Infine Sustainability Data Service

Science-based SaaS solution to make your business sustainability management easy and efficient.

Lead sustainability with data! Infine Sustainability Data Service transforms product data into valuable, easy-to-understand sustainability insights through advanced technology.

Get actionable insights for detecting and avoiding risks, spotting opportunities, creating brand value and leading growth.

Easy-to-use tool for category management, marketing, sales and reporting to answer the rapidly growing demands from legislation, shareholders and consumers.

As a supplier or distributor, you can also use our Data Service to examine how retailers see the sustainability of your products.

Infine Sustainability Data Service is fully scalable, you can use it to analyse a single product or get the sustainability insights of your whole portfolio.

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360° Insights
into your business sustainability

Infine Sustainability Data Service gives you sustainability insights based on science and trusted 3rd party data sources.

Gain a comprehensive understanding of the sustainability of your entire business and product portfolio

Infine Data Service analyses the sustainability of your entire product portfolio - you get up to date insights that would’ve cost a fortune to create with consultants!

Drill down to products, raw materials and other sustainability features.

Identify top sustainability performers in your product range and pre-empt potential issues.

View your product's sustainability in nine sustainability dimensions

Is your focus on climate change, biodiversity or human rights? We’ve got you covered with 9 dimensions that are based on the EU Taxonomy and our customers' needs.

Understand the sustainability of your products through the entire life cycle

Find out what your competitive advantages and challenges are, from the production of raw materials to the end of life of your products.

See a detailed sustainability analysis for every single product in your portfolio

See the sustainability strengths and areas for improvement, with easy-to-understand explanations on how each sustainability feature affects the bigger picture.

Compare products with each other

See how the products differ and what is behind the differences to form fact-based decisions to improve the sustainability of your product portfolio.

Focus on the metrics that matter to you the most

Have you already defined sustainability KPIs for your company? Use Infine Data Service to see how your products rank against your own metrics.

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Are your products at GS1?

Test Infine Data Service with publicly available data. We only need your EAN numbers to evaluate all your products. Start with a trial period, during which you can try out our comprehensive service.

Enterprise integrations

Do you need the sustainability data of your products in your own Business Intelligence tool, alongside your custom business metrics?
We enable that with data integrations from Infine Data Service to products like Microsoft Power BI.

Our customers

Trustworthy sustainability insights based on science

Infine Sustainability Data Service creates unique sustainability insights based on academically validated scientific knowledge and globally trusted 3rd party sustainability data sources.

Our sustainability analysis is based on scientific understanding and the framework for assessing product sustainability used by the Sustainability Panel. The panel members are leading experts on sustainable business and production in Finland. They have conducted expert analyses on more than 500 products - by modelling these analyses we have created an automation based on a broad scientific understanding of environmental, social and economic responsibility and sustainability science. It is based on a framework of relative sustainability, life-cycle thinking, stakeholder theory and socio-ecological systems to provide a comprehensive and systematic approach to business sustainability.

Trusted 3rd party sustainability data sources

The sustainability analysis is based on numerous and up-to-date 3rd party databases covering multiple angles of sustainability from workers’ rights to land use. The sources include highly renowned and globally trusted organisations like the World Bank, Transparency International, WWF, UNICEF, EU & Government publications and dozens of peer-reviewed articles.

The underlying raw product data for the sustainability analysis we primarily get from the industry-standard GS1 product database. We can also integrate structural data from other sources for enhanced and extended data coverage.

Each data point in the sustainability analysis can be traced back to the sustainability data set and scientific reasoning, making it suitable for e.g. CSRD reporting or Green Claims compliant marketing.

Our 9 dimensions cover the whole spectrum of product sustainability

Our software takes into account that sustainability is a complex and systemic issue by addressing product sustainability through nine dimensions. These dimensions include various aspects of ecological and social sustainability, including:

Human rights

The Human Rights dimension analyses measure taken to ensure human rights throughout the value chain. It helps to identify and prevent the exploitation of forced and child labour and other human rights violations according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Decent Work

The Decent Work dimension analyses measures taken to ensure the well-being and collective rights of all workers in the value chain. It helps to achieve and exceed the ILO Labour Standards.

Environment

The Environment dimension analyses products’ impact on the environment at different life cycle stages. It helps to reduce the spoiling of the environment and to increase environmental protection throughout the production chain.

Water use:

The Water dimension analyses measures taken to reduce water use and prevent adverse effects on the water ecosystems in the production chain. It helps to ensure the sustainable use and protection of water and marine resources.

Biodiversity:

The biodiversity dimension analyses products’ impact on biodiversity in its different life cycle stages. It helps to slow down biodiversity loss and to increase biodiversity where possible throughout the production chain.

Climate change:

The Climate Change dimension analyses products’ impact on climate change in its life cycle stages. It helps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to increase carbon sequestration throughout the production chain.

Circular economy:

The Circular Economy dimension analyses measures contributing to the transition towards the circular economy. It helps to reduce the use of virgin materials.

Good Business Ethics

The Good Business Ethics dimension analyses the transparency of operations and production chains according to the principles of good business ethics. It helps to increase transparency and ensure responsible practices throughout the production chain of a product.

Sustainable Consumer

The Sustainable Consumer dimension analyses measures taken to support and enable sustainable lifestyles for consumers. It helps to provide necessary product information for consumers to make sustainable decisions whether they are choosing, using or disposing of the product.

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Sustainability classifications

Our analysis uses a traffic light system to break down and visualise the results. The seven classes of the evaluation presents the product features based on their level of sustainability and availability of information:

COMPETITIVE SUSTAINABILITY

A feature of a product which is currently at a competitive level regarding sustainability. Exceeds the average level of sustainability in that particular feature.

BASIC LEVEL OF SUSTAINABILITY

A feature of the product that represents a basic level of sustainability, for example, by meeting minimum legal requirements and reducing harm at some stage of the product's life cycle. These characteristics do not yet differ from the general level in such a way that they could be considered competitive factors.

POTENTIAL IMPROVEMENT

A feature of the product that can be improved in terms of sustainability. The suggestions for improvement are general, i.e. the measures identified are not necessarily applicable to all product categories.

SUSTAINABILITY ISSUE OR RISK

A feature of the product that may include a sustainability issue or risk.

CRITICAL MISSING DATA

Critical missing information, without which a comprehensive analysis of the product's sustainability cannot be provided. Includes product information that is essential for sustainability and should be obtained for the sake of transparency.

NON-CRITICAL MISSING DATA

Non-critical missing information, the absence of which is worth noting and which may be needed for future sustainability work.

OTHER PRODUCT FEATURE

A feature of the product that is not currently labelled as a sustainability feature or that cannot be analysed based on available data.

Our approach

Through the years, we have developed a unique approach to product sustainability, allowing us to provide companies with automated, science-based sustainability insights covering various different environmental and social issues.

Infine Sustainability Data Service

Fully automated, science-based smart-tech solution to make your business sustainability management easy and efficient.

Infine Sustainability Data Service:

Enables automated product sustainability analysis based on GS1 Synkka database
Provides real-time overview on product sustainability
Enriches the sustainability parameter data so that it can give procurement suggestions
Spots critical missing data before the risks have impact on business.

Infine Sustainability Data Service does not have a black box, meaning that all recommendations and observations can be tracked to the used science-based evaluation rules.

Methodology

The core of our methodology is an expert-based product evaluation model developed by our independent Sustainability Panel of leading experts.

The model is not based on any sole current standard, guidance, or methodology. It is based on scientific knowledge from multiple disciplines pertaining to environmental, social, and economic sustainability/sustainability science.

If you want to learn more about our methodologies, book an appointment.

PRODUCT DATA SOURCES

Our analyses are made based on existing product information. The analysis can be performed automatically based on, for instance, the GS1 database, or semi-automatically based on information provided by companies or available from public sources.

We are continuously developing our data model for both automated and semi-automated product data reading, and improving data ingestion from different data sources.

Sustainability data sources and compiling

The sustainability data we use to enrich product data is collected from several sources. Sources include quantitative and qualitative data from eg. peer-reviewed articles, governmental publications, NGO research, industry studies, open databases, and trusted certifications. The data and sources are continuously updated and new ones are added. Each source is assessed for its integrity by our sustainability experts before it is added to our system. All the analysis points can be back traced to their sources due to our system which is a rule-based expert system.

DATA MATURITY

Data maturity means how comprehensively the available data matches the total amount of product data Infine Sustainability Data Service uses to analyse product sustainability. For instance, the GS1 Synkka database can offer up to approximately 85 % data maturity, while using a combination of different sources, data maturity can be even higher.

The higher the maturity level, the more accurately we can analyse the actual sustainability features of the products. If data is missing, Infine Sustainability Data Service analyses whether the missing data is critical or non-critical.

RELATIVE SUSTAINABILITY

Our analysis is based on the idea of relative sustainability. This means that sustainability of a particular product is evaluated against the current level of sustainability in the same product category.

From a consumer's point of view, relative sustainability means that among the available options, the sustainable choice is a product or service that allows us to meet a particular need in a more sustainable way.

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