How to choose the right solution for your daily work to maximize portfolio profitability

Real estate players are increasingly adopting sustainable practices to safeguard and increase their portfolio value worldwide. For many, it is no longer just about meeting market expectations. It is about mitigating financial risk, protecting assets from obsolescence, and ensuring operational resilience in a tightening economic environment.

However, in practice, many fund and asset managers find themselves stuck. Data is fragmented, reporting remains manual, retrofit decisions often feel isolated, and the platforms intended to help are frequently unstable or too light for enterprise needs. Investment plans stall due to missing insights, a lack of internal alignment, or difficulties demonstrating financial impact. 

Large owners manage diverse asset typologies across regions, uses, and regulatory contexts. This complexity makes it hard to standardize sustainability and investment strategies across portfolios. Fragmented data, unclear ROI, and siloed teams make decision-making slow and investment cases hard to defend. The result is hesitation, inefficiency, and missed investment opportunities.

Deepki was designed to remove these barriers and give real estate leaders the clarity, control, and confidence to act decisively.

A clearer way to understand and prioritize what matters

When teams lack reliable data or decision support, planning upgrades becomes a guessing game. Owners are forced to choose between dozens or even hundreds of buildings without knowing which investments will deliver the most substantial return or reduce risk the most.

We see it every day: clients are working with a patchwork of documents — energy audits, compliance reports, performance metrics — that are often scattered, inconsistent, or incomplete. Such fragmentation makes it nearly impossible to prioritize investments based on impact or financial return. And when the link between retrofit actions and outcomes isn’t clear, internal alignment becomes difficult.

Deepki centralizes your sustainability data, strategy, and operations in one place, enabling you to act on carbon, climate risk, and finance. Whether you manage assets across cities, countries, or continents, the platform allows you to compare performance, identify underperforming buildings, and simulate long-term strategies with full visibility into cost, impact, and operational feasibility.

Clients no longer need to rely on spreadsheets or consultants to prioritize actions. They can build investment plans that are consistent, confident, and grounded in reality.

Less time on data. More time on strategy.

For many sustainability teams, reporting is a major drain on time and resources. Between cleaning data, juggling different formats, and meeting different regulatory or investor requirements, reporting can become a monthly burden instead of a strategic asset. On top of this, only a fraction of the data is typically reliable at first. Teams are left cleaning spreadsheets, reconciling formats, and manually building reports, all while trying to meet internal deadlines and investor expectations.

That’s why more asset managers are adopting platforms that help with the manual workload by automating data collection and validation across thousands of assets, spotting anomalies, and producing standardized reports aligned with key real estate frameworks. For instance, Deepki helps streamline these processes across thousands of assets, improving data quality and freeing up time for more impactful work.

As Clémence Arlin, CSR Manager at Atream, puts it:

“Before Deepki, only 56% of the data was reliable. Sustainability data was difficult to collect and make reliable. After a year of work with the Deepki team, we’ve gone up to 98.5% of real data. Today, the solution has enabled us to centralise all this information, fill in 40% of missing data, and, above all, gain a better understanding and visibility of the assets in the portfolio. It has become an essential tool in my day-to-day work.”

Reporting cycles are faster, and data quality is higher, providing stakeholders with a level of trust and transparency that drives smarter decisions. Ultimately, your team can focus on what really matters.

Built for enterprise scale and real-world complexity

Most platforms weren’t built to handle the complexity of large, diverse real estate portfolios. They struggle with multiple asset types, legacy systems, or cross-border portfolios. As portfolios grow, their weaknesses show up in the form of slow performance, integration headaches, and limited support.

The most effective teams overcome this by centralizing their data, strategy, and operations. This gives them the visibility to identify underperforming assets, model strategies, and align sustainability goals with financial outcomes. That’s exactly how global real estate leaders such as CBRE are scaling their efforts across global portfolios, using Deepki to support data-driven investment decisions on more than 6,000 buildings worldwide.

“Deepki provides deep insights that will enable our teams to take informed actions at the building level. This will help us embed sustainability best practices – and add real value – at properties we manage around the world.”

– Emma Buckland, Global President of Property Management at CBRE

Clients know that when they scale, their platform can scale with them.

Expertise that goes beyond software

Many investment and asset management companies have tools that collect and centralize data. But without expert guidance, even the best data can go unused.

We’ve seen this across the market: sustainability and technical teams often move faster than finance or C-level stakeholders. When the value of a project isn’t clearly communicated, it slows down or stalls entirely. The gap isn’t technical, it’s strategic. That’s the green finance gap. And it’s what Deepki is here to close.

What they lack is the expertise to turn that data into meaningful, actionable plans. Without guidance, projects stall, stakeholder alignment becomes difficult, and opportunities are missed. That’s why more players are turning to partners that combine technology with deep sector expertise. It’s not just about collecting data; it’s about making it actionable.

At Deepki, this dual approach is central. Clients don’t just get a platform, they gain access to in-house specialists who understand regulations, retrofit pathways, data complexity, and how to navigate complex stakeholder environments. With local teams on four continents and over 50,000 users worldwide, Deepki offers the hands-on guidance every client needs to move from insight to implementation. Clients aren’t left to figure it out alone: they get a partner who knows their market, speaks their language, and gets their business.

Linking sustainability to investment strategy

Understanding how your portfolio performs is important, but turning that insight into smart and forward-looking investments is a different challenge. Many asset managers find it difficult to connect technical sustainability targets with tangible financial results. Retrofits are often approached in a fragmented, building-by-building manner, which complicates funding efforts and limits coordination. Without a cohesive strategy, ROI remains uncertain, and even when action plans exist, translating their financial impact into credible and finance-ready metrics remains a major hurdle.

To address this, an increasing number of firms are turning to tools that bring together environmental data and financial performance indicators at the portfolio level. 

One example is Catella Investment Management, which uses Deepki’s Investment Planning tool to close that gap. The tool enables asset owners to move from fragmented, asset-by-asset retrofitting towards cohesive, portfolio-level investment strategies. It reconciles environmental performance with financial KPIs, helping you prioritize actions that maximize ROI, align with decarbonization goals, and boost long-term asset value. The platform supports a transition from reactive budgeting to proactive capital allocation.

“As a sustainable partner for real estate investments, sustainability is a crucial point for us in every investment decision. The Deepki Investment Plan tool enables us to make this link, by directly showing and measuring the financial impact of sustainability measures on an asset’s performance, and then model this strategically in the future.”
– Volker Stix, Managing Director, Catella Investment Management

A steady partner in an uncertain market

In recent months, the market for sustainability platforms has become volatile. Some providers have cut staff, delayed rollouts, or changed direction entirely. For clients, this creates real operational risk. Delays pile up. Trust erodes. Decisions are postponed.

Deepki offers stability. With over a decade of growth, institutional investment, and a long-term product roadmap, the company continues to invest in its platform, its people, and its clients. Methodologies are transparent. We built the platform to be fully auditable. Certifications like ISO 27001 and ISO 14064-1 ensure the highest standards of security and performance. Deepki is also ISAE 3000 Type 2 certified, demonstrating an unmatched commitment to quality, security, and trust.

This stability allows Deepki to continually enhance automation, analytics, and scenario planning capabilities while quickly adapting to emerging frameworks and the specific needs of different asset classes. It supports the growth of local teams in key regions, ensuring clients receive timely, in-language support. At the same time, Deepki expands its partnerships with local players and technology providers to stay connected and relevant. Throughout, the platform integrates smoothly into each client’s existing workflows and technology stack, minimizing disruption and accelerating impact.

Future-proofing value through resilience

Sustainability is not about ticking boxes. It is about anticipating risk and acting early to protect long-term value. This includes understanding energy use, benchmarking carbon performance, and adapting to climate exposure — not only to comply with evolving standards, but to preserve competitiveness.

Deepki provides solutions to support this journey. Clients can model retrofit strategies, simulate carbon reduction, and align reporting with key certification systems like BREEAM and LEED. Built-in climate risk analytics allow users to assess exposure without needing third-party tools, bringing resilience planning directly into their workflow. This allows owners to move from short-term reporting toward long-term value creation.