Single point of Visibility, Quality and Control for ESG and Sustainability Data
Challenge
As companies are increasingly incorporating ESG and Sustainability metrics in their corporate analytics, the lack of a centralized ESG and Sustainability data definition, collection, reporting, and improvement (“orchestration”) platform is creating issues with completeness, quality and timeliness. ESG and Sustainability Analytics are now being demanded by customers, investors and regulators, this is creating a compliance exposure particularly with respect to the need for “reasonable assurance.”
Varying Standards
Multiple standards addressing E, S and G metrics such as SASB, GRI, TCFD, CDSB amongst others, complicate requirements within the enterprise.
Industry Initiatives
Multi Division/Portfolio Analytics
Private Equity (PE) firms or Limited Partners (LP) would like to collect ESG and Sustainability data from multiple portfolio companies, or a holding company wants to do the same from divisions. These portfolio companies and divisions in turn may have other stakeholders (such as other investors, customers, different regulators, ratings agencies, or auditors) who would like to receive verifiable and auditable ESG and Sustainability data as well. We refer to this in technical terms “the many-to-many problem.”
Integration & Aggregation
In the words of a Chief Marketing Officer for a building materials firm – “ESG and Sustainability is accelerating and moving fast; Tracing and aggregation is sorely needed; Our efforts are disjointed and fragmented; ESG and Sustainability needs to be a behavior across the organization; We have a council driving it.”
Manual Processes
Data Quality & Auditability
The Only ESG Tool You’ll Ever Need
pulsESG™ is the “Single point of Visibility, Quality and Control for ESG and Sustainability Data.”
Customizable
Standards Based Analytics
Comprehensive, Flexible Cross-Enterprise Data Collection Workflow
ESG and Sustainability System of Record
Automated Integration with ERP, HR and other Data Sources
Comprehensive, Flexible Cross-Enterprise Data Collection Workflow
pulsESG™ automates a comprehensive ESG and Sustainability data collection from stakeholders within an organization, and also across divisions or portfolio firms of an investment firm. This eliminates the need for manual spreadsheets and tedious tracking mechanisms over phone or email.
ESG and Sustainability System of Record
Data Quality and Source to Target Auditability
Rules based controls of data ingest quality. Duplicate data detection, rules for data change approval, conflict approval with responsible parties. Data validation rules are applied at point of data entry, so bad data doesn’t get into the system.
Reasonable Assurance of Data
Auditors have access to the pulsESG™ system to be able to view the provenance of each attribute including the date/time stamp and system/human that made the change.