Eco-Enterprise AppCasts

Listen to Oracle executives talk with customers, partners, and Oracle product experts, exploring topics that can help customers and prospects better understand the value of these products.

Customer Stories | General | Industries | Product Updates | Supply Chain Management

Customer Stories

• Cox Conserves (11 min.)
  September 7, 2010
  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.

General

• Leveraging Existing ERP Systems to Support Environmental Accounting and Reporting (10 min.)
  September 22, 2010
  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.
• Going Green with Oracle E-Billing (11 min.)
  June 10, 2010
  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.
• Improving Sustainability Reporting at DONG Energy (13 min.)
  July 8, 2010
  Nigel Youell discusses with Niels Peulicke-Andersen, Senior Advisor for Dong Energy how they are using Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management System to consolidate and report financial and sustainability information for both internal management reporting and external stakeholder reporting.
• The Green Data Center (11 min.)
  March 11, 2009
  Enabling 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.
• Oracle and ESS: Working Together to Address Environmental Sustainability (12 min.)
  February 24, 2009
  Environmental sustainability and compliance requires capabilities to measure, analyze, manage, and improve across a broad range of sustainability metrics and processes. Learn how Oracle is partnering with ESS—the market-leading provider of Environmental, Health and Safety solutions—to provide a cohesive corporate sustainability solution.
• Sustainability Reporting, Planning, and Management (11 min.)
  September 3, 2008
  Sustainability Reporting, also referred to as the Triple Bottom Line, is the reporting of environmental, social and economic metrics to external and internal stakeholders. Tune into this conversation with John O'Rourke,* *Senior Director, Product Marketing for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Solutions to learn what is driving the need for this reporting, how companies are responding and the solutions that Oracle offers to help alleviate the complexity, provide an audit trail and a repeatable reporting process.
• Oracle Applications Empower the Green Enterprise (10 min.)
  September 2, 2008
  Eco-Efficiency, Eco-Innovation, Eco-Transparency -- what does it all mean? Learn about the growing interest and need for green, sustainability solutions and how Oracle can help you gain an Eco-Advantage in this conversation with Rich Kroes, Director Oracle Product Strategy.

Industries

• Smart Metering for Utilities Companies - Part 1 (12 min.)
  October 1, 2010
  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 customers 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.
• Smart Metering for Utilities Companies - Part 2 (9 min.)
  October 1, 2010
  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 customers 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.

Product Updates

• Eco-Transparency with Oracle Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) (14 min.)
  March 3, 2009
  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.
• Go Green With Oracle Document Management (8 min.)
  December 29, 2008
  Content management is a great way to get your organization started down the path to green and sustainable practices. Paper-based processes can be replaced with electronic processes, making content accessible anywhere and removing the need to ship paper to remote sites. Listen as Brian Dirking, Principal Product Director, and Greg Crider, Senior Director of Product Marketing, discuss how Oracle Document Management customers have saved their organizations thousands of dollars and also helped save the environment by cutting down their paper consumption and shipping.

Supply Chain Management

• Green Initiatives in the Reverse Supply Chain (16 min.)
  June 10, 2010
  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.
• Oracle Transportation Management: Sustainable Transportation (11 min.)
  June 2, 2010
  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.