Buyer’s Guide: ESG Performance & Analysis Management Solutions 2025

The four vendor solutions are compared across eight dimensions:

Functional KPCs

1. Internal Social and Governance Assessment – Estimating each vendor’s internal ESG performance
2. Secondary Social and Governance Assessment – Estimating each vendor’s suppliers’, portfolio companies’ and other value chain’s actors’ ESG performance
3. Carbon Accounting Engine – Approximating a firm’s overall carbon footprint
4. Performance Analysis – Assessing a firm’s performance in terms of its ability to present an aggregated or disaggregated view via its dashboard
5. Performance Management – Assessing how well the data and analysis facilitates an understanding of a firm’s required financial or operational changes

Non-Functional KPCs

1. Technology Performance – Assessing each solution’s scalability, resilience, maintainability and architecture
2. Flexibility – Assessing the degree of customisation, system integration, development APIs and integration with market infrastructure / utilities
3. Service and Support – Identifying the level of customer service, support and maintenance provided by the vendor