Oracle Green Enterprise

Organizations globally are faced with a complex set of emissions reporting requirements. Driven by country-specific regulatory mandates as well as stakeholder requests for voluntary reporting, companies are under pressure to provide consistent, transparent and accurate collection, measurement and reporting of energy usage and emissions data. In this podcast, you'll year about how the new Oracle Environmental Accounting and Reporting solution extends the capabilities of Oracle E-Business Suite and JD Edwards Financials to enable organizations to track their greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental data against reduction targets, and to obtain accurate, repeatable and verifiable methodologies for greenhouse gas calculation in accordance with global standards and for both voluntary and legislated emissions reporting schemes.

Oracle Sustainability Sensor Data Management (SSDM) provides capabilities to drive sustainability and continuous improvement initiatives. In order to help executives and managers tackle mounting social and legislative pressures from various stakeholders to go green, Oracle SSDM introduces innovative core capabilities to capture, monitor, analyze and report energy usage, reduce waste and reach Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission reduction goals.

Smart Metering is much more than just automating the meter reading process. It is revolutionizing how a utility interacts with its customers to improve the customer's ability to manage their energy and water usage, manage cost, enable them to sell any excess generated power back to the utility, and contribute to protecting the environment. In this podcast, Linda Jackman, GVP, from Oracle Utilities Global Business Unit, discusses smart metering and how Oracle has the most comprehensive solutions to manage the smart metering (and other smart device) initiatives. Part 1 of 2.

Smart Metering is much more than just automating the meter reading process. It is revolutionizing how a utility interacts with its customers to improve the customer's ability to manage their energy and water usage, manage cost, enable them to sell any excess generated power back to the utility, and contribute to protecting the environment. In this podcast, Linda Jackman, GVP, from Oracle Utilities Global Business Unit, discusses smart metering and how Oracle has the most comprehensive solutions to manage the smart metering (and other smart device) initiatives. Part 1 of 2.

Key Cox Executives describe their company's goals and targets for the Cox Conserves initiative, the tools and processes that support it, key lessons they have learned in their journey to date, and how they encourage employee engagement.

Product returns hurt both profits and the environment. How can green initiatives in the reverse supply chain benefit the bottom line? Learn how environmentalism and capitalism are working together at Cisco Systems, how Genco has found green opportunities unique to the business value they provide, and how Oracle is providing solutions to green the reverse supply chain.

Learn how you can use Oracle E-Billing to move to a self service model and provide paperless billing for your customers. The results can be both good for the environment and good for business. Understand how Oracle E-Billing can streamline your business operations and improve your customer relationships. Learn why Oracle Self-Service E-Billing is the most adopted E-Billing offering on the market and how it evolves business and consumer billings from mere transactions to meaningful relationships. Consequently, organizations increase customer loyalty, improve profitability, and reduce their carbon footprint.

Learn how you can use Oracle Transportation Management to reduce miles and greenhouse gas emissions by optimizing your transportation operations. The results can be both good for the environment and good for business. Understand how Oracle Transportation Management (OTM) delivers robust transportation planning and execution capabilities to shippers and third party logistics providers. Not only can OTM help with your company’s green initiatives, it can also lower your transportation costs, improve customer service and asset utilization, and provide flexible, global fulfillment options.

While data centers account for a huge amount of the power consumed by large companies, to enable a green enterprise requires that energy savings and sustainable business practices extend beyond the walls of the data center. With many companies establishing comprehensive sustainability programs and "Chief Green Officers", there is an increasing need to share and promote the next generation of thinking about creating the Green Enterprise. In this podcast Dr. Mukesh Khattar, Oracle's Energy Director, will discuss the many dimensions of energy and resource conservation at Oracle.

Operating a green business requires making changes throughout your organization - from the way you manage employee relations to the products you offer. Carole Switzer, President of the Open Compliance and Ethics Group, explores the increasing demands for environmentally sustainable business processes and green compliance. Because going green is good but not enough, Nicky Adams, Principal Product Strategy Manager for Oracle’s GRC Applications, demonstrates how you can prove your practices are environmentally sound and compliant with Oracle GRC Manager.