Stage and manage sustainability data
Important
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| Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|
| Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Mar 2025 | - |
Business value
This feature addresses one of the greatest challenges in sustainability reporting: data collection from disparate sources. Collect and organize your data into Microsoft Sustainability Manager from disparate sources and with different file formats. You can manage data collection throughout the entire process, enhancing the quality and reliability of your sustainability data.
Feature details
Sustainability data is available across many parts of your organization. This feature allows sustainability practitioners to manage a collection of data from different responsible parties in your organization and manage the status of the request regularly until the data is finally integrated into Sustainability Manager.
With this feature, you can collect data from disparate sources and in different file formats and store it temporarily in a quarantined state until approval into Sustainability Manager. Data is requested, submitted, and undergoes verification resulting from multiple roundtrips of request-inspection-correction and resubmittal passes.
Data collection management includes:
- Administration, including provisioning, data boundary management, and user management.
- Data collection orchestration.
- Collaboration and communications management.
- Data inspection, verification, and approval flows within Sustainability Manager.
- Association retention to original data owners and collection campaigns.