Case study · Industry
From spreadsheets to a monetised ESG dashboard portal, in three weeks
Personalised, governed Domo dashboards for Sustainable Advantage, with each customer seeing only their own data.
Django
Python
3 weeks
Concept to live, customer-facing portal
3 years
Ongoing partnership with the client
Multi-tenant
One portal, personalised for every customer
The client
Over the past three years we’ve worked with Sustainable Advantage, a leading ESG certificate issuer for sustainability, climate change and emissions reduction, providing trusted ratings, metrics and insight to customers across many sectors.
We were engaged to design the data capture, integration, transformation and visualisation behind a series of ESG dashboards, and to build a web portal delivering those dashboards personalised to each customer, showing only the data relevant to them.
The challenges
- •Data capture: early-stage data collection ran through a series of spreadsheets, needing a repeatable business process to keep data integrity intact as updates came in.
- •Personalisation and governance: the client’s “impressions only” BI platform licence meant customer accounts had to be handled by the web portal itself, passing a token through to personalise each dashboard.
- •Administration: a back-end system for creating, editing and assigning accounts, resetting passwords, and assigning multiple dashboards per customer, including customer-side superusers.
- •A three-week deadline to have the portal live.
What we delivered
- ✓A secure Django/Python web portal, built for fast turnaround without sacrificing security or customisation.
- ✓Support for multiple accounts and organisations per customer.
- ✓Personalised dashboards, built on Domo and delivered through Domo Everywhere, with the Domo API’s token-passing used as a governance layer over the underlying data.
- ✓Knowledge transfer to the client’s own team.
The outcome
- ✓The portal was an instant success on launch, and the client was able to monetise access to their Sustainability KPI dashboards, driving significant revenue and growth.
- ✓Being accessible from anywhere also helped the client grow into overseas markets.
- ✓Delivered inside the three-week deadline, with bi-weekly standups keeping the build aligned to what the client actually needed.
The founder’s take
“Three weeks doesn't leave room for a second attempt at the architecture, so the token-based personalisation had to be right first time. It was, and that's what let the client turn their ESG data into a real revenue line rather than just a report.”
Thomas Madden
Founder & CEO, IO Analytics