Datamaran referenced in corporate reports by global enterprises

We used Datamaran, an artificial intelligence and big data platform, to assess the relative importance of relevant topics to our stakeholders. This assessment leverages financial sector companies in our operating regions, mandatory and voluntary sustainability-related regulations, and sector-specific media coverage. The relevance of each topic to BMO was informed by our disclosures, our strategy and input from our Sustainability Office. We are developing a methodology to align our current approach with guidance provided by emerging standards on impact materiality.

Our latest materiality assessment refresh in 2025 leveraged Datamaran, whose AI-powered risk and materiality software enables us to:

• Identify and prioritize the Sustainability issues that matter most to our business, the impacts on the organization and the impact Fortive’s operations have on stakeholders and society.
  
• Consider the bi-directional impacts, risks, and opportunities of the issues we prioritize for management, measurement, and continuous improvement, with awareness and accounting of the bi-directional impacts for stewardship and strategic integration.
  
• Understand the issues that are fundamental and those that differentiate us — where our culture of continuous improvement presents an opportunity to complement core business strategy and unlock greater potential for our people, our customers, and our communities.

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To strengthen our understanding of key stakeholders throughout the value chain, we have leveraged the Datamaran analysis tool. Through this, we monitor corporate disclosures, regulatory frameworks, and voluntary policy initiatives as well as online media pertaining to selected companies in our supply chain.

As a first step we have used Datamaran’s AI-powered platform to systemically analyze ESG impacts, risks and opportunities and generate a long-list across diverse data sources which include corporate filings, regulations, voluntary initiatives, media and internal surveys. Furthermore, we incorporate input from SMEs to validate and refine our findings.

Through the use of Datamaran analysis, nature is included as a silent stakeholder through the monitoring of regulations, industry developments and media.

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In 2024, Zain continued to utilize Datamaran, a software analytics platform that conducts its materiality assessment by monitoring current and emerging ESG-related risks. The automated analysis includes benchmarking against peers, evaluating broader ESG regulations, online news, and media sources, alongside gathering insights from stakeholder engagement surveys.

Zain utilizes Datamaran's platform analytics and incorporates its telecom industry material topics list to ensure that emerging risks are considered in the company's materiality assessment. The revisions undergo approval from Zain's Chief Sustainability Officer.

Since 2019, we have been working with Datamaran and its Materiality Analysis tool, a business intelligence tool that uses data and artificial intelligence to conduct real-time materiality assessments. This tool enabled PSEG to identify and prioritize the ESG impacts, risks, and opportunities important to internal and external stakeholders by analyzing sources that included corporate reports, global regulations and initiatives, social media, and online news.

Eastman is data-driven in our identification and monitoring of sustainability risk. In 2024, we updated our materiality matrix based on the importance our diverse set of external and internal stakeholders place on identified sustainability issues. We prioritize these sustainability issues using Datamaran, software that enables a data-driven and dynamic process for ESG risk identification and monitoring. With Datamaran's patented technology, we harness innovation to gain a continuous, evidence-based review of ESG-related risks within our regulatory, competitive and operating contexts. Eastman uses Datamaran to aggregate and analyze public communications and disclosures from our top stakeholders, including customers, industries and peers, investors, media, policymakers, regulators and suppliers. Datamaran also sends surveys to Eastman leaders who facilitate our Community Advisory Panels (CAPs) and discuss relevant issues with those members.

In 2022, we completed a high-level Double Materiality Assessment (DMA), which concluded that 14 issues were of most material importance (in relation to Serco) to our various stakeholders, including customers, shareholders and colleagues. For this exercise, we relied on Datamaran, an AI-powered, data-driven platform that enables companies to identify their ESG risks, opportunities and impacts, using analysis from multiple sources. Those issues have been mapped to our ESG framework, and in 2025 we will be partnering with Datamaran to undertake a further, more comprehensive DMA in line with CSRD requirements.