Oracle Cloud EPM for Sustainability

With environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting at the top of the organizational agenda, you need a comprehensive performance management solution that provides transparency to all stakeholders and regulators. Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) helps integrate financial and nonfinancial data so that you can fulfill more than just your reporting requirements; it also helps you plan and manage your ESG practices—now and into the future.


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ESG reporting & planning solution features

Import data from source systems

Populate a purpose-built ESG data model

Oracle’s enterprise sustainability management solution features a data model designed to handle diverse pre-transformed ESG activity data, such as energy use, fleet mileage, spending, and workforce data.

Collect all ESG data

The account structure is based on a combination of the IFRS, ESRS (CSRD), and GRI standards, and is separated by topic to easier align to the various reporting requirements.

Easily track source data

Unique identifiers from source documentation are captured for all systems, ensuring data integrity, and an ESG data validation log is created where needed for auditability and assurance.


Prepare, validate, and enrich data and metadata

Easily prepare the data and metadata by data transforming and mapping. Convert units of measure and currency with Oracle Cloud EPM’s various data processing capabilities.

Validate the required metrics

Identify the data that is required for your organization and run validation rules to control data quality. Be certain that only the correct data is loaded by handling exceptions.

Adapt for your industry

Oracle Cloud EPM sustainability can be configured for any type of organization, in any industry to satisfy multiple ESG reporting requirements.


Convert raw data into ESG metrics

Calculate key performance indicators

Environmental impact metrics often require complex calculation, whereas social and governance do so to a lesser extent. With Oracle Cloud EPM, these distinct transformations are all configurable.

Provide your preferred ratios

Oracle Cloud EPM allows flexible mapping for scope 1, 2, and 3 activities (GHG Protocol Corporate Standard), linking data to adjustable emission factors for carbon accounting calculations. The emissions calculator then automates all unit conversions and calculations.

Get full transparency

Built-in process management helps to ensure improved clarity of calculations, identify errors, and reconcile discrepancies. This allows drill back for any reported KPI for full transparency.


Model and align sustainability initiatives across your company

Align across your organization

Different parts of the business will have different requirements. Cloud EPM scenario modelling helps line-of-business leaders understand the impacts of their decisions and how they will affect your company’s overall sustainability goals.

Model sustainability initiatives

Scenario modeling capabilities help business leaders simultaneously evaluate multiple plans and scenarios, enhancing your understanding of ESG risks and opportunities.

Accurately allocate carbon fees

Activity-based calculations boost reporting accuracy, while advanced models incorporate carbon recharging and internal carbon fees for a more comprehensive financial and ESG performance reflection.


Predict and plan various ESG initiatives

Operationalize sustainability plans

Turn sustainability goals into short- and long-term plans, aligning initiatives across your operations. With Cloud EPM, you can make decisions based on an integrated understanding of sustainability, finance, and operations.

Predict likely performance

Using predictive planning, create and validate your forecasts and predict future performance. Data-driven predictive forecasts help you predict performance so you can take early corrective actions.

Use machine learning to validate assumptions

Leverage machine learning (ML) by importing existing ML model investments into your ESG plans. Use external and operational data to validate assumptions or drivers to keep on track with ESG goals.


Visualize performance with dashboards and AI-powered alerts

Monitor performance

Easily visualize ESG data in interactive dashboards so business leaders can review, explore, and understand their impact on sustainability initiatives in an easier-to-understand format.

Quickly communicate ESG performance

Communicate ESG performance by combining narrative with ESG data in a collaborative, managed reporting process with approvals, progress monitoring, and change tracking.

Get instant AI-powered alerts

Native AI can help to monitor ESG data, with built-in pattern recognition to provide alerts on anomalies or material variances—so you can take corrective action in a timely manner.


Report to internal and external stakeholders and provide appropriate assurance

Communicate to stakeholders

Easily communicate sustainability performance to all stakeholders. Combine data, visuals, and textual narratives in a single report, enabling ESG teams to author sustainability reports.

Comply with multiple frameworks

Changing rules and regulations requires flexible reporting methods. Oracle Cloud EPM allows adaptable reporting across CSRD, TCFD, IFRS, CDP, and all other frameworks that can easily be changed.

Global ESG view

With a central store of ESG data, you can use Oracle Cloud EPM to create a consolidated and comprehensive global sustainability report that brings in live data as well as narrative contributions.


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Delivering a single source of truth for ESG reporting and planning

With Oracle Cloud EPM for Sustainability, you can perform flexible and data-driven analysis, planning, and forecasting of the environmental, social, and governance—or ESG—positions for your organization.

Cloud EPM for Sustainability, built on Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), provides a single source of truth for your ESG reporting and planning with prebuilt KPIs, metrics, carbon calculators, input templates, dashboards, and reports that include emissions, social, governance, and all other required disclosure metrics.

Business-owned management of the process

Every organization has a different strategy and approach to sustainability data. Based on your goals and requirements, you can leverage a flexible, business-owned solution to manage the factor libraries and use of the data that you are collecting.

Leverage open integration of data

Provide lineage to the ESG data. Automate the collection of data with drill through to source without compromising accuracy and veracity.

Efficiently manage the process

Built-in process control and workflow enables you to stay in control of the entire process, from data collection to reporting disclosure.

Review and adjust the carbon calculator outputs

For environmental data, use the carbon calculator to transform the loaded Scope 1, 2, and 3 data into common “reporting” outputs using the factor library. Ensure that data lineage, adjustments, and audit trails are available at all points of the process.

Analyze aggregated data in real time

Review and analyze the converted data. Here, for Scope 1.
Drill into more detail by maximizing dashboard widgets to focus on areas of interest—all from the single source of truth.

Review combined data and analysis across the organization

Once the Scope 1, 2, and 3 processes are complete, you can review the full environmental data.

Collect all data and validate with sustainability templates

Using sustainability templates or via integrations, gather the rest of the ESG data—both quantitative and qualitative—that’s required for reporting. Using either the web interface or our MS Office SmartView interface, users can ensure that all required data is collected with the same integrity and process control.

Visualize and analyze social and governance information

Analyze and review all data sets, including environmental, employee characteristics, and more.

Use predictions to seed accurate ESG plans

Ensuring that your sustainability plans are aligned with organization goals and integrated into your financial plans is key to your success. Automatic predictions can provide a baseline or best/worst case analysis on this valuable data set.

User-led predictive planning: managing risk and future sustainability impacts

Sustainability practitioners can manage and leverage predictive plans as needed—minimizing risk, increasing accuracy, and delivering change to the organization.

Capture qualitative information for complete reporting

Use templates for business-led completion and capture of all qualitative data and validations for complete reporting across all legal entities or lines of business. Choose from either ad-hoc or framework-based metrics.

Comprehensive reporting with the ability to analyze directly from the report

Communicate ESG performance with dynamic, fully integrated, real-time reports that cover all your ESG requirements. Easy-to-use features include drill through and the ability to select legal entities. Automatically send reports to management, as required.

Comprehensive reporting of all metrics

Includes full reporting coverage of all metrics, both quantitative and qualitative. Report, analyze, and drill through to details.

Foundational solution supporting output in any framework

With a single source of truth, you can support all ESG framework requirements, such as CSRD, GRI, IFRS. Users can produce reports in any output based on the same audited and reconcilable information.

Use pattern recognition engines to deliver insights to users

Use Insights, the pattern recognition capability, to better understand what’s happening in your ESG data set. Cloud EPM for Sustainability scans data and provides drillable and interactive insights so you can focus on areas that need attention.

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