GCX Software

Pinnacle.

ESG reporting and disclosure: align your data to the frameworks your stakeholders actually read, with the audit trail to back it.

The challenge

The disclosure burden
keeps growing.

Listed and aspirant companies face a widening set of reporting expectations: the JSE’s Sustainability and Climate Disclosure Guidance, the GRI Standards, sector-specific SASB metrics, and stakeholders who each want the same performance expressed a different way.

Most organisations answer this with a reporting season: a scramble of spreadsheets, a consultant, and a document assembled under deadline. The data behind it is rarely traceable, and the next cycle starts from the beginning again.

DASH Pinnacle makes disclosure a continuous process rather than an annual event. Frameworks are configured in the platform and ready to draw on, data moves through an auditable workflow with clear ownership at each stage, and reporting indicators are populated from the same governed data set every cycle.

Why Pinnacle

  • Frameworks ready to useJSE, GRI and SASB configured in the platform
  • One governed data setindicators populated from a single source
  • A defensible audit trailclear ownership from capture to sign-off
  • Reporting across the groupconsolidated and entity-level views
  • Assurance-readystructured support for third-party audit
Frameworks and reporting capability configured in the platform today

Key features

Disclosure that stands up
to the questions after it.

From framework selection to sign-off, on one governed data set.

01

A catalogue of leading frameworks

Access GCX’s catalogue of the world’s most widely recognised sustainability and ESG frameworks, each configured within the platform and ready to draw on.

02

JSE Sustainability & Climate Disclosure

Align reporting with the Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s guidance, which draws on globally recognised frameworks including GRI and the TCFD recommendations, contextualised for the South African market.

03

GRI Standards

Prepare reporting in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative Standards, the most widely adopted sustainability reporting framework internationally, addressing economic, environmental and social impacts.

04

SASB industry metrics

Apply the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board’s industry-specific metrics, ensuring disclosures focus on the sustainability topics most financially material to your sector.

05

Structured data workflow

Configurable workflows carry information from capture through validation, review and sign-off, with clear ownership at each stage: data integrity and a transparent audit trail for assurance.

06

Role-level security

User access is configured by role, so each individual, from data capturers and reviewers through to departmental heads and executive leadership, sees only what is appropriate to their responsibilities.

Enterprise ready

Managed, secured
and kept current.

A managed platform

Hosted, secured and maintained by GCX, so your team runs reporting rather than infrastructure.

What that means

  • Hosted within Microsoft Azure’s enterprise-grade security infrastructure
  • Maintained in line with Azure’s evolving security frameworks
  • Role-based access from data capturers through to executive leadership
  • Ongoing platform upgrades and new functionality included as standard

Disclosure you can assure

An auditable path from raw capture to signed-off disclosure.

What that means

  • Configurable workflows with clear ownership at each stage
  • One year of historic data included, for year-on-year comparison
  • External assurance support to prepare data and disclosures for audit
  • Direct access to the GCX support team throughout the cycle

Built to extend

Widen the reporting boundary and the framework set as obligations grow.

What that means

  • Additional sector-specific frameworks beyond the standard catalogue
  • Reporting extended across multiple subsidiaries and brands
  • API connections to existing systems, automating data flow in place of manual capture
  • Further frameworks coming soon: IFRS S1 & S2, King V, UN SDGs and the IFC Performance Standards

DASH Pinnacle is licensed per organisation, scoped to your frameworks, entities and user count.

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Ready to see it on your data?

Bring your current disclosure and we'll show you how Pinnacle would structure it.

How it fits

The disclosure layer
of the DASH suite.

DASH Pinnacle is where performance becomes disclosure. It sits alongside DASH Ascent, which measures and manages environmental performance, and Packtrac, which handles Extended Producer Responsibility as a separate obligation with its own audience.

Where Ascent is already in place, its data feeds directly into Pinnacle’s environmental key performance indicators and disclosures, drawing on a single data set without duplicate capture. Pinnacle also stands on its own where the reporting obligation is the pressing need.

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Who it is built for

  • Listed and aspirant companies reporting to the JSE
  • Reporting officers and company secretarial teams
  • Sustainability teams preparing GRI or SASB disclosure
  • Groups reporting across multiple subsidiaries and brands
  • Boards and investors requiring assured, comparable data
  • Organisations preparing for third-party assurance

Client story

Discovery, on
the long journey.

Tshepi Molefe on embedding science-based targets across Discovery's footprint, and hitting every annual reduction goal since FY2019.

GCX Conversations · Discovery

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Ready to report
with confidence?

We start with a walkthrough against your own reporting obligations: the frameworks you answer to, the data you hold, and where the gaps sit before the next cycle begins.