BeWo vs. Continia Sustainability
Learn what the differences between BeWo and Continia are. Continia is in general focused on automating and digitizing workflows for companies’ financial departments. In 2023 Continia announced that they will extend their functions to include sustainability reporting with ‘Continia Sustainability’. In contrast, BeWo is an expert in calculating carbon emissions. Data collection, calculation and analysis are automated by BeWo’s powerful and well trained AI engine that integrates with different ERP and financial systems. This results in a very accurate and extensive analysis of your CO2 emissions, providing you with a much clearer data for your sustainability report.
Make your CO2 data collection and calculation process as easy as possible by using BeWo’s AI-driven real-time CO2 engine ensuring effective and accurate CO2 reporting.
What are the differences between BeWo and Continia?
Core functionalities
What are their core functionalities?
Continia specializes in automating document management, expense management, and payment processing within Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Their solutions focus on streamlining financial operations and data handling.
BeWo focuses on utilizing AI to automate, analyze and calculate CO2 emissions. Through its platform, BeWo calculates a company’s CO2 emissions by integrating with their ERP system and provides them with data daily - so they can follow their CO2 emissions in real time.
Target audience
Who can continia and BeWo work with?
Continia is designed for businesses looking to optimize their financial processes, reduce paperwork, and automate financial transactions within Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Business Central.
BeWo is build for companies of all sizes that has an ERP system. BeWo integrates not only with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business central, but also with Visma e-conomic and many other ERP systems - enabling companies of all sizes to automate their CO2 emissions calculations and combine it with their business operations seamlessly.
Integration capabilities
Does continia and BeWo have integrations?
Continia integrates with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and NAV, enhancing its document and financial transaction management capabilities.
BeWo integrates with ERP systems like Microsoft Business Central and Visma e-conomic to provide a detailed carbon emissions analysis without requiring a separate management system.
User experience
How easy is it to use?
Continia is known for its user-friendly solutions that simplify complex financial processes, offering tools that are easy to adopt for finance teams. It is also “Built Inside” Microsoft business central meaning that it has the same interface as Business Central.
BeWo‘s platform applies a simple and aesthetic interface that is easy-to-use and to navigate. It requires little to no additional training to get started with your carbon accounting.
Analytics and reporting
What kind of reporting functions do they offer?
Continia offers robust reporting features for financial management, including automated reporting, expense tracking, and document handling analytics.
BeWo specializes in automated CO2 calculations providing detailed analytics and reports on CO2 emissions. The platform helps companies not only track their carbon footprint but also enables them to make more formed decisions through precise data.
Compliance and regulatory features
Do the reports and analyzed data comply with European regulations?
Continia helps businesses comply with financial regulations and standards, focusing on audit trails, document retention, and transaction accuracy.
BeWo assists companies in complying with environmental regulations, providing an essential tool for reporting CO2 emissions and meeting environmental standards such as the CSRD. With BeWo you ensure you live up to ESRS E1’s requirements.
Implementation and support
What kind of support do they offer?
Continia offers support through documentation and online training resources to help businesses implement and optimize their financial management solutions.
BeWo provides dedicated support across the platform, where they offer great partner support and has a section with detailed documentation as well as an e-learning space.
BeWo vs. Continia side-by-side comparison
Discover all the advantages of using BeWo to calculate your carbon footprint compared to Continia Sustainability.*
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*As Continia Sustainability has yet to be launched the table are based on what is provided on Continias website.
Three reasons to get started with BeWo
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Great reporting
options
With BeWo, you can benefit from excellent customized and user friendly reporting tools where you fx can change the reporting period and time frame, or the emission category that you need to display.
If you prefer having your data displayed in PowerBI, Excel or somewhere else - BeWo easily lets you export it to your desired location.
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Integration with existing ERP systems
BeWo is designed to integrate seamlessly with existing ERP systems like Microsoft D365 Business Central.
The BeWo platform connects to the ERP system and imports all data that is relevant to calculate your carbon footprint, reducing the time spent on data collection to a minimum.
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Carbon emissions
analytics
BeWo includes advanced customized analytics specifically designed to measure and report CO2 emissions.
This allows businesses to gain thorough insights into their carbon footprint, make informed decisions to improve their sustainability practices and comply with EU CSRD regulations.
