Sustainability

ERP Today 2025 Awards: Transformation at Any Scale Drives Outsized SMB Impact

EPSS won the SMB Transformation Project of the Year for its impactful digital transformation in Ethiopian public health logistics, while Venture was recognized as a runner-up for its partnership project modernizing Biffa's operations with a focus on sustainability.

Cloud Platform and Technology

Cultivating Twin Transformation in Manufacturing

Mid-sized manufacturers must implement Twin Transformation—simultaneously enhancing digital and sustainable practices across their operations—by leveraging SAP S/4HANA, Digital Manufacturing, and Sustainability Footprint Management while integrating principles of strategic planning, resource allocation, and organizational foundation to create cohesive value rather than fragmented initiatives.

Data and Data Management

E.ON Sweden Selects IFS Copperleaf to Modernize Asset Investment Planning

E.ON Sweden has chosen IFS Copperleaf's AI decision analytics platform to enhance its asset investment planning for better strategic alignment and operational efficiency.

Analytics and AI

Alphabet’s Intersect Buy Tightens Link Between AI Data Centers and Clean Energy Infrastructure

Alphabet is acquiring Intersect for $4.75 billion to enhance its data center and energy infrastructure capabilities as part of its AI strategy, while Intersect will operate independently and collaborate closely with Google on new facilities.

Rootstock Launches Summer ’25 Release with AI Agent, New Data Grid, and Expanded Financials

Manufacturing Systems and Automation

Epicor Pushes the Boundaries of Industrial Intelligence with New AI and Sustainability Tools

At the Epicor Insights 2025 conference, Epicor announced its commitment to the manufacturing and supply chain sectors with the introduction of AI-driven tools, including Epicor Prism and Grow AI for enhanced operational efficiency and data quality, alongside the Carbon Cost Rollup for managing carbon footprints in production, highlighting the increasing importance of sustainability in ERP systems.

ERP Strategy and Planning

From ESG Burden to Business Edge: IFS Embeds Sustainability at the Core of Industrial ERP

At IFS Connect UKI 2025, IFS highlighted the necessity of integrating sustainability as a core business function within industrial enterprises amidst evolving regulations and stakeholder expectations, showcasing its new cloud platform modules designed to operationalize sustainability through enhanced ESG insights and data-driven decision-making.

Cloud Platform and Technology

How Innovation and Responsibility Drive a Sustainable Future

Earth Day 2023 emphasizes our duty to protect the planet under the theme 'Our Power, Our Planet,' showcasing how responsible technological innovations, particularly in AI and sustainable practices exemplified by companies like IFS and Start Campus, can lead the way towards a greener future.

Analytics and AI

The Future of Digital Transformation

Insights from Inetum UK CEO Kathy Quashie

Analytics and AI

The AI responsibility gap: A looming threat to business?

A new study by NTT DATA reveals that the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence is outpacing the establishment of responsible governance, creating an 'AI responsibility gap' that jeopardizes trust, investment, and accountability in AI implementation among organizations.

IBM office building | IBM announces expansion to its software portfolio in AWS marketplace

Product Lifecycle Management

IBM and L’Oréal to Build AI Model to Advance Sustainable Cosmetics

IBM and L'Oréal have partnered to utilize IBM's GenAI technology for enhancing sustainable cosmetic formulations, aiming to create a custom AI model that will improve product development and reduce waste while meeting L'Oréal's sustainability targets.

Supply Chain Management

Infor Nexus Unveils NexTrace, End-to-End Traceability Solution

Infor Nexus has introduced NexTrace, a traceability solution designed to enhance supply chain transparency and compliance in anticipation of upcoming regulations like the EU Digital Product Passport and Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, by integrating AI technology, supplier ESG data, and facilitating seamless tracking from raw materials to finished products.

Manufacturing Systems and Automation

Capgemini and Ascendance strengthen partnership to propel decarbonized aviation

Capgemini has expanded its partnership with start-up Ascendance to advance sustainable aviation through hybrid electric propulsion technology, facilitating the transition from technology demonstrations to large-scale production, thereby addressing climate change and reshaping the aviation industry.

Application Development and Integration

Origina CEO: Beyond the patch, how to rethink your security safety net

Solid systems can crumble. In the high-stakes world of enterprise computing, we know that there are multiple layers throughout modern IT stacks straddling cloud and on-premises deployments that can be made to expose their inherent fragility and susceptibility to failure....

Google to Acquire Wiz for $32 Billion in Cloud Security Push

ERP Strategy and Planning

Google Cloud and Odoo Strengthen Strategic Partnership to Unlock Global Business Growth

Odoo and Google Cloud have strengthened their strategic partnership to enhance Odoo's global reach and customer experience by leveraging Google Cloud's scalable infrastructure, which supports Odoo's comprehensive business applications, sustainability goals, and integration of AI capabilities while ensuring robust security and compliance.

Data and Data Management

Carbon and financial accounting get sustainable with SAP Green Ledger

The newly launched SAP Green Ledger aims to enhance data accuracy and compliance with evolving sustainability regulations, thereby supporting organizations in achieving financial optimization and carbon neutrality.

Analytics and AI

The data fueling AI and digital twins in ERP for energy

Motor Oil Group's Corinth Refinery, the largest privately-owned industrial complex in Greece, has implemented data-driven predictive maintenance using SAP Business Technology Platform to minimize downtime and enhance safety and efficiency by utilizing machine learning and real-time data access for maintenance workers.

image of hands picking at spaghetti brain | ESG software

Cloud Platform and Technology

There are no single threads in ESG software supply chains

Software is part of your supply chain too. Debra Lilley untangles an inside view of vendor, integrator and user sustainability relations.

Manufacturing Systems and Automation

Webinar: Future-Proof Your Business: The Evolution of Enterprise Systems

Join us for this session where IFS industry experts Andrew Burton and Maggie Slowik will discuss developments which will influence and transform the future of ERP

Analytics and AI

Time of change: How British logistics companies can embrace AI and sustainability

Supply chain workers are engaging with tech to improve delivery tracking but are yet to unlock the potential of data analytics, ML and AI.

A green tinted hallway containing many servers on either side | energy data migration international

Data and Data Management

Saving energy in IT: It’s time to take action

Industry 4.0 is in full swing, which mean energy costs to run new IT systems have never been higher. Sustainability needs to be considered with each new tech upgrade, and efforts should be taken to cut down on all unnecessary, energy-draining systems.

image of hand holding leaf | JLL and IBM Envizi team up to supercharge CRE sustainability

Business Process Management and Automation

EY named a Leader in the Verdantix ESG and Sustainability Consulting 2024 Green Quadrant

This report calls out EY’s investment in talent and technology, deep operational transformation capabilities, and capacity to support large firms with complicated sustainability engagements as key strengths.

Data and Data Management

Podcast: How to move from ambition to execution on sustainability

Listen to this episode of EY's Think Ecosystem podcast, hosted by Laura Atkinson, EY Partner and UK Alliances Leader. The conversation dives into the topic of transitioning from sustainability ambitions to more tangible execution and action.

Human Capital Management

Salesforce Catalyst Fund expands climate efforts and access to education

Salesforce has announced 15 new grantees as part of the expansion of its Catalyst Fund, providing capital to smaller and younger nonprofits.

Aerial view of patchwork farmland dotted with wind turbines and slightly obscured by cloud cover | EY Sustainability

Application Development and Integration

How EY’s value-led sustainability could help your business

EY’s climate change and sustainability services were created to support businesses in responding effectively to sustainability challenges and opportunities, while also helping companies transition towards Net Zero.

image of car on road surrounded by tall green trees and green fields | GCR–Sustainability

Financial Management

HSBC accelerates climate mitigation journey with Google Cloud

HSBC has entered into a partnership with Google Cloud to accelerate climate mitigation and resilience through financing and support for companies in the Google Cloud Ready-Sustainability (GCR-Sustainability) program.

Sophie Graham, IFS chief sustainability officer

Cloud Platform and Technology

IFS appoints Sophie Graham as chief sustainability officer

IFS has announced the appointment of Sophie Graham as chief sustainability officer, reflecting the commitment to its sustainability strategy.

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Data and Data Management

IFS and Farrow & Ball talk sustainability: it needs all the backing it can get

In a recent IFS sustainability roundtable, it became clear that pursuing sustainability goals takes much more than just good intentions.

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Product Lifecycle Management

Atos launches sustainable digital suite to aid businesses

Atos has launched a new global offering designed to assist enterprises reach their CSR goals.

Cloud Platform and Technology

EY expert expands on SAP and EY sustainability alliance

Just over a month ago, in October, SAP and EY expanded their alliance to help organizations accelerate value-led sustainability action.

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Analytics and AI

IBM to address climate issues with geospatial AI tech

IBM has announced new efforts that apply its geospatial AI technologies, including IBM’s geospatial foundation model created in collaboration with NASA, to climate efforts including the analysis of urban heat islands in the UAE; reforestation across Kenya and climate resiliency in the UK.

image of forest with fog in the background | Deloitte and IBM

Cloud Platform and Technology

Deloitte and IBM elevate eco-friendly initiatives for organizations

Deloitte has announced a global collaboration with IBM that will leverage the two companies’ sustainability solutions to help clients accelerate emissions reductions strategies and make sustainability programs an embedded part of their organization’s core business.