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ESG & Sustainability

Simplify data collection, ensure reporting accuracy, and drive sustainability outcomes with a centralized ESG platform.

ESG Software for Accurate, Audit-Ready Reporting

Deliver Credible, Compliant ESG Data with Confidence

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance has become a strategic priority—and stakeholders demand data that’s not only complete, but credible. Dakota Software helps organizations manage ESG data with the same rigor, traceability, and compliance oversight as their EHS programs.

Streamline ESG Reporting with Integrated Compliance Tools

With tools like Profiler and Auditor integrated into the ESG workflow, teams can contextualize sustainability metrics within a broader risk and regulatory framework, ensuring consistent data quality, audit alignment, and real operational accountability.

Whether you’re preparing for CDP, CSRD, GRI, or internal ESG reviews, Dakota’s platform supports reliable, transparent reporting across every facility and function.

How ESG Software Solves Common Challenges

Common Challenges

  • ESG data lives in spreadsheets or disconnected systems
  • Emissions factors are outdated or vary by source
  • Manual workflows slow down ESG reporting
  • Leadership demands fast, reliable, transparent results

Dakota Solves This With:

  • Built-in emissions factor libraries from GHG Protocol, EPA, and more
  • Configurable data trackers for emissions, energy, waste, and other metrics
  • Real-time dashboards and trend analysis tools
  • Output-ready data formats for ESG frameworks and regulatory filings
  • Profiler to map sustainability risks to applicable environmental regulations
  • Auditor to identify ESG-related gaps, verify controls, and tie findings to corrective actions

Track, Analyze, and Integrate

Emissions Tracking

Track Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions using verified emissions factors

Energy & Resource Dashboards

Visualize usage data and progress toward sustainability goals

Configurable Trackers

Measure any ESG-related metric with customizable fields

Sustainability Reporting

Generate reports aligned with CDP, GRI, CSRD, and internal KPIs

Audit-Ready Records

Maintain clean, traceable ESG data supported by documentation from Profiler and findings resolution from Auditor.

Integrated EHS + ESG

Bridge environmental, health, safety, and sustainability tracking in one system

How It Works

Define What to Measure
1

Define What to Measure

Choose emissions, energy, water, or waste as your ESG focus areas.

Import or Collect Data Automatically
2

Import or Collect Data Automatically

Input data from spreadsheets, connected systems, or IoT sources.

Validate with Built-in Libraries
3

Validate with Built-in Libraries

Ensure accuracy with curated emissions factors and data models.

Visualize and Analyze
4

Visualize and Analyze

Spot trends and identify risk or opportunity across your portfolio.

Report with Confidence
5

Report with Confidence

Export reports for investors, regulators, or internal stakeholders with confidence, backed by compliance insights from Profiler and audit records from Auditor.

Use Cases

Measure Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions across your organization

Create and deliver investor-grade ESG reports

Support compliance with CSRD, CDP, and other ESG regulations

Monitor progress on sustainability goals in real time

Unify EHS and ESG into one holistic data and compliance strategy

Here’s what our customers think about Dakota Software

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Environmental Compliance Supervisor

American Crystal Sugar

"Dakota Profiler has become my go-to tool for managing our compliance program and ensuring tasks are completed. If I were a carpenter, Profiler would be my hammer."
Environmental Compliance Supervisor
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Corporate EHS Manager

Flambeau

“Dakota's Inspections product has been embraced by all of our facilities and has significantly boosted the effectiveness of our safety programs.”
Corporate EHS Manager
VT
VP Environment & Transportation

Veolia North America

"Dakota's proactive solutions have helped us remain committed to our corporate sustainability policy of "People, Planet and Performance."
VP Environment & Transportation
EA
EHS Global Data Analyst

Idexx Laboratories

“We used to spend a lot of time preparing and assembling various EHS reports. With Dakota, we save about a week of man hours every month.”
EHS Global Data Analyst
GM
Global EHS Audit Manager

FMC Corporation

“In each of our internal EHS baseline audits using Dakota, we identified at least one specific regulation that neither the audit team nor the facility staff had previously recognized as applicable.”
Global EHS Audit Manager
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Senior Sustainability Engineer

Cornerstone Chemical Company

“Being able to visualize all of our tasks in one place is really important. The calendar also gives us a great overview of what compliance items have recently been completed and what is coming due.”
Senior Sustainability Engineer

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