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Why are Salesforce hiding the emissions of their cloud?

Why are Salesforce hiding the emissions of their cloud?

By Tom Raftery on November 20, 2012

The lack of transparency from Cloud computing providers is something we have discussed many times on this blog – today we thought we’d highlight an example. Salesforce dedicates a significant portion of its site to Sustainability and on “Using cloud computing to benefit our environment”. They even have nice calculators and graphs of how Green [...]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged carbon intensity, Cloud, cloud carbon intensity, Cloud Computing, cloud infrastructure, data center, emissions data, Greenhouse gas, greenwash, greenwashing, salesforce, salesforce.com, singapore, Spain, Sustainability | Leave a response

Sustainability, social media and big data

Sustainability, social media and big data

By Tom Raftery on November 1, 2012

The term Big Data is becoming the buzz word du jour in IT these days popping up everywhere, but with good reason – more and more data is being collected, curated and analysed today, than ever before. Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter announced last week that Twitter is now publishing 500 million tweets per day. [...]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged american red cross, Big Data, Dell, Facebook, GE, grid iq insight, Health, Radian6, safety, sandy, Social Media, Sustainability, Twitter | Leave a response

CloudApps releases their employee engagement app Sumo

CloudApps releases their employee engagement app Sumo

By Tom Raftery on October 12, 2012

CloudApps recently released SuMo, their sustainability employee engagement app. The name SuMo comes from the words Sustainability Momentum we’re told, and this is because SuMo was designed to maintain the momentum of an organisation’s sustainability initiative. GreenMonk was given a demo account on SuMo so we could take it for a test drive, and it [...]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged cloudapps, employee engagement, recruitment, retention, sumo, Sustainability | 5 Responses

Oracle OpenWorld Takes the Stage

Oracle OpenWorld Takes the Stage

By Denis Pombriant on September 28, 2012

All right!  Recess is over!  If you went to Dreamforce last week you can be forgiven for taking a kind of victory lap in your head today because it was a truly great experience, besides if you are like me you are still tired.  One reason I think so many people like Dreamforce is its [...]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Colin Powel, CRM, Dreamforce, Fusion, Larry Ellison, M.C. Hammer, oow12, Oracle OpenWorld, Sustainability, technology | Leave a response

Logica’s Sustainability Analyst briefing

Logica’s Sustainability Analyst briefing

By Tom Raftery on June 17, 2012

Logica held a Sustainability Analysts day in London recently and they invited me to attend. Pictured above is the cover of Logica’s 2011 Annual Report [PDF] – their Annual Report mind, not their Sustainability Report [PDF]. And yet the title of Logica’s Annual Report is Shaping a Sustainable Future. This is a good indicator of [...]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged eco mobility, logica, smart utilities, Sustainability | Leave a response

SAP’s Sustainability announcements at Sapphire Now

SAP’s Sustainability announcements at Sapphire Now

By Tom Raftery on May 23, 2012

SAP co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe at Sapphire Now 2012 Technology innovation plays a major part in creating a sustainable world tomorrow So said SAP co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe at this year’s SAP Sapphire Now conference in Orlando. He then went on to predict three major trends in computing for the coming years – according to [...]

Posted in Business | Tagged Big Data, Cloud, greenmonk, HANA, ibm, mobility, sap, sapphirenow, smart grid, smart meter, Sustainability | Leave a response

Can IBM continue to support blatant sexual discrimination?

Can IBM continue to support blatant sexual discrimination?

By Tom Raftery on April 11, 2012

I’ve always admired IBM’s achievements in the diversity and equality arena. Some of their milestones down through the years include: In 1914, 76 years before the US Disabilities Act, IBM hired its first disabled employee. In 1942 IBM launched a disabled employee training program. In 1943 Ruth Leach Amonette was elected IBM’s first female Vice [...]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged augusta, corporate responsibility, discrimination, ginni rometty, ibm, ibm ceo, masters, masters tournament, sex discrimination, Sustainability, virginia rometty | 2 Responses

SAP’s 2011 Sustainability Report

SAP’s 2011 Sustainability Report

By Tom Raftery on April 2, 2012

SAP launched its 2011 Sustainability Report this week and in terms of aesthetics and social sharing, this is one of the best Sustainability Reports I have seen to-date. The site contains many videos with SAP staff – including one from co-CEO’s Jim Hagemann Snabe & Bill McDermott which is featured prominently on the home page. [...]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, emissions, Energy, renewables, sap, Sustainability, sustainability report | Leave a response

IBM based mobile, crowdsourced-reporting application helps schools speed up repairs

IBM based mobile, crowdsourced-reporting application helps schools speed up repairs

By Tom Raftery on March 16, 2012

Attending IBM’s Pulse 2012 event this year I was again struck by how much IBM’s Maximo is used in maintenance management applications. And why do we care about that I hear you say? Well, keeping machinery properly maintained, and alerting if machines go out of tolerance for certain parameters (energy consumption spikes in refrigeration plant, [...]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged asset management, ibm, ibmpulse, lausd, Maximo, Sustainability | Leave a response

Internet of Thingworks, bringing industrial into the mix

Internet of Thingworks, bringing industrial into the mix

By James Governor on January 11, 2012

I have been writing and consulting about the Internet of Things since 1999, when I helped Jonathan Eunice create the “Pervasive Automation” practice at Illuminata. Billions of dollars have poured into the space since then, but we still haven’t seen the big transformation many of us have expected for a long time. But increasingly it [...]

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