http://www.sdn.sap.com/sdn/weblogs.sdn?blog=/pub/u/35261 SAP Developer Network SAP Weblogs by David Burdett © Copyright 2009 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP.com en-us http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/14416 Introducing the new 2008 SAP Corporate Sustainability Report - it's not quite what you would expect David Burdett Business Objects, Business Process Expert, Sustainability en-us 2009-05-21T20:09-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2009 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/14022 Provides background on the SAP Green IT Community that was announced on 20 April 2009 David Burdett Beyond SAP, Sustainability en-us 2009-04-20T10:45-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2009 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/13609 How software solutions help make for better sustainability decisions David Burdett Business Suite 7, Sustainability, Enterprise Performance Management, ERP en-us 2009-03-18T09:13-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2009 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/13544 The SAP IFRS Community explained David Burdett Business Suite 7, Enterprise Performance Management, ERP, Governance, Risk and Compliance, International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) en-us 2009-03-14T08:13-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2009 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/13502 Deciding where a business should make sustainability investments David Burdett Business Suite 7, Sustainability, Enterprise Performance Management, ERP en-us 2009-03-11T05:47-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2009 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/13430 Business reasons for making a business more sustainable David Burdett Business Suite 7, Sustainability, Enterprise Performance Management, ERP en-us 2009-03-04T18:03-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2009 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/12685 Best practice standards can seem quite "alien" as they don't often always focus on software & technology ... but they provide the same benefit ... David Burdett Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, Sustainability, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Open Source, Standards en-us 2009-01-02T17:37-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2009 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/12438 The new Web Content Accessibility Guideline 2.0, announced by the W3C, promises to make the Web, and Web applications, more accessible to people with disabilities. This blog explains what it means for developers and end users, and how SAP has been involved in its development. You can also expect to soon see governments creating legislation requiring its use! David Burdett Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, Business Solutions, Composition Environment (CE), Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Portal (EP), Interoperability, SAP Developer Network, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Standards, Visual Composer en-us 2008-12-11T18:23-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2008 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/8878 Standards, such as for a simple power plug, can deliver a lot of business value. Standards for application software are no different. Although many software standards exist, more are needed. However, until they are created and broadly adopted, the potential business value they offer is not being realized. This blog explains SAP’s approach to deciding which standards deliver business value; how SAP decides which standards to adopt or develop; and how the author, as an SAP Standards Architect, helps make this happen. David Burdett Business Process Expert, Service-Oriented Architecture, Interoperability, Standards en-us 2008-03-05T17:24-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2008 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/7413 My "ultimate vision" for Enterprise SOA is the ability to quickly and economically build composite applications that are: developed by anyone; built on any technology; and that run anywhere. But I believe this will only happen if enterprise services and business process platforms are built on standards. This blog outlines my Tech Ed session that explains: how standards help achieve the ultimate vision; the missing standards that are needed; and how broadly standards are being adopted. Without a full set of widely adopted standards, realizing the "ultimate vision" will be harder. David Burdett Business Process Expert, Service-Oriented Architecture, SAP Developer Network, Standards en-us 2007-09-26T16:50-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2007 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/7400 This final blog provides a description of "Common Standards" that cross both technology and business semantic standards and draws the series to an end with a conclusion David Burdett Business Process Expert, Business Process Modeling, Service-Oriented Architecture, Interoperability, SAP Developer Network, SAP Process Integration (PI), Standards en-us 2007-09-25T21:33-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2007 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/7384 This third blog provides a description of the next two categories in SAP's Standards Taxonomy: "Languages for Defining Business Semantics" these are formal languages that are used to define semantics in the same way that English is a language that is used to express ideas; and "Business Semantics" which are actual definitions that are written using the language, e.g. English. David Burdett Business Process Expert, Business Process Modeling, Service-Oriented Architecture, Interoperability, SAP Developer Network, SAP Process Integration (PI), Standards en-us 2007-09-24T16:41-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2007 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/7309 This is the second in a series of four blogs that describe SAP's comprehensive approach to standards for enterprise SOA explaining how SAP's business process platform uses standards to deliver business value. This second blog provides an introduction to SAP's approach to standards for Enterprise SOA describing SAP's Standards Taxonomy - a way of categorizing and thinking about standards as well as covering the first category - "Technology Standards". The last two blogs will cover the remaining categories: business semantics and common standards. David Burdett Business Process Expert, Business Process Modeling, Service-Oriented Architecture, Interoperability, SAP Developer Network, SAP Process Integration (PI), Standards en-us 2007-09-14T14:27-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2007 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/7276 This is the first in a series of four blogs that describe SAP's comprehensive approach to standards for enterprise SOA explaining how SAP's business process platform uses standards to deliver business value. This blog provides the introduction. The next three blogs will provide more detail. David Burdett Business Process Expert, Service-Oriented Architecture, Interoperability, SAP Developer Network, SAP Process Integration (PI), SAP NetWeaver Platform, Standards en-us 2007-09-10T16:25-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2007 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/5256 Jeff Nolan, who used to work for SAP Ventures, thinks that Enterprise Software is complex without good reason. Well it might not be simple, but the reasons that Jeff gives for the complexity I think are plain wrong. This blog explains why. David Burdett Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, Service-Oriented Architecture, Standards en-us 2006-12-12T18:19-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2006 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP