London, UK - Monday 25 March 2024 - ISB Global, the UK-based provider of software to waste management operators around the world, is strengthening its partnership with multinational enterprise resource planning software company SAP (ETR: SAP) as it looks to continue to disrupt the waste management industry on a global scale.
As a part of this process, ISB Global has been named as a SAP Industry Cloud Partner. In addition, ISB’s flagship software platform Waste and Recycling One (WR1) has been named as a SAP Industry Cloud certified solution for waste management. ISB Global is already a certified SAP partner and global application development partner.
SAP Industry Cloud approved solutions are identified by their potential to digitally transform industries and sectors and encourage innovation. SAP approved solutions are tailored to meet the specific technical and operational needs and requirements of a range of industries such as manufacturing, retail, healthcare, financial services, utilities – and waste management.
Commenting on the news, Miquel Carbo, Director for Water & Waste Management at SAP’s Utilities Industry Business Unit, said, “ISB Global's WR1 represents a cutting-edge, industry-specific solution crafted by a dedicated team of experts committed to revolutionising waste and recycling management in the cloud. With this Industry Cloud partnership, ISB Global and SAP now possess a powerful tool to deliver a robust joint cloud-based offering, enabling waste and recycling companies to scale, adapt with agility, and prioritise their core business operations."
ISB Global Chief Commercial Officer Pritesh Pattni said, “Being named as a SAP Industry Cloud Partner boosts our visibility among SAP customers and underscores our credentials as a SAP-ready strategic partner. Our WR1 software platform underwent rigorous evaluation to ensure it meets SAP’s exacting quality standards. Customers can be confident in WR1’s reliability, scalability and compliance. The WR1 platform stands alone as the only complete, fully integrated SAP-ready solution for waste management operators worldwide.”
Achieving SAP Industry Cloud approval provides significant operational benefits to ISB Global’s existing WR1 customers and prospective new ones. It ensures seamless integration with other SAP systems and also third party applications. This gives users an interconnected and unified SAP-based IT environment that includes enhanced features for optimising business processes: and which helps users manage data better and so make better decisions.
SAP Industry Cloud approval also shows that the WR1 solution is aligned with SAP’s own roadmap for future updates and new innovations, future-proofing the platform and ensuring its continuing value and suitability for customers. WR1 users can expect ongoing SAP support plus access to the latest advancements in SAP’s cloud technology.
Pattni went on, “Waste management and recycling is becoming an increasingly complex and large-scale industry that involves multiple moving parts along with important regulatory and reporting obligations. To properly manage this complexity, waste operators need to automate and digitalise their operations and back-office processes.
“Being named as a SAP Industry Cloud certified solution underscores the WR1 platform’s effectiveness in meeting the particular operational needs and challenges of the waste management industry. It also reinforces ISB Global as a provider of industry-specific solutions that meet the highest technical standards and requirements, and which are superior to generic off-the-shelf ERP products and systems.”
SAP Industry Cloud solutions like WR1 must meet stringent criteria to be named as “SAP ready”. It must solve a specific business problem of one or more industries, either as an extension of an existing end-to-end process already in the SAP portfolio of business solutions: or as a new, self-contained process.
It must also be a Public Cloud solution – that is, available to customers in the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model via any one of the public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers like AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure and others
In a move that signals a deepening of this partnership with SAP, ISB Global CEO Chris Williams will co-host an exclusive online SAP Espresso Session alongside SAP's Director of Water and Waste Management, Miquel Carbo, on 10 April at 1600hrs CET. The session will delve into WR1's capabilities and its transformative impact on the waste industry. Interested parties can register here to join the conversation.
Founded in 1999, ISB Global designs and delivers innovative software that allows environmental, waste management and recycling businesses to automatically track, measure, report and analyse their waste and recyclable materials.
ISB Global’s flagship product is Waste and Recycling One (WR1), which enables businesses to plan, track and control their waste management and recycling operations via a single integrated software solution.
WR1 provides instant visibility of where materials are, how much businesses have in their inventory and what those materials are worth. Delivered through real-time analytics, reporting and insights on all aspects of the collection and material recycling operations, WR1 offer an insight into the future of how the world deals with waste and recyclable materials.