Unlock the Full Potential of Your Tools with SimaPro Synergy
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, new online sustainability tools are developed every day. But creating these tools with the advanced functionalities required for accurate, reliable results from scratch can be resource-draining and time-intensive. What if your applications could seamlessly tap into a trusted, powerful engine to perform complex sustainability calculations? Now they can.
With SimaPro Synergy, you can effortlessly integrate SimaPro’s cutting-edge Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) capabilities into your existing tools and systems. Whether you’re building eco-design solutions, carbon footprint calculators, or custom sustainability dashboards, SimaPro Synergy provides the robust infrastructure for delivering accurate, transparent results with minimal effort.
By connecting your applications to SimaPro Synergy, you gain access to a comprehensive suite of LCA capabilities that enable you to quantify the environmental impact of your products and services with exceptional precision. This integration allows for customizable solutions; From calculating carbon footprints to improving sustainability communication strategies.
SimaPro Synergy isn’t just a technical integration; it’s a transformative tool that accelerates your journey towards sustainable innovation. It’s cost-effective, scalable, and future-ready, ensuring that as your sustainability goals evolve, your tools evolve with them.
Simplifying the complexity of life cycle assessments, SimaPro Synergy lets you focus on what matters most: making your products, services, and operations more sustainable and impactful.
Benefits of SimaPro Synergy
Powerful. Take your existing tool to the next level, or build a new one effortlessly. With SimaPro Synergy, you can easily connect to a wide range of tools, integrating SimaPro’s advanced Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) capabilities into your systems. It can handle large volumes of complex data, empowering your solutions to deliver granular, precise, accurate sustainability insights with minimal effort.
Cost-effective. Leveraging SimaPro Synergy is a smart choice. Forget about the hassle and expense of LCA reporting. We take care of all the heavy lifting for you, so you can focus on what matters: designing better, more sustainable products and processes. With seamless integration, you’ll get access to a robust LCA engine, complete with up-to-date methods and libraries, without the need for extensive resources.
Transparent. With SimaPro Synergy, transparency is key. There’s no “black box”. You’ll always know exactly where your data is coming from, ensuring that your sustainability assessments are based on trustworthy, traceable sources. Furthermore, Synergy is backed by ISO 27001 information security certification, so you can be confident that your data is secure, and your processes are compliant with the highest standards of information security.
How an API works
The API connects existing or new custom tools to the SimaPro calculation engine. It allows you to send and receive messages and data between different systems in a controlled, standard and open manner. The API is fully documented and can be accessed online.
What you can do with the API
| Your goal | Building blocks | Steps | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collect data, create scenarios, reports and dashboards |  | Upload or build modelConfigure modulesLink model and modulesReady to go | Out-of-the-box |
| Add new functionality to an existing software or tool |  | Upload or build modelConfigure modulesLink model and modulesReady to go | Integrated |
| Develop a custom tool or app | | Build specific tool or appUpload or build modelConfigure APIReady to go | Custom |
Customer cases
BioScope
Custom tool, developed for Platform BEE
BioScope is a free access online tool to easily determine the impact of a company’s supply chain on biodiversity.
The user interface has a simple visual way to gather and enter data, which makes it accessible to companies and users at all expertise levels.
The results are visualized on a world map, showing where the biodiversity impacts take place and which human activity is most likely to cause it. Users can register for the tool online.
Farm-level GHG calculator
Integrated tool, developed for Zuivel NL
A climate add-on allows over 16,000 dairy Dutch farmers to independently calculate their GHG emissions.
The calculator smoothly integrates the KringloopWijzer tool with the SimaPro LCA software and a highly complex, sector-specific LCA model.
The online tool can manage up to 36,000 requests per month and provides farmers with easy data input and user-friendly insights into their carbon footprint.
The possibilities are endless
The API enables you to connect to a number of tools. Examples include: ERP, PLM, sustainability reporting, dairy management, supply chain management, CAD and others. With the API you can also create numerous tools, such as material selection, packaging tool, transport tool, procurement, standard reporting, biodiversity, consumer apps, eco-design, sector tools and much more.