Comparative Analysis for Sustainability

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Solution accelerator overview

This solution accelerator enables companies to detect compliance gaps, benchmark against their peers, and generate action plans to ensure they’re on track to meet their sustainability goals. Leveraging the simplicity of PowerApps, users can easily upload documents and generate gap analyses and benchmarking reports for CSRD (Corporate Social Responsibility Directive) indicators. An AI-generated report is then created, which provides a brief summary of the company’s (and their peer’s) performance, similarities/dissimilarities, and an action plan for improvement. The user can also use natural language with a Teams Copilot to ask questions about the reports to further aid understanding and actionability.

Scenarios

As a sustainability manager or sustainability analyst, you will be able to use the solution to perform below business functions:

Analyze your company's sustainability document and obtain insights and recommendations to help your corporation to identify gaps and take actions to achieve set sustainability goals.
Compare your sustainability document with your peers' sustainability documents and obtain benchmark and gap analysis reports. In most of the cases, you will be able to download your peers' sustainability documents from their public facing websites.

Solution Accelerator Landing Page

Below is a sample landing page of the solution accelerator after it is deployed, set up, and ready to be used. You will need to replace Microsoft Logo with your own company's logo.

How to install/deploy

Please click this Link to Deployment Guide for instructions on how to deploy and set up the solution accelerator. Additionally, review the Power Platform Client Readme.md for client app usage instructions.

Solution accelerator architecture

Below is the architecture of this solution accelerator. Please read the notes below the diagram before you decide to deploy the demonstration solution to your environment. Please refer to Architecture Description for description of the architecture and additional information.

Note 1: Please note that the provided code serves as a demonstration only. The solution is not an officially supported Microsoft offering.

Note 2: Before deploying the solution accelerator, please read Security.md for security information.

Note 3: Some features contained in this repository are in private preview. Certain features might not be supported or might have constrained capabilities. For more information, see Supplemental Terms of Use for Microsoft Azure Previews.

Important Notes on Branding

We used Microsoft as a sample company with Microsoft sustainability data to illustrate a more realistic experience. You will need to replace Microsoft Logo in user interface with your own company logo, replace Microsoft Sustainability data with your own sustainability data, and perform comparative analysis against your own peers' sustainability data in your industry, which may be available to the public for download.

Third-parties are not authorized to use Microsoft company branding for their own purposes.

Prerequisites

To use this solution accelerator, you will need access to an Azure subscription with permission to create resource groups and resources. You will also need to have Power Platform License to deploy the sample Power Platform Client Solution. A prior understanding of Microsoft Copilot Studio, Microsoft Power Power Platform, Azure Open AI, Azure AI Search, Azure AI Document Intelligence will be helpful.

For additional training and support, please see:

Please review the item 3 on Client README on document size limitations and step 4 of Deployment Guide on how you can refine the AI prompts to meet your specific implementation requirements.

Responsible AI Transparency FAQ

Please refer to Transparency FAQ for responsible AI transparency details of this solution accelerator.

Disclaimers

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