Aplicor Named to "Top Green IT Companies" by IDG COMPUTERWORLD.BOCA RATON Boca Raton (bō`kə rətōn`), city (1990 pop. 61,492), Palm Beach co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic; inc. 1925. Boca Raton is a popular resort and retirement community that experienced significant industrial development in the 1970s and 80s. , Fla. -- Aplicor, Inc., a global provider of on-demand CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. (Customer Relationship Management) and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. (Enterprise Resource Planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. ) hosted business software applications, today was named one of the top 12 green IT companies in IDG's Computerworld top Green-IT Companies for 2008. Computerworld recognized Aplicor for demonstrating leadership and innovation to reduce energy consumption in IT data centers and leverage technology to conserve energy and lower carbon emissions. In response to the award notification, Aplicor CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Chuck Schaeffer, said: "Aplicor's GREEN technology initiatives, collaboration with other environmentally conscience technology companies and policy suggestions to our legislators are an integral part of our corporate culture and shared values. These efforts are part of a journey which extends well beyond the normal business performance metrics Performance metrics are measures of an organizations activities and performance. Performance metrics should support a range of stakeholder needs from customers, shareholders to employees [1]. . We couldn't be any more excited than to be designated with an award which speaks to our fundamental beliefs and promotes a cause we highly value." After approximately 12 months of research and development (R&D) followed by implementation, Aplicor's Global Reach for Energy and Efficiency Next Generation (GREEN) program commenced in February 2007 at Aplicor data centers in the U.S. and UK. This program pioneered leading environmental IT techniques including improved power consumption, re-engineered power distribution, new techniques in cooling efficiency, server virtualization and new footprint schemas for improved equipment density. The program has realized approximately 19 percent reduction in power and carbon dioxide carbon dioxide, chemical compound, CO2, a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that is about one and one-half times as dense as air under ordinary conditions of temperature and pressure. emissions. Computerworld identified and systemically measured companies implementing smart, efficient and leading edge strategies to achieve green IT. Computerworld reached out to select green IT experts to develop a set of criteria that would best identify the leading green IT companies. Based on the weighting scheme developed, the top 12 Green-IT Users and Vendors were chosen and include the following named winning vendors: IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , BT Group, Qualcomm, Aplicor, Fujitsu America, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard Co, Network Appliance, Verizon, Computer Sciences Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. For more information on Computerworld's Green IT results, survey methodology or top rated Green-IT companies, see the February 18, 2008 Computerworld Magazine edition or visit http://www.aplicor.com/. |
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