united states : SAP Purchases Clear Standards, Thinks Green IT.Byline: Mamta03 SAP announces its planned acquisition of Clear Standards, which designs applications for measuring greenhouse gas greenhouse gas n. Any of the atmospheric gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect. greenhouse gas emissions. The release of green IT programs for the enterprise has been an increasing focus for a number of companies, including Microsoft, as businesses begin to watch their carbon footprints and energy costs more closely. SAP announced on May 11 that it intends for an undisclosed sum to purchase Clear Standards, a company that designs applications for measuring greenhouse gas emissions. If everything goes according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. plan, the acquisition will be completed in June 2009. The applications designed by Clear Standards fit into a current trend, followed by a number of other IT companies in the space, of producing programs that both measure and help mitigate an organization's carbon footprint. The purchase "will accelerate our vision of deliver ing a complete set of solutions to enable end-to-end sustainable business A business is sustainable if it has adapted its practices for the use of renewable resources and holds itself accountable for the environmental and human rights impacts of its activities. ," Leo Apotheker Léo Apotheker is a member of the Executive Board of SAP AG. Léo Apotheker has been a member of the SAP AG Executive Board and President of Global Customer Solutions & Operations since 2002. , co-CEO of SAP, said in a statement. According to SAP, Clear Standards "helps organizations accurately measure, optimize and report greenhouse gas ... emissions and other environmental impacts across internal operations." Its programs are delivered via a Web-based on-demand delivery model, which SAP plans to integrate so as to tap into the data stored by SAP Business Suite 7 and the SAP Environment, Health and Safety Management application. In addition to GHG GHG Greenhouse Gas GHG Governor's Horse Guard (various locations) emissions, Clear Standards software also measures and reports on the environmental impact of companies' waste and water consumption. Despite the global recession, SAP has been busily rolling out a number of enterprise-oriented programs, including SAP Business Suite 7, generally available to worldwide customers as of May 5. SAP Business Suite 7 features a modular software See modular programming. library with SAP ERP The SAP ERP application is an integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) software manufactured by SAP AG that targets business software requirements of midsize and large organizations in all industries and sectors. It is the successor product to SAP R/3. , SAP Customer Relationship Management, SAP Supplier Relationship Management, and SAP Supply Chain Management. The new capabilities allow customers to deploy certain modules without necessarily needing to upgrade the entire platform, an option that appeals to businesses' desire to save money. The Suite also includes 2,800 enterprise services and a built-in solution manager that allows administrators to implement content changes to its applications. Other companies have moved into the green IT space in an aggressive way. In February 2009, Microsoft released the Environmental Sustainability Dashboard for Microsoft Dynamics AX Microsoft Dynamics AX is Microsoft’s flagship enterprise resource planning software system. It is part of the Microsoft Dynamics family. History Microsoft Dynamics AX was originally developed by Damgaard Data A/S as Axapta , which allows executives and IT administrators to reduce their companies' carbon footprint and energy costs via a user-friendly dashboard. Copyright : Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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