Five-Year Outlook For The CEO: EHS Software

Published 3 April 2025 by Christopher Sayers & Bill Pennington &
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Executive Summary

In the next five years, EHS software CEOs will experience a fundamental shift, as autonomous AI agents become widely embedded, mid-market competition intensifies and new market entrants challenge incumbents. Senior strategic leaders must expertly steer the ship, as they seek to expand market share, achieve sustainable growth and increase customer retention. This report is one in a series identifying the long-term market influences, risks and opportunities that EHS software CEOs should consider as inputs to their strategic planning. Readers will gain insight into long-term market trends, growth and white space opportunities, changing competitive dynamics, emergent AI-linked risks, buyer priorities and EHS digital strategy evolution.

Table of contents

Summary for decision-makers
Long-term, transformative market shifts will redefine vendor strategies and reshape CEO decision-making

The state and direction of the EHS software market
Among many disruptive trends, AI should top the list of CEO priorities
Strategic leaders should action change in the expectation of fast-approaching competitive threats

Table of figures

Figure 1. EHS software vendor strategic inputs
Figure 2. Adjacent EHS software market segments overview
Figure 3. Long-term EHS software risk matrix
Figure 4. Five-year view: vendor dynamics
Figure 5. Five-year view: buyer dynamics
Figure 6. EHS software buyer long-term priorities evolution

About the authors

Christopher Sayers

Senior Manager
Chris is Senior Manager of the Verdantix AI Applied practice. His current research agenda focuses on enterprise AI integration and adoption, AI market trends and agentic AI. Prior to joining the AI Applied team, he was a senior EHS analyst and the Verdantix EHS software market lead. Chris joined Verdantix in 2020 and has previous experience at EY, where he specialized in robotic process automation (RPA). He holds an MEng in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford, with a focus on machine learning and machine vision.

Bill Pennington

VP Research, EHS & Risk Management
Bill is the VP Research for the Verdantix EHS & Risk Management practices. His current agenda focuses on understanding the evolution of EHS and enterprise risk management, evaluating emerging strategic risks and benchmarking technology buyers’ budgets, priorities and preferences globally.

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