Sphera: Best Corporate Sustainability Software Solutions Europe 2020

Sphera is a global provider of safety, sustainability and productivity solutions. The company combines software, proprietary data and insights to serve 8,000 companies — and millions of users — in 45 languages across 100 countries. Sphera’s flagship product is the Integrated Risk Management 4.0 software programme, a single-platform, scalable solution for environment, health, safety and sustainability. It affords access to 130,000 worldwide datasets, helping businesses and government agencies to understand — and improve — sustainability performance. It provides an assessment of emissions and waste over the lifecycle of products. Sphera takes a partnership approach to consultancy, helping clients to identify problems, set targets and track progress across the value chain. More than 1,000 Sphera staff are working through a dozen offices across the US, Canada, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy, the UAE and India. The team contributes management and advisory experience from software implementations and it seeks sustainability performance and promotes knowledge-sharing among stakeholders. Sphera empowers clients to think globally and act locally by streamlining the complexities of cross-border regulatory compliance. Sphera, formerly the Operational Excellence & Risk Management business division of IHS Inc, is a portfolio company of Genstar Capital, a private equity firm focused on investments in high-growth markets. The CFI.co judging panel declares Sphera winner of the 2020 award for Best Corporate Sustainability Software Solutions (Europe).