Not many software companies can say they've nearly eliminated their dependence on non-renewable electricity. o9 Solutions can. In 2025, the Dallas-based enterprise planning company pushed its renewable electricity coverage from 96% to just shy of 100%. That number, alongside a string of other results published in its ESG Report 2026 this week, tells the story of a company that has been quietly but seriously working on its sustainability commitments for a few years now.

The recognition came too. EcoVadis, which assesses hundreds of thousands of companies worldwide on their sustainability performance, handed o9 a Platinum Medal in 2025 after its score jumped from 80 to 89. That placed the company in the top 1% globally. It's a hard club to get into.

The emissions picture was equally strong. Overall market-based emissions fell 14.3% year over year. More significantly, o9 recorded its first-ever reduction in Scope 3 emissions since setting its baseline in 2022. Anyone who follows corporate sustainability knows that Scope 3 is where most companies get stuck. These are the emissions that sit outside a company's direct control, in supplier operations, logistics, business travel, and so on. Moving that number down even slightly takes real effort and real coordination. o9 moved it down in a year when it was also growing its business.

In the report, speaking of suppliers, o9 spent 2025 scaling up its Supplier Engagement Plan from a pilot into something more substantial. By the end of the year it had brought suppliers representing 54% of its purchased goods and services emissions into the fold. The eventual target is 90% alignment with science-based targets by 2028. Last year's progress made that feel achievable rather than aspirational.
On the security side, the company picked up a CyberVadis Platinum rating and held 100% ISO 27001 certification across its global operations throughout the year. For a company whose software sits at the heart of supply chain and planning decisions for large enterprises, that kind of assurance isn't optional.

There was also a newer topic on the agenda. In 2025, o9 formally recognised responsible AI as a material ESG issue and started building a governance framework around it, covering transparency, accountability, security and regulatory readiness. It's the kind of thing that's easy to put off, but with AI moving as fast as it is through enterprise operations, getting the governance structure in place now rather than scrambling later is the smarter call.

Away from the headline metrics, the company donated just over $249,000 to community causes during the year, clocked 3,248 volunteer hours across its global teams, and added more trees to its o9 Forest initiative, which has now crossed 55,000 trees planted since 2021.
CEO and co-founder Chakri Gottemukkala has consistently made the point that sustainability and business performance aren't separate conversations at o9. The company uses its own platform internally for emissions tracking and ESG reporting, which means the tools it sells to clients are the same ones it relies on itself.

The report was built against GRI, SASB, ESRS, UNGC, CDP and GHG Protocol standards. SGS United Kingdom verified selected indicators independently, the fourth consecutive year o9 has sought outside assurance on its numbers.