Eco-warriors: SAP vs Salesforce

Tom Allen
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Whether it's ERP or CRM, both companies put out huge amounts of greenhouse gases
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Whether it's ERP or CRM, both companies put out huge amounts of greenhouse gases

With data centre power, water and land use in the spotlight, which of the business software makers leads the green charge?

Cloud providers are among the IT world's largest resource hogs. The amount of land, water and - especially - power data centres consume has seen much criticism levelled at AWS, Microsoft and Google...

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