Buyer’s Guide: Sustainability Reporting And Data Management Solutions (2025)

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ESG & Sustainability Reporting Software

Jessica Pransky

Luke Gowland

Kim Knickle

12 Sep, 2025

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Executive Summary

The demand for sustainability reporting and data management solutions is evolving in response to changing regulations, increasing investor expectations and shifting customer challenges. To help buyers inform their purchasing decisions, this report identifies over 100 sustainability reporting and data management solutions and offers a detailed analysis of 16 software providers. The analysis leverages questionnaires, briefings, existing Verdantix research and publicly available information. Sustainability professionals, as well as other teams involved in sustainability purchasing decisions, should use this guide to support them in identifying solutions that fit their requirements.

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Summary for decision-makers

The 2025 Verdantix Buyer’s Guide to sustainability reporting and data management solutions

Defining sustainability reporting and data management solutions

Firms advance sustainability reporting and data management initiatives through software investment

Key criteria to consider during provider selection

Selection criteria for the 2025 sustainability reporting and data management solutions Buyer’s Guide

Assent enables firms to conduct sustainability reporting and data management throughout their supply chain

C3 AI’s platform delivers enterprise-scale sustainability insights through its core AI architecture

Datamaran helps firms identify, monitor and manage material ESG risks and opportunities

GIST Impact provides science-based data to help firms improve their impacts, risks and opportunities (IROs)

IsoMetrix enables management of environmental and social data and risks

Lucanet helps firms connect sustainability and financial metrics

MESA provides a unified platform for firms to incorporate sustainability into risk management

Microsoft leverages AI and cloud technology to help firms advance their sustainability goals

Novata offers a variety of sustainability tools primarily tailored to private market participants

OneStream provides finance-driven ESG planning and reporting for large enterprises

Oracle embeds sustainability data into core systems for unified data management and planning

Pulsora leverages AI to provide sustainability disclosure management and planning

Salesforce provides sustainability reporting to customers across a range of industries through its Net Zero Cloud platform

SAP enables firms to align sustainability initiatives with core enterprise resource planning (ERP) processes

WayCarbon integrates climate risk and decarbonization into its broader sustainability platform

WeeFin streamlines sustainability data management and reporting for European financial institutions

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Figure 1. Overview of ESG and sustainability reporting and data management solutions

Figure 2. Overview of the sustainability reporting and data management ecosystem

Figure 3. List of profiled ESG and sustainability reporting and data management solutions

Figure 4. Examples of vendors with <50 FTE that offer ESG and sustainability reporting and data management software

Figure 5. Examples of services firms offering ESG and sustainability reporting and data management software

Figure 6. Assent overview

Figure 7. C3 AI overview

Figure 8. Datamaran overview

Figure 9. GIST Impact overview

Figure 10. IsoMetrix overview

Figure 11. Lucanet overview

Figure 12. MESA overview

Figure 13. Microsoft overview

Figure 14. Novata overview

Figure 15. OneStream overview

Figure 16. Oracle overview

Figure 17. Pulsora overview

Figure 18. Salesforce overview

Figure 19. SAP overview

Figure 20. WayCarbon overview

Figure 21. WeeFin overview

Organisations mentioned

AB InBev, Accor, Alasco, ALCAR, Aligned Incentives, Altria Group, AMCS, Anglo American, Anthesis, Apex Group, Apiday, APlanet, Aramco, Archer Technologies, ASM, Assent, Atlas Metrics, Atominvest, Avanade, Baker Hughes, BDO, Benchmark Gensuite, Beontag, BlackFin Capital Partners, BlackRock, Bloomberg, BlueScope Steel, BlueTriton, Boeing, Breathe ESG, Brembo, Bridgestone, Briink, BuildingMinds, Bureau Veritas, C3 AI, Capgemini, Carlyle Group, CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project), Clarity AI, Climate X, Coca-Cola, Con Edison, Conservice ESG, Copper Mark, Corficolombiana, Cority, Cosmo Energy Holdings, CP Foods, Credibl, Crown Holdings, CVS, Dasseti, Datamaran, Decathlon, Deepki, Deloitte, Dunya Analytics, EcoOnline, Elera Renováveis, Embraer, Enhesa, Equinix, ERM, ESG Book, ESG Data Convergence Initiative (EDCI), ESG Playbook, EtOso, EVORA Global, Evotix, Exxon Mobil, EY, Factlines, Fathom, First Street, FNZ Ventures, Fortive, Galvanize Climate Solutions, Generali, Gerdau, GIST Impact, Glencore, Global Canopy, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), GLYNT, Greenomy, GRESB, Grupo Éxito, Hamilton Lane, Heidelberg Materials, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Holcim, Honda, Honeywell, HTC Corporation, IBM, Ideagen, impak Analytics, Infogrid (Aquicore), Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT), IntegrityNext, Integrum ESG, Intelex, Intercontinental Exchange Inc. (ICE), International Organization for Standardization (ISO), International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), Invest Europe, IsoMetrix, ISS STOXX, Johnson & Johnson, Johnson Controls, JPMorgan Chase & Co, Jupiter Intelligence, JUST Capital, KEY ESG, Kingfisher, KNAPP, Kohlberg & Company, KPMG, kShuttle, Lego, Locus Technologies, LSEG, LucaNet, Measurabl, MESA, Microsoft, Molson Coors, Moody’s, Moore TK, Morgan Stanley, Morningstar, MSCI, msg global solutions, NASDAQ, Natixis, Natural History Museum, Novata, Novisto, Nutreco, Odebrecht Engineering & Construction, Olin, OneStream, Oracle, Ørsted, Ortec Finance, osapiens, Partners Group, Pemberton Asset Management, PepsiCo, Polpharma, Position Green, Powerlink Queensland, Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), Protiviti, Pulsora, PwC, RepRisk, RINA, Risilience, riskthinking.AI, S&P Global, Salesforce, Santander, SAP, Schaeffler, Schneider Electric, Seneca ESG, ServiceNow, Shell, Siemens, SIMONA, Sphera, Stolt-Nielson, Summa Equity, Sun Life, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), Sustaira, Sweep, Toshiba, Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM), Tracera, Tyrolit, UBS, UL Solutions, US Air Force, Velis Real Estate, VelocityEHS, Vista Equity Partners, Watershed, WayCarbon, WeeFin, Wipro, Wolters Kluwer, Workday, Workiva, Worldfavor, WSP, XDI, Yarra Valley Water, YuzeData

About the Authors

Jessica Pransky

Principal Analyst

Jessica is a Principal Analyst at Verdantix, specializing in providing insights to sustainability leaders and analysing ESG and sustainability reporting software. She advises ...

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Luke Gowland

Senior Analyst

Luke is a Senior Analyst at Verdantix, specializing in ESG and sustainability reporting software and financial ESG. He advises both technology buyers and software vendor and s...

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Kim Knickle

Research Director

Kim Knickle is a Research Director at Verdantix, bringing more than two decades of analyst experience to the evolving world of sustainability. Her current research spans ESG a...

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