Save time by automating ESG processes at each stage of the investment cycle

Effectively managing your company’s ESG performance allows you to unlock sustainable business value and helps to differentiate yourself from your competition. Incorporating ESG factors into day-to-day business processes supports a focus on long-term value creation where a company’s interaction with the environment, regulators and other stakeholders impacts a company’s long-term competitiveness, reputation and success. A company’s performance on ESG matters can determine whether it receives a business loan from the bank, a fine or support from regulators, can make a company more successful in public procurement, helps attract the best talent and investors and increasingly impacts share price performance (for listed companies), cost of capital, and value creation potential.

The answer is – it depends! KEY ESG supports companies from all stages in the ESG journey, from those who are currently unsure what ESG means to them to those who already have internal ESG management processes in place. In the latter scenario, it is possible to complete our assessment in under two hours. If you are new to ESG, our software user experience is designed to make managing ESG as intuitive as possible. We have done the heavy lifting for you, and our software will save you significant time by navigating the myriad of ESG frameworks that are currently available for you.

KEY ESG is an online, cloud-based software that you can access anytime, anywhere. First time users have direct access to an industry ESG benchmark and a self-guided ESG baseline assessment. After completing the assessment – which can be done as rapidly as within a few hours – a unique KEY ESG report will be generated and can be downloaded as a PDF. The report shows your company’s ESG baseline performance versus industry peers across a set of ESG metrics. Informed by your company’s relative performance, the report outlines tailor-made recommendations on how your company can improve ESG outcomes. Furthermore, the ready-to-print report can be used to effectively communicate your company’s ESG performance to external and internal stakeholders. After completing the initial baseline the cloud-based software can be accessed at any time to generate additional ESG assessments, so that you can track your company’s ESG performance over time. Since the software is cloud-based, we will ensure we will update the ESG performance of your peers in real-time so that you always have access to the most up to date ESG information.

KEY ESG’s software uses ESG measurement methodologies based on extensive research by the big four accountancy firms in co-operation with the World Economic Forum.

The short answer is yes, KEY ESG software follows cybersecurity best practices to keep your data secured. KEY ESG uses encryption at multiple layers in the platform, where possible we leverage managed services which provide high levels of security using their default security controls. Traffic in-transit is secured with HTTPS. Requests are encrypted between the customer and an application load balancer, which will decrypt the request and forward it onto our application servers which are hosted in a private virtual cloud network in AWS. Most of the data collected by the application is stored in Azure Database for PostgreSQL. In-transit traffic between our application servers and Azure is secured with SSL/TLS and the data itself is encrypted at-rest which also includes backups and temporary files created when running queries. We also store uploaded files inside of AWS S3 and make use of server side encryption with S3-managed keys.