Sustainability Tracker (ST) Packages
Whether you are just starting your sustainability journey or already have sustainability reporting and compliance processes and targets in place, ST has a flexible package for every stage.
A roadmap to achieving your sustainability goals
As investors, customers and employees demand tangible action, and sustainability reporting shifts from voluntary to mandatory, it’s imperative that energy-intensive industries implement robust digital sustainability reporting solutions.
Not only does Sustainability Tracker (ST) address today’s requirements, but it can adapt to future compliance regulations, meet evolving global legislative frameworks, and help set and achieve decarbonisation targets.
ST provides a roadmap from ticking sustainability compliance boxes right through to advanced environmental, social and governance (ESG) capabilities.
Sustainability Tracker (ST) Packages
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ST Standard supports organisations with ESG reporting across major voluntary and mandatory global frameworks and disclosure regulations. It delivers centralised records that capture in-depth ESG data and supports compliance with evolving corporate sustainability reporting requirements. Ideal for:
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On top of centralised data, ST Advanced adds automated data capture and data quality reporting. It includes data cleansing, organisation and validation tools (to assess data health and integrity), and advanced visualisation tools to deliver dynamic, accurate and auditable sustainability reports. Ideal for:
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Beyond data automation, ST Expert offers finance-grade sustainability reporting and automated validation of ESG data against industrial operations data using a mass and energy balance configured to your site/s. It includes intelligent data accrual mechanisms to complete data gaps, built-in alerts and monitoring, custom process optimisation and product carbon footprinting (PCF). ST Expert facilitates collaboration with technical teams and alignment of enterprise goals. Ideal for:
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Building on these capabilities, ST Enterprise delivers the granular analysis needed to plan, execute and evaluate your decarbonisation roadmap. Running a steady-state simulation of your asset, it uses validated finance-grade industrial data to enable complex forecasting, transition planning and scenario analysis. You can adjust inputs and compare final production, emissions and consumption with advanced visualisation tools. It also enables your technical teams to collaborate with all stakeholders. Ideal for:
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ST Standard supports organisations with ESG reporting across major voluntary and mandatory global frameworks and disclosure regulations. It delivers centralised records that capture in-depth ESG data and supports compliance with evolving corporate sustainability reporting requirements. Ideal for:
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On top of centralised data, ST Advanced adds automated data capture and data quality reporting. It includes data cleansing, organisation and validation tools (to assess data health and integrity), and advanced visualisation tools to deliver dynamic, accurate and auditable sustainability reports. Ideal for:
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Beyond data automation, ST Expert offers finance-grade sustainability reporting and automated validation of ESG data against industrial operations data using a mass and energy balance configured to your site/s. It includes intelligent data accrual mechanisms to complete data gaps, built-in alerts and monitoring, custom process optimisation and product carbon footprinting (PCF). ST Expert facilitates collaboration with technical teams and alignment of enterprise goals. Ideal for:
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Building on these capabilities, ST Enterprise delivers the granular analysis needed to plan, execute and evaluate your decarbonisation roadmap. Running a steady-state simulation of your asset, it uses validated finance-grade industrial data to enable complex forecasting, transition planning and scenario analysis. You can adjust inputs and compare final production, emissions and consumption with advanced visualisation tools. It also enables your technical teams to collaborate with all stakeholders. Ideal for:
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| Delivered as a secure cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) platform | ||||
Sustainability reporting consulting (optional)
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| ST software licence (including enhancements and updates) | ||||
Selection of software modules
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| Manual and bulk data capture | ||||
| Automated data integration / centralisation | ||||
| Automated data organisation and validation | ||||
| Automated reporting on sustainability indicators as per legislative frameworks | ||||
| Solutions fully configured to the specific processes and chemistry of your plant | ||||
| Automated data validation using a mass and energy balance configured to your site/s | ||||
| Automated data gap calculation and analysis | ||||
| Built-in alerts and monitoring | ||||
| Set multiple custom reporting boundaries – e.g. financial, operational control, product-based | ||||
| Adjust reporting to evolving frameworks | ||||
| Product carbon footprinting (PCF) | ||||
| Audit trail to source data | ||||
| Extract data in digital machine-readable format for regulatory submissions | ||||
| Transition planning for decarbonisation targets | ||||
| Scenario analysis for varying decarbonisation initiatives, climate resilience assessments, and forecasting and budgeting | ||||
| Ongoing training and support (optional) |
Benefits of SaaS sustainability reporting software
Unlock best practice sustainability reporting with a Sustainability Tracker Software-as-a-Service licencing plan. Get all the customisation, security, innovation and insight with the cloud’s scalability, enterprise-wide transparency and flexibility.
Cash flow
Monthly payments avoid the need for up-front capital expenditure and provide a clear line of sight regarding your ongoing expenses.
Always up-to-date
As a cloud-based platform, updates are made quickly and easily, so you continually benefit from the latest innovations and security.
Security
Robust, intelligent and continually updated cloud security tools to improve your ability to detect and respond to threats.
Scalability
The platform can be scaled easily across multiple sites, with seamless access to insights from any location or device.
Fully customisable
ST Expert and ST Enterprise packages are customised to your plant’s specific processes and chemistry and updated as needed.
The Sustainability Tracker Difference
- Purpose-built for complex industrial organisations to handle millions of data points
- Enables granular and auditable reports across Scopes 1, 2 & 3 down to climate and nature-based indicators
- Makes sustainability reporting and compliance easy with digital reports to meet any framework across any jurisdiction
Start or progress your sustainability reporting journey with Sustainability Tracker.
FAQs
What are the benefits of Sustainability Tracker SaaS?
Periodic payments avoid the need for up-front capital expenditure and provide a clear line of sight regarding your ongoing expenses. As a cloud-based platform, updates are made quickly and easily, so you continually benefit from the latest innovations. The platform can be scaled easily across multiple sites, with seamless access to insights from any location or device.
Is Sustainability Tracker SaaS secure?
Yes, ST’s robust, intelligent and continually updated cloud security tools maximise your ability to detect and respond to threats.
How do I know which package is best for our operation?
The best option will depend on a range of factors, including your stage of sustainability reporting maturity, the number of sites, the complexity of your processes, the granular detail required to meet sustainability compliance frameworks and more. Contact our team to discuss the options and help you choose the package most suitable for your operation.
How is data captured from within the organisation?
The level of data capture – whether manual imports or complete automation – is adaptable to suit your needs and the package you select. The ST Advanced package can automate the integration of disparate data sources across the asset, including historians, laboratory information management systems, control systems, environmental systems and enterprise resource systems. With the Expert and Enterprise packages, all your data can be centralised, validated against a mass and energy balance and organised using machine learning.
How is external data captured?
ST can capture and report on data directly related to the industrial asset it has been implemented in – including Scope 3 transportation emissions and Scope 3 production emissions. It can also connect to external third-party databases such as the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database (eGRID), the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), and country electricity factors from the International Energy Agency (IEA) to use their emissions factors when calculating sustainability indicators.
What data tagging and filtering capabilities are available?
ST Advanced, ST Expert and ST Enterprise packages incorporate increasingly sophisticated tools to help identify missing or overlapping data and fill in data gaps, including data integrity analysis, data health analysis, and automated alerts for missing or unusual data. ST can calculate the consumption data in the simulation (mass and energy balance) and compare and analyse this to the actual meter readings and consumption use printed on invoices. Data is tagged according to boundaries, emissions categories and other data points. Each validated data stream is assigned a scope, boundary, category and data type to derive the most accurate activity data throughout the industrial process. Boundaries may vary between corporate offices and industrial sites.
How is data validated?
The first step is to determine what data is being collected, available and missing, as well as what digital systems and instrumentation are needed to measure activity data, consumption, movements in inventory and emissions, and other sustainability metrics across the entire value chain. ST Standard and ST Advanced includes standard validation as it is validated according to your existing data and not against simulated data. ST Expert and ST Enterprise includes advanced validation, as it is validated again a second set of data that is generated by the simulation.
How does the software meet audit and assurance requirements?
While ST Standard can meet compliance needs by centralising and reporting ESG data, more advanced packages offer finance-grade sustainability reporting using dynamic simulation to perform an asset-wide mass and energy balance to reconcile your delivery, consumption, inventory and production activity data. Using source data as inputs, the simulated data contextualises your measured activity data for completeness and accuracy. This means your verified sustainability indicators are fully traceable, immutable and unalterable, surpassing rigorous audit tests for complete assurance. Reports can also be delivered in digital machine-readable formats.
What reporting frameworks does the software support?
ST is designed to support all major global reporting frameworks including the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) – including the merged Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) – Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), NGER in Australia and more.
Can we visualise our data?
The ST Standard and ST Advanced packages offers data analysis and visualisation from the data that has been collected and centralised. The ST Expert and ST Enterprise packages offer advanced reporting and analysis visualisations so you can slice and dice the data according to any internal or external sustainability requirements needed. This could be by country, site, site scope, reporting category (such as fuels, reagents, waste, energy and water), and by individual product.
How does the data stay up to date?
The automated data capture features on the higher packages integrate data seamlessly with existing systems. It’s always available in near real-time and can be compared across rolling periods.
Is the software easy to use?
Yes. Once the software is implemented and data sources set up, you can run near real-time advanced analytics with the push of a button and produce the granular auditable reports needed to satisfy evolving global compliance frameworks.
How long does implementation take?
This depends on the complexity of your processes and reporting requirements and how much support your team needs. For the simpler reporting offered by the ST Standard and ST Advanced packages, you can be up and running with sustainability reporting within a short timeframe. The more sophisticated and configurable ST Expert and ST Enterprise packages typically take 2-3 months to fully implement, depending on your consulting, training and data requirements.
What's involved from the ISS internal team?
Our team’s level of involvement is entirely up to you, depending on your internal resources and expertise. We can offer training on the ST Standard package or support you with in-depth consulting through more complex and customised implementations for the higher-level packages.
What level of training is provided?
As much or as little as you need. Training and support are optional across all packages and delivered on a pay-as-you-go basis to meet your internal requirements. With all packages, ST is supported by a comprehensive online learning management system with step-by-step on-demand modules to demonstrate every stage in the journey.
What ongoing service and support do you offer?
From sustainability consulting and operational audits to compliance readiness assessments, we can support you with integrating asset-wide sustainability indicator data, emissions reduction, automation consulting and ongoing process optimisation. ISS is your end-to-end digital sustainability partner. Learn more about our sustainability consulting.
Is Sustainability Tracker a carbon accounting software?
Yes, ST is carbon accounting software. Carbon accounting involves quantifying and tracking the greenhouse gas emissions produced directly or indirectly by an organisation. Another crucial aspect of sustainability reporting is that it provides a view of a company’s environmental impact, particularly its contribution to climate change. ST can help organisations measure and report these emissions and identify opportunities to reduce their carbon footprint, set emission reduction targets and demonstrate their commitment to mitigating climate change.
Is Sustainability Tracker an emissions accounting software?
Yes, ST is emissions accounting software. Emissions accounting quantifies all emissions produced by an organisation, encompassing not only greenhouse gases but also pollutants and other harmful substances released into the environment. ST helps collect this data and allows companies to identify areas for improvement, implement strategies to reduce emissions and transparently communicate their environmental impact to stakeholders as part of their sustainability initiatives.
Is Sustainability Tracker an ESG reporting software platform?
Yes, ST is an ESG reporting software platform. ESG reporting covers the disclosure of an organisation’s environmental footprint, and social and governance (ESG) performance to stakeholders. This critical component of sustainability reporting takes in a broader range of economic, environmental and social impacts. With the help of ST, organisations can deliver transparent and standardised information on how a company manages its impact on the planet, society and its governance structures, allowing investors, suppliers, staff and customers to assess its sustainability practices and make informed decisions.