Case Study: Environmental Resources Management (ERM) achieves faster, smarter sustainability insights with Microsoft Power BI

Environmental Resources Management (ERM) - Customer Case Study

Environmental Resources Management (ERM) is a global sustainability consultancy that collects vast, complex datasets across field sites and supply chains. Facing the need to automate field data collection, speed up analysis, and improve collaboration across 160 offices, ERM adopted Microsoft Power BI as part of a Microsoft 365 E5 cloud solution to streamline data capture, reporting, and team collaboration.

ERM implemented a cloud-based ERM Nexus platform that uses Microsoft Power BI (with Azure, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Flow, and Intune) to ingest, collate, and visualize large datasets for about 1,000 users. Microsoft Power BI dashboards and embedded analytics cut time spent on data manipulation, enabled machine-learning-driven image classification and contour mapping, and accelerated customer decision-making; internal benefits include 31 active technical communities on Yammer and a roughly 20% month‑on‑month increase in engaged group members since Office 365 adoption.

Environmental Resources Management (ERM)

Simon Gibbons

Technical Director