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The EIP Assured Data Connector Suite

The EIP Assured Data Connector Suite automates complex ETL processes to deliver audit-ready ESG and public reporting in 48 hours or less. It provides secure, global-scale data infrastructure that eliminates expensive software and reduces IT staffing dependencies for faster compliance.

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The EIP Advantage

Why Choose the EIP Assured Data Connector Suite?

The EIP Assured Data Connector Suite is an enterprise data engine that eliminates the "Spreadsheet Trap" by automating ETL across Line of Business (LOB) systems. It gives LOB managers and consulting partners autonomous, audit-ready reporting without internal IT costs or delays.

Agility at the Speed of SaaS

The EIP ADC deploys production-ready data infrastructure in under 48 hours. This SaaS deployment speed eliminates the multi-month timelines and IT scheduling delays of traditional enterprise data platforms.

Radical Cost-Effectiveness

The EIP ADC delivers cross-department ETL and data coalition coverage for roughly the annual cost of a summer intern. This pricing model eliminates expensive software licenses, reduces technical debt, and removes manual spreadsheet labor entirely.

Investment-Quality Data

The EIP ADC produces Investment-Quality data — data that human hands never touch. Every GHG emissions metric is extracted programmatically with full data lineage, making it timely, accurate, complete, verifiable, and audit-ready for SB 253 and CSRD compliance.

Uncompromised Security

The EIP ADC infrastructure passed the AWS Final Technical Review and the Salesforce AppExchange Security Review. All data is encrypted in transit and at rest, validating EIP for enterprise-grade deployment.

<48hrs
to production-ready infrastructure
EIP Criteria of Success
200+
enterprise databases connected
EIP ADC specifications
PASSED
AWS & Salesforce security reviews
AWS Final Technical Review · Salesforce AppExchange Security Review
~⅓
of IT budgets lost to technical debt
Source: Protiviti Global Technology Executive Survey (2023)
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Experience Automated Quality Remediation

After automated extraction, the ADCs' AI-powered Data Quality feature actively identifies and resolves inconsistent data across hundreds of sources—operating globally, cost-effectively, and at scale.

AI Rules Generated and Applied on Extracted Data

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Proactive Data Remediation

Data Quality goes far beyond lineage. Data Quality is data that human hands have never touched. It is timely, accurate, complete, reliable, verifiable, and auditable. It can be easily accessed electronically within the carbon accounting system.

Can be run on spreadsheets or data in databases

Standard Rules & Custom Extensibility

Automatically apply 30+ standard rules post-extraction, or write unique rules tailored to your exact dataset.

Eliminate Technical Debt

Manage error prone spreadsheet risk. Programmatic remediation catches errors at the source, preventing compounding downstream issues.

Cost-Effective Continuous Quality

Deploy an automated SaaS firewall that ensures ongoing data integrity at a fraction of traditional manual staffing costs.

Investors Consider Companies' Collection and Usage of IG ESG Data a Part of Good Management

Bypass traditional data prep bottlenecks with data quality changes that are ready immediately:

Risk Management: Managers can re-run reports to ensure data is correct or limit exposure if it is not.

Audit-Ready: All remediation action is permanently logged to satisfy rigorous auditor scrutiny.

Instant Rollbacks: Need to roll back? All data can be fully reverted to its original state at any time.

Investment-Grade Data: Automated Extraction, Data Quality, are key components of investment quality data. Investors Trust Business Leaders That Credibly Collect and use this process for reporting.

A CFO Must Have Tool for Audit-Ready, Investment-Quality Data

Transform your compliance process from static reporting to interactive analysis. Streamline workflows, collaborate securely with auditors in real-time, and use what-if scenarios to turn your Assured Data into actionable, investment-quality insights.

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EIP BI Dashboard showing audit-ready Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions data with full lineage for SB 253 and CSRD compliance

One BI Dashboard comes with the Assured Data Connector subscription. All extracted data used in reporting and its data lineage is automatically added to the dashboard—allowing you to easily include legacy data from other platforms and re-construct reports showing lineage and calculations. Built into the dashboard is an AI chat platform that allows auditors or investors to securely customize their audit and investment evaluation processes.

Secure Stakeholder Collaboration

Open your data to those who matter most. Securely invite auditors to trace lineage and validate calculations, or let investors model custom "what-if" scenarios directly within the dashboard.

Bulletproof Auditor Verification

The integrated Data Extraction Verification table provides incontrovertible proof. Every extract, transform, and load event is meticulously tracked with precise source lineage to prove assured data reporting.

Unshakable Investor Confidence

Deliver the transparent, investment-grade, investor driven reporting that modern stakeholders demand. Allow investors to visualize their investment scenarios by securely using their Intellectual Property on your provided data.

Faster Reporting. Assured Data. Cost Effective.

Experience faster reporting through full automation, gain total confidence with investment-quality assured data, and enjoy a risk-free evaluation that protects your strategic roadmap.

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EIP Assured Data Connector Assessment

The EIP ADC Assessment: A Simple, Safe, Proof of Concept on Your Live Data

The EIP ADC Assessment delivers a working proof-of-concept on your live data in 20 days or less! 100% of the Assessment fee is credited to the purchase of the ADC.

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Strategy & Value

Why Start With an ADC Assessment?

Cloud enabled SaaS makes the ADC Assessment a valuable tool for C-levels and Line of Business managers who want to evaluate tools to meet corporate mandates.

We recognize that your strategic roadmap depends on internal bandwidth. By eliminating upfront capital expenditure and procurement cycles, we ensure that evaluating this technology never forces a trade-off with your existing IT priorities. Our approach preserves your team's focus while delivering the technical validation you require—without the need for new hardware or significant time from internal IT resources already stretched thin.

Financial Prudence

Reduce risk completely. The investment cost of the Assessment is credited against the final purchase price of your 1, 2, or 3-year subscription.

Zero-risk technical validation.

Service Description

A comprehensive, low-friction engagement designed to prove the technical and financial viability of the ADC using your own production data.

Zero Infrastructure Changes

Does not require modifications to existing infrastructure or changes to settings. Safe, secure, and fully functional out of the box.

Evaluate Economically

The Assessment proves the concept, enabling C-level executives to quickly evaluate results to meet the company mandates they are responsible for.

20d
or less to working proof-of-concept
EIP Assessment process
100%
of Assessment fee credited to ADC subscription purchase
EIP Assessment terms
0
infrastructure changes required
EIP Assessment process
10
sample records (unlimited in production)
EIP Assessment spec

How Does the ADC Assessment Work?

A streamlined process to integrate data from or to any application quickly, securely, and accurately.

1

Purchase & Specs

Purchase the ADC Assessment directly from EIP or from AWS Marketplace. We send a specification document and begin to create the mutually agreed upon criteria of success.

2

Build Infrastructure

After approved criteria of success and specification document, we create and test the infrastructure and ETL.

3

Execute & Review

We perform the ETLs and show results in the ADC dashboard. We limit records to ten for the assessment. Unlimited data can be processed in production.

4

Verify & Credit

Customer and EIP review the verified results. Ready to make it permanent? Apply the cost as a credit toward the ADC within 15 days.

Capabilities & Benefits

What Are the ADC Assessment's Capabilities and Benefits?

A proof-of-concept on your live data, with the fee credited to the ADC — here's the engagement at a glance.

What it is
A comprehensive, low-friction proof-of-concept that proves the technical and financial viability of the ADC using your own production data
What it proves
Technical and financial viability of the ADC on your live data
Timeline
A working proof-of-concept in 20 days or less
Delivery model
Cloud-enabled SaaS — no upfront capital expenditure or procurement cycles. No internal delays or expensive staffing costs
Cost / risk
100% of the Assessment fee is credited toward your 1-, 2-, or 3-year ADC subscription
Relationship to the ADC
The entry step before a full ADC engagement — fee credited to the ADC purchase
Expert Q&A

ADC Assessment FAQs

Answers to common questions about our rapid deployment and security standards.

*An ETL is a set of instructions the Connector uses to process file extractions and data quality functions. All ADC Suite products come with one included.

Will the assessment interfere with performance?

No. ETLs are run at the user specified date, time, and/or frequency. The process extracts ten records, the data quality will show failed rules (if any) discovered. The connector is designed for existing infrastructures with internet access.

How many ETLs can I test?

The assessment includes one foundational ETL where we demonstrate advanced data quality protocols directly on your target database. Additional ETLs can be tailored to your requirements within the criteria of success.

Choose the ETLs that are critical to your reporting. You can add more later. Paper ETLs are not good candidates because they do not represent daily business use.

What data is sent to the cloud?

Data is stored either on premise or in the provided secure AWS customer account. Users set their password and are authenticated into a secure application. Data is encrypted at rest and in transit.

Monitoring and Auditing

EIP has implemented automated continuous monitoring of ADC infrastructure and is notified of any access and action occurring in the ADC account. This includes ETL and Data Quality Execution.

How does the ADC accomplish Assured Data?

Assured Data is data you can defend in an audit. The EIP ADC achieves it by automating extraction, validation, and remediation across all connected source systems, then attaching complete data lineage to every value. AI-driven quality rules catch and correct errors at the source, eliminating the manual handling that introduces risk — so what reaches your reporting platform is investment-quality, audit-ready, and traceable to its origin.

Is the EIP ADC secure and certified?

Yes. The platform passed the AWS Final Technical Review and the Salesforce AppExchange Security Review. Company credentials are never transmitted, and all data is encrypted in transit and at rest.

EIP Assured Data Connector Suite Security

Data Encryption

Data is encrypted in transit and at rest during the full life of the subscription. At the conclusion, customers receive a private offer to continue purchasing the ADC.

Credential Safety

Your sensitive access credentials and tokens are protected within enterprise-grade AWS Secrets Manager using advanced encryption-at-rest protocols. To ensure zero-exposure security, EIP architecture guarantees that credentials are never transmitted or stored in clear text throughout the entire data lifecycle.

SaaS Security

The customer account is highly secure and is only configured and monitored by US based personnel.

Auditing & Monitoring

Our architecture has successfully passed the Salesforce AppExchange Security audit and meets all AWS Final Technical Review standards. The environment is secured via AWS Security Hub, SCP guardrails, and GuardDuty anti-malware, with automated continuous monitoring of all access and ETL execution.

Faster Reporting. Assured Data. Risk-Free.

Experience faster reporting through full automation, gain total confidence with investment-quality assured data, and enjoy a risk-free evaluation that protects your strategic roadmap. We invite you to start a conversation with our trusted advisors to see exactly how the ADC can scale your organization's reporting power.

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EIP Assured Data Connector

The Enterprise ETL Engine for Cross-Department Assured Data

The EIP Assured Data Connector (ADC) is a SaaS engine that automates the extract, transform, and load (ETL) of Investment-Quality data across more than 200 databases. It connects fragmented source systems and delivers verified, audit-ready data to any target platform — securely, globally, and at scale, with no expensive software or IT staffing delays.

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Why Is Audit-Ready Data Now Mandatory in 2026–2027?

The 2026–2027 regulatory landscape represents a massive shift from voluntary disclosures to mandatory, audit-ready compliance. Global frameworks like California's SB 253, the EU's CSRD, DORA, and the EU AI Act now demand that ESG, cybersecurity, and AI data be treated with the exact same rigorous traceability as financial records. The era of siloed, error-prone spreadsheets is functionally over; regulators and third-party auditors now require incontrovertible proof of data governance, security, and quality.

The EIP Assured Data Connector (ADC) delivers Investment Quality Data—data that human hands have not touched. When our connector extracts data, it automatically records key data lineage that makes the data fully verifiable and auditable.

  • Gives CFOs the confidence to quickly demonstrate report integrity and address auditing queries.
  • Safeguards company integrity, reputation, brand quality, and compliance confidence.
  • Empowers Line of Business managers to meet complex data coalition tasks without expensive procurement or staffing delays.

Strategic Value of Automated ETL

  • Realize Maximum ROI on Enterprise Platforms

    By delivering "Investment Quality Data"—data completely untouched by human hands—the ADC empowers CFOs to confidently justify capital expenditures and rapidly extract value from complex Financial and Carbon accounting platforms.

    Source: The ADC Data Loading Engine

  • Flip the 80/20 Data Drain

    Industry metrics show professionals waste 80% of their time finding and cleaning data, leaving only 20% for analysis. Automated ETL eliminates this manual janitorial work, allowing your top talent to focus entirely on strategic advisory.

    Source: Data Cleansing Time Wasted Statistics / Pragmatic Institute

  • Eradicate Expensive Technical Debt

    Manual spreadsheet loading introduces a compounding 1% error rate that quietly corrupts downstream systems. Automating ETL stops errors at the source, helping you reclaim the estimated 30% of IT budgets currently wasted on managing technical debt.

    Source: The Innovation vs. Technical Debt Tug of War - Protiviti & The Spreadsheet Trap

200+
enterprise databases connected
EIP ADC specifications
80/20
data drain reversed
EIP ADC value analysis
<48hrs
to production infrastructure
EIP Criteria of Success
PASSED
AWS & Salesforce security reviews
AWS Final Technical Review · Salesforce AppExchange Security Review

How Does the ADC Connect On-Premise, Cloud, and Legacy Data Sources?

The Assured Data Connector engine securely bridges the gap between your on-premise, cloud, and legacy data sources to modern target systems seamlessly.

USE CASES:Financial ServicesESG / CarbonEPRMedical RecordsCloud MigrationData QualityAny Vertical Amazon VPC PrivateLinkEncrypted Transfer to/fromOn-Premise Databases Encrypted Transfervia Internet (APIs/Cloud) Amazon VPCEncrypted Transfer to/fromInternal AWS Accounts Unstructured DocsMedical records, utility bills, etc.
SAP, one of 200+ enterprise databases the EIP ADC connects to
S4/HANA / Datasphere / RDP
Salesforce, integrated by the EIP Assured Data Connector for ESG reporting
Any Salesforce Lightning Platform
ServiceNow, a source system the EIP ADC extracts Assured Data from
Thousands of ServiceNowcustomers, integrated w/ SFDC
Reporting & BIGreenly, Persefoni, Dashboards Reusable ETLExtract, Transform & Load Instructionsi
An ETL is a set of instructions the Connector uses to process file extractions, and data quality functions. All ADC Suite products come with one included.
Global ETL ExecutionSecurely and at scale EIPEnterprise Infrastructure PartnersAssured Data Connector Engine1. EXTRACTSecure ConnectionScheduled RunsData Lineage Added2. DATA QUALITYAI Remediation FirewallAnomaly DetectionAI Generated RulesRollback Capability"INVESTMENT QUALITY"3. LOADData LineageAppended & LoggedAudit-Ready StateTarget Translation

How the Assured Data Connector moves data from 200+ on-premise, cloud, and legacy sources into your reporting platform — validating data quality and attaching an immutable OpenLineage record along the way.

How Does the Assured Data Connector Work?

A streamlined process to integrate data from or to any application quickly, securely, and accurately.

1

Purchase & Specs

Purchase the ADC Assessment directly from EIP or from AWS Marketplace. We send a specification document and begin to create the mutually agreed upon criteria of success.

2

Build Infrastructure

After approved criteria of success and specification document, we create and test the infrastructure and ETL.

3

Execute & Review

We perform the ETLs and show results in the ADC dashboard. We limit records to ten for the assessment. Unlimited data can be processed in production.

4

Verify & Credit

Customer and EIP review the verified results. Ready to make it permanent? Apply the cost as a credit toward the ADC within 15 days.

Capabilities & Benefits

What Are the Assured Data Connector's Capabilities and Benefits?

A fully managed, cloud-native pipeline — here are its core capabilities at a glance.

Included capabilities
ETL, data-quality checks, data lineage, and an instant, cost-effective BI Dashboard for auditors and investors
Supported source systems
200+ across ERP, CRM, data warehouses, databases, APIs, paper documents, and flat files (e.g. SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Snowflake, BigQuery)
Supported target systems
Any API or custom-access target database
Data lineage
An immutable OpenLineage record is attached to every processed value
Manual data handling
None — fully automated; data that human hands have not touched
Scalability
Scales elastically with demand — no fixed throughput or volume ceiling
Delivery model
Fully managed, cost-effective SaaS pipeline
Output
Verified, audit-ready Assured Data (Investment-Quality Data)
Expert Q&A

EIP Assured Data Connector FAQs

Answers to common questions about our rapid deployment and security standards.

*An ETL is a set of instructions the Connector uses to process file extractions and data quality functions. All ADC Suite products come with one included.

Will the assessment interfere with performance?

No. ETLs are run at the user specified date, time, and/or frequency. The process extracts ten records, the data quality will show failed rules (if any) discovered. The connector is designed for existing infrastructures with internet access.

How many ETLs can I test?

The assessment includes one foundational ETL where we demonstrate advanced data quality protocols directly on your target database. Additional ETLs can be tailored to your requirements within the criteria of success.

Choose the ETLs that are critical to your reporting. You can add more later. Paper ETLs are not good candidates because they do not represent daily business use.

What data is sent to the cloud?

Data is stored either on premise or in the provided secure AWS customer account. Users set their password and are authenticated into a secure application. Data is encrypted at rest and in transit.

Monitoring and Auditing

EIP has implemented automated continuous monitoring of ADC infrastructure and is notified of any access and action occurring in the ADC account. This includes ETL and Data Quality Execution.

How does the ADC accomplish Assured Data?

Assured Data is data you can defend in an audit. The EIP ADC achieves it by automating extraction, validation, and remediation across all connected source systems, then attaching complete data lineage to every value. AI-driven quality rules catch and correct errors at the source, eliminating the manual handling that introduces risk — so what reaches your reporting platform is investment-quality, audit-ready, and traceable to its origin.

What ETLs can I choose?

You can choose any ETL pipeline across your connected source systems, subject to EIP approval to confirm technical feasibility and security.

How many databases can the EIP ADC connect to?

The EIP ADC extracts from more than 200 popular databases and loads to virtually any target database, securely and at scale.

Is the EIP ADC secure and certified?

Yes. The platform passed the AWS Final Technical Review and the Salesforce AppExchange Security Review. Company credentials are never transmitted, and all data is encrypted in transit and at rest.

EIP Assured Data Connector Suite Security

Data Encryption

Data is encrypted in transit and at rest during the full life of the subscription. At the conclusion, customers receive a private offer to continue purchasing the ADC.

Credential Safety

Your sensitive access credentials and tokens are protected within enterprise-grade AWS Secrets Manager using advanced encryption-at-rest protocols. To ensure zero-exposure security, EIP architecture guarantees that credentials are never transmitted or stored in clear text throughout the entire data lifecycle.

SaaS Security

The customer account is highly secure and is only configured and monitored by US based personnel.

Auditing & Monitoring

Our architecture has successfully passed the Salesforce AppExchange Security audit and meets all AWS Final Technical Review standards. The environment is secured via AWS Security Hub, SCP guardrails, and GuardDuty anti-malware, with automated continuous monitoring of all access and ETL execution.

Faster Reporting. Assured Data. Risk-Free.

Experience faster reporting through full automation, gain total confidence with investment-quality assured data, and enjoy a risk-free evaluation that protects your strategic roadmap. We invite you to start a conversation with our trusted advisors to see exactly how the ADC can scale your organization's reporting power.

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EIP Rapid Migration Tool

Accelerate Legacy Platform Migrations

Reduce migration timelines and costs while ensuring zero data loss when moving from legacy systems to modern cloud applications.

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<48hrs
to deploy migration infrastructure
EIP RMT process
1 ETL
included (per database; add-ons available)
EIP RMT specifications
30 days
service active; ETLs transferable after
EIP RMT terms
0
data loss — encrypted in transit & at rest
EIP RMT security

Why Is RMT More Cost-Effective Than Building Migration Tooling In-House?

The EIP Rapid Migration Tool (RMT) goes beyond basic AWS Migration services by providing customized one-time and ongoing data transfers quickly and cost effectively.

Our SaaS engine removes the time and expense of developing or implementing a massive transformation infrastructure internally. Implementation of this service enables organizations to focus on cloud implementation, app modernization, or other revenue generating tasks while we handle the data.

  • Provides Assured, verified data with complete extraction lineage.
  • Fast one-time Data Transfer or ongoing syncs from On-Premise or Cloud.
  • Data is strictly encrypted in transit and at rest.

What does the Migration Service Include?

The standard service includes 1 primary ETL, an AWS secure account displaying extracted and loaded data by date, and a dashboard showing data lineage.

How much data can I transfer?You can transfer as much as you need. All transfer volumes and costs are clearly defined upfront in the Criteria of Success.
Post-Migration ReusabilityKeep it going! All ETLs used in the migration are available to be transferred to any ADC Suite product for ongoing syncing within 15 days after the subscription concludes.

Why teams choose the EIP Rapid Migration Tool

Live in under 48 hours

No long onboarding or IT backlog. EIP deploys your migration infrastructure in under 48 hours, so your data is moving — securely and verified — while traditional projects are still scoping.

Assure data before you migrate

We verify your data is what you expect and automate the corrections — safely, securely, and expediently.

From one-time move to live sync

Begin with the migration, then use the ADC for ongoing ETL and Assured Data from hundreds of data sources and paper.

Your ETLs keep their value

Transfer every migration ETL to any ADC Suite product within 15 days of RMT subscription completion. Request an ADC private offer to keep the secure app, dashboard, and lineage.

Locked down end to end

Encrypted in transit and at rest, with an optional private VPC or private link so data never touches the internet.

Made for holding companies

Leverage site licenses to deploy our products cost-effectively across many entities under one agreement.

How Does the Rapid Migration Tool Work?

1

Questionnaire

EIP forwards a questionnaire detailing all aspects of the migration, leading to an agreed upon Criteria of Success.

2

Rapid Deployment

EIP creates an AWS account and deploys the secure infrastructure in under 48 hours.

3

Execute Migration

Migration data transfer schedules are finalized, tested, and commenced securely across the network.

4

Verification

Review dashboard showing data lineage and successfully loaded data before concluding the project.

Capabilities & Benefits

What Are the Rapid Migration Tool's Capabilities and Benefits?

Built on the same proven engine as the ADC, delivered as a fixed-scope migration — here are its core capabilities at a glance.

Supported source systems
Legacy and on-premise databases, plus the full ADC source catalog: ERP, CRM, data warehouses, databases, APIs, paper documents, and flat files (e.g. SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Snowflake, BigQuery)
Supported target systems
Any API or custom-access target database
Data integrity / data quality
Zero data loss during migration; data quality rules run, executed, and resolved
Migration approach
Any custom migration approach — all at once, staggered, or targeting multiple sources
Speed / timeline
Reduces migration timelines — infrastructure set up in 48 hours; more than a migration, it adds Assured Data
Relationship to the ADC
Powered by the same engine as the ADC — delivered as a fixed-scope migration rather than an ongoing subscription
Expert Q&A

EIP Rapid Migration Tool FAQs

What does the Migration Service include?

The Migration Service includes 1 ETL, an AWS IAM account displaying extracted and loaded data by date, and a dashboard showing complete data lineage.

How much data can I transfer?

You can transfer as much as you want. All transfer costs are described in the Criteria of Success, with no additional cost unless another ETL is required for a separate database.

How long can I use the service?

The service is active for 30 days. All ETLs are transferable to any of EIP’s ADC Connector services within 15 days of expiration.

What components do I keep afterward?

After the subscription expires, your organization keeps the extracted and loaded data in CSV format via downloadable zip. All ETLs transfer to any EIP ADC product within 15 days.

What data is sent to the AWS account?

Data is stored either on premise or in a provided AWS account and accessed via a secure authentication application. Users can view or download the data at any time. All data is encrypted in transit and at rest.

EIP Re:Load / Re:Assure

Convert Production Data to Assured Data Quickly, Cost Effectively and Securely

Fix the past. Secure the future. Automate retroactive data quality and lineage at scale. Report Assured Data today and tomorrow with the ADC Suite.

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How Does Re:Load / Re:Assure Turn Fragmented Legacy Data Into Assured Data?

<48hrs
to infrastructure setup
EIP Re:Load process
2 mo
service term; ETLs transferable within 15 days after
EIP Re:Load terms
5/10
Discounted ETL bundles for multi-database clients
EIP Re:Load specifications
100%
data lineage logged & reported
EIP Re:Load Assurance

Since inception, enterprises worldwide have accumulated massive troves of fragmented reporting data. Today, presenting this data to government agencies, investors, and customers is a high-stakes mandate requiring information that is accurate, timely, and incontrovertibly verifiable.

For CFOs and corporate leadership, data quality is the bedrock of financial integrity and shareholder trust. The consequences of relying on unverified data are severe. Industry research reveals that poor data quality costs organizations an average of $12.9 million every year1, driving hidden operational inefficiencies and regulatory exposure.

Failing to apply rigorous data quality disciplines goes beyond mere operational friction—it exposes companies to substantial government fines, profound investor distrust, and irreversible damage to brand reputation.

1 Source: Gartner, “How to Improve Your Data Quality” (2021) — poor data quality costs organizations an average of $12.9 million per year.

The era of presenting "good enough", error-prone data is over. Continuing to rely on risky manual processes invites audit failures and forces your team into reactive fire drills instead of focusing on strategic innovation.

The Re:Load / Re:Assure Solution

Changing existing company data to quality, assured data can be an immense and expensive task. Add the complexity and expense of establishing an infrastructure to create, maintain, monitor, and implement an assured data system often relegates this crucial task to the back burner.

The Re:Load / Re:Assure service automates this tedious task by simplifying the extraction, running data quality checks and remediation, inserting data lineage and loading of this data automatically, securely, and at scale.

EIP offers a discounted bundle of 5 or 10 ETLs for clients with many databases. These products are reusable for any ADC Services within 15 days after the end of this subscription.

Next Step: Automate Your Future

  • Don't let new data get messy. Transition instantly to the ongoing Assured Data Connector (ADC).
  • Keep your ETLs. Reuse all established connections at zero extra cost and lock in exclusive multi-year ADC discounts.

How Does Re:Load / Re:Assure Work?

1

Procure & Questionnaire

Procure the product directly from EIP or simply from the AWS Marketplace to receive a questionnaire detailing databases, desired fields, schedules, and more.

2

Set Up & Criteria

Infrastructure is set up and ready to use in 48 hours. We create a mutually agreed upon Criteria of Success. Items are planned, implemented, tested, and submitted for your approval, requiring VERY little time from your staff.

3

Data Quality and Lineage Execution

We comprehensively scan specified spreadsheets or databases to identify anomalies, executing remediation only upon your explicit approval. To forge unbroken lineage, data is securely extracted and reloaded following rigorous rollback testing. The service includes 1 ETL (scalable via bundles), guaranteed backup/restore capabilities, a secured data viewing app, and a centralized dashboard visualizing complete lineage and all quality transformations.

Capabilities & Benefits

What Are the Re:Load / Re:Assure Capabilities and Benefits?

Convert production data into Assured Data — here are its core capabilities at a glance.

What it does
Converts existing production data into Assured Data. Re:Load creates data lineage and data-quality checks; Re:Assure gives stakeholders assurance their data is quality-verified
Supported source systems
Same as the ADC source catalog: ERP, CRM, data warehouses, databases, APIs, paper documents, and flat files (e.g. SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Snowflake, BigQuery)
Output
Verified, audit-ready Assured Data with full lineage
Assurance method
Data quality and data lineage, applied per the desired regulatory framework(s)
Speed / cost
Setup speed as per the ADC; cost-effective compared with other products and methods
Relationship to the ADC
A standalone service
Expert Q&A

EIP Re:Load / Re:Assure FAQs

What is included in the service?

EIP Re:Load / Re:Assure includes two months of use, an AWS account with a secure IAM authentication application, a data-lineage dashboard, and data quality verification to ensure the data is what was intended.

Is EIP Re:Load / Re:Assure a different product?

Yes. Although based on the EIP Assured Data Connector (ADC), its tasks differ from a full ADC implementation — it is focused on converting existing production data to Assured Data.

Where does my data go after it is backed up?

Data is stored either on premise or in the provided secure AWS customer account. Users set their password and are authenticated into a secure application. Data is encrypted at rest and in transit.

What assurance is provided?

Assured Data is data you can defend in an audit. The EIP ADC achieves it by automating extraction, validation, and remediation across all connected source systems, then attaching complete data lineage to every value. AI-driven quality rules catch and correct errors at the source, eliminating the manual handling that introduces risk — so what reaches your reporting platform is investment-quality, audit-ready, and traceable to its origin.

Ready to automate your future?

Request a private, discounted offer to transition to an ongoing Assured Data Connector (ADC) subscription. Your entire existing infrastructure—including all active ETLs, your secure AWS account, and the BI dashboard—transfers seamlessly at absolutely no extra cost.

Professional Services

Empower Your Professional Services. Eliminate the 80% Data Drain.

Utilize expensive company and customer IT resources more efficiently. Use the EIP Assured Data Connector to automate client data extraction, establish assured data, and hyperscale your engagements.

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80/20
data drain reversed
EIP ADC value analysis
<48hrs
to production infrastructure
EIP Criteria of Success
200+
enterprise databases connected
EIP ADC specifications
PASSED
AWS & Salesforce security reviews
AWS Final Technical Review · Salesforce AppExchange Security Review

Why Do Professional-Services Teams Lose 80% of Billable Time to Data Prep?

For Professional Services Managers, the "80/20 Rule" of data preparation is a costly reality. Across the tech and data science industries, technical teams typically spend 80% of their billable time finding, cleaning, and organizing messy client data, leaving only 20% of their time to actually implement solutions and find value.*

This "janitorial data work" delays actual implementation and drains resources. Repetitive manual data entry costs companies an average of $28,500 per employee annually, pulling your expensive consultants away from strategic advising into a reactive cycle of data troubleshooting.

*Source: Data Cleansing Time Wasted Statistics / Pragmatic Institute

Convert to the EIP Assured Data Connector

Professional Services Managers can eliminate this bottleneck by adopting the EIP Assured Data Connector. Empower your team to arrive at kickoff with data already loaded, formatted, and verified. Free your team to focus on value-driven outcomes and dramatically increase your effective hourly rate.

Escape The Spreadsheet Trap

The standard accepted error rate for manual spreadsheet data entry is 1%. In a database of 10,000 records, that's 100 corrupt data points. This creates massive technical debt that turns elite consultants into highly paid data cleansers.

Deployed in 48 Hours

Implement a full Enterprise-wide ETL architecture in 48 hours or less. Our engine connects to over 200 databases cost-effectively, bypassing the need to procure, train, and implement in-house solutions.

Be the Trusted Advisor

Give your practice a competitive edge over competitors. Shift from a costly, one-off data load to an ongoing ADC solution. Better utilize expensive consultant and customer costs performing cleanup, stop compounding technical debt, and deliver continuous, assured data.

The Ultimate Win-Win Value Proposition

The ADC programmatically extracts and transforms information and runs 30 rigorous quality checks. This creates value on both sides:

  • For the Client: Implementation timelines are slashed, achieving rapid ROI.
  • For Pro Serv: Consultants are freed from wrangling and can pivot to up-selling advanced features and high-value reporting.
The EIP Assured Data Connector Suite

What Can Consulting Firms Resell to Grow Margins?

Future-proof your practice by offering end-to-end data integrity. Deliver unmatched SaaS cost-effectiveness while delighting the CFO and capturing profitable resale margins.

ADC Assessment

A 20-day paid engagement that proves SaaS value immediately. Fee is credited toward any ADC Suite subscription.

Pro Serv: A simple, risk-free way to introduce a plethora of benefits.
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Rapid Migration Tool

Go beyond traditional lift-and-shift. Use RMT to drive digital transformation forward with Assured Data.

Pro Serv: Protects project timelines while creating immediate resale margins.
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Re:Load / Re:Assure

Instantly spin up data lineage and data-cleansing engagements when auditors flag historical data.

Pro Serv: A highly profitable, additional margin add-on service.
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The Full ADC Architecture

Seamlessly transition into the full Assured Data Connector ecosystem with a custom private offer.

Pro Serv: Secures recurring revenue and years of integration work.
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How can we differentiate your practice?

Partner with Enterprise Infrastructure Partners to eliminate implementation bottlenecks, deliver assured reporting data, and capture highly profitable new margins.

Expert Q&A

EIP for Professional Services FAQs

How does EIP help professional services firms?

The EIP Assured Data Connector eliminates the 80/20 data drain by automating client data extraction, so teams arrive at kickoff with data already loaded, formatted, and verified.

What does the 80/20 data drain cost?

Technical teams typically spend about 80% of billable time finding, cleaning, and organizing client data. Repetitive manual data entry costs an average of $28,500 per employee annually.

Can EIP improve our effective hourly rate?

Yes. By freeing consultants from janitorial data work to focus on value-driven outcomes, firms dramatically increase their effective hourly rate.

Is the platform secure and proven?

Yes. The platform passed the AWS Final Technical Review and the Salesforce AppExchange Security Review, and data is encrypted in transit and at rest.

eiPower Cloud Services

Reduce IT Energy Waste and Automate Scope 2 Reductions

Track, manage, and reduce enterprise computer energy consumption. Seamlessly integrate verified savings directly into your ESG platform for audit-ready reporting.

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up to 40%
reduction in PC energy costs with intelligent power policies
eiPower performance
emissions automatically tracked & reduced
GHG Protocol Scope 2 & 3
Audit-ready
verified savings into your ESG platform
eiPower reporting
Fleet-wide
coverage across global PCs & laptops
eiPower agent deployment

How Do You Measure and Cut PC and Laptop Energy Emissions?

As organizations transition to hybrid work environments and heavily rely on distributed computing, tracking and reducing the energy consumption of individual employee workstations has become a critical challenge for Scope 2 emissions reporting.

eiPower Cloud Services provides a centralized, agent-based solution to accurately measure power draw, enforce energy-saving sleep/wake policies, and capture undeniable proof of carbon reduction across your entire global fleet of PCs and laptops.

  • Reduce PC energy costs by up to 40% with intelligent power policies.
  • Generate audit-ready Scope 2 emission reduction metrics.
  • Non-disruptive agent operates silently without impacting user productivity.

Seamless ESG Integration

What good are energy savings if you can't report them? The true power of eiPower lies in its native integration with the EIP Assured Data Connector.

Automated Data CoalitionEnergy consumption and savings data are automatically extracted, transformed, and loaded directly into your centralized carbon accounting platform (e.g., Salesforce Net Zero Cloud).
Investment-Quality MetricsEliminate manual estimation. Report hard, system-generated data points that auditors and investors can trust implicitly.

How Does eiPower Work?

1

Deploy & Measure

Deploy the lightweight client across your network. It establishes a baseline by accurately measuring current energy consumption patterns without altering them.

2

Manage & Reduce

Implement centralized power policies that intelligently manage standby, sleep, and hibernation modes, drastically reducing energy waste during non-working hours.

3

Report & Comply

Verify the exact kWh saved. Using the EIP Assured Data Connector, this data is automatically funneled into your ESG dashboards for immediate stakeholder review.

Capabilities & Benefits

What Are eiPower's Capabilities and Benefits?

Measure desktop and laptop energy emissions at the device level — here are eiPower's core capabilities at a glance.

What it measures
Desktop and laptop energy consumption and the resulting Scope 2 emissions
Supported devices
Windows, agent-based
Output
Assured device-level Scope 2 emissions data
Simple Assessment
Simple POC that does not change computer settings
Relationship to the ADC
Feeds assured data-quality emissions data into the ADC

eiPower Cloud Services FAQs

What is eiPower Cloud Services?

eiPower Cloud Services is a centralized, agent-based solution that measures PC and laptop power draw, enforces energy-saving sleep/wake policies, and captures verified proof of carbon reduction across your entire global fleet.

How does eiPower help with Scope 2 emissions reporting?

eiPower accurately measures distributed computing energy use and generates audit-ready Scope 2 emission reduction records that integrate directly into your ESG platform.

How much can eiPower reduce PC energy costs?

eiPower can reduce PC energy costs by up to 40% through intelligent power policies, such as automated sleep/wake scheduling, applied across your global fleet.

How does eiPower integrate with our ESG reporting?

eiPower feeds verified energy-savings data directly into your ESG platform as audit-ready records, so your carbon reductions are provable and traceable for compliance.

The EIP Business Intelligence Dashboard: Audit-Ready ESG Reporting for CFOs

97% of investors trust leadership more when ESG data is investment-quality. The EIP BI Dashboard delivers exactly that — automated validation, complete data lineage, and secure insights that turn public compliance reporting into a competitive advantage.

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What Makes the BI Dashboard a CFO Must-Have Tool?

Transforming the costly regulatory burden of ESG compliance into a strategic, high-ROI financial asset.

97%
of investors trust CFOs more with investment-quality ESG data
2021 Benchmark ESG Survey
87%
of investors say quality ESG data cuts enterprise risk
2021 Benchmark ESG Survey
~1/3rd
of IT budgets reclaimed from the Spreadsheet Trap
Protiviti Global Technology Executive Survey (2023)
2/3rds
of investors lose confidence without credible ESG data
2021 Benchmark ESG Survey
"More than two-thirds of respondents to The 2021 Benchmark ESG Survey: Investor Attitudes on Company ESG Data survey said they would have “less confidence” in the senior leadership of a company that does not credibly collect and use Investment Quality ESG data. On the other hand, 97% of respondents said they would have “more confidence” in the senior leadership of firms that do credibly collect and use Investment Quality ESG data."

Operational Efficiency & Cost Control

Organizations globally waste nearly one-third of their IT budgets managing technical debt. The EIP Assured Data Suite eliminates the expensive "Spreadsheet Trap." EIP automates your ETL pipeline, slashing operational costs and freeing your top talent for high-value innovation instead of manual data cleansing.

Regulatory Compliance & Risk Mitigation

In a 2021 Benchmark ESG Survey: Investor Attitudes on Company ESG Data, 87% of surveyed investors agree that collecting and using investment-grade ESG data helps companies reduce enterprise risk. Investors Consider Companies’ Collection and Usage of IG ESG Data a Part of Good Management.

Capital Allocation & Time-to-Value

Building an in-house ETL pipeline requires massive upfront capital for software, training, and prolonged deployments. The EIP Assured Data Connector deploys at the speed of SaaS—standing up a production-ready architecture in 48 hours or less, radically accelerating your ROI and time-to-value.

Data Accuracy & Financial Integrity

Poor data quality costs companies an estimated average of $12.9 million annually. EIP completely removes the risk of "fat-finger" human errors by delivering programmatically extracted Investment Quality data, allowing CFOs to sign off with the exact same confidence as traditional financial reporting.

Investor Relations & Capital Attraction

67% of investors are much more likely to invest in organizations that credibly collect and use Investment Quality ESG data. The BI Dashboard offers a secure, interactive interface where investors can apply their own Intellectual Property to your verified data streams to capture the "Trust Premium."

Strategic Forecasting

Modern CFOs provide actionable, forward-looking insights. The BI Dashboard features an integrated AI chat platform and robust "What-If" modeling. This empowers line-of-business managers to safely test carbon reduction strategies and forecast financial impacts.

Dynamic Integration

How Do You Embed Verifiable, Interactive Data Into Your Reports?

Elevate your disclosures by embedding verifiable, interactive data visualizations directly into your reports, empowering stakeholders to analyze performance on their own terms.

Transforming Compliance Risk into a Strategic Asset

Including how your data was collected for your report delivers definitive proof of investment-quality data, ensuring absolute trust and regulatory compliance. Auditors or Investors click the link to submit an Access Request. Submissions are securely routed to Risk/Compliance Management or Investor Services for authorization and credential provisioning. No IT involvement required.

How Faux Airlines Collects and Reports Assured Data

At Faux Airlines, we ensure absolute accountability in our environmental and financial reporting by exclusively utilizing Investment-Quality Data. By programmatically extracting metrics directly from the source—entirely untouched by human hands—we eliminate the high-risk "spreadsheet trap" and its propensity for manual errors. Our automated architecture responsibly collects and manages this information by meticulously tracking every extract, transform, and load event, providing incontrovertible mathematical proof of our data lineage and safeguarding corporate integrity.

We empower our auditors and investors to evaluate this verified ESG and public report data on their own terms. By granting access to a secure, interactive platform, stakeholders can safely integrate their proprietary IP to simplify their analysis using familiar evaluation procedures—all without ever exposing Faux Airlines' core enterprise databases. Supported by informative chat agents, external partners can effortlessly model financial and climate risk, build custom analyses, recreate reports with data lineage and calculations, to verify regulatory compliance.

Secure Authentication

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Stakeholders reach live, interactive dashboards through secure authentication — every figure traceable to its assured-data source.

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Investor or Auditor firms only please.

Capabilities & Benefits

What Are the BI Dashboard's Capabilities and Benefits?

Built on the ADC's Assured Data — here's what the BI Dashboard delivers at a glance.

What it provides
Interactive data integrated with public reporting. Instant, cost-effective auditor and investment source tool — interactive dashboards built on Assured Data
Access & authentication
Secure authentication; stakeholders reach live, interactive dashboards. Company is always in control of dashboard access.
Traceability
Every figure traceable to its assured-data source (lineage drill-down)
Output / use
Built for three jobs: sustainability teams bullet-proof public reporting, investors get an instant self-service tool, and teams can test new or existing carbon-emissions categories to find further savings.
Relationship to the ADC
A native capability of the ADC: the dashboard layer that surfaces ADC-assured data for stakeholders
Expert Q&A

EIP BI Dashboard FAQs

What is the EIP BI Dashboard?

A secure reporting layer that delivers automated, validated, audit-ready ESG and regulatory insights to CFOs and corporate leadership, with complete data lineage on every value.

How does the BI Dashboard reduce compliance cost?

By automating the ETL pipeline and eliminating the “Spreadsheet Trap,” it reclaims the roughly one-third of IT budgets typically lost to technical debt and frees staff from manual data cleansing.

Why does Investment-Quality data matter to investors?

In the 2021 Benchmark ESG Survey, 97% of investors said they would have more confidence in leadership that credibly uses Investment-Quality ESG data, and 87% agreed it reduces enterprise risk.

Is the BI Dashboard secure?

Yes. It uses secure authentication access, and all data is encrypted in transit and at rest.

SB 253 & SB 261 Compliance Tools:
From Spreadsheet Deadline to Audit-Ready Reporting

Turn a manual SB 253 Good Faith deadline into ongoing, audit-ready compliance. EIP provides the infrastructure, enforced governance, and data quality that auditors expect — without abandoning the spreadsheets your teams already use.

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This service is ideal for entities engaged in SB 253 Good Faith reporting using spreadsheets

Virtually all
frameworks supported (ISSB, SB 253/261, GHG Protocol, SEC Climate, CSRD…)
EIP supported frameworks
<48hrs
to compliance-ready infrastructure
EIP Criteria of Success
~1/3rd
of IT budgets lost to technical debt
Protiviti Global Technology Executive Survey (2023)
PASSED
AWS & Salesforce security reviews
AWS Final Technical Review · Salesforce AppExchange Security Review

Why Are Spreadsheets Unsafe for SB 253 and SB 261 Compliance?

Avoid "The Spreadsheet Trap"

Manual spreadsheets hide fundamental flaws that make them unsuitable for high-stakes financial and ESG decisions.

The "Audit Gap" Risk: While CARB provides templates, submitting data via manual spreadsheets creates a "Black Box" that auditors cannot verify.

  • High Propensity for Manual Errors: Reliance on manual entry and copy-pasting introduces mistakes that propagate silently through formulas.
  • Lack of Robust Audit Trails: Spreadsheets fail to maintain an immutable record. Auditors cannot verify who changed a figure, when, or why.

What Our Service Includes

  • Empower your Line of Business Managers: SaaS based off the shelf Security and management of spreadsheets for SB 253 Reporting.
  • Production System Data Accuracy: Demonstrate Good Faith with data you can trust. Over 30 AI-driven quality checks ensure precision before data enters the system.
  • Report Recreation: Confidently show auditors how results were calculated. Spreadsheet Governance delivers audit transparency.
  • Centralized Traceability: All data is stored in a secure centralized platform to maintain version control and history.
Circular emissions dashboard

An SB 253 / SB 261 emissions dashboard built on assured data — every Scope 1, 2, and 3 value carries lineage back to its source system.

Click any category, see where the data came from. Visualizing governed data streams for immediate compliance insight.

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EIP Assured Data Connector

Programmatically extract, transform, and load (ETL) Assured data from over 200 sources directly into your carbon accounting or data lake platform.

This Service Is Ideal for Organizations With:

  • Upcoming Limited or Reasonable Assurance audits for SB 253 and SB 261.
  • A need to cost effectively extend the value of existing carbon accounting system investments with a cost-effective, off-the-shelf service.
  • Mandates for Production System Data Quality and Lineage for all extracted data.
  • A must have CFO BI Dashboard showing all extracted data, along with inventory and auditor ability to recreate and query all published data.
  • Cost reduction conscious mandates to deploy a full ETL, Data Quality, and Dashboard reporting system in 48 hours.
  • A strategy to Streamline Technical Debt and Enhance Risk Management with Production System Compliance.

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The Spreadsheet Trap

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A full ETL/Data Quality/Data Lineage experience set up and implemented in under 20 days.

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With SB 253 and SB 261 compliance fully automated, keep the compliance and risk management going. Leverage the same powerful engine to drive Data Quality and Lineage across your entire organization. Elevate your reporting standards effortlessly with our SaaS platform – see how below.

Re:Load / Re:Assure

The fastest way to turn existing databases into verified, ASSURED data. Retroactively apply data quality and lineage to historical records to meet the "Reasonable Assurance" standard.

Data Quality and Lineage on extracted data is secured via the EIP Assured Data Connector. But what about lineage for the rest of your reporting data? Extending this same rigor to your public facing data is critical for complete framework compliance.

Meeting "Reasonable Assurance"

SB 253 and SB 261 require more than just a number; they require a proven history. Legacy data often fails audits because it lacks a "Chain of Custody."

Re:Load / Re:Assure solves this by systematically extracting your historical data, running it through our 30+ point AI quality inspection, and re-loading it with a generated, immutable lineage record that auditors accept.

Supported Frameworks

ISSB (IFRS S1/S2) SB 253 & SB 261 GHG Protocol SEC Climate Rule CSRD

Critical Benefits for the CFO

Fix the "Lineage Gap"

Inherited data often lacks quality scores. We apply secondary data quality checks and integrate results into a new data lineage record, distinguishing "Primary" vs "Secondary" data for full transparency.

Audit-Ready Baselines

Establish a verified baseline year for your emission reduction targets. Ensure your starting point is as defensible as your current reporting.

AI-Driven Quality Assurance

Our engine automatically identifies anomalies, gaps, and formatting errors in legacy datasets, flagging them for correction before they trigger an audit finding.

The Final Step to Data Governance: Now that you are in compliance, quickly implement a data lineage system that keeps data quality fresh and relevant for on-demand report justification.

Next Generation Governance

How Do You Enforce Data Quality and Lineage Across Data Silos at Scale?

Unlock the latent value of your data silos while ensuring ironclad governance. This architecture unifies data discovery and access control across organizational boundaries, empowering teams to safely share insights.

Zero Touch Governance

Eliminate manual bottlenecks without moving your data. We automate discovery and access using pre-defined policies, granting teams instant, secure visibility into data where it resides.

Standard OpenLineage

Achieve total compliance visibility by capturing lineage events from every data source. Trace data origins and track transformations to build auditor trust.

Unified Business Catalog

Bridge the gap between technical schemas and business meaning. Create a searchable, governed portal where analysts and engineers collaborate on verified data assets.

Governed Access Control

Manage access with project-based governance. Ensure the right users access the right data for the right purpose using transparent subscription workflows.

Line of Business managers use this service to:

  • Find the data I need to meet corporate mandates
  • Get access to it
  • Connect this data to my applications and tools

Achieve State of the Art Assured Data Reporting at the Speed of SaaS

Ready to Solve Compliance and Risk Exposure at the Speed of SaaS?

Cost effectively stand up a complete ETL/Data Quality/BI Dashboard Infrastructure in 48 hours. EIP has the infrastructure and expertise.

Try it Out! Schedule a No Cost Assessment done in less than 20 days.

SB 253 & SB 261 Compliance FAQs

Which ESG reporting frameworks does the EIP platform cover?

The EIP platform covers virtually all major ESG and climate-disclosure frameworks: ISSB (IFRS S1/S2), California SB 253 and SB 261, the GHG Protocol, the SEC Climate Rule, and CSRD. New frameworks are added as regulators publish them.

What is the biggest advantage of the EIP ADC Product Suite?

The biggest advantage is integration: SaaS speed gets you live in under 48 hours, Assured Data validates and traces every value to its source, and the BI Dashboard delivers audit-ready reporting the moment data lands — all in one cost-effective subscription. You replace months of manual integration, dozens of point tools, and the hidden cost of spreadsheet risk with a single platform that pays for itself.

How fast can we achieve compliance using the Assured Data Connector (ADC)?

Because ADC operates at the speed of SaaS, you can stand up a complete ETL (Extract, Transform, Load), Data Quality, and BI Dashboard infrastructure in just 48 hours. A full assessment and end-to-end implementation can be completed in under 20 days, allowing you to meet aggressive regulatory deadlines without a massive, multi-month IT project.

Do we need to replace our current carbon accounting software to use ADC?

Not at all. ADC is designed to extend the value of your existing carbon accounting systems or data lakes, not replace them. Furthermore, its capabilities go far beyond ESG reporting. The platform can be reused enterprise-wide to address all of your organization’s general ETL and Assured Data requirements. It connects to over 200 sources to automatically extract, transform, and load verified data directly into the platforms you already use. This avoids the massive costs and technical debt of “rip and replace” implementations while providing you with a powerful, multi-purpose data engine for the entire business.

How does ADC lower our audit costs and guarantee “Reasonable Assurance”?

Manual spreadsheet reporting creates an “Audit Gap” filled with invisible errors, leading to prolonged, expensive audits. ADC eliminates this by passing all your data through over 30 AI-driven quality checks before it enters your system. It automatically generates standard OpenLineage records, giving auditors an instant, immutable “Chain of Custody” (who, what, when, and where) that drastically reduces audit time and risk.

Our historical emissions data is messy. Will we need to hire a team to manually clean it up for our baseline targets?

No manual cleanup crew is required. With our Re:Load / Re:Assure capability, the system programmatically extracts your legacy data, runs it through our AI quality inspection, and re-loads it with a generated data lineage record. This gives you a verified, audit-ready baseline year for your SB 253 emission reduction targets at a fraction of the cost of manual remediation.

How much manual effort will this save my internal finance and sustainability teams?

By automating data discovery and enforcing “Zero Touch Governance,” ADC completely eliminates the manual data entry, copy-pasting, and endless spreadsheet hunting that currently drain your resources. Your Line of Business managers can access, connect, and collaborate on verified data through a Unified Business Catalog instantly, freeing them up to focus on core operations and strategy.

Will this tool scale as new reporting mandates emerge beyond SB 253 and SB 261?

Absolutely. While ADC provides immediate, cost-effective compliance for California’s mandates, it is built to support global frameworks including ISSB (IFRS S1/S2), GHG Protocol, SEC Climate Rule, and CSRD. You are investing in a scalable data governance engine that seamlessly handles future ESG requirements without incurring new infrastructure costs.

The Spreadsheet Trap

Spreadsheets are familiar — and quietly dangerous for high-stakes financial and ESG decisions. Here’s why investment-grade reporting demands a more robust, auditable approach.

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$12.9M
average annual cost of poor data quality
Gartner, “How to Improve Your Data Quality” (2021)
>$5M
annual loss reported by 1 in 4 data professionals
2023 data quality survey
6
core risks of spreadsheet reliance for high-stakes reporting
EIP analysis
PASSED
AWS & Salesforce security reviews (EIP platform)
AWS Final Technical Review · Salesforce AppExchange

What Are the Six Risks of Using Spreadsheets for Reporting Data?

✍️ High Propensity for Manual Errors

The reliance on manual data entry, formula creation, and copy-pasting introduces a significant risk of human error. These "fat-finger" mistakes are often difficult to detect and can lead to flawed analyses.

As the "Anatomy of a Data Catastrophe" section illustrates, a single mistake can have a cascading effect, silently propagating through formulas and linked sheets to corrupt summaries and ultimately lead to flawed, costly decisions.

The consequences of poor data quality extend far beyond incorrect calculations. They can lead to significant financial penalties from regulatory bodies and cause lasting damage to a company's reputation and brand trust. Research shows that poor data quality costs organizations millions annually, with some studies estimating the average loss to be as high as $12.9 million per year3. In a 2023 survey, over a quarter of data professionals reported that their company loses more than $5 million annually due to these issues4.

🔍 Lack of Robust Audit Trails

Spreadsheets don't maintain an immutable record of changes. It's nearly impossible to track who made what change and when, making it difficult to verify figures or meet regulatory requirements.

This is because a spreadsheet is a file, not a system. Any user with access can alter data, and changes are saved without a separate, protected log. Unlike databases, spreadsheets lack native functionality to automatically record every modification—including the 'who, what, and when'—in a way that cannot be altered or deleted.

Auditors and investors demand an audit trail that provides a complete and unalterable history of data. This means more than just tracking changes; it requires a detailed log of every action—creation, modification, deletion—that is attributable, legible, and contemporaneous (the ALCOA+ framework)1. For compliance with regulations like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, this trail must be robust enough to reconstruct all activities and prove the integrity of the financial data presented2.

🔄 Poor Version Control

Managing multiple file versions ('final_v2', 'final_final') is a common and problematic practice, making it hard to identify the authoritative source of truth and leading to decisions based on outdated data.

This problem is magnified when new data is added over time or from multiple sources. For example, one team might add updated sales figures to a file named Forecast_v3, while another team independently adds marketing expenses to their own copy, Forecast_v3_marketing. These parallel versions create data silos, making it nearly impossible to consolidate a single, accurate dataset without a time-consuming and error-prone manual reconciliation process.

This constant need for manual reconciliation is a direct contributor to technical debt. Often, the task of tracking down the correct file or manually merging disparate versions falls to a highly-skilled, six-figure IT professional. Every hour this expensive resource spends on a low-value, error-prone task is a significant 'interest' payment on the initial decision to use a spreadsheet. This misuse of expert time not only inflates operational costs but also diverts critical talent from strategic initiatives. Over time, this debt compounds as files multiply, making the eventual migration to a proper database even more complex and costly.

Inadequate Data Quality and Lineage

Data can be inconsistent, and there's no way to trace a value back to its origin. This lack of lineage makes it impossible to verify data or understand its context, undermining trust in the final output.

Using spreadsheets as a data loading tool fundamentally breaks the chain of data lineage and introduces significant data quality risks. There are no built-in controls to validate data structure or integrity upon import, making it easy to load corrupted or incorrectly formatted information into critical enterprise applications, leading to downstream data quality issues.

🚫 Unacceptable for an Audit

Auditors provide an independent opinion on the fairness and accuracy of public facing reports and statements, which requires a trail of verifiable evidence. Due to the issues listed, auditors cannot independently reconstruct the history of a transaction or prove that data has not been altered.

Spreadsheets have no verifiable history, making it impossible for an auditor to confirm its integrity and lineage. This inherent lack of control and traceability means that data from a spreadsheet cannot meet the rigorous standards of evidence required for a financial audit.

💰 Expensive Technical Debt

Loading data with spreadsheets is a classic example of incurring technical debt. The immediate convenience of using a familiar tool is quickly offset by the high price of expensive, six-figure IT professionals performing repetitive tasks like data cleansing, reformatting, and troubleshooting load failures instead of focusing on strategic, high-impact projects.

This debt compounds when inevitable data errors are loaded into enterprise systems as shown in the Anatomy of a Catastrophe example below. The same expensive IT personnel are pulled away from their core duties once again, to find and fix the root cause, perpetuating a costly cycle of reactive "fire-fighting."

Ultimately, the strategic cost is the most damaging aspect of this technical debt. It prevents the organization from automating its data pipelines and scaling its operations effectively. The true expense is measured not just in wasted salaries but in lost agility, delayed insights, and the inability to deploy top technical talent on initiatives that drive genuine business innovation.

References

  1. Lab Manager. "Data Management and Audit Trails: Ensuring Regulatory Compliance."
  2. AuditBoard. "What Is an Audit Trail? Everything You Need to Know."
  3. Gartner Research. "Data Quality: Best Practices for Accurate Insights."
  4. Forrester Research. "Millions Lost In 2023 Due To Poor Data Quality."

How Does One Spreadsheet Error Cascade Into a Data Catastrophe?

A single, seemingly minor error in a spreadsheet doesn't just stay in one cell. It can cascade through formulas and linked sheets, corrupting your entire analysis without warning.

1. The Initial Mistake

A simple manual data entry error occurs. A value of 1,000 is entered as 10,000.

2. The Silent Propagation

Formulas across the workbook reference the incorrect cell. Totals, averages, and growth rates are now all calculated using the wrong base value.

3. The Corrupted Summary

A summary tab or chart, which pulls data from the calculated fields, now displays a completely skewed and misleading picture of performance.

4. The Flawed Decision

A critical investment decision is made based on the corrupted summary, leading to significant financial consequences.

What's the Difference Between a Spreadsheet Approach and Investment-Quality Data?

The Spreadsheet Approach

High Propensity for Manual Errors

Manual data handling is prone to human error, where simple "fat-finger" mistakes can cascade through a spreadsheet, leading to flawed analyses and costly decisions. Beyond incorrect calculations, these data quality issues can result in significant financial penalties, damage to brand reputation, and multimillion-dollar annual losses for organizations, as documented by industry research from firms like Gartner and Forrester.

Lack of Robust Audit Trails

As simple files rather than managed systems, spreadsheets lack the ability to create an immutable, unalterable record of all changes. It's nearly impossible to track who modified data and when, failing to meet the rigorous demands of auditors and investors. For regulatory compliance, such as Sarbanes-Oxley, a robust audit trail must provide a complete, attributable, and contemporaneous history of every action, a standard that spreadsheets inherently cannot meet.

Poor Version Control

The practice of saving multiple file versions (e.g., 'report_v2', 'report_final') creates confusion and data silos, making it difficult to identify the true source of truth. This issue worsens when different teams update their own copies, necessitating a manual, error-prone reconciliation process. This constant rework contributes directly to technical debt by consuming the valuable time of expensive IT professionals who are forced to perform low-value data merging tasks instead of focusing on strategic initiatives.

Inadequate Data Quality and Lineage

Spreadsheets offer no way to automatically trace a piece of data back to its original source, a concept known as data lineage. This makes it impossible to verify data or understand its context, which erodes trust in the final numbers. Furthermore, when used as a data loading tool, spreadsheets lack the built-in validation controls to prevent corrupted or poorly formatted information from being loaded into critical enterprise systems, creating significant downstream data quality problems.

Unacceptable for an Audit

Auditors require a trail of verifiable evidence to provide an independent opinion on financial accuracy. Because spreadsheets lack robust audit trails, version control, and data lineage, an auditor cannot independently reconstruct a transaction's history or prove data has not been altered. This absence of verifiable history and control means spreadsheet data fails to meet the rigorous standards of evidence required for any formal financial audit.

Expensive Technical Debt

Using spreadsheets for critical processes creates expensive technical debt by requiring highly-paid IT professionals to perform manual, repetitive tasks like data cleansing and troubleshooting instead of focusing on high-value work. This debt compounds when errors propagate into enterprise systems, pulling these expensive resources into a reactive cycle of "fire-fighting." The true cost of this debt isn't just wasted salary; it's the lost agility, delayed insights, and inability to use top talent for innovation, which prevents the organization from effectively scaling its data operations.

The Investment-Quality Standard

  • Automated Data Integrity: Prevents manual errors by enforcing validation rules at the point of entry.
  • Immutable Audit Trails: Automatically logs every action to create a complete, unalterable history for verification.
  • Centralized Version Control: Establishes a single source of truth, eliminating file duplication and ensuring data consistency.
  • Guaranteed Data Lineage: Provides end-to-end traceability from data source to final report, ensuring quality and context.
  • Audit Readiness: Delivers the verifiable, transparent, and controlled data evidence that auditors require.
  • Reduced Technical Debt: Automates processes to free up expensive IT resources for high-value, strategic initiatives.

Why Are Spreadsheets Unsuitable for Critical Reporting Data?

Spreadsheets present significant risks due to their reliance on manual processes, leading to errors, a lack of robust version control, and poor data integrity. Their inherent lack of security and auditability makes them unsuitable for handling large, critical datasets in a professional context.

Spreadsheet Trap FAQs

How does the ADC suite eliminate the compliance risks associated with spreadsheet-based ESG reporting?

Spreadsheets lack the rigorous audit trails, data lineage, and version control required for modern ESG and public corporate reporting, exposing your organization to severe compliance risks and manual “fat-finger” errors. The ADC suite overcomes this “spreadsheet trap” by providing a centralized, immutable data architecture that enforces automated data integrity checks at the point of entry. This ensures that every environmental, social, and governance metric you collect is fully traceable and easily verifiable by third-party auditors, transforming fragile, siloed workflows into a resilient, compliance-ready standard.

With upcoming regulatory deadlines, how quickly can the ADC suite be implemented for our public reporting?

The ADC suite is engineered for rapid deployment, allowing you to meet strict regulatory deadlines without the months-long delays typically associated with heavy IT overhauls. By replacing fragmented spreadsheet processes with a streamlined, ready-to-deploy data framework, your team can quickly map, migrate, and automate existing ESG data pipelines. This accelerated speed of implementation means you transition from chaotic, manual data collection to a structured, audit-ready environment in a fraction of the time, ensuring your business stays ahead of looming compliance mandates.

Is migrating from our current spreadsheet systems to the ADC suite a cost-effective solution for our organization?

Yes. Relying on spreadsheets to handle enterprise data creates a massive hidden cost known as “technical debt,” where highly paid professionals waste countless hours manually reconciling version conflicts, cleansing data, and troubleshooting errors. The ADC suite is highly cost-effective because it automates these repetitive data ingestion and validation tasks, freeing your team to focus on strategic sustainability initiatives. By eliminating the manual rework and drastically reducing the risk of costly regulatory fines caused by reporting inaccuracies, the suite delivers an immediate and strong return on investment.

How does the ADC suite help us transform raw compliance data into a BI dashboard and dynamic investment tool?

Capital markets and stakeholders increasingly demand “investment-grade” ESG data to evaluate corporate sustainability performance and risk. The ADC suite acts as the secure, validated data engine that feeds seamlessly into powerful Business Intelligence (BI) dashboards, allowing you to create a transparent, real-time investment tool. By guaranteeing that the underlying data is accurate, securely version-controlled, and strictly audited, the suite empowers your executive team to present compelling, visual data narratives that investors, regulators, and board members can confidently rely on for high-stakes decision-making.

How does the ADC suite ensure our ESG reporting can scale alongside rapidly changing global regulations?

As corporate mandates like the CSRD or SEC climate rules evolve, spreadsheet-based processes quickly buckle under the increased data volume and complexity. The ADC suite future-proofs your compliance efforts by providing a highly scalable, centralized database architecture that adapts to new reporting frameworks without requiring a costly and slow system rebuild. Unlike rigid spreadsheets, this agile approach allows you to seamlessly integrate new data streams—such as Scope 3 supply chain emissions or workforce diversity metrics—directly into your BI dashboards. This ensures your public disclosures and internal investment tools remain accurate, comprehensive, and compliant as global regulatory demands expand.

Can the ADC suite help eliminate the departmental data silos that complicate our annual sustainability reports?

Absolutely. A major pitfall of the “spreadsheet trap” is that critical ESG data gets locked in disconnected, poorly version-controlled files across HR, Operations, and Finance, making enterprise-wide consolidation a slow and error-prone nightmare. The ADC suite breaks down these silos by establishing a single, secure source of truth accessible across your entire organization. By automating data ingestion from multiple departments into one unified platform, the suite drastically reduces the time and administrative costs spent on manual aggregation. This cross-functional alignment ensures that the data feeding your BI dashboards is holistic and consistent, providing board members and investors with a reliable, unified view of your corporate performance.

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News

Published by EIP Webmaster  |  Press & Announcements

Green Energy Battery

Press Release – April 2, 2026

EIP Launches Assured Data Connector Suite

A Secure Data Engine Providing Scalable, Trustworthy Assured Data Pipelines for Accurate ESG and Enterprise Compliance Reporting.

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Green Energy Battery

Press Release – September 2024

EIP Adds Assured Data Connector to Net Zero Cloud

Bolstering its flagship eiPower Cloud Services product through a new integration with Salesforce Net Zero Cloud.

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For Carbon Accounting Platforms

Equip Sales to Win:
The Strategic Imperative of Automated Data Assurance

As Reasonable Assurance becomes the new standard, carbon accounting platforms that can’t deliver audit-ready data will lose enterprise deals. EIP’s ADC partners with your platform to provide automated assurance, full data lineage, and the speed-to-compliance your clients now demand.

By EIP Webmaster  |  Last reviewed: May 2026

Reasonable
assurance is the new market standard
CSRD · SB 253 · ISSB
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to operational assurance infrastructure
EIP Criteria of Success
200+
data sources supported
EIP ADC connector catalog
PASSED
AWS & Salesforce security reviews
AWS Final Technical Review · Salesforce AppExchange

Why Is the Market Shifting to Reasonable Assurance?

The corporate landscape has fundamentally transformed. With the implementation of the EU's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), California's SB 253 and SB 261, and the ISSB global baseline, carbon accounting is no longer a voluntary exercise—it is regulated financial reporting. The market is rapidly shifting from basic "limited assurance" to the highly rigorous "reasonable assurance," which mirrors the scrutiny of a traditional financial audit.

For carbon accounting software vendors, this represents a critical turning point. Delivering "assurance-ready" data is a foundational requirement for market survival. If your platform does not actively support automated Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processes, rigorous data quality controls, and seamless reporting interfaces, both your business and your clients face severe consequences.

Vendors that fail to provide automated, audit-ready data ingestion will be left behind by competitors who already partner with assured data providers. Developing this functionality in-house is prohibitively expensive, drains your engineering resources, and puts more burden on your potential customers. By seamlessly integrating the EIP Assured Data Connector Suite into your platform's sales pitches, you instantly level the playing field, eliminate implementation bottlenecks, and equip your sales team to win enterprise deals.

Why Are Manual Spreadsheets a Liability for Carbon Accounting Platforms?

To create urgency and accelerate deal velocity, your sales teams must quantify the hidden, compounding costs of manual data entry for your prospects. Relying on manual spreadsheet tracking is a massive liability; it lacks reliable audit trails, is highly error-prone, and inevitably buckles under the complexity of modern enterprise supply chain reporting.

If your software relies on customers manually gathering and uploading spreadsheets, you are inheriting their data quality and lineage risk — with no audit trail to defend it.

Doing In-House ETL With No Assured Data

In-house ETL without Assured Data leaves your platform with no defensible chain of custody. Every value is missing the lineage record auditors now require, every error compounds silently through your transformations, and every reporting cycle invites prolonged audits and untold regulatory fines. The EIP ADC Product Suite closes the gap with automated extraction, 30+ AI quality checks, and OpenLineage records on every value — delivering Assured Data your auditors and clients can trust.

The 80/20 Drain

Across the industry, data professionals spend 80% of their time finding, cleaning, and organizing data, leaving only 20% for actual analysis and strategic action. This manual data cleansing costs companies an average of $28,500 per employee, per year.

Source: Data Cleansing Time Wasted Statistics / Pragmatic Institute

The 1% Compounding Error

The standard accepted error rate for manual data entry is 1%. In a database of 10,000 records, that equals 100 corrupt data points. When data is moved manually across multiple phases, this error rate skyrockets, completely invalidating the data for reasonable assurance.

The Cost of Inaccuracy

Inaccurate Scope 3 data alone represents an unmanaged risk worth over $500 billion annually. Relying on spreadsheets lacks the immutable audit trails and verifiable history required to survive a formal financial audit, exposing clients to severe compliance risks and regulatory fines.

How Does the EIP ADC Suite Strengthen a Carbon Accounting Platform?

Give your sales team the definitive edge in the enterprise market. Elevate your platform by delivering a permanent, automated data foundation, moving beyond the friction of manual uploads to provide your customers with continuous, long-term value.

Auditors and investors demand assured, Investment-Quality Data to trust corporate reporting. By integrating the EIP Suite, your reps offer a cost-effective, fully automated pipeline at the speed of SaaS—converting raw information into verified data and making your software the undisputed, risk-free choice.

Included in ADC

Automated ETL Advantage

Standardize data collection globally with direct API integrations to 200+ databases, ERP systems, and IoT sensors.

The 48-Hour SaaS Advantage: A complete, production-ready ETL architecture deployed in 48 hours, potentially fully loading your platform in one week.
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Included in ADC

Ironclad Data Quality

Ensure absolute data integrity. Data is automatically validated using 30 distinct AI-driven checks before it ever enters your system.

Instant Assured Data: Satisfies top-tier auditors by establishing a perfect "Chain of Custody".
Immutable Lineage: Provides transparent, verifiable history for every emission factor, its source, and calculation logic.
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Included in ADC

Auditor/Investor Focused BI Dashboard

A powerful AI driven dashboard that allows auditors or investors read only access to recreate stated reports from data in multiple locations, use what-if scenarios to create new graphs, and privately use intellectual property auditing and investing guidelines.

  • Secure Collaboration
  • Bulletproof Verification
  • Investor/Auditor Confidence
  • Strategy Modeling
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Other EIP Assured Data Connector Suite Tools

Powerful extensions that elevate compliance from basic reporting to complete digital transformation.

ADC Assessment A fast, low-risk proof of concept to validate the solution using actual prospect data.
  • EIP Re:Load / Re:Assure: AI validation for legacy data.
  • Rapid Data Migration: Reliable digital transformation transfers.
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Your Competitive Advantage Rapid implementation. Unbeatable cost-effectiveness. Audit-proof data quality. Seamless BI simplicity. When you integrate the EIP Suite, you aren't just closing a deal; you're ending the conversation.

Ask yourself: would you ever want to compete against a platform that has this?

How Do You Make the Financial Case for
Assured Data to a CFO?

When your sales team pitches to the C-Suite, the conversation must pivot from baseline product sustainability features to risk mitigation, audit economics, investor interest, and cost savings. Investors are watching closely: 48% of investors and 58% of institutional investors say a company's Investment Quality ESG data is "much more important" than conventional financial data.

"More than two-thirds of respondents to The 2021 Benchmark ESG Survey: Investor Attitudes on Company ESG Data survey said they would have “less confidence” in the senior leadership of a company that does not credibly collect and use Investment Quality ESG data. On the other hand, 97% of respondents said they would have “more confidence” in the senior leadership of firms that do credibly collect and use Investment Quality ESG data."

Align the Value Proposition

Adopting your platform is just the start.

The CFO must account for costs to make your product effective and compliant. Beyond your product, costs include expensive IT staffing and applications to achieve data quality, report merit, auditor compliance, and investor interest.

The CFO wants to justify the expenditure to realize the value of your platform as quickly as possible.

Deployed In 48 HOURS

Compounding Cost Reduction

Your platform must address the compounding additional costs of implementation and on going operation with a value add strategy. Not only does the ADC provide customers with a cost-effective, off-the-shelf SaaS solution, it yields data that "human hands have never touched".

This saves organizations from massive capital expenditures to build assured data pipelines, and drastically reduces staffing requirement costs freeing up expensive customer implementation consultants and your internal consultants to focus on high-value platform utilization in record time.

Proactive Audit/Investor/Operations Tool

Transform your core platform into an undeniable competitive advantage. The EIP Suite arms your sales team with enterprise features: auditor-ready lineage tracking, interactive investor compliance dashboards, and sandbox testing for sustainability operations. Eliminate sales friction by solving organizations compounding infrastructure and staffing cost on day 1. Outcompete rivals with the speed of SaaS.

Providing a permanent, long-term solution rather than a point solution is a massive competitive advantage: 58% of Institutional Investors and 67% of all Investors say they would be "much more likely to invest" in a company that collects and uses Investment Quality ESG data.

A Subscription To the ADC Suite of Products Does The Job for The Cost Of a Summer Intern.

Carbon Accounting Platform FAQs

Why does Reasonable Assurance matter for carbon accounting platforms?

The market has shifted from voluntary “limited assurance” to mandated “reasonable assurance” under CSRD, SB 253, SB 261, and ISSB. Platforms that cannot deliver audit-ready, traceable data will lose enterprise deals to those that can.

How does EIP’s ADC partner with our existing platform?

The EIP ADC sits in front of your platform, automating data extraction, validation, and lineage from 200+ source systems, then loading verified data directly into your application. Your platform remains the system of record; EIP provides the assurance layer your clients now require.

What does “assurance-ready” data mean for your clients?

Assurance-ready data is investment-grade: every value carries lineage to its source, errors are caught and remediated at extraction, and the full audit trail is available on demand. It is the standard auditors expect for reasonable assurance engagements.

How fast can a joint EIP + platform solution be deployed?

EIP’s ADC stands up a complete ETL, data quality, and lineage infrastructure in under 48 hours. A full end-to-end client deployment can be operational in under 20 days, with no rip-and-replace of existing systems.

Why is data lineage the ultimate differentiator for carbon accounting platforms?

The market has rapidly shifted from voluntary “limited assurance” to mandated “reasonable assurance” under regulations like CSRD, SB 253, and ISSB. If your platform cannot deliver audit-ready, traceable data with a flawless forensic paper trail, you will lose enterprise deals to competitors who can. The EIP Assured Data Connector (ADC) engine resolves this by programmatically extracting data from over 200 sources and attaching immutable OpenLineage records to every value before it even enters your application.

How do manual data processes impact our customers’ trust and drive up costs?

Relying on manual spreadsheets creates an “Audit Gap” filled with invisible, compounding errors that destroy data lineage. This manual rework forces organizations to incur Expensive Technical Debt as highly skilled professionals waste hours cleansing data instead of focusing on strategic growth. Ultimately, poor data quality and the resulting technical debt cost organizations an average of $12.9 million annually.

What exactly is “Investment Quality” data and how do we present it to our clients’ CFOs?

Investment Quality data is data that has been programmatically extracted from the source, meaning human hands have never touched it. CFOs demand it because 67% of investors state they are “much more likely to invest” in companies that credibly use this caliber of verified data. We showcase this through the suite’s included BI Dashboard, a secure reporting layer that delivers automated, validated ESG insights and interactive, visual data lineage that auditors and investors trust.

How can we prove the value of automated data lineage without stalling the sales cycle?

The initial data loading bottleneck is the single biggest obstacle to rapid adoption and Annual Contract Value (ACV) growth. You can completely de-risk the buying decision for your clients using the ADC Assessment. This 20-day proof of concept deploys the engine in the client’s live production environment to prove speed and accuracy firsthand. Success is measured against predefined criteria, and 100% of the Assessment fee is credited directly toward their final subscription purchase.

How do we handle our clients’ messy historical data and system migrations?

For legacy databases that lack verification, the Re:Load / Re:Assure service programmatically extracts the historical data, runs it through a 30-point AI quality inspection, and reloads it as fully Assured Data with an immutable lineage record. If clients are consolidating systems, the Rapid Migration Tool (RMT) executes secure, one-time or ongoing data transfers to new enterprise cloud targets in under 48 hours, providing verified data with lineage straight out of the gate.

Does integrating this level of data assurance require rebuilding our entire platform?

Not at all; the ADC suite sits in front of your existing carbon accounting software, acting as the assurance layer while your platform remains the primary system of record. By deploying this fully managed SaaS infrastructure in under 48 hours, you eliminate your clients’ data bottlenecks and equip your sales team to outcompete rivals by offering instant, risk-free compliance without a costly “rip and replace” overhaul.

Call to Action: The Rapid Assessment

Don't let your organization fall behind the competition or force your clients into the spreadsheet trap. You don't need to commit to a massive, expensive development cycle to gain these capabilities.

The 20-Day "Try Before You Buy": We can deploy the Connector in a live production environment using your prospect's actual data to prove the concept to their management team in just days.

Risk-Free Scaling: The assessment measures success against mutually agreed-upon criteria. Once proven, the assessment fee is credited toward a 1, 2, or 3-year subscription.

By removing the massive data-loading bottleneck at the start of every implementation, you fundamentally change the speed, scale, and strategic value of your carbon accounting platform.

Rapid implementation. Unbeatable cost-effectiveness. Audit-proof data quality. Seamless BI simplicity. When you integrate the EIP Suite, you aren't just closing a deal; you're ending the conversation. Ask yourself: would you ever want to compete against a platform that has this?

For Salesforce Consulting Managers

Accelerate Your Implementations.
Eliminate the Data Bottleneck.

Stop losing months to client data loading. EIP’s Assured Data Connector replaces risky, throwaway spreadsheet loads with a permanent, audit-ready data pipeline — so Salesforce implementations launch faster, consultants bill more strategic hours, and clients reach value sooner.

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PASSED
Salesforce AppExchange Security Review
Salesforce
<48hrs
to operational data pipeline
EIP Criteria of Success
1%
compounding spreadsheet error rate eliminated
EIP analysis
200+
data sources supported
EIP ADC connector catalog

Why Does Manual Data Loading Stall Salesforce Implementations?

The single biggest obstacle to rapid Salesforce adoption and consulting velocity is the initial data loading bottleneck. Relying on customers to manually gather, cleanse, and upload spreadsheets stalls critical projects for months.

Furthermore, manual spreadsheet loading introduces the 1% compounding error. This creates massive technical debt that turns your elite, highly-paid Salesforce implementation consultants into reactive data cleansers instead of strategic advisors—severely eroding your project margins.

If your implementation relies on manual data extraction, you are inheriting the customer's data risk and severely capping your ACV velocity.

80%

Time Wasted

Technical teams spend 80% of their time finding and cleaning data, leaving only 20% for value creation and platform utilization.

Source: Data Cleansing Time Wasted Statistics / Pragmatic Institute

48hrs

Deployment

The EIP ADC deploys via SaaS in 48 hours, fully bypassing slow internal IT procurement processes.

The Velocity Goal

By automating the extraction process, you can load production-ready data into Salesforce (including complex Net Zero Cloud environments) in one week or less.

How Does the ADC Help Grow Salesforce ACV?

Salesforce is measured on Annual Contract Value and pipeline. Using both the ADC Assessment, and/or an in place Connector your organization immediately fulfills key Salesforce Partner measurements, gaining recognition and referrals.

"At Salesforce, our most important sales metric is annualized contractual value, or ACV... ACV is followed closely by pipeline. The first doesn't happen without the second, yet pipeline without the ability to become ACV isn't beneficial... most importantly you need pipeline — and there's never enough pipeline."

Patrick Blair | Former EVP, Salesforce

How Do You Accelerate and Scale Salesforce Engagements?

Stop executing one-off point implementations. Partner with EIP to fundamentally change the speed, scale, and strategic value of your Salesforce engagements.

Drive Consulting Velocity

By circumventing the initial data bottleneck and eliminating slow IT infrastructure requests, you accelerate the speed of every engagement. Your most expensive resources can be better utilized, and deployed to a higher number of engagements.

Be the Trusted Advisor

Shift from a costly, one-off point solution data load to an ongoing SaaS solution that delivers a permanent, assured data pipeline. Give the customer an enduring solution that satisfies CFOs and auditors long after your initial implementation ends.

Built-In Proof of Concept Engine

Gain the strategic advantage of having a built-in proof of concept engine to easily upsell any Salesforce or Hyperforce Cloud. Load real customer data, show instant results, and definitively prove value before the deal even closes.

Why Do Salesforce Practices Partner With EIP?

Integrate the EIP Assured Data Connector Suite into your proposals to create immediate competitive advantages, generate new recurring revenue margins, and solve complex compliance emergencies.

Risk-Free Land and Expand

Use the ADC Assessment as a "try before you buy" wedge. Prove the value of your Salesforce implementation in a live production environment using the prospect's actual data in under 20 days.

Pro Serv Benefit:

A simple, risk-free way to accelerate deals, build pipeline, and completely de-risk the decision for the customer's executive team.

Explore the ADC Assessment

Rapid Migration Tool (RMT)

Go beyond traditional lift-and-shift. Use the EIP RMT to drive digital transformation forward into Salesforce with structured, validated, Assured Data from day one.

Pro Serv Benefit:

Protects tight project timelines while creating immediate resale margins and reducing manual mapping overhead.

Explore The Rapid Migration Tool

Re:Load / Re:Assure

Transform fragmented legacy databases into verified Assured Data. Help clients meet new regulatory demands (SEC, CSRD, SB 253) instantly within their new Salesforce environment.

Pro Serv Benefit:

Solve immediate customer compliance emergencies and position your firm as a strategic risk-mitigation partner.

Explore Re:Load / Re:Assure

AI Data Readiness

AI models are only as effective as the data feeding them. To leverage Salesforce's advanced AI capabilities, the underlying data needs to be absolutely right. EIP Assured Data guarantees your AI consumes verified, immutable information—eliminating "garbage in, garbage out" risks.

Pro Serv Benefit:

Deliver trustworthy, high-impact AI implementations by establishing an assurance-grade data foundation from day one.

Explore Making Sure AI Results Are Right

Implement With Confidence, EIP Assured Data Connector Suite Products Passed The Intensive AppExchange Security Review

Salesforce AppExchange Passed

The EIP Assured Data Connector has passed Salesforce AppExchange security review — validated for enterprise data handling.

Create Additional Revenue Streams

Partnering with EIP actively generates revenue. Resell EIP Assured Data Connector Suite subscriptions to capture immediate, compounding margins. By automating "data janitorial" tasks and loading assured data quickly, you free your elite consultants to demonstrate uncovered functionality or bill for highly profitable advisory services at other accounts.

Your Competitive Advantage

Rapid implementation. Unbeatable cost-effectiveness. Audit-proof data quality. Seamless BI simplicity. When you integrate the EIP Suite, you aren't just closing a deal; you're ending the conversation.

Ask yourself: would you ever want to compete against a platform that has this?

EIP for Salesforce FAQs

Two FAQ tracks below: one for Salesforce customers (CFOs, IT leaders, and executives), and one for Salesforce sales reps and consulting partners. Jump to the track that fits your role.

Track 1 · For Customers

For Salesforce Customers

CFOs, IT leaders, and executives evaluating ADC for cross-cloud data integration, compliance, security, and AI readiness.

How can we implement a cross-cloud data integration tool without straining our IT budget during current economic uncertainties?

Recent layoffs in the tech sector have led to resource shortages, knowledge gaps, and budget constraints for new IT projects. The EIP Assured Data Connector (ADC) mitigates these staffing and budget challenges because it is deployed via SaaS, allowing teams to load data in one week or less. This approach is less expensive than procuring, training, and implementing an in-house solution. Furthermore, a single ADC engine can serve all departments for any ETL requirement across any Salesforce or Hyperforce Cloud, maximizing your investment.

How does this solution help our CFO ensure compliance with strict reporting mandates like California’s SB 253?

The ADC provides Investment Quality data, meaning the data is programmatically extracted and has never been touched by human hands. This creates a verifiable data lineage and immutable audit trail that gives CFOs the confidence to quickly demonstrate report integrity during formal audits. This level of Investment Quality data is necessary to conform to rigorous government mandates like CA SB 253 and GDPR.

Is the ADC secure and compatible with our entire Salesforce ecosystem?

Yes, the engine connects directly to any Salesforce Lightning Platform and can load data to any Salesforce or Hyperforce Cloud programmatically. It has passed both the intensive Salesforce AppExchange Security Review and the AWS Final Technical Review. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and the customer accounts can be configured to conform to major security standards like NIST.

Why shouldn’t we just use spreadsheets to load our sustainability data into Net Zero Cloud?

Relying on manual spreadsheets introduces a 1% compounding error rate and actively destroys data lineage, completely invalidating the data for formal audits. This manual approach creates Expensive Technical Debt, forcing highly paid professionals to waste countless hours manually reconciling versions and cleansing data instead of focusing on strategic initiatives.

We have fragmented historical data that lacks verification. How can we make it compliant?

The Re:Load / Re:Assure service is designed to transform fragmented legacy databases into verified Assured Data. It systematically extracts, backs up, and reloads your historical records to meet the “Reasonable Assurance” standard required by upcoming mandates like CSRD and SB 253. This solves immediate compliance emergencies directly within your new Salesforce environment.

How does this solution enhance our investments in AI capabilities?

AI models are only as effective as the data feeding them. To leverage Salesforce’s advanced AI capabilities, the underlying data needs to be absolutely right. The ADC guarantees your AI consumes verified, immutable information, eliminating “garbage in, garbage out” risks and ensuring trustworthy, high-impact implementations from day one.

Track 2 · For Sales Reps & Partners

For Salesforce Sales Reps & Consulting Partners

How ADC accelerates ACV, removes data bottlenecks, opens cross-sell, and differentiates Net Zero Cloud pitches.

How does removing the manual data loading bottleneck accelerate our Annual Contract Value (ACV) velocity?

At Salesforce, annualized contractual value (ACV) and pipeline are the most important sales metrics. The single biggest obstacle to rapid Salesforce adoption and ACV growth is the initial data loading bottleneck. By using the ADC to automate extraction and bypass internal IT procurement, you can stand up live SaaS infrastructure in 48 hours and have data flowing in one week. This rapid time-to-value allows consultants to skip months of client IT delays, leading to faster implementations and a direct upward push on ACV.

How can we use the ADC to secure new deals and overcome initial cost objections?

You can utilize the ADC Assessment as a risk-free “try before you buy” wedge to accelerate deal closures. This assessment acts as a built-in proof of concept engine, proving the value of your Salesforce implementation in a live production environment using the prospect’s actual data in under 20 days. The entire cost of the Assessment is credited directly against the final subscription purchase, completely de-risking the decision for the client’s executive team.

How does this tool improve our consulting practice’s margins and resource utilization?

Technical teams currently spend 80% of their time finding and cleaning data, leaving only 20% for value creation and platform utilization. By eliminating the data loading bottleneck, consultants bill more strategic hours per engagement. Automating “data janitorial” tasks frees your elite consultants to demonstrate uncovered functionality or bill for highly profitable advisory services, actively generating immediate, compounding margins.

Source: Data Cleansing Time Wasted Statistics / Pragmatic Institute

How does leading with the ADC suite help me “waive the company flag” and sell more Salesforce products?

Sustainability projects are historically underfunded, making low entry costs critical to winning Net Zero Cloud deals. By getting your foot in the door with a cost-effective SaaS solution, you achieve rapid customer satisfaction without budget-straining upfront costs. Once the automated data is flowing, it seamlessly opens the door to cross-selling additional Salesforce Lightning platforms, such as CRM, Utility Cloud, or Marketing Cloud, across the enterprise.

How can we accelerate deals when a client is stuck on a legacy migration project?

You can use the Rapid Migration Tool (RMT) to execute fast, customized one-time or ongoing data transfers to cloud targets. It goes beyond traditional lift-and-shift by driving digital transformation forward into Salesforce with structured, validated data from day one. This protects tight project timelines, reduces manual mapping overhead, and creates immediate resale margins for your practice.

How does bundling EIP differentiate my Net Zero Cloud pitch from competitors like Watershed or Persefoni?

Net Zero Cloud is competing with smaller carbon management products that are less expensive and do not require expensive partners to fast-track implementation. By integrating the EIP suite, you offer a complete, production-ready ETL architecture that bypasses traditional IT friction and delivers audit-ready, Investment Quality data. This positions your firm as a strategic trusted advisor offering a permanent compliance solution, drastically setting your proposal apart from the competition.

Start Your Assured Data Transformation

Empower Your Platforms With
Verifiable, Assured Data

Don’t let manual extraction or spreadsheet bottlenecks compromise your reporting systems. The EIP Assured Data Connector seamlessly integrates with your existing ESG and BI applications, delivering automated, audit-ready data at a fraction of the cost of building it internally — in under 48 hours.

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Did you load your reporting system with spreadsheet data? Read why this is a problem. Read below to quickly and cost effectively fix it.

<48hrs
to operational data infrastructure
EIP Criteria of Success
80/20
less cost vs. internal IT build
EIP commercial benchmark
200+
data sources supported
EIP ADC connector catalog
PASSED
AWS & Salesforce security reviews
AWS Final Technical Review · Salesforce AppExchange

Why Is Feeding Accurate Data to ESG Platforms So Hard?

You have invested in powerful ESG and reporting applications. But feeding them accurate, timely data is a massive undertaking. Internal IT builds take months and drain budgets, while legacy ETL tools are rigid and expensive.

Internal IT Builds & Legacy ETL

  • High Upfront Costs: Engineering custom data pipelines drains internal resources and demands massive initial capital expenditure.

  • Slow Deployment: Internal IT requests get backlogged. Deployments take months, delaying the ROI of your reporting applications.

  • Resource Misallocation: All internal builds inevitably suffer these flaws, trapping expensive IT talent in data maintenance rather than high-value strategic projects.

The EIP Assured Data Connector Suite

  • Compliments Your Stack: We don't replace your reporting applications; we feed them. We connect fragmented sources seamlessly to your destination app.

  • Rapid SaaS Deployment: Active in a matter of days, not months. Bypass slow internal IT queues and start seeing value immediately.

  • Fully Managed & Immutable: An ongoing solution that gets cheaper with a longer subscription. This frees your expensive IT talent from endless maintenance to focus on high-value projects, while fully protecting you during audits.

Why Is the EIP SaaS Pipeline Cheaper Than an Internal Build?

Deploy in days, not quarters. Bypass the high cost, friction, and complexity of achieving assured data reporting with our automated SaaS pipeline.

Superior Economics

Significantly lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) compared to deploying internal engineering teams or purchasing massive, monolithic ETL software packages.

Decreasing Costs Over Time

Unlike standard software that increases in price, our SaaS model is uniquely structured. The product effectively gets cheaper the longer you subscribe as initial mapping scales.

Deploy in 48 Hours

Deploy in days, not quarters. By bypassing the immense capital expenditure and delays of traditional internal IT builds, you drastically reduce your Total Cost of Ownership and accelerate time-to-value, freeing your budget for strategic growth.

Enterprise Security

Military-grade encryption and an immutable architecture guarantee your data is safe. We seamlessly pass the most rigorous enterprise IT InfoSec reviews.

Enterprise Grade

Implement With Absolute Confidence

  • Address Risk and Compliance

    Meet stringent regulatory demands (like SB 253 and CSRD) with verifiable, audit-ready data lineage.

  • Eliminate Technical Debt

    Move away from fragile, error-prone manual spreadsheet uploads and hard-coded legacy scripts.

  • Reduce IT Dependency

    Free up expensive internal IT engineering resources by deploying a fully managed, automated SaaS solution.

AppExchange
Passed

Final Tech
Review

Rigorous Security Architecture

Our architecture has successfully passed the Salesforce AppExchange Security audit and meets all AWS Final Technical Review standards.

Data Encryption Military-grade encryption for all data at rest and in transit.
Credential Safety Zero-trust vaulting with automated key rotation and least-privilege access.
Automated Threat Isolation Immediate notification and isolation of any critical error or security flag via GuardDuty & Security Hub.
Continuous Monitoring Automated monitoring of all access and ETL data quality execution.

EIP Solutions For Your Enterprise

Integrate the EIP Assured Data Connector Suite to power your carbon accounting, ESG reporting, and business intelligence platforms.

Reusable ETL - An ETL is a set of instructions the Connector uses to process file extractions, and data quality functions. All ADC Suite products come with one included and all ETLs are reusable for any ADC Suite product.

Assured Data Connector (ADC)

A fully managed, automated SaaS pipeline. The ADC seamlessly connects to your fragmented source systems—legacy ERPs, HR databases, and utility providers—extracting and transforming raw information into verified, audit-ready data delivered straight to your reporting platform.

ADC Assessment

A low-risk, rapid proof of concept. Let us extract a sample of your live, messy production data and push it cleanly into your application in under 20 days to prove exactly how the automation works.

Rapid Migration Tool (RMT)

Moving to a new platform? Stop relying on risky, manual spreadsheet uploads. Use the RMT to securely migrate historical data from legacy systems into your new application with perfect fidelity.

Re:Load / Re:Assure

Compliance mandates like SB 253 and CSRD require auditable data. We transform previously unverified legacy data into immutable, Assured Data, protecting your company from regulatory risk.

EIP for Enterprise Companies FAQs

How does the EIP ADC integrate with our existing ESG and reporting platforms?

The EIP ADC sits in front of your existing applications, automating data extraction from 200+ source systems and loading validated, audit-ready data directly into your platforms. No rip-and-replace required — ADC extends what you already own.

Why is buying ADC cheaper than building it internally?

Internal IT builds take months, drain budgets, and produce brittle one-off integrations that require constant maintenance. ADC delivers the same outcome at roughly 80/20 cost vs. an internal build, with ongoing support and continuous data quality assurance included.

How quickly can we deploy ADC alongside our existing tools?

ADC stands up a complete ETL, data quality, and lineage infrastructure in under 48 hours, with full end-to-end deployment achievable in under 20 days. No multi-month IT project, no rip-and-replace.

What is “Investment-Quality” data, and why does it matter for our reporting?

Investment-Quality data is validated, traceable, and audit-ready. Every value carries lineage to its source, errors are caught and corrected at extraction, and the full audit trail is available on demand. It is the standard auditors expect, and the standard investors increasingly require for ESG and financial disclosures.

How does the ADC product suite ensure the security of our sensitive enterprise data?

The ADC suite features a rigorous security architecture that has successfully passed the Salesforce AppExchange Security audit and meets all AWS Final Technical Review standards. It utilizes military-grade encryption for all data at rest and in transit. Additionally, it provides credential safety through zero-trust vaulting with automated key rotation, as well as automated threat isolation via GuardDuty and Security Hub. Data is stored on premise at the customer site, or can be stored in a secure authenticated encrypted AWS account in the cloud.

Why is purchasing the ADC suite more cost-effective than building an internal ETL solution?

Internal IT builds take months, drain budgets, and produce brittle one-off integrations that require constant maintenance. The ADC delivers the same outcome at a fraction of the cost of an internal build, with ongoing support and continuous data quality assurance included. Furthermore, unlike standard software, the SaaS model decreases in cost over time as initial mapping scales, drastically lowering your Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

How quickly can we deploy the ADC alongside our existing ESG and reporting tools?

Rapid deployment is the core advantage: the ADC stands up a complete ETL, data quality, and lineage infrastructure in under 48 hours, with full end-to-end deployment in under 20 days. Because there is no multi-month IT project, your company realizes the value of your platform far faster.

Do we need to replace our current reporting platforms to use this ETL data engine?

No, the EIP ADC sits in front of your existing applications, complementing your current stack. It seamlessly connects to over 200 fragmented source systems—such as legacy ERPs, HR databases, and utility providers—and loads validated, audit-ready data directly into your destination platforms.

What makes the data processed by the ADC “Investment-Quality” for our internal users and auditors?

Investment-Quality data is validated, traceable, and audit-ready. The ADC automates extraction so that every value carries an immutable lineage to its source. Errors are caught and corrected at the point of extraction, ensuring that a full, verifiable audit trail is available on demand for investors and financial disclosures.

How does the included BI Dashboard enhance our internal reporting capabilities?

The EIP BI Dashboard is a secure reporting layer that delivers automated, validated, and audit-ready ESG insights directly to CFOs and corporate leadership. It provides complete data lineage on every value, integrated AI chat, and secure stakeholder access, allowing your team to confidently present verifiable metrics.

How does the suite handle our previously unverified legacy data for compliance mandates?

Compliance mandates like SB 253 and CSRD require auditable data. The Re:Load / Re:Assure tool transforms previously unverified legacy data into immutable, Assured Data. This completely retrofits your historical records with data quality and lineage, protecting your company from regulatory risk.

Is there a way to test the ADC suite on our actual data before fully committing?

Yes, the ADC Assessment offers a low-risk, rapid proof of concept. EIP will extract a sample of your live production data and push it cleanly into your application in 20 days or less to prove exactly how the automation works. Furthermore, 100% of the Assessment fee is credited toward the purchase of your final ADC subscription.

How does the Rapid Migration Tool (RMT) benefit our enterprise cloud transition?

The Rapid Migration Tool (RMT), part of the ADC Connector Suite, executes secure, customized one-time or ongoing data transfers to new enterprise cloud or on premise targets. Infrastructure is deployed in under 48 hours. It goes far beyond a traditional “lift-and-shift” migration by automatically applying structural validation and generating immutable lineage records during the transfer process itself. This guarantees your new destination systems are populated exclusively with Investment Quality data right out of the gate. By entirely removing the manual mapping and data cleansing bottlenecks, the RMT protects tight project timelines, prevents the accumulation of Expensive Technical Debt, and ensures your migrated data is instantly audit-ready for all internal reporting and compliance mandates.

Website Terms of Use

By EIP Webmaster · Last updated: June 1, 2026

These Website Terms of Use (the “Terms”) govern your access to and use of the website located at https://entisp.com and any related EIP-operated marketing or informational pages (collectively, the “Website”). The Website is operated by Enterprise Infrastructure Partners LLC (“EIP,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). By accessing or using the Website, you (“you” or “User”) agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, do not access or use the Website.

These Terms apply solely to your use of the Website as a public visitor. Your purchase, subscription to, or use of any EIP product or service (including the EIP Assured Data Connector, the EIP Verified Data Connector, RMT, Re:Load / Re:Assure, eiPower, or any other EIP product) is governed by a separate agreement (the “ADC Terms of Service”) and is not the subject of these Terms.

1. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing or browsing the Website, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated by reference. Your continued use of the Website following the posting of any changes to these Terms constitutes acceptance of those changes.

2. Modifications to the Terms

EIP reserves the right to modify, update, or replace these Terms at any time, in its sole discretion. We will indicate the date of the most recent revision at the top of these Terms. Material changes will be communicated by prominently posting a notice on the Website for at least fifteen (15) days prior to the effective date of the change. Your continued use of the Website after a change takes effect constitutes your acceptance of the revised Terms.

3. Permitted Use of the Website

Subject to these Terms, EIP grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and view the Website for your personal, non-commercial informational purposes only. You may copy or print individual pages of the Website for your own internal reference, provided you retain all copyright and other proprietary notices. Any other use requires our prior written consent.

4. Prohibited Conduct

You agree not to use the Website to:

  • Violate any applicable federal, state, local, or foreign law or regulation;
  • Reproduce, distribute, publish, modify, create derivative works of, sell, license, or commercially exploit any portion of the Website or its content, except as expressly permitted in Section 3;
  • Use any robot, spider, scraper, crawler, automated tool, or similar means to access the Website, extract data, harvest content, or copy any material for any purpose, except for search engine indexing in accordance with our robots.txt directives;
  • Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code or underlying ideas, algorithms, structure, or organization of the Website or any software used in connection with it;
  • Bypass, disable, or otherwise interfere with security-related features of the Website or features that prevent or restrict use or copying of any content;
  • Impersonate any person or entity, misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity, or otherwise engage in any fraudulent activity;
  • Upload, transmit, or distribute any virus, worm, Trojan horse, spyware, adware, or other malicious code;
  • Interfere with, disrupt, or place an unreasonable load on the Website or the networks or services connected to it;
  • Use the Website to harass, threaten, defame, or otherwise infringe the rights of any third party;
  • Collect or harvest any personally identifiable information from the Website, including account names or email addresses, without express written consent from EIP and the affected individuals;
  • Use the Website in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Website or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the Website.

5. Intellectual Property

5.1 EIP Content

All content on the Website — including text, graphics, images, photographs, illustrations, diagrams, software, source code, audio, video, designs, logos, and the selection and arrangement of the foregoing (collectively, “EIP Content”) — is owned by EIP or its licensors and is protected by U.S. and international copyright, trademark, trade dress, patent, and other intellectual property laws. Except for the limited license granted in Section 3, no right, title, or interest in or to any EIP Content is transferred to you by these Terms.

5.2 Trademarks

“Enterprise Infrastructure Partners,” “EIP,” “ADC,” “Assured Data Connector,” “Re:Load / Re:Assure,” “RMT,” “Rapid Migration Tool,” and “eiPower,” together with all related logos, designs, and trade dress (collectively, the “EIP Marks”) are trademarks of EIP. All other trademarks, service marks, and logos referenced on the Website are the property of their respective owners. Nothing on the Website should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to use any EIP Mark without our prior written permission.

Referential use of EIP Marks is permitted only with the proper trademark symbol. Registered EIP trademarks (if any) bear the “®” symbol; unregistered EIP trademarks bear the “™” symbol. Where possible, EIP requests an ownership attribution statement such as: “ADC and Assured Data Connector are trademarks of Enterprise Infrastructure Partners, LLC.”

5.3 User Submissions and Feedback

If you submit, post, transmit, or otherwise provide to EIP through the Website any ideas, suggestions, proposals, content, code, reviews, or other materials (collectively, “Submissions”), you grant EIP a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide, fully paid-up, sublicensable, and transferable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, distribute, perform, display, and incorporate such Submissions and any related ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques for any purpose, without compensation, attribution, or further obligation to you. You represent and warrant that you have all rights necessary to grant the foregoing license and that no Submission infringes or violates the rights of any third party.

6. Third-Party Content and Links

The Website may include links to third-party websites, services, or resources, and may include content provided by third parties (including news articles, press releases, research reports, embedded chat widgets, and analytics). EIP does not control, endorse, or assume responsibility for any third-party websites, services, content, or resources. Your access to and use of any third-party website or service is at your own risk and is subject to the terms and policies of those third parties.

7. AI Search Engines and Content Use

EIP content may be used by AI search engines (including ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Microsoft Copilot, and similar services) to answer user questions about EIP, the EIP Assured Data Connector product suite, and topics covered on this Website. EIP requests that such services attribute EIP content as “Enterprise Infrastructure Partners” or “EIP” with a link to https://entisp.com.

EIP does not consent to the use of its content for training or fine-tuning third-party artificial intelligence or machine learning models without a separate written agreement. Nothing in these Terms grants any right to scrape, ingest, store, or otherwise reproduce EIP content for purposes of training or developing artificial intelligence or machine learning systems.

8. Informational Purposes Only; No Professional Advice

The Website is provided for general informational and marketing purposes only. EIP Content does not constitute, and should not be relied upon as, legal, accounting, tax, auditing, financial, regulatory, compliance, investment, or other professional advice. References to laws, regulations, standards, or frameworks (including CSRD, SB 253, SB 261, ISSB, the GHG Protocol, SEC climate disclosures, ALCOA+, and similar) are for general informational purposes only and may not reflect the most current legal or regulatory developments. You should consult qualified professionals before taking any action based on EIP Content.

9. Disclaimer of Warranties

The Website and all EIP Content are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis without warranty of any kind. EIP and its licensors, suppliers, and service providers expressly disclaim all warranties and conditions, whether express, implied, or statutory, including all warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, accuracy, quiet enjoyment, and non-infringement.

EIP makes no warranty that the Website will meet your requirements, will be available on an uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free basis, or that EIP Content will be accurate, reliable, free of viruses or other harmful code, complete, legal, or safe. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so the foregoing exclusions may not apply to you.

10. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, in no event shall EIP, its affiliates, or their respective officers, directors, employees, representatives, licensors, or suppliers be liable to you or any third party for any lost profits, lost data, cost of procurement of substitute products, or any indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special, or punitive damages arising from or relating to your access to or use of (or inability to access or use) the Website or any EIP Content, even if EIP has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, EIP’s total aggregate liability arising from or relating to these Terms or your use of the Website — for any cause whatsoever and regardless of the form of action — will not exceed one hundred U.S. dollars ($100). The existence of more than one claim will not enlarge this limit. Some jurisdictions do not allow limitations on incidental or consequential damages, so the foregoing limitation may not apply to you.

11. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless EIP and its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, representatives, licensors, and suppliers from and against any claims, damages, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or related to: (a) your access to or use of the Website in violation of these Terms; (b) your violation of any applicable law or regulation; (c) your infringement, misappropriation, or violation of any intellectual property or other right of any third party; or (d) any Submission you provide to EIP.

12. California Civil Code Section 1542 Waiver

If you are a California resident, you hereby waive California Civil Code Section 1542, which states: “A general release does not extend to claims which the creditor does not know or suspect to exist in his or her favor at the time of executing the release, which if known by him or her must have materially affected his or her settlement with the debtor.” You hereby waive any similar provision in law, regulation, or code that has the same intent or effect.

13. Termination and Suspension of Access

EIP reserves the right, in its sole discretion and without liability, to suspend or terminate your access to the Website at any time, with or without notice, for any reason, including any violation of these Terms. Upon termination, all rights granted to you under these Terms will immediately cease. Sections 5, 7 through 12, and 14 through 18 will survive any termination of these Terms.

14. Governing Law and Venue

These Terms, and any dispute arising from or related to your use of the Website or these Terms, are governed by the laws of the State of California, excluding its conflict-of-laws provisions, and excluding the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. You and EIP irrevocably consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the federal and state courts located in the City of San Diego and in San Diego County, California for the resolution of all such disputes.

15. Class Action and Jury Trial Waiver

All claims and disputes within the scope of these Terms must be litigated on an individual basis. Claims of more than one person or organization cannot be litigated jointly or consolidated with those of any other person or organization. You and EIP irrevocably waive any right to a trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to these Terms.

16. Time Limit on Claims

Any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to your use of the Website must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose, or it will be permanently barred.

17. Force Majeure

EIP is not responsible to you for failures or delays in performance under these Terms caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including acts of God, war, insurrection, riots, terrorism, crime, pandemics, epidemics, labor shortages (including strikes), embargoes, postal or communication disruption, failure or shortage of infrastructure, or other events beyond its control.

18. General Provisions

18.1 Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any other policies posted on the Website, constitute the entire agreement between you and EIP regarding your use of the Website and supersede all prior or contemporaneous communications, agreements, or understandings, whether oral or written.

18.2 Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, that provision will be severed and the remainder of these Terms will remain in full force and effect.

18.3 No Waiver

EIP’s failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be deemed a waiver of such right or provision. Any waiver must be in writing and signed by EIP.

18.4 Assignment

You may not assign, transfer, or sublicense your rights or obligations under these Terms without EIP’s prior written consent. EIP may assign these Terms without restriction.

18.5 Independent Contractors

Nothing in these Terms creates any partnership, joint venture, employment, franchise, or agency relationship between you and EIP.

18.6 Electronic Communications

You consent to receive communications from EIP in electronic form. You agree that all terms, conditions, agreements, notices, and other communications that EIP provides to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications would satisfy if delivered in writing.

18.7 Order of Precedence

In the event of a conflict between these Terms and the Privacy Policy or any other policy or notice posted on the Website, these Terms will control with respect to the subject matter of the conflict, unless the other document expressly states otherwise.

19. Contact Us

If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us:

  • By email: tou@entisp.com
  • By mail: Enterprise Infrastructure Partners LLC, San Diego, CA 92110, USA

Note for Product Subscribers

If you are or become a subscriber to any EIP product or service (including the EIP Assured Data Connector), your use of that product is governed by the separately executed ADC Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In the event of a conflict between these Website Terms and the ADC Terms of Service with respect to product use, the ADC Terms of Service will control. These Website Terms remain in effect for your use of the Website itself.

Privacy Policy

By EIP Webmaster · Last updated: June 1, 2026

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use, and disclosure of Your information when You use Our Services, and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

We use Your Personal Data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

  • Company (referred to as either “the Company,” “We,” “Us,” or “Our” in this Agreement) refers to Enterprise Infrastructure Partners LLC, San Diego, CA 92110.
  • Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device, or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
  • Country refers to: California, United States.
  • Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone, or a digital tablet.
  • Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
  • Service refers to the Website.
  • Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company.
  • Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself.
  • Website refers to Enterprise Infrastructure Partners, accessible from https://www.entisp.com.
  • You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data. While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You, which is submitted through Our Contact form. Personally identifiable information may include:

  • First name and last name
  • Email address
  • Phone number (optional)
  • Company name (optional)
  • Location — country and state/region (optional)
  • Message contents You submit through the Contact form
  • Usage Data

Usage Data. Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service. Usage Data may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of Our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies. We do not set first-party tracking cookies of Our own on the Website. Third-party services that We use (described under “Third-Party Service Providers” below) may set their own cookies when they load on the Website; please refer to those providers’ own privacy policies for details. We may, in the future, implement analytics services such as Google Analytics; if We do, We will update this Privacy Policy to disclose the cookies and data sharing that result.

AI Chat Assistant

What We collect. The Website offers an optional AI chat assistant (the “ADC Product Suite Assistant”). If You choose to interact with it, We automatically record the messages You type, the labels of any suggestion buttons You click, the assistant’s responses, a randomly generated session identifier that groups the messages in a single conversation, and basic technical metadata such as a timestamp and Your IP address. The session identifier is not linked to Your name or contact details unless You voluntarily include such information in Your messages.

Why We collect it. We use these chat records to understand what visitors ask, to measure and improve the accuracy and helpfulness of the assistant, and to maintain the security and reliability of the Service (including detecting misuse or abuse of the assistant).

How long We keep it. Chat records are automatically deleted approximately thirty (30) days after they are created. We do not retain them longer unless required to do so to comply with a legal obligation, resolve a dispute, or enforce Our agreements.

Please do not submit sensitive information. The assistant is intended for general questions about EIP’s products and services. Please do not enter passwords, financial account numbers, government identification numbers, health information, or other sensitive personal data into the chat. If You would like Us to delete a specific chat record, contact Us using the details in the “Contact Us” section below and, where feasible, We will honor Your request.

Third-Party Service Providers

We use the following third-party service providers in connection with the operation of the Website. Each may receive certain information (such as Your IP address or the contents You submit through forms) as part of providing their service. We encourage You to review each provider’s own privacy policy.

  • FormSubmit (formsubmit.co) processes submissions from Our Contact form and forwards them to EIP via email.
  • Google Dialogflow (chat widget) powers the in-page chat widget. Chat messages You send through the widget are processed by Google Cloud per Google’s privacy terms.
  • SiteGround hosts the Website and may log server-side request information (such as IP addresses) for security, diagnostics, and performance.
  • Google Analytics (anticipated) — We may implement Google Analytics in the future to understand how visitors use the Website. When implemented, Google Analytics will set cookies and transmit Usage Data to Google. We will update this Privacy Policy to reflect that change.
  • Google Dialogflow / Cloud (AI chat assistant) — The AI chat assistant is powered by Google Cloud services. Messages You send to the assistant are transmitted to Google for processing and to Our own Google Cloud storage for the purposes and retention period described under “AI Chat Assistant” above. Google processes this data in accordance with its own privacy terms.

Use of Your Personal Data

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain Our Service, including to monitor the usage of Our Service.
  • To contact You by email or telephone in response to inquiries You submit through the Contact form, where You have provided that information.
  • To manage Your requests to Us.
  • For business transfers, including in connection with a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer.
  • For other purposes such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, and improving Our Service.

We may share Your personal information with our Service Providers (listed above), in connection with business transfers, with Your consent, or to comply with legal obligations.

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with Our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce Our legal agreements and policies.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer. The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Delete Your Personal Data

You have the right to delete or request that We assist in deleting the Personal Data that We have collected about You. You may contact Us using the details below to request access to, correction of, or deletion of any personal information that You have provided to Us.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions. If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred.

Law Enforcement. Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities.

Other Legal Requirements. The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a legal obligation; protect and defend the rights or property of the Company; prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service; protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public; or protect against legal liability.

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Your California Privacy Rights (CCPA / CPRA)

If You are a California resident, You have the following rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA):

  • Right to know the categories and specific pieces of Personal Information We have collected about You.
  • Right to delete Personal Information We have collected from You, subject to certain exceptions.
  • Right to correct inaccurate Personal Information We hold about You.
  • Right to opt out of sale or sharing — We do not sell Personal Information, and We do not share Personal Information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
  • Right to limit use of sensitive personal information — We do not use or disclose Sensitive Personal Information for purposes that would require Us to offer this right.
  • Right to non-discrimination for exercising any of Your rights under the CCPA.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact Us at info@entisp.com. We will respond to Your verifiable request within the timeframes required by law.

Your Rights If You Are in the European Economic Area or United Kingdom (GDPR / UK GDPR)

If You are in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, You have the following rights with respect to Your Personal Data under GDPR and equivalent UK and Swiss laws:

  • Right of access to Your Personal Data
  • Right to rectification of inaccurate or incomplete data
  • Right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”)
  • Right to restriction of processing
  • Right to data portability
  • Right to object to processing
  • Right not to be subject to automated decision-making
  • Right to lodge a complaint with Your local data protection authority

To exercise any of these rights, please contact Us at info@entisp.com.

Children’s Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us.

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third-party link, You will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

Contact Us

If You have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact Us:

  • By email: info@entisp.com
  • By mail: Enterprise Infrastructure Partners LLC, San Diego, CA 92110

Glossary

Key terms behind Assured Data, audit-ready compliance, and the EIP product suite — defined plainly.

By EIP Webmaster

Assured Data

Data that has been programmatically extracted from a source system, validated through automated quality checks, and accompanied by an immutable lineage record. Used by EIP to denote audit-ready data that auditors and investors can trust.

Reasonable Assurance

The higher audit standard now mandated under CSRD, SB 253, and ISSB, requiring auditors to perform substantive testing of underlying data and lineage to express confidence in reported ESG figures. Distinct from the lower 'limited assurance' standard.

Investment-Quality Data

Data validated, traceable, and audit-ready. Every value carries lineage to its source, errors are caught and corrected at extraction, and the full audit trail is available on demand. The standard auditors expect and investors increasingly require for ESG and financial disclosures.

Data Lineage

A complete, immutable record of where each data value originated, how it was transformed, and where it was loaded. Required to defend reported figures during formal audits. Required by Financial and Investment institutions to verify investment potential.

ETL

Extract, Transform, Load — the data pipeline process of pulling data from source systems, applying transformations and validations, and loading it into a destination platform. Foundational to enterprise data integration and the EIP Assured Data Connector.

OpenLineage

An open standard for collecting and recording data lineage metadata across data pipelines. The EIP ADC generates standard OpenLineage records, giving auditors an immutable chain of custody for every value.

ALCOA+

A regulatory data-integrity framework requiring records to be Attributable, Legible, Contemporaneous, Original, Accurate, and Complete. Adopted by FDA, EMA, and other regulators as the baseline for data-integrity compliance.

Scope 2 Emissions

Indirect greenhouse gas emissions from purchased electricity, heating, cooling, or steam consumed by an organization. Defined under the GHG Protocol and required reporting in CSRD, SB 253, and ISSB.

California SB 253

The Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act, requiring large companies doing business in California to publicly report Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas emissions with assurance from an independent third-party verifier.

The Spreadsheet Trap

EIP's intellectual property describing the cumulative compliance, error, and audit-trail risk that results from using manual spreadsheets to gather, transform, or report enterprise data subject to formal audit.