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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…)

SAP and 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 will be used by the UN, local governments, economists and NGOs to make better-informed decisions on how to best allocate funding and resources for the biggest impact in a world of 7 billion people and growing.

• Read the press release.
• Watch demos.
• View screenshots.
• Explore the dashboards.

SAP has been recognized among the top 20 largest green companies globally by the Newsweek 2011 Green Rankings. The rankings benchmark the environmental performance of the biggest companies in developed and emerging world markets — the 500 largest publicly traded companies worldwide, as determined by revenue, market capitalization and number of employees. Read the newsbyte.

I recently spent a week in Ghana with nine international journalists, where we experienced rural shea nut and cashew farmers, primarily women, using SAP mobile technology in the middle of farms with mud and straw huts. (more…)