Data-Driven ESG Solutions for Efficient Sustainability Reporting
With personalized support from our experienced ESG and IT experts, along with BIG.Cube’s agile project methodology, we seamlessly integrate our customizable IT solutions into your existing data systems. Data is our expertise – that’s why we ensure your ESG reporting requirements are reliably met.
Our Service Spectrum
Our Sustainability Analytics team combines industry and IT expertise, bridging both worlds. We guide you through all project phases – from conceptual guidance to technical design, all the way to successful implementation.
Business Concept:
We support you from the initial orientation to the detailed specification of your ESG reports and dashboards. This includes conducting a (double) materiality analysis, identifying relevant ESG data, and developing efficient data collection processes. In this way, we ensure that your ESG reporting is robust and sustainably structured.
Business Analysis:
Based on the business concept, we deepen the analysis and ensure that the requirements are precisely prepared for technical implementation. Through our structured approach, we avoid misunderstandings and ensure a smooth project flow – for efficient and goal-oriented execution.
Solution Design:
An initial technical analysis of the requirements forms the basis for the solution design. Our goal: an expandable, flexible, and comprehensive ESG reporting and controlling system, perfectly tailored to your needs, system landscape, and processes.
Technical Conception:
In creating a detailed technical concept, we combine proven best practice architectural approaches with our experience in the Sustainability Analytics field. This results in the added value of a flexible and sustainable ESG solution for you.
Implementation:
With our expertise in SAP Analytics, SAP HANA, SAP BTP, and SAP Datasphere, we are a strong partner in implementing your ESG reporting – from data integration to the ESG KPI dashboard. We also have extensive experience with other ESG solutions, such as the SAP Sustainability Control Tower, and support you particularly with data integration and the initial setup.
Data Quality:
Together, we achieve more than just transparency over your ESG data. With our software Q-THOR, you can identify potential discrepancies in the data early – even before the actual reporting process begins. This ensures the highest data quality right at the source, saving valuable time and costs in the reporting process.
Challenges in ESG Reporting: Data Quality and Consolidation
The European regulations on sustainability reporting – such as the EU Taxonomy, CSRD, SFDR, and EUDR – pose significant challenges for companies. Our experience from numerous customer projects shows that the availability and quality of the data to be collected and reported often introduce significant complexity. This requires a targeted, integrable, and scalable IT approach.
The Sustainability Analytics team relies on proven best-practice approaches in analyzing individual requirements, as well as in process and data modeling, to deliver efficient and auditable ESG reports.
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Sustainability Analytics Tools
The quality and integration of ESG data are crucial for reliable sustainability reporting. Our Sustainability Analytics tools help companies efficiently manage ESG data, minimize errors, and meet regulatory requirements. Whether through automated data quality management with Q-THOR or a central platform like the SAP Sustainability Control Tower – we offer tailored solutions for precise and efficient ESG reporting.
Q-THOR: ESG Data Quality Management
With Q-THOR, you can flexibly and automatically manage your ESG DQM to minimize risks and significantly improve the quality of your ESG data.
A practical example shows: Purchased or delivered ESG data for reporting contained nearly 1,000,000 incorrect data points. With our automated quality check, we were able to identify these in seconds, replacing time-consuming manual checks.
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SAP Sustainability Control Tower
As a leading SAP consulting firm, BIG.Cube offers software solutions based on the latest SAP technologies. The Sustainability Control Tower (SCT) is the central SAP platform for comprehensive sustainability management. It provides predefined data models for key ESG frameworks such as the EU Taxonomy and CSRD to automate the reporting process. Through centralized data integration and real-time insights into ESG KPIs, the SCT enables efficient reporting.
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Latest Updates
ESG and Sustainable Finance will continue to evolve in 2025. At the EU level, regulations such as the CSRD and the Taxonomy will be re-examined as part of the Omnibus Regulation. In Germany, the CSRD was expected to be transposed into national law by 2024, but the implementation law is still pending. Its adoption largely depends on the future federal government.
In this uncertain political landscape, companies need a clear roadmap and flexible solutions to establish auditable ESG processes. This enables them to make informed strategic decisions and unlock new market opportunities.
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Sustainability Analytics: ESG Reporting, Planning & Steering
Regulatory frameworks such as CSRD and the EU taxonomy mean that more and more companies have no option but to implement ESG reporting (Environmental, Social & Governance).
In the financial sector in particular, there are additional regulations and requirements, such as the Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), the European ESG Template and MiFID II.
Driven by Regulatory Requirements or a Self-Developed Initiative
Many companies have set themselves important goals on their own initiative and want to achieve their own climate neutrality (“Net Zero”) by 2050, for example. Other companies are being forced to act by EU regulatory requirements such as the Taxonomy Regulation, the Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), or even the implementation of these via IDD or MiFID II.
We know both the path to the goals that result from independent initiative and the implementation of the EU ESG requirements with SAP Analytics. That is why, with our expertise in SAP Analytics (SAP BW/4HANA, SAP HANA, SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP BusinessObjects), we are an important partner for our clients and together we are already implementing various sustainability projects.
Environmental
Evaluation of investments based on ecological aspects:
- Environmental protection
- Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions
- Environmentally friendly production
- Investment in renewable energies
- Efficient use of energy and raw materials
Social
Social
(Social)
Evaluation of investments based on social aspects:
- Compliance with occupational safety & labour laws
- Health protection
- Diversity, equal opportunities and social engagement
- Product liability & product responsibility
Governance
Governance
(Governance)
Evaluation of investments based on corporate governance:
- Management and control processes
- Transparent measures to prevent corruption & bribery
- Anchoring sustainability management at board and supervisory board level
- Linking executive board remuneration to the achievement of sustainability goals
- Dealing with whistleblowing
Use Case: Financial Services
A Sustainable Approach
One of the most complex examples of ESG reporting is the financial services sector due to its very comprehensive scope.
Experience has clearly shown that it is beneficial to initially bring the various source data together in one place. Due to the need for auditability, we recommend a technology with high traceability and the implementation of data quality assurance.
The next step involves matching the data to the respective asset or issuer, in parallel with a harmonisation ans standardisation of the data to create a central ESG layer. This processed, high-quality data and the calculated KPIs can and should be provided to the entire company for various purposes as a single point of truth.
In previous & current projects in SAP systems, the focus here is on requirements:
- Regulation (EU) 2020/852 Taxonomy Regulation
- Directive (EU) 2022/2464 as regards corporate sustainability reporting
- Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 Disclosure Regulation and the resulting EET, e.g.
- Directive 2014/65/EU on Markets in Financial Instruments (MiFID II)
- Internal group initiatives or even voluntary reporting initiatives such as AOA, SASB etc.
Objectives of ESG Reporting
The goals of the ESG KPI calculations are very diverse: deliveries via existing interfaces to Group reporting, standardised reports or Self-Service ESG Dashboards can be counted among them. Data products are also provided in the “data as a service” concept to other downstream systems, e.g. for active sustainability controlling & steering purposes.