Case Study: Inside HIAG’s journey to smarter, and automated reporting.

As a leading Swiss real estate company, HIAG is transforming its portfolio towards higher sustainability standards. The recent issuance of two Green Bonds underlines their commitment to measurable environmental performance and transparent reporting. At the center of this journey is Andreas Kalberer’s team, which leads HIAG’s sustainability efforts. Their goal is to provide transparent sustainability reporting to measure impact, steer performance, and communicate credibly with investors and stakeholders.

The Challenge

Despite strong ambitions, HIAG faced structural challenges regarding full transparency over utility consumption across its portfolio. Data was scattered across multiple providers and systems, requiring manual collection and harmonization. This process was time-consuming, error-prone, resulted in inconsistent data quality, and increased audit complexity.

With increasing regulatory requirements and obligations, manual workflows became a strategic bottleneck. HIAG needed reliable, timely data and a scalable foundation for high-quality reporting.

The Solution

HIAG partnered with Anevo to automate the entire consumption data workflow. Instead of manual collection, Anevo established direct integrations with various sources of utility data, ensuring continuous and automated data availability.

A key component was the deep integration with HIAG’s ERP system. By securely accessing relevant asset and financial data within clearly defined governance guardrails, Anevo ensured precise allocation of consumption data to the correct properties and reporting structures. This eliminated manual mapping and reduced error risks.

The platform automatically extracts, standardizes, and matches consumption data, harmonizing different formats into a unified structure. Built-in validation mechanisms identify missing or outlying values, creating a reliable and audit-ready data foundation.

Through Anevo’s web platform, the sustainability team now has access to a granular, portfolio-wide overview.

The Impact

The results were measurable within a short time. Thanks to the ERP integration, data collection lead times were eliminated, and manual effort was reduced by a factor of 30. Automated validation significantly improved data quality and transparency, enabling better decision-making and more credible reporting. 

Audit processes became faster and simpler, as structured data can be securely shared with auditors directly through the platform.

“Anevo has significantly improved our efficiency. Directly integrating with our ERP system unlocked automated and accurate reporting.”

- Stefan Hilber, CFO

Looking Ahead

Building on this success, HIAG is expanding its collaboration with Anevo to further enhance reporting capabilities and explore additional ERP-driven automation use cases.

By moving processes with fragmented data into an integrated, automated system, HIAG has strengthened both its sustainability reporting and its digital foundation for long-term growth.