BeWo vs. Microsoft Sustainability Manager
The Microsoft Sustainability Manager is Microsoft’s answer to sustainability reporting. While it is a great way for large business central customers to keep all data in one system, BeWo’s integration offers a much more automated and cost-effective approach to data collection, organization, and calculation, targeted especially at SMEs.
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What are the differences between BeWo and Microsoft’s Sustainability Manager?
Core functionalities
What is the main focus of the tool?
Microsoft Sustainability Manager is a comprehensive and slightly expensive solution designed to help larger businesses measure, understand, and take actionable steps to reduce their environmental impact. It aggregates environmental data from various sources within the Microsoft ecosystem and external databases, providing an overview of the sustainability impact.
BeWo focuses primarily on helping companies spend more time reducing their emissions, instead of spending it on complex data collection. BeWo automates these steps with AI technology and ERP integrations, to make the process as efficient as possible, and provide detailed carbon footprint analytics.
Target audience
Who are BeWo and Microsoft Sustainability Manager for?
Microsoft Sustainability Manager focuses on large enterprises that require comprehensive solutions for tracking a wide range of sustainability metrics across multiple departments or global locations.
BeWo is suitable for companies of all sizes, but especially SMEs, that are particularly focused on carbon management and emission tracking. As BeWo offers a CO2 engine that integrates well with Microsoft Business Central and D365 F&O, the BeWo platform is a more cost effective solution for CO2 emission calculation.
Integration capabilities
Are there any additional integrations?
Microsoft Sustainability Manager connects to multiple other Microsoft services such as Azure, Microsoft 365, and Dynamics 365, enabling a unified approach to sustainability data management across Microsofts own business functions.
BeWo seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Business Central and F&O, as well as other ERP systems such as e-conomic, and Uniconta, allowing automatic data flow and anlytics in real time.
User experience
How easy is it to use?
Microsoft Sustainability Manager provides a user-friendly dashboard that presents sustainability data, equipped with Microsoft’s standard interface design. This allows for easy navigation and accessibility for users already familiar with Microsoft platforms.
BeWo’s platform is also very user friendly and designed to be intuitive, making it easy to get started with little to no additional training required.
Analytics and reporting
What are the reports of the analysed data focused on?
Microsoft Sustainability Manager offers advanced tools for data visualization and reporting on a wide range of sustainability metrics, including energy use, water consumption, waste management, and carbon emissions.
BeWo provides specialized, in-depth analytics and reporting capabilities specifically for scope 1, 2, and 3 CO2 emissions, enabling businesses to generate detailed reports that help in making data-driven decisions for reducing their carbon footprint.
Compliance and regulatory features
Do the reports and analyzed data comply with European regulations?
Microsoft Sustainability Manager is designed to help companies comply with a wide range of global environmental regulations, offering tools that assist in creating reports for regulatory bodies and internal stakeholders.
BeWo focuses on ensuring that companies can meet specific carbon emission reporting requirements, providing precise tracking tools and detailed, customizable documentation that supports compliance and report generation.
Implementation and support
Is there a support center?
Microsoft Sustainability Manager benefits from Microsoft's extensive global support network, offering both technical support and consulting services to help companies implement and optimize their use of the platform.
BeWo provides dedicated support for its integration with Microsoft Business Central and its other integrations through integration partners. This includes technical assistance and consultation on best practices for managing and reducing carbon emissions. BeWo also provides detailed information and guidance through a comprehensibe user documentation.
BeWo vs. Microsoft Sustainability Manager
side-by-side comparison
Discover the advantages of using BeWo to calculate your carbon footprint compared to Microsoft Sustainability Manager.
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Three great advantages to using BeWo
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Customized CO2 emission Reporting
BeWo provides highly customized reporting tools that allow you to tailor your CO2 emission reports to specific needs and stakeholder requirements.
The platform allows for creating multiple dashboards and adjusting graphs and figures to specific reporting time frames, periods, or data categories, providing users with unique opportunities for data analysis and presentation.
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Integration with Business Central and F&O
BeWo seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Business Central, enhancing its functionality without disrupting existing operations. This integration ensures that users can manage environmental data alongside other business processes within a familiar platform.
You also have the possibility to integrate to other ERP systems with BeWo should the need arise.
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Cost effective and easy to use CO2 emission platform
BeWo is designed to be highly user-friendly for the specific task of monitoring and managing CO2 emissions.
BeWo’s CO2 engine is developed with the end-user in mind, ensuring that you can easily access and utilize the features that you need to report your CO2 emissions.
As it is important to BeWo to help as many companies as possible the platform is also rather cost effective. You can see the prices here.
