High Level Highlights
You will notice an entirely new interface on the platform improving the performance and usability of the system. Some of the improvements include:
- Report builder now has source drilldowns to make it easier to identify reduction opportunities and cost over-runs
- Data export upgrades now split out cost, emissions and usage data to make it easier to slice and dice your data
- Audit (formerly Actions) tab is now designed to help you identify and address missing data with new downloadable data gap reports and filters to see what outstanding tasks you have
- Dashboard now shows the cumulative financial impact of initiatives you have put into place and see your data quality by emissions impact or # of data points
- Initiatives will enable you to see the financial impact of projects compared to your baseline period
- Our “Engage” app designed for engaging employees (and eventually other stakeholders) on their work from home and commutes is now mobile friendly
- And countless other smaller changes
New Side menu and structure
- We Have moved the menu to the side view and consolidated the menu
- Data – Anything related to getting data into the app lives here
- Reporting – Viewing, grouping and getting data “out” is all in this tab
- Audit – Anything related to ensuring data quality and completeness lives here
- Initiatives – no changes here, your home for all of your initiatives to reduce your impact and improve your bottom line
- Help – Does as it says on the tin, access to our support team and expert guidance
- My Company – company level settings, targets and billing details
- My profile (click on your name) – access to your commute/Work from home details and set your login preferences, i.e. touchID or login codes
My Account
- No more links: In order to increase deliverability on login emails, we now use codes rather than magic links to access your account.
- We now support passkeys to access your account
My Company – Targets
- Removed the creation wizard
- Simplified the creating of new targets
Initiatives
- Library has been moved into its own screen
- Templates have been simplified. Removed unused “recommended actions” and “funding sources” – more to come on this soon!
- Initiative details include cost and emissions reductions
Audit (Formerly Actions)
- Introducing Audit! Audit is your home for anything related to data quality and what you need to do to address it. There are Three sections at the moment.
o Action center: replaces “actions” to show what outstanding tasks there are to complete to ensure data coverage
o Activity Log: Audit trail has been moved into this area so you can see what changes have been made in the platform
o Audit Reports: You can now create and download data quality reports to be able to see overlaps and duplicates in your data
- Audit Reports – Data gap reports
- Action Centre – Filter by Fiscal year
Reporting
- New and improved reporting capabilities! Removed the data explorer and the new report builder can now support targets so you can see how you are progressing towards your goals
- Drilldowns have also been added so you can see where your emissions are coming from each month
- Fiscal vs Calendar reporting, you can now increase the flexibility of reporting periods through the report builder
Dashboard
- Lots of new updates to the dashboard to make it easier to find what you need
o Data Quality: Simplified to show the # of data entries (items) or % of emissions that are estimated vs usage data
o New Widget: Total saved through Initiatives: Shows the total value of all initiatives that have been completed compared to the base line period
o New Widget: shows Last 12 months vs baseline period to make it easier to see progress
Engage Platform: Employee Commute/WFH
- All screens are now mobile friendly so employees can now complete the survey on their phone to boost completion rates
Data (formerly Sources)
- You can now see which sources have been estimated/modelled by the carbonhound system and which have usage data in them
Partner App
- We now have an app specifically for white label partners to manage their clients!
- Allows users to request new members
- Manage who has access to member/client accounts