. Watch a demo in which the use of SAP dashboards shows how small changes can have enormous impact. (more…)

A data insight dashboard from SAP offers insight into the relationships among many different variables for detailed information on what is happening in a given country. (more…)

Our growing world is younger and older than ever. Dashboards from SAP illustrate how these trends play out differently depending on where countries and regions are in their development. (more…)