Our story about sustainability

1. Centre Sustainability
What is Sustainability?
At Centre we describe it as “Sustainability is a business approach that creates shareholder value by
embracing opportunities and managing risks deriving from economic, environmental and social
developments. “”
We developed a solution for organizations to collect, validate and consolidate the required
sustainability reporting dataset. This unique solution will help to harmonize and standardize the
current sustainability reporting in large organizations and will replace the existing MS Excel
worksheets with a proven standard application. The application will support the sustainability
reporting processes and will improve the quality and speed of the reporting processes.
The application is build as a part of Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solution.
Oracle is the worldwide leader in EPM, supporting a broad range of strategic, financial and
operational management processes. Oracle provides a complete and integrated system for managing
and optimizing enterprise-wide performance. This allows organizations to achieve a state of
management excellence. With Oracle's industry-leading EPM solutions, organizations gain better
insight, make better decisions, and drive better results that are delivered more quickly.
The application is compliant with:
• Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
• Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)
• Dow Jones Sustainability Index
Figure 1. Magic Quadrant for Corporate Performance
Management Suites
What does Gartner say?
According to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for
Corporate Performance Management Suites,
Oracle remains the best recognized brand in
finance offices and continues to appear in the
vast majority of CPM evaluations. The focus
of most Oracle deals remains the core
products, Hyperion Planning and Hyperion
Financial Management. These are well-
established products that offer a considerable
depth of functionality.
Oracle has a strong customer base, and the
company is a strong vendor capable of
competing on price, product features,
performance, and geographic presence. It has
Source: Gartner (January 2010)
a well-established partner channel, of which
Centre Consulting is one the preferred
partners of Oracle in the Netherlands.

2. What will it bring you?
Companies with a Sustainable approach are known as the outperformers in the market. They do
better on:
Strategy, integrating long-term economic, environmental and social aspects in their business
strategies while maintaining global competitiveness and brand reputation.
Financial, Meeting shareholders' demands for financial returns, long-term economic growth,
open communication and transparent financial accounting.
Governance and Stakeholder, Setting the highest standards of corporate governance and
stakeholder engagement, including corporate codes of conduct and public reporting.
Human, Managing human resources to maintain workforce capabilities and employee
satisfaction through best-in-class organizational learning and knowledge management.
By the combination of our solution and the Oracle Hyperion applications you gain:
• Centralized administration of all CO2 Emissions (one version of the truth)
• Automatic calculations for all CO2 Emissions
• Automatic aggregation of all reporting units
• Simplified reporting process (no errors, predefined formats)
• Local reporting units have access to output reports for analysis
• No manual interactions / calculations needed, everything is taken care of
• Change focus from checking and adjusting spreadsheets towards focus on analysis
Why Centre Consulting?
Centre Consulting is the partner to help you
customize your Hyperion applications based on
many years of working experience with the Oracle
Hyperion EPM Suite.
Centre Consulting is a professional services provider of Business Performance Management (BPM)
and Group Finance. Centre Consulting collaborates with its clients to optimize financial reporting
processes and advises on the associated software solutions.