5 reasons to choose eOceans
Around the world, teams are stretched thin and struggling to get ahead. They painstakingly manage messy, one-off spreadsheets, spend hours reformatting data, or constantly wait for someone with coding skills to get results. You know the problem isn’t the passion or effort—it’s the tools.
So, they start searching for a better way. After months and even years of trying to find better ways — maybe even considering assembling a bunch of different apps and softwares, or investing in building your own app or software system, you figure out what you really need: an all-in-one platform that allows your teams to stay focused. They enter data and the analysis, maps, graphs, tables, reports, and more all happens—like magic. Saving hundreds to thousands of hours.
That’s where eOceans comes in. In this article, we’ll explain why you should choose eOceans.
Built by Experts, for Everyone
eOceans wasn’t dreamed up in a boardroom or a startup incubator—it was carefully built by scientists, policy experts, fisheries and citizen science practitioners, and conservation scientists who know firsthand how hard it is to manage and make sense of socio-ecological and environmental data. We’ve spent decades experiencing what slows down projects, what derails decisions, and what makes good results hard to scale.
Our mission is simple: to give teams the tools they need to focus on the real work—making discoveries, driving impact, and shaping thriving futures. As our founder often says: “We don’t want your team wasting weeks wrangling spreadsheets—we want them free to focus on the questions and work that matter.”
With eOceans, you can log field observations right into the app , manage data streams, map results, and share insights—all in one place.
Unlimited Scaling Potential
Unlike many tools that lock you into slow workflows and silos—with paper logsheets, one-off self-made spreadsheets and datasets, endless pointing and clicking in GIS to make maps, and individualized R code for analyses and generating graphs, figures, and tables—eOceans is designed to scale without limits. Whether you’re running one small community project or coordinating hundreds of overlapping projects across regions, you can bring your entire team—and even external collaborators—into the same space.
That’s important because socio-ecological and environmental work has no boundaries and depends on collaboration. Industry, scientists, policymakers, communities, and NGOs—everyone needs to speak the same data language to work together when it’s needed.
With eOceans, you don’t waste time explaining, emailing, wrangling variables, reformatting spreadsheets, or duplicating sampling, data management, or analysis—it’s all done automatically, in one place.
Best Value for Performance
We know budgets are tight—whether you’re a researcher, business, nonprofit, or government agency. That’s why we designed eOceans to offer the best price-performance ratio in the field.
You can start small with a free trial, upgrade easily as you grow, and only pay for the features and storage you actually use. No hidden fees. Just the tools that save your team time, money, and headaches.
And because eOceans automates so much of the grunt work—standardising data, generating reports, handling analysis—you’ll quickly see the return on investment in saved hours and better decisions.
Easy to Use, No Training Required
Data science is complicated. But with eOceans, you don’t need to be a data or systems architect, app builder, Shiny app expert, coder, or GIS specialist to get the results you need. Everything is designed to be intuitive: set up your project, add data, then visit the dashboard to view your results—maps, graphs, tables, and filters to show exactly what you need. Launching and running a project or exporting data and reports can all be done in just a few clicks.
We also provide field guides, videos, and tools to share your methods and perform quality control. And when you need it, we have expert support to help you along the way.
Everything, Everywhere
In the past, research and monitoring teams had to custom-build everything—sampling designs, field logsheets, spreadsheets, quality controls, analyses, and reports. This made projects slow, siloed, and hard to scale.
Drawing from a meta-analysis of socio-ecological and environmental projects worldwide, eOceans built the platform needed to support projects of all kinds—scalably and seamlessly. From small First Nations teams and NGOs to major government and intergovernmental agencies, eOceans adapts to your needs.
Our app works offline in the field, syncs when you’re back online, and supports teams working across regions and languages. You can also integrate sensors, connect existing and historic data, and engage local and Indigenous knowledge holders.
We’re continuously expanding our reach and functionality to ensure your projects are scalable, easy to execute, and future-proof. Whether your focus is nature-based solutions, blue carbon, green infrastructure, biodiversity, fisheries, pollution, policy, or the blue economy, eOceans evolves with you.
Bonus: Data Sovereignty
We know your data are valuable. That’s why we designed eOceans with transparent ownership — you own your data and decide who to share with.
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Launch, Run, and Scale — all in one place.
eOceans is a cloud platform for all your environmental and socio-ecological data and project management needs, designed to make your work faster, easier, and more impactful.
Create a central hub for your project — add your field teams and sensors and survey to add observations, monitor species and habitats, and run projects with automated workflows.
eOceans — smart tools for thriving ecosystems and communities.