IDC Names Sweep a Leader in Sustainability Software: get the report

The IDC MarketScape highlights Sweep’s comprehensive sustainability platform, strong data infrastructure, and continued innovation across performance tracking, supplier engagement, and predictive analytics. Download the full analysis here.

IDC MarketScape 2025

The IDC MarketScape—a leading vendor assessment tool used by businesses worldwide—reviewed 21 sustainability platforms, ultimately highlighting Sweep for its distinctive blend of scalability, flexibility, and robust ESG intelligence.

According to the report, Sweep is particularly well suited for large enterprises and companies with complex value chains in industries like finance, manufacturing, and retail. The platform’s core architecture, built on a unified data layer, enables advanced data precision, real-time monitoring, and seamless framework alignment.

Key strengths cited in the report include:

• Sweep combines advanced data management with AI-driven intelligence – offering a unified, scalable system that ensures data integrity, automates complex workflows, and streamlines compliance with evolving sustainability frameworks. The company’s business intelligence (BI) roots enable high-performance data modeling, real-time validation, and dynamic reporting across large, complex organizations.
• Sweep enables scalable double materiality assessments – with sector-agnostic IRO (Impact, Risk, and Opportunity) tools and stakeholder survey capabilities tailored to frameworks such as GRI and CSRD. The platform allows companies to set material topics at a granular level and link them to relevant indicators across disclosures.
• Sweep helps companies set and monitor sustainability goals – acting as a financial and operational decision-making tool for sustainability managers. Sweep enables ROI modeling, tracks reduction progress on various environmental impact indicators, and helps prioritize the most effective initiatives based on cost-benefit analysis.
• Sweep provides advanced supplier engagement tools – enabling companies to assess supplier emissions using CDP-based estimates or gather detailed, primary data through customized surveys. Sweep also offers starter platform access to key suppliers, supporting emissions tracking and decarbonization programs across the value chain.
  

A platform built for action

Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Paris, Sweep began as a carbon management tool and has grown into a comprehensive sustainability management platform. It is built around three core pillars: Track, Disclose, and Act. Together, these capabilities help businesses measure ESG performance, report to global frameworks like the GHG Protocol, CSRD, GRI and ISSB, and accelerate progress toward reduction targets.

Sweep’s platform integrates AI to improve data quality, enable predictive analytics, and empower stakeholders across the business. This supports its mission of making sustainability a shared responsibility across organizations.