SAP Carbon Tracker

As I was looking through the Iphone's App store to see if there are any SAP related apps, I cam across the SAP Carbon Tracker.

And I decided to give it a try. First, there is a usual video, SAP walk the talk tour video on the social responsibilities that SAP share and practice and all the statistics related to that.

But the tool itself has got some useful functionality and can help smaller-medium organisations to rethink on their Carbon emissions. The app has the capability to calculate the approximate Carbon emmisions by Electricity Usage, Travel and Wastage in an organisation. There are some variables that needs to be filled like type of vehicle, electricity used etc. Further to providing the approximate carbon emissions, the app actually provides with alternate methods that companies and individuals can try to reduce it. Loads of resources like demos, videos etc are linked to the app. SMEs with tighter budgets towards Environmental causes should definitely try this free application.

What is Open hub Destination?

SAP BW is capable of integrating, processing and reporting on data from different source systems. But there are many instances where SAP BW data are required in other systems. In such instances SAP BW acts as a hub by integrating data from different source systems and supplying data to various other destination systems.

SAP BW has been supplied with an Open Hub Destination(OHD) Service which helps define the hub settings. The soruce objects for this Open Hub Destination service are the InfoObjects(Master Data), Infocubes and Data Store Objects. The destination systems can be flat files, database tables or other 3rd part tools.