Reference Achitecture for Dialogue-Based Sustainability Reporting

Abstract

Sustainability reporting is the integrated communication of economic, ecologic and social impacts. Nowadays, most reports are web-based. However, small and medium enterprises are by far less active in this field than large companies due to a lack of resources. In this paper a reference architecture and its concrete implementation is presented which will provide a free software system to reduce the cost of sustainability reporting. In order to demonstrate the flexibility of this architecture, ongoing research especially in terms of dialogue-orientation, interactivity and web 2.0 will be included to provide companies and other organisations a freely available tool to report on sustainability issues.