Top 10 Sustainable Software Companies for 2024

The Workiva Platform developed by Workiva Inc., a global software-as-a-service company offers a solution for financial reporting, ESG reporting, audit and risk management.

While the company doesn’t market itself as a ‘sustainable software company,’ it actively promotes sustainable practices for business organisations through its user-friendly drag-and-drop capabilities. 

The platform combines data integrity and collaboration with control tools to help teams in an organisation report on hundreds of data metrics and risks. Through its advanced capabilities including AI, the platform provides teams with data clarity and accuracy and increases efficiency and results. This is assured integrated reporting in action.

Sustainability teams can use the same data and collect their own to dynamically adjust their disclosures. Additionally, risk and compliance are given the visibility they need.

Diligent is a leading modern governance, risk and compliance (GRC) SaaS company providing solutions to over a million users with at least 25,000 customers worldwide. The firm provides a platform for centralised ESG and sustainability programs which helps organisations turn their ESG goals into measurable outcomes. 

Organisations can leverage a single platform to collect, collaborate and measure their ESG data to produce reports immediately. Diligent believes that it can help organisations save up to 27% of total ESG net costs by reducing audit spend by 50% with automation that saves hundreds of hours of work each year.

The platform has been equipped with capabilities that automatically account for the carbon footprint of an organisation. The platform automatically collates relevant data and generates over 80 pre-configured audit-ready reports to provide consistency in sustainability reporting. 

Plan A, a sustainability management platform offers corporate carbon accounting and decarbonisation software to help organisations reach their net zero goals. The company has been certified by TÜV Rheinland, GHG Protocol compliant.

The company’s end-to-end solution equips an organisation with the capabilities to extract carbon data and measure its carbon footprint on the platform. It also provides science-backed targets and helps them get CSRD-ready. 

Overall, the solution creates a detailed decarbonisation plan to help a corporation reduce its emissions and optimise resources efficiently. All of the capabilities are unified on a single platform, eradicating the hassle of resorting to different solutions.

Some of their clients include – Chloe, N26, BNP Paribas, Apax Partners, Dawn Capital, Sorare, BMW, Trivago, Deutsche Bank, Mollie, Payhawk, and the European Union. Plan A is also a global exclusive partner of Visa. 

Plan A is also certified by both SBTI and B-Corporation which means it strictly adheres to social and environmental standards. 

Greenly is another B-corp-certified software development company specialising in solutions for climate-conscious companies aiming to achieve net zero emissions.

Greenly offers a carbon accounting platform equipped with a climate suite including carbon assessment, decarbonisation strategy, CSRD compliance, SBTi support, life cycle assessment and many other sustainability tracking tools.

It offers a comprehensive solution that aims to provide clarity and actionable insights into greenhouse gas and life cycle assessments to organisations. Greenly combines sectoral expertise and compliance to help organisations achieve their environmental goals, align with SBTi guidelines, and model carbon emissions and cost scenarios.

PersefoniAI is emerging as a leading climate management and accounting platform (CMAP) for real-time management, analytics and disclosure. The firm offers SaaS solutions to help enterprises and financial institutions meet the necessary stakeholder and regulatory climate disclosure requirements.

Through its platform, it provides organisations with carbon insights on a unified source with the aim of helping them minimise energy consumption and reduce emissions. It converts data into actionable insights to help enterprises lower their carbon footprint. 

The company has been built on PersefoniAI’s own large language model (LLM) offering organisations with on-demand technical carbon accounting support.

Additionally, PersefoniAI’s natural language-based emissions factor matching has the capability to map out a variety of data sources to the appropriate LCA and commodities emission factors. 

PersefoniAI essentially uses AI to automatically spot opportunities to reduce emissions for quality control as well as to meet regulatory requirements.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an IT service and consulting firm that offers low-carbon solutions and advanced analytics. These are aimed at minimising energy consumption and carbon footprint across the IT industry while still optimising resources and visibility. 

Through its HPE GreenLake platform, the company helps organisations bring the cloud to their data centres and colocations. It provides visibility and elasticity to meet demand without overprovisioning.

According to the firm customers realise 53% lower infrastructure energy consumption and require 36% fewer servers for equivalent workloads. 

Hewlett Packard Enterprise offers HPE GreenLake for computing ops management where it easily monitors, manages, and gains visible insights into an organisation’s distributed computing environment.

It provides a unified console that helps organisations secure cloud-like agility across distributed compute infrastructure and agile life cycle management. This not only makes operations faster and more efficient but also saves costs while scaling flexibly. 

Organisations can also explore the HPE Sustainability Insight Center which provides visibility and sustainability management.

This helps organisations make impactful decisions to lower costs and achieve sustainable IT goals through the platform’s capabilities. The capabilities include supporting heterogeneous IT environments, unified dashboards and reporting among many others.

Zartis is a software service provider and Deloitte Fast50 company that specialises in developing digital IT solutions that are also sustainable. They are especially skilled in the areas of Javascript/Typescript (Angular, React, Vue, Node.js), .NET, Java, Python, Scala, Ruby, Go, and cloud-based architectures like AWS, Azure, and GCP.

The company combines team augmentation, technology consulting, domain expertise, and innovation to help an organisation achieve sustainable and yet high-functioning software.

Zartis believes in modernising an organisation’s systems through speed in software while still sustainably achieving scalability. 

It begins by analysing an organisation’s existing software architecture and identifying current capabilities, limitations, and areas for improvement. Following this, the firm’s expats design a plan that aligns with the organisation’s long-term objectives, emphasising scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency. 

When the plan is in hand, Zartis works closely with its clients to help them execute the roadmap laid out to ensure a seamless transition supported by expert guidance and technical oversight. 

Syngenio AG is an independent IT service and consulting company specialising in digital payment, next-generation banking and green enterprise IT. It provides and executes IT solutions through a targeted interaction of software development.

The company aims to devise effective sustainable and secure software that optimally supports organisations and their business models.

Syngenio’s consultants develop value-added solutions including application development. They particularly consider Green Software Design (GSD) which deals with the analysis and optimisation of software.

In addition to providing tailored sustainable software solutions, Syngenio also supports organisations with implementation with ongoing operations via managed services.

This also includes planning, full-stack development using GSD, integrating cyber security, usage models via cloud-native or on-premise, DevOps and agile development. 

UKAD is a software development company that helps organisations scale software development for a wide variety of industries with use cases in IT consulting, e-commerce, retail, healthcare, education, and finance. 

UKAD approaches software development through a combination of practical steps like minimising paper use, water, and electricity but also sustainable software design and development.

The firm’s development team avoids excessive code and unnecessary features to reduce computational overhead and resource consumption. 

The company optimises algorithms and data structures to minimise energy use in addition to optimising cloud technologies mindfully. They allocate computing facilities in areas equipped with greener energy solutions to help organisations further reduce their carbon footprint. 

The firm also widely uses Microsoft.NET and Azure technology stack due to Microsfot’s sustainability policy and goals. Microsoft aims to become a carbon-negative company by 2030. 

IBM, short for International Business Machines Corporation, one of the world's leading technology companies, also offers specialised sustainable software solutions to help enterprises reduce their carbon footprint.

IBM provides an end-to-end sustainability consulting service to embed sustainability solutions into an enterprise’s operations and culture.

It created a sustainability agenda and pathways followed by holistic reporting and driving sustainability goals against ESG indicators to manage compliance and minimise risk. 

The tech giant also leverages AI to identify waste and improve energy and operating efficiency. Most importantly, it encourages organisations to integrate sustainability in IT for responsible computing. IBM proposes hybrid cloud computing systems which expands opportunities for sustainable IT strategies. 

Hybrid cloud strategies can help organisations sustainably manage data, workloads, and applications which ultimately reduces the energy consumption across the organisation.