Connecting social enterprises with corporates through technology - Frank Omare, SAP

Send us Fan Mail"Our values are to help the world run better and improve people's lives," says Frank Omare, a senior director within the global value advisory team at SAP. He works with customers to help them understand how technology can solve critical business problems, transform their businesses – and enable their organisations to achieve sustainability-related goals.Sustainability and social enterprise are central, not only to Frank's role, but to how SAP does business, he tells Heidi.Frank talks about technology as a force for good (with a positive impact on the environment) and coversHow the Ariba Network can connect social enterprises and minority-owned businesses with corporate organisations, opening a "world of opportunities" for allWhy accessibility to corporate organisations supported by promotion in the network allows social enterprises to scale massively.SAP's technology and automated workflows to highlight social enterprises to corporate buyers.Partnerships and sponsorships with organisations such as Social Enterprise UK and the Social Enterprise World Forum.SAP's working culture and commitment to social enterprise.How SAP measures its own impact – and how it helps customers and suppliers to measure and increase their impact too.Exciting plans and emerging technologies and how these might support social enterprises.Other sustainability and social enterprise solutions within and across SAP.Support the showHi, I'm Heidi Fisher, the host of the Make an Impact Podcast.  I'm an impact measurement expert, passionate about helping you make a bigger impact in the world by maximising the impact your services have. I can help you to measure, manage and communicate the impact you have better to funders, investors, commissioners and other stakeholders, and to systemise your data collection and analysis so that it frees up time and doesn't become an additional burden.  I love helping you to measure social and economic impacts, including Social Return on Investment or value for money assessments, as part of understanding the change you make to peoples' lives. You can get in touch via LinkedIn or the website makeanimpactcic.co.uk if you'd like to find out more about working with me.