How Sustain360°™ Helps Companies Meet Sustainability & ESG Reporting Goals

The company

Sustain360°™ has created a software application with analytics at its heart. The platform has two main functions: first, to provide information about a product's end-to-end environmental impact, and second, to provide compliance reporting. The company’s customers are predominantly in the manufacturing and construction industries. In the construction industry, it is primarily used by architects and designers for conducting lifecycle assessments. In the manufacturing sector, the platform is mainly utilized by product engine designers, product engineers, and environmental consultants.

The challenge

Sustain360°™ had a foundation in place that allowed it to source the data or enabled clients to load the data themselves (typically, this data comprised the structure and bill of materials for the product). Once the data from various sources was loaded, it was standardized. Then, environmental metrics from external sources were applied to calculate specifics, such as the carbon emissions for the product. So far so good. But Sustain360°™ also needed to make this information available to customers, and their current tooling was falling short. Ultimately, the company was finding it difficult to scale, wanted to provide customizable analytics and visualizations, and was looking to establish customer reporting beyond its in-house tool.

The solution

The solution GoodData provided revolutionized Sustain360°™'s analytics architecture, drastically reducing the time needed to roll out analytics to new customers. As well as the powerful visualization engine, a key feature of the solution was the ability to design the database schema and metrics centrally, allowing for reuse across multiple analytics engines without the need to develop custom models each time.

Another big part of the solution involved the carbon pathways that Sustain360™ had already developed. These pathways are essentially knowledge graphs that show a product's carbon DNA. GoodData enabled Sustain360°™ to integrate analytics into these with the help of its multi tenant architecture (multitenancy was also crucial in managing roles and access control for end users).

The result

Shortly after implementation, Sustain360°™ secured a major global client by demonstrating that the prospect’s embedded reporting could be operational within weeks. This success was largely due to Sustain360°™’s enhanced ESG reporting capabilities, made possible by the combination of its knowledge graphs and GoodData’s multi-tenant workspaces. Looking ahead, the Sustain360°TM team plans to enhance their analytics layer further and, with GoodData's support, enable end users to interactively query their analytics.