BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY CONSULTING

Preparing your utility for the digital future is imperative. You must not only define and deliver digital business platforms but also effectively persuade business stakeholders to invest resources in digital projects.

Our services establish a strategy and roadmap for a sustained and scalable investment of digital capabilities across business and IT.

Establishing the building blocks that a program, project or strategy is executed upon is key. Our consultants ensure those building blocks are clearly defined and understood across the organization from both business operations and IT perspectives.

We will scale our services to support change efforts ranging from tactical improvements through large scale transformation efforts. Our business consultants are experienced leaders and practitioners who are customer-focused, are delivery-excellence driven, and can navigate and manage complex projects, working effectively across diverse business and technology organizations.

We have helped countless utilities world-wide in navigating business challenges such as:

Educational Workshops

• Smart grid standards
• Enterprise architecture
• Enterprise information management (EIM)
• Service-oriented architecture (SOA)
• Smart grid interoperability strategy

Business Consulting areas

• Utility operational systems and data management consulting
• Utility asset management and integration consulting
• Utility customer management and analytics consulting
• Implementation and integration of utility business operations systems
• Information Management consulting,
• Readiness assessments and recommendations

Technology Platform Guidance

Technology platforms support your systems, applications, and processes. We provide guidance on database platforms, computing platforms, operating systems, storage solutions, application platforms, analytics platforms, web platforms and others. Cloud-bases, in-house or mix is considered when looking at the best options for your situation.

Vendor Know-How Assessment and Selection

Our consulting and implementation experience includes GIS, SCADA, EMS, Outage Management, Customer Services (CIS), AMI, ISO Control Systems and Distribution Management.