ESG Data Platform for the Financial Sector from T Cloud Public

In this article, you’ll read,

• why the financial market needs better ESG data,
• how Dataland is addressing this challenge with a centralized platform
• and what role the T Cloud Public plays in this. 

When it comes to ESG data, the financial sector is under pressure. Asset managers, banks, and other market participants need reliable sustainability data to make investment decisions, comply with regulatory requirements, and evaluate companies effectively. At the same time, sufficient and up-to-date data is often lacking, its quality varies, and access is frequently expensive. This is exactly where Dataland comes in: with a central platform for ESG data based on the T Cloud Public.

The financial market often lacks sufficient, high-quality, and affordable ESG data. This complicates company valuations, investment decisions, and compliance with regulatory requirements. At the same time, companies—as data owners—are approached by many parties simultaneously, yet they often lack the necessary resources and quickly lose control over how their data is used.

The problem thus lies on both sides: financial market participants need reliable data, and companies are expected to provide it. This is precisely where Dataland comes in with a central platform for ESG data.

Dataland addresses this challenge with a data ecosystem that serves as a central platform for ESG data. The approach: Organizations request the corporate data they need. This data is incorporated into a collective dataset and made available to all Dataland users. This allows data gaps to be closed collaboratively, data to be standardized, and costs to be shared among multiple stakeholders. The more market participants join, the lower the costs for each individual.  

In doing so, Dataland deliberately positions itself as an alternative to profit-driven data aggregators. The goal is to structurally transform the data market and build a reliable, shared data foundation. The establishment of such a data ecosystem as a single source of truth is intended to serve the interests of both sides: data users in the financial market as well as companies as data owners.  

Dataland is a non-profit, purpose-driven organization and a subsidiary of the Werte-Stiftung. For asset managers, banks, and other financial market participants, this means structured access to ESG data. For companies as data owners, the platform approach creates greater efficiency and more control over how their data is handled.  

A data ecosystem of this kind requires a technical platform that is scalable, open, and trustworthy. This is because Dataland is not only intended to make ESG data available, but also to evolve over the long term into a robust infrastructure for sustainability-related data usage.

Technical performance alone is not enough. Equally important are openness, a solid foundation for growth, and the ability to confidently facilitate data exchange. This is exactly where T Cloud Public comes into play.

Dataland runs on T Cloud Public. In this way, T Cloud Public provides the infrastructure for a platform designed to make ESG data centrally accessible to the financial sector. T Cloud Public’s role goes beyond simply providing infrastructure: it creates the technological foundation for an open, scalable data ecosystem.

The focus is primarily on three aspects:

• A modern foundation for growth
• Operations powered by 100% renewable energy
• An open approach to technology

This combination is particularly crucial in the context of sensitive and regulatory-driven data models. From T-Systems’ perspective, T Cloud Public is therefore the ideal foundation for secure data exchange and the long-term operation of modern, open data ecosystems.

Dataland is supported by a broad ecosystem of partners. In addition to T-Systems, its implementation partners include d-fine, Experience One, and KYT. In addition, numerous organizations from the ESG and financial sectors are supporting the market launch, including Atlas Metrics, the BVI Fund Association, CHOM CAPITAL, Deka Investment, Dydon AI, Envoria, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation, Impact Cubed, Metzler Asset Management, PwC Germany, the Value Balancing Alliance, VÖB-Services, and WWF Germany.  

This constellation underscores the ambition not only to provide a technical platform but also to build a robust ecosystem for the shared use and further development of ESG data. Dataland explicitly pursues the goal of becoming critical infrastructure for sustainability data.  

At the platform’s launch, data for four ESG frameworks could be requested and provided:

• Pathways to Paris
• EU Taxonomy
• Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR)
• Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (LkSG)

This means that Dataland already meets key regulatory and market-related requirements at launch.  

At the same time, the platform is designed for growth. In the future, it is intended to support additional ESG regulations and use cases. More complex data types, such as satellite imagery, are also planned. Furthermore, market participants will eventually have the option to provide their own frameworks. This makes it clear: Dataland is not designed as a static data collection, but as a scalable data ecosystem with room for expansion.