IT strategies for the power supply industry
The implementation of competitive strategies and legal requirements is today inseparably tied with the support by corresponding IT systems. In reverse considerable competitive advantages are achieved by the potential of these systems. This interaction justifies and requires at the same time comprehensive consideration of the medium- and long-term planning of the entire IT infrastructure within the scope of the strategic company alignment.
Moreover the use of IT systems is always connected with operative performance and cost targets. In the times of increasing demands for efficiency as well as a consequence of deregulation of the energy market, the plan ability and the reduction of the IT costs are gaining increasingly in importance.
Your situation
- You plan the introduction of a new technology, such as of an ERP, document management, geo-information, CAD or EDM system and aim at optimum integration into your business processes and the technical infrastructure.
- You want to fulfil lastingly the requirements resulting from the new general conditions of the energy supply industry with the aid of an IT strategy aligned to the future.
- You develop new fields of business to expand your competitive position. An efficient IT strategy should support your multi-utility requirements optimally.
- You are looking for possibilities of reducing your IT costs and displaying them transparently and in a communicable manner.
Our solutions for your success
- Derivation of future-oriented IT requirement profiles throughout the company
- Coordination of general corporate political, technical and organizational conditions
- Commercial, strategic and technical evaluation of future systems as well as support in decision making
- Definition of process and information interfaces to typical functional requirements (e.g. CRM, DMS/Archive, CAD/CAE, GIS, SAP IS-U, ERP, facility management, maintenance)
- Taking account of supplier-typical areas and their processes, such as customer care centre (front office), customer centres, back office, diversifications, sales channels and marketing
- Concerted cost optimization by harmonizing the IT landscape, optimization of shared services and IT cost controlling (definition, evaluation and control of IT processes by means of key figures)
Examples of concluded projects
- Strategic concept for the comprehensive extension of the IT infrastructure of a regional power supply company. The addition and coordination of the following technologies was contents of the project: Document management, electronic archive, office communication, CAD, CAE, geo-information system as well as SAP and host applications.
- Comprehensive reorganization and implementation of a new IT strategy in the course of unbundling for a communal power supply company.
- Organization analysis, product evaluation and assessment, production of the tendering documents with comprehensive catalogues of criteria, assessment of the quotations and selection process for the introduction of coordinated IT systems for a regional power supply company.