IBM Envizi provides the capability to capture a wide range of data types, whether it is granular meter data or high-level health and safety metrics. One of the key tenants of producing financial-grade data is removing human error from the equation. Automating from the source and providing full traceability to that source are critical. Envizi automates data from several sources, including bill pay providers, third-party suppliers.

IBM ENVIZI Modules: 

• Scope 1 and Scope 2 Greenhouse gas (GHG) Reporting and Accounting module:  This module Falling under the Emissions Management solution pillar help clients (typically sustainability managers) move forward from the dated approach of keeping emission calculations in spreadsheets. These dated and manual approaches include storing their GHG data in multiple systems and spreadsheets, manually capturing data, manually managing emissions factors, and manually calculating market-based emissions factors. Other challenges this module can help clients with include dealing with multiple countries and their units and currencies, handling complex certificate allocations and accounting, and collecting data that is difficult for auditors to validate.
• Scope 3 Greenhouse gas (GHG) Reporting and Accounting module: This module helps clients (typically sustainability managers) calculate Scope 3 (which refers to indirect emissions) GHG emissions across an organization using all methods supported by the GHG Protocol. The GHG Protocol establishes a comprehensive global standardized framework to measure and manage greenhouse gas emissions from private and public sector operations, and outlines mitigation actions. The GHG Protocol categorizes greenhouse gas emissions into three ‘Scopes.’ Scope 1 covers direct emissions from owned or controlled sources, such as vehicles and fuel combustion. Scope 3 covers indirect emissions such as purchased goods and services and business travel.

• Target Setting and Tracking module: This module helps clients (typically sustainability managers) who are manually capturing and setting targets, dealing with reporting and tracking of performance against targets at different levels of the organization, and who must report different metrics, including energy, cost and emissions. The Target Setting and Tracking module is most applicable for organizations with emissions-intensive facilities, or operations who have a need to track and report their actual emissions against targets over time. With Envizi’s comprehensive target setting and tracking tool, organizations can capture and track their sustainability performance targets at any level of their organization.

• ESG Reporting Frameworks module: This module helps clients (typically sustainability managers) who are lacking a systematic process for reporting data and having trouble collating and organizing their data to align with external reporting frameworks. The ESG Reporting Framework module is most applicable for organizations with emissions-intensive facilities or operations who have a need to report their ESG performance in accordance with external reporting frameworks. This module solution takes the ESG data from manual spreadsheets and puts it into a single robust platform, thus making it easier for clients to report multiple frameworks.

• Building Ratings and Benchmarks module: This module helps clients (typically sustainability managers and energy managers) who are lacking a systematic process for capturing data inputs required for building ratings. The Building Ratings and Benchmarks module is most applicable for organizations with large, complex property portfolios who need a robust way of reporting to external ratings frameworks such as Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB), ENERGY STAR, and National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS). This module gives organizations the ability to capture their building attributes and utility data and use this to track their building performance in a single place.

• Performance solution module: This module helps clients (typically sustainability managers) who don’t have a way of capturing all sustainability project data in one place. When there is no way to capture required data, clients struggle to easily compare potential projects under different scenarios to support prioritization.The Sustainability Program Tracking module is most applicable for large and complex organizations who are planning, or are in the process of, implementing a broad range of sustainability programs as part of their overall decarbonization strategy.

• Utility Bill Analytics module: This module helps clients (typically utility managers, energy managers, or sustainability managers) who find it difficult to report utility information to stakeholders across different levels of the organization (or investors) and are still using manual data capture processes that are inefficient and error-prone. This Utility Bill Analytics module is most applicable to public and private organizations with large portfolios of energy-intensive facilities, which have a need to reduce utility cost, consumption, and emissions

• Interval Meter Analytics module: This module helps clients (typically utility managers, energy managers, or sustainability managers) who lack granular transparency of when and where energy is being used across their sustainability portfolio. The Interval Meter Analytics module is most applicable to organizations with large portfolios of energy-intensive facilities who have set a mandate for energy efficiency as part of their broader emissions reduction strategy. Using Envizi’s analytics and workflow tools, clients can automate the capture of high-resolution meter data to drive efficiency and decarbonize across facilities