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Efficiently manage your ESG data through Microsoft's Cloud for Sustainability

Building innovative and sustainable solutions? That can be quite challenging. So, to help your organization achieve its ecological and socio-economic goals, we collaborate with EpicHorizons, a data-driven company that assists organizations in meeting the latest sustainability requirements, such as CSRD. Together, we guide you through the vast array of reporting tools, so that you can elevate your ESG reports to a new level. Ready to get started?

Tue, 26 November 2024

Dirk Mattys

Customer Success Manager, Arxus

What's ESG data?

Through ESG data, you gain important insights into your organization's impact on the climate, our society, and our economy, ranging from CO2 emissions and resource consumption to social engagement, diversity, inclusion, and corporate governance structures.

Unfortunately, this type of data is quite complex. And it can significantly slow down the progress of your sustainability goals. That's why Microsoft has developed a number of useful tools to collect, analyze, and visualize ESG data in a uniform format.

Microsoft's sustainability solutions

Microsoft’s Cloud for Sustainability is an innovative platform designed to help organizations track various metrics in the field of sustainable development. This way, you have a comprehensive toolkit to improve the quality and consistency of your data while also saving a lot of time and effort during analysis and visualization.

But how do you actually get started? Let's take a closer look at the two most essential data tools: Microsoft Sustainability Manager and Sustainability Data Solutions in Microsoft Fabric. And by examining some practical use-cases, explore how you can use these solutions to gain valuable insights into your organization's sustainability journey.

Mapping the footprint of your supply chain with Microsoft Sustainability Manager

With the ESG Value Chain Solution in Microsoft Sustainability Manager, you get a better view on the footprint of your supply chain. This solution is built on Power Platform, which gives you immediate access to the data from all external parties you collaborate with. This way, for example, you can easily add new suppliers, send and request forms, create templates for data collection, and with just a few clicks save all your data in the ESG data model.

Thanks to this streamlined process, you can centralize data on your company's sustainability activities in no time. And you will have the most uniform and reliable solution.

Microsoft Sustainability Manager | Arxus

Bring your ESG data together with the Sustainability Data Solutions in Microsoft Fabric

To ensure that the Microsoft Sustainability Manager can bring together your data for your ESG reporting, we strongly recommend using Microsoft Fabric's Sustainability Data Solutions. It extracts data from various sources, regardless of the formatting, and organizes it for you. This way, you can gain the necessary insights to further develop your sustainability goals efficiently.

And together with the Microsoft Sustainability Manager, these solutions create a robust ecosystem for your ESG data. Thanks to this organized approach, not only is the reporting process much simpler, but you also get a clear and complete picture of your company's footprint. And you'll spot the domains where you can make impactful changes much faster.

Sustainability Data Solutions in Microsoft Fabric | Arxus

Stronger together: Arxus & EpicHorizons

Sustainability is a vast field, which makes it almost impossible to know everything about it. That's why we have decided to collaborate with EpicHorizons. This way, we can provide you and your company with all the knowledge and skills needed to conduct business in a socially responsible manner.

Want to know more about ESG reporting?

We happily support you at every step of your sustainability journey, as your reliable partner.

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