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In accordance with the EU directive on sustainability reporting, companies should now pursue the question of how transparent reporting can be efficiently mapped in their organization with IT support and how digitization and process automation can help to provide all the necessary data in a clear, legally compliant dashboard.

The topic of green coding includes a variety of measures that can help to develop software with lower emissions and in a more sustainable way. With the right approaches, companies can make the programming of their software “green”.

PTA IT-Beratung recently received the “Climate-neutral through offsetting” seal from PRIMAKLIMA, confirming its climate target: as a climate-neutral location through offsetting, PTA IT-Beratung as a company determines and offsets at least the emissions from heat generation, power supply and its own vehicle fleet.

Commerzbank would like its customers to be advised by a digital avatar in future. In FONDS professionell, PTA Managing Director Dr. Tim Walleyo talks about developments in the field of AI with regard to the banking avatar, which is being developed for 2.2 million active users of the Commerzbank banking app and will later also be available for corporate customers.

Helaba Invest Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbH is pushing ahead with its digitalization strategy and automating the receipt of invoices with a powerful AI tool. The company relies on Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) and the proven AI expertise of PTA IT-Beratung.

From the 2025 financial year, all large EU companies must record and report on the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) on the basis of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive. With SAP Sustainability Control Tower, SAP companies now have access to a flexible and powerful cloud solution for precisely this purpose.

On January 5, 2023, Directive (EU) 2022/2464 on sustainability reporting (CSRD) came into force – with far-reaching consequences. With SAP SCT, SAP companies have a powerful cloud solution at their disposal.

The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) will oblige significantly more companies to prepare sustainability reports in the future. This poses major challenges for small and medium-sized companies in particular.

“In principle, green coding is suitable for any type of software. This is because huge scaling effects can occur with every line of code, especially with heavily used software,” explains Dr. Frank Gredel, Head of Business Development at PTA. You can read the whole interview here:

In this article, Dr. Tim Walleyo, Managing Director of PTA IT-Beratung, explains what constitutes professional sustainability management, what criteria companies need to meet and what company managers need to take into account.

It came into force on January 5, 2023: the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). The EU directive tightens the requirements for non-financial reporting.

Mannheim-based PTA IT-Beratung GmbH recently received research funding on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. In accordance with Section 6 of the Research Allowance Act (FZulG), the Research Allowance Certification Office (BSFZ) has approved funding for a research and development (R&D) project.

SAP WM is a widely used warehouse management system. However, if companies want to migrate their ERP application to SAP S/4HANA or the maintenance cycles for WM are coming to an end, the question of suitable warehousing software is on the table.

Automotive suppliers are generally familiar with the typical requirements of their customers and know how a material or product should be packaged and delivered. The new S/4HANA 2022 release now offers SAP user companies and suppliers in the automotive sector a cross-module solution integrated into SAP EWM.

Programs and data were punched on punch cards and SAP did not yet exist. When IT consultancy PTA was founded in Mannheim in 1969, the IT world was a very different place. com! professional talks to PTA Managing Director Tim Walleyo about the changes in IT.

Efficient software reduces greenhouse gas emissions. Dr. Tim Walleyo, Managing Director of IT consultancy PTA, explains how this works and what it really achieves.

Efficient software reduces greenhouse gas emissions. Dr. Tim Walleyo, Managing Director of IT consultancy PTA, explains how this works and what it really achieves.

The digital advisory assistant EVA, developed by PTA IT-Beratung, supports customers of Sparkasse Rhein Neckar Nord with questions relating to online banking. EVA is also a real linguistic talent and is fluent in seven languages – German, English, French, Spanish, Turkish, Arabic and Bulgarian.

Measuring the energy consumption of our software is not trivial. There are hurdles, especially on x86 architectures – but Microsoft is helping us. Marc Armbruster, IT consultant, project manager and system and software architect at PTA IT-Beratung, has looked into app-related energy measurements against the backdrop of green IT:

Customers of Sparkasse Rhein Neckar Nord who have questions about online banking have recently received additional support from EVA, a video consulting assistant developed by PTA IT-Beratung. And not just in German: if you need the help of the video avatar, you can choose from several languages.

At the Best of Consulting Award of WirtschaftsWoche, PTA was awarded first prize in the “Technologies” category for the lighthouse project that they realized together with BKK Pfalz.

BKK Pfalz is the first statutory health insurance company to successfully use PTA’s digital and interactive video advice assistant, which won the Best of Consulting Award from WirtschaftsWoche, for complex care advice.

Climate change and the energy crisis are bringing the IT sector’s energy requirements further into focus. What is the situation – and what can we actively do to reduce it? Marc Armbruster, IT consultant, project manager and system and software architect at PTA IT-Beratung provides answers to these questions:

Companies planning to introduce or upgrade SAP warehouse management should take a close look at the key capabilities that warehouse management with SAP S/4HANA must offer and the integration options that must be available.