3BL vs. SAP Sustainability Control Tower

I would (and do) recommend 3BL Professional to any company/org trying to expand the reach of it's CR programs. Often communications is how we justify the budget for our program work (communications help us increase brand reputation, reach potential employees, reach investors and ESG analysts). The 3BL platform is an incredible way to get your impacts and initiatives out to the world so that people know about the incredible programs you're running. Would recommend for any CR/ESG/Sustainability team.

Incentivized

In case of a big organization that gathers data from other SAP applications on environmental aspects for instance, energy consumption, or social aspects such as HR data, SCT allows you to automatically retrieve that data and perform the calculations to then develop the company's ESG report. In case the company does not use other SAP applications it is still possible to enter the data manually in other formats but it is still possible

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• Proactively suggests content
• Extremely fast response time
• Maintains exhaustive publishing calendar

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• High-level summary of all required ESG metrics
• High-level comparison between actual and planned values
• Data can also be conveniently populated using CSV

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• Would love to see increased opportunities for engagement.
• Increase connection to those working on similar items.

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• Implementing Custom Metrics: Support for all DPI dimensions needed
• Drill-Down Requirements: Full dimension availability via OData API
• Row Limit Issue: Request limit inadequate for data volume
• Breakdown by all dimensions for metrics not feasible

Incentivized

Same lack of industry-specific content on both, but SAP has the main advantage of direct connection to the ERP data so it saves significant efforts in comparison. Regarding dashboards look and feel and so on, it is more a matter of personal preference between PowerBi and SAP, we personally prefer SAP as it is a bit richer in ability to bring in more data and filter on it.

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• Huge boost to visibility of our annual reports
• Has helped establish our department in the sector as well as with our senior leadership team
• Amplifies employees who deserve recognition for their social impact efforts

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• Greater transparency around our sust strategies
• More engaged workforce
• Reduce OpEx by $350k in first month due to better decision in a particular area

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