ESG Services & Solutions

ESG is fundamentally about risk and opportunity. When addressed and embedded correctly, it reduces disruptions, ensures compliance, improves efficiency, strengthens stakeholder trust and enhances competitiveness.

1. We are a team of both EPM, financial and ESG specialists who understand the relationships between the domains and who provide both advisory and systems services 
2. Its integration with Enterprise Performance Management (EPM). We don’t treat ESG as a standalone exercise. Instead, we help organisations bring ESG into the same conversations as strategy, budgeting, forecasting, risk, reporting and performance.

By aligning ESG with EPM, clients benefit from: 

• A single source of truth for financial and ESG data 
• Clear visibility of ESG performance, risks and opportunities alongside financial data
• Stronger governance and accountability 
• More meaningful disclosures aligned to global frameworks 
• Better-informed executive and board-level decision-making

Oracle: Oracle’s EPM for Sustainability is designed to bring the same discipline, automation, and analytical power found in financial performance management to ESG planning and reporting. The result is a platform that reduces manual effort, improves data integrity, and accelerates decision‑making. Here’s a clear, structured view of the advantages and efficiencies it delivers, grounded in the sources we retrieved.

1. A Single Source of Truth for ESG Data

Oracle EPM for Sustainability consolidates environmental, social, governance, and financial data into one unified platform. This eliminates spreadsheet sprawl and fragmented data sources, which are common pain points in ESG reporting.

Benefits

• Consistent, auditable ESG data
• Reduced risk of errors
• Faster reporting cycles

2. Prebuilt ESG Frameworks, KPIs, and Carbon Calculators

The solution includes preconfigured KPIs, metrics, dashboards, and carbon calculators aligned with global ESG disclosure requirements.

Benefits

• Rapid time‑to‑value
• Less customization required
• Built‑in alignment with Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions reporting

3. Automation, AI, and Machine Learning for Efficiency

Oracle embeds automation and AI to streamline data collection, consolidation, and analysis, especially useful when ESG data comes from multiple business units, suppliers, and systems.

Benefits

• Faster, more accurate reporting
• Reduced manual workload
• Early detection of anomalies or data gaps

4. Scenario Modelling for Sustainability Strategy

Organizations can model multiple sustainability scenarios—such as decarbonization pathways, resource‑efficiency strategies, or social investment options—to understand financial and operational impacts.

Benefits

• Data‑driven decision‑making
• Ability to test trade‑offs and long‑term impacts
• Stronger alignment between ESG goals and business strategy

5. Integrated Planning and Forecasting

Because it sits on the Oracle EPM platform, sustainability planning is integrated with financial planning, workforce planning, and operational planning.

Benefits

• ESG becomes part of core business planning
• Better cross‑functional alignment
• More credible, investment‑grade sustainability plans

6. Streamlined Reporting and Disclosure

Oracle EPM for Sustainability supports structured workflows, approvals, and task management—similar to financial close processes.

Benefits

• Strong governance and auditability
• Faster preparation of ESG disclosures
• Easier compliance with evolving standards (e.g., CSRD, ISSB, GRI)

7. Real‑Time Dashboards and Drill‑Down Analytics

Customizable dashboards allow users to visualize emissions, social metrics, governance indicators, and more down to the underlying data.

Benefits

• Immediate insights for executives and sustainability teams
• Ability to identify hotspots and improvement opportunities
• Transparent reporting for stakeholders

8. Flexible Data Collection from Any Source

Oracle supports business‑owned data integrations, native input forms, and Excel‑based Smart View uploads.

Benefits

• Easier onboarding of ESG data from suppliers and partners
• Reduced IT dependency
• More complete and timely data 

Summary Table

Onestream

1. Unified ESG + Financial Data in a Single Platform

OneStream brings sustainability and financial data together in one governed environment, eliminating the fragmentation that slows down ESG reporting. This unified model ensures consistency, auditability, and trust in disclosures.

Benefits:

• No more siloed ESG spreadsheets
• Finance and sustainability teams work from the same data
• Stronger governance and traceability

2. Automated Data Collection & Scope 1–3 Emissions Calculations

The platform automates data ingestion, mapping, and factor updates for emissions reporting. It also supports automated Scope 1–3 calculations and forecasting.

Benefits:

• Reduced manual consolidation
• Faster emissions reporting
• Lower risk of human error

3. AI‑Driven Insights, Variance Analysis & Commentary

OneStream uses AI to analyze ESG performance, generate variance commentary, and link ESG outcomes to financial impacts.

Benefits:

• Clear visibility into ESG drivers
• Automated narrative generation
• Better decision‑making for executives

4. Predefined ESG Frameworks & Regulatory Alignment

The solution includes predefined frameworks and automated reporting structures to simplify compliance with evolving ESG regulations.

Benefits:

• Faster implementation
• Reduced compliance burden
• Confidence in meeting EU and global disclosure requirements

5. Integrated ESG Planning, Forecasting & Scenario Modelling

OneStream extends its financial planning engine to sustainability, enabling scenario modelling, target setting, and forecasting of ESG KPIs.

Benefits:

• Model decarbonization pathways
• Forecast ESG impacts on financial performance
• Align sustainability goals with business strategy

6. Dynamic Workflows & Governance for ESG Processes

The platform provides structured workflows for ESG data collection, approvals, and reporting—similar to financial close governance.

Benefits:

• Clear ownership and accountability
• Audit‑ready ESG processes
• Faster, more reliable reporting cycles

7. Holistic Enterprise View for CFOs & Sustainability Leaders

OneStream is built as an enterprise performance management platform, so ESG becomes part of the broader financial and operational ecosystem.

Benefits:

• ESG is no longer an isolated reporting exercise
• CFOs can integrate sustainability into core performance metrics
• Supports long‑term value creation and risk management

Summary Table

Our approach recognises that ESG maturity looks different for every organisation. Whether clients are at an early stage or refining established programmes, we partner to focus on building practical roadmaps, developing internal capability, and ensuring ESG initiatives are manageable, credible and value-adding. 

Our ESG capability is strengthened through having ESG and sustainability subject experts as part of the team. They have a strong background in environmental science, sustainability strategy, governance, change management and training, and ESG systems implementation. 

Futuresense is able to advise and support on a breadth of ESG and sustainability issues, from carbon accounting, where we identify your organizations Scope 1 and 2 (and if required, Scope 3) emissions and advise on a decarbonization strategy, to awareness training and applicable reporting frameworks and metrics to track.

An implementation can take anything from 4 months to over a year, depending on various factors such as complexity of the organization, ESG readiness, capacity training required and reporting requirements.

We approach ESG implementation in methodical steps.

Step 1:  Discover and Assess.

This is a structured approach to help evaluate an organisation’s ESG readiness, area’s of risk, reporting requirements and how the project should best be implemented.

This step forms the cornerstone of the ESG Lifecycle. It enables: 

• An understanding of the ESG maturity level across all key domains which guides the processes and pace of the implementation 
• The organisation’s material ESG topics to be determined. 
• The ESG metrics and indicators to be identified to track and report on. 
• Which ESG and sustainability reporting frameworks to consider adopting or aligning to.

• Gaps to be highlighted that must be addressed before data collection begins.

This step prepares the organisation for the data inventory. 

Step 2: Identify data requirements

• Identify what ESG data is required to support the metrics and indicators identified
• Discover where the data resides, in what format, in what system, if it is validated and if it is available or unavailable

Step 3: System design and implementation

•   Build out the system to meet the organisations needs, addressing users and permissions, any workflows, calculation methods, historical data imports or integrations, and analytical displays.

Step 4: Testing, training, and go live

• Once the system has been set up and tested, can users be granted access and data capturing begins.

•  No additional costs for the ESG applications
•  Extra for any additional users
• Services and support fees