Not your usual Corporate Sustainability Report
Introducing the new 2008 SAP Corporate Sustainability Report - it's not quite what you would expect May. 21, 2009
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Green IT - the SAP Perspective
Provides background on the SAP Green IT Community that was announced on 20 April 2009 Apr. 20, 2009
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Sustainability, Measurement and Software Solutions - Part 3
How software solutions help make for better sustainability decisions Mar. 18, 2009
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International Financial Reporting (IFRS) Community Overview
The SAP IFRS Community explained Mar. 14, 2009
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Sustainability, Measurement and Software Solutions - Part 2
Deciding where a business should make sustainability investments Mar. 11, 2009
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Sustainability, Measurement and Software Solutions - Part 1
Business reasons for making a business more sustainable Mar. 4, 2009
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Standards of the Fourth Kind
Best practice standards can seem quite "alien" as they don't often always focus on software & technology ... but they provide the same benefit ... Jan. 2, 2009
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Making the web accessible for everyone
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! Dec. 11, 2008
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How an SAP Standards Architect helps SAP deliver business value
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. Mar. 5, 2008
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Realizing the “ultimate vision” for Enterprise SOA – Tech Ed Session
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. Sep. 26, 2007
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Delivering business value through a comprehensive standards-based approach to enterprise SOA - Part 4
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 Sep. 25, 2007
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Delivering business value through a comprehensive standards-based approach to enterprise SOA - Part 3
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. Sep. 24, 2007
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Delivering business value through a comprehensive standards-based approach to enterprise SOA - Part 2
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. Sep. 14, 2007
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Delivering business value through a comprehensive standards-based approach to enterprise SOA - Part 1
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. Sep. 10, 2007
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Is Enterprise Software complex?
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. Dec. 12, 2006
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WS-I Sample App Blog Series: Download SAP "beta" Software
This blog describes how to download the "beta" WS-I Sample Application that runs on the SAP NetWeaver Application Server. This sample application implements both the WS-I Basic Profile and the WS-I Basic Security Profile and interoperates with solutions from IBM, Microsoft, Novell and Oracle. May. 31, 2006
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ESA and SAP NetWeaver - The future way to build business applications now
If you run SAP solutions, or even if you don't, then building composite applications using a Service Oriented Architecture approach is definitely the future direction of Information Technology. This blog provides an overview of a paper that explains how, using SAP NetWeaver, ESA and Industry Standards, you can develop solutions that will make your business more flexible, responsive and profitable. Sep. 26, 2005
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What's your company's T-Shirt size?
The "T" in T-Shirt stands for the technology/IT capabilities of your company. Here's an explanation of how your company's T-Shirt size affects your ability to use web services for integrating with your business partners. Mar. 23, 2005
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Good Blog on Extracting Business Value from SOA
An interesting blog by Dave Chappel that describes how to "extract business value from SOA" that ties in nicely with ESA and NetWeaver. Worth a read. Feb. 10, 2005
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Why using Web services for B2B is hard to do
Using Web services for eCommerce or B2B is taking longer than everyone thought. This, my first blog entry for SAP, explains why I think this is so and explains what needs to happen to fix the problem. Jan. 28, 2005
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