SAP Q1 Sustainability Report: Blazing New Frontiers in Reporting and Engagement

It's becoming more common for organizations to publish sustainability reports and just last week, SAP published its 2010 Sustainability report.  Great! But what makes this report important?  And why does it have special meaning to your business? 

For starters, SAP recognizes that to lead in sustainability, they have to be that themselves to drive it.  The report itself represents a movement from sustainability as an independent sustainable business strategy to that of a corporate strategy that is sustainability.  What makes the report important?  

• The Global Reporting Initiative's award of an "A," its highest grade.

• Integrated with the financial report eliminating redundancy of information.

• SAP measured, monitored and reported its sustainability performance using data sourced from SAP® solutions, including the SAP® Carbon Impact OnDemand, the SAP® BusinessObjects™ Sustainability Performance Management application and SAP BusinessObjects Explorer™ software. Responding to stakeholder demands for increased transparency, the technology allowed SAP to report on sustainability metrics on a quarterly basis for the second year in a row rather than the usual annual cycle.

• SAP Report Confirms Decoupling of Emissions and Revenue

• Provides an Independent Assurance Report addressing carbon footprint data.

SAP's sustainability report seamlessly integrates with social platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to provide creative use of social media on each page of the report.  The intent? To encourage stakeholder engagement via active dialog of comments, knowledge sharing, best practices, and suggestions.  Interestingly, each page is optimized with a relevant hash tag and if you pose a question, SAP has dedicated resources to each page to answer your question within 24 hours.  How's that for transparency, visibility, and engagement?    Why is this report important to your business?  Click here to find out why!  

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