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The score4more explore database is available to all companies, organizations and interested parties who want to gain deeper insights into the sustainability strategies of companies in their industry and along the value chain. It doesn’t matter whether your company is large, medium-sized or small – anyone can use the platform to gain valuable information about the competition, market leaders and suppliers.

To access our new score4more explore service, you need to create a new account on the domain https://database.score4more.eu/. You can use the same email address for this as for your score4more platform account at https://app.score4more.eu. 

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Especially in larger companies, payment options are often restricted for suppliers, e.g. via settings in ERP systems. For simple processing in purchasing, please classify score4more internally as a software provider, as credit card payment is generally possible in purchasing for software providers and SaaS solutions.

You can change all subscription and billing data in your account in the “Settings” area under the tabs “My subscription”, “Addresses” and “Payment methods”.

The score4more explore database contains detailed information on the sustainability actions and solutions of leading companies in 100 different industries. This includes sustainability strategies, best practices and industry-specific solutions from sustainability market leaders, and industry-specific information on sustainability fields and material topics in the 100 industries. This data will help you to get a comprehensive picture of the sustainability practice in your market.

The main difference between ”score4more explore” and score4more platform is the perspective on an entire industry vs. an individual company.

score4more explore is market reserach offering and covers the industry perspective. It is suited for business users that want to better understand sustainability strategies in an industry and value chain including related industry leaders and best practices. It provides access to a database with comprehensive information on the sustainability strategies of market leaders, peers, suppliers and customers. This offering makes it possible to analyze industries and markets in more detail in order to gain valuable insights into sustainability industry developments.

The score4more platform, on the other hand, focuses on the individual company. It offers features for profiling, scoring, benchmarking and detailed analysis to improve sustainability of the individual company. It also enables participation in ecosystems such as the German Sustainability Award (DNP). This offering is available in different plans, from a free basic plan to a paid Pro plan with analytics for companies that want deeper insights into their sustainability performance.

In short, score4more explore is designed to analyze industries and markets in terms of sustainability, while the score4more platform is aimed at improving a company’s own sustainability performance.

Yes, you can use both score4more explore and the score4more platform. score4more explore offers you in-depth insights into sustainability strategies in specific industries, while the score4more platform helps you to analyze and improve your own company sustainability performance. Both offerings complement each other, as you can use explore to better understand the industry and succeed to strategically develop your own company. Please note that the accesses work separately from each other and you must register for both offers individually.

With the free Discovery plan you can use basic functionalities of our database. You can get to know the leading companies in the industry as peer orientation, as well as explore industry-specific sustainability fields. 

Upgrade to the “Industry” plan to gain insights into the sustainability strategies via the sustainability summaries, and reporting sources of the leading companies in an industry of your choice via the “Company Cards”. Select an industry from 20 sectors and 100 industries and gain insights into the best practices of the pioneers, sorted by industry-specific fields, topics and criteria. You will also benefit from the sustainable solutions, i.e. products, services and systems, from and for the industry. You can also find out about industry-specific topics (ESRS) and criteria and view the average scoring for the industry (coming soon). 

With the “Value Chain” plan, you can analyze an entire value chain with e.g. customer and supplier industries. You get all the benefits of the “Industry” plan for five industries instead of one of your choice. 

Here you will find an overview of the score4more pricing plans.

score4more comprises sustainability data from 3,000 companies in 100 industries, structured in sustainability profiles. The database comprises 1,000 solutions and 50,000 measures in industry-specific, key criteria, based on the ESRS. To make this data usable for companies, research institutes, consultants and individuals, we apply AI-powered analytics to summarize best practices and score company sustainability data in each criterion according to our 5-level scoring methodology. This results is the company’s overall score. Industry leaders shown are then the top 10 in each industry according to score. 

If you have a company profile on score4fore, the individual data of the profile is not shown associated to your company in score4more explore. The best practices and solutions are not company-specific, but are sorted and aggregated according to industry-specific criteria. Measures and solutions are filtered for relevance with the help of AI and compiled in a different language. In addition, company and product names are removed. You can therefore be sure that you have control over the original content of your profile. As the profiles are based on public data and transparency and best practice transfer is an important lever in the transformation, the aim is to make public sustainability data easier and more structured to use for the transformation.