Sustainability reporting evolves every year, and your data should keep up effortlessly. That’s why KEY ESG has launched custom metric versioning: a smarter, more flexible way to manage and refine your sustainability data without losing continuity or control.
This new feature gives you the freedom to update your questionnaires, align with new frameworks, and make annual refinements, all while preserving a complete, connected view of your data across years.
Smarter, connected sustainability data management
With custom metric versioning, your sustainability metrics grow with you. Each metric group now acts as a living record, containing all versions of your data collection framework, from draft to active to archived.
You can make updates year after year, maintaining the link between past and present for accurate, longitudinal reporting and analysis.
This ensures your sustainability data remains consistent, traceable, and ready for long-term insights.
Key highlights
1. True year-over-year continuity
Every version of a custom metric builds on the last, keeping your data connected over time. When you create a new version, all historical information remains intact, allowing seamless year-over-year comparisons and performance tracking.
This makes it simple to evolve your approach without interrupting your ESG data story.
2. A cleaner, more organised Metric Manager
Your metrics are now grouped in a clear, expandable structure. Each metric group (for example, “Carbon Footprint Analysis”) contains its own versions (“2024 Report”, “2025 Draft”, and beyond).
You can easily filter by category (Environment, Social, Governance) or status (Draft, Active) and search by name to stay focused on what matters most.
3. Confident, intuitive editing
The editing experience has been reimagined for simplicity and security.
When you adjust your questions, the system automatically distinguishes between safe edits that preserve data history and major edits that would change data structure.
You’ll always know when an edit might impact continuity — so you can refine metrics with confidence.
4. Precision in data requests
When setting up a new data request, you can now select the exact version of a custom metric you want to use.
This ensures that every data collection cycle is accurate, aligned, and perfectly in sync with your chosen questionnaire version.
5. Cleaner reports and sharper insights
Each question now supports an optional Report Output Title, letting you simplify long question text for dashboards and final reports.
Your outputs stay polished, professional, and ready for board-level review.
Built for accuracy, scalability, and insight
Behind the scenes, custom metric versioning introduces a robust data architecture designed for continuity and reliability.
Each question maintains a persistent link to its previous versions, creating a clear lineage of your sustainability metrics over time.
This means your teams can:
- Update questionnaires annually without losing data history
- Keep reporting aligned with evolving frameworks
- Simplify analysis across reporting cycles
- Trust that all metrics, past and present, remain connected
By combining flexibility with precision, KEY ESG helps you scale your sustainability management with confidence.
Experience custom metric versioning today
Custom metric versioning is now available across the KEY ESG platform.
Log in to explore the new Metric Manager and see how easy it is to build a continuous, future-proof record of your sustainability data.
Or book a demo with us to find out how your organisation could benefit from our approach to sustainability reporting.
Sustainability reporting evolves every year, and your data should keep up effortlessly. That’s why KEY ESG has launched custom metric versioning: a smarter, more flexible way to manage and refine your sustainability data without losing continuity or control.
This new feature gives you the freedom to update your questionnaires, align with new frameworks, and make annual refinements, all while preserving a complete, connected view of your data across years.
Smarter, connected sustainability data management
With custom metric versioning, your sustainability metrics grow with you. Each metric group now acts as a living record, containing all versions of your data collection framework, from draft to active to archived.
You can make updates year after year, maintaining the link between past and present for accurate, longitudinal reporting and analysis.
This ensures your sustainability data remains consistent, traceable, and ready for long-term insights.
Key highlights
1. True year-over-year continuity
Every version of a custom metric builds on the last, keeping your data connected over time. When you create a new version, all historical information remains intact, allowing seamless year-over-year comparisons and performance tracking.
This makes it simple to evolve your approach without interrupting your ESG data story.
2. A cleaner, more organised Metric Manager
Your metrics are now grouped in a clear, expandable structure. Each metric group (for example, “Carbon Footprint Analysis”) contains its own versions (“2024 Report”, “2025 Draft”, and beyond).
You can easily filter by category (Environment, Social, Governance) or status (Draft, Active) and search by name to stay focused on what matters most.
3. Confident, intuitive editing
The editing experience has been reimagined for simplicity and security.
When you adjust your questions, the system automatically distinguishes between safe edits that preserve data history and major edits that would change data structure.
You’ll always know when an edit might impact continuity — so you can refine metrics with confidence.
4. Precision in data requests
When setting up a new data request, you can now select the exact version of a custom metric you want to use.
This ensures that every data collection cycle is accurate, aligned, and perfectly in sync with your chosen questionnaire version.
5. Cleaner reports and sharper insights
Each question now supports an optional Report Output Title, letting you simplify long question text for dashboards and final reports.
Your outputs stay polished, professional, and ready for board-level review.
Built for accuracy, scalability, and insight
Behind the scenes, custom metric versioning introduces a robust data architecture designed for continuity and reliability.
Each question maintains a persistent link to its previous versions, creating a clear lineage of your sustainability metrics over time.
This means your teams can:
- Update questionnaires annually without losing data history
- Keep reporting aligned with evolving frameworks
- Simplify analysis across reporting cycles
- Trust that all metrics, past and present, remain connected
By combining flexibility with precision, KEY ESG helps you scale your sustainability management with confidence.
Experience custom metric versioning today
Custom metric versioning is now available across the KEY ESG platform.
Log in to explore the new Metric Manager and see how easy it is to build a continuous, future-proof record of your sustainability data.
Or book a demo with us to find out how your organisation could benefit from our approach to sustainability reporting.
