The electric utility industry faces a number of critical challenges, including coping with pressure to improve financial performance while holding rates down, meeting customer and regulator demands for improved reliability, satisfying growing peak demand for electricity, managing a large dispersed asset base reaching the end of its useful life, and coping with an aging workforce about to retire with the associated loss of institutional knowledge.
To address these issues, electric utilities must carefully allocate their resources to achieve the greatest business value for every dollar spent. However, through no fault of their own, most utilities lack the clear, comprehensive visibility into today’s network operations required to make optimal strategic and operational decisions. Instead they are hampered by:
• Multiple sources of inconsistent data about the operating network
• Lack of historical data about changes to network assets and inability to put them into contemporaneous business and network context
• Limited integration of network information across disparate departmental systems
The Certa Platform transforms the way that utilities manage and use their operations data to make possible greater:
• Information integration and access
• Information quality and consistency
• Information context
The Certa Platform scales to support the service demands of both small and large utilities.
To ensure that utilities are able to bring comprehensive operational and business information together to support both day-to-day and strategic decisions, Certa Business Analytics extends the value of the platform by enabling operational reporting across disparate systems. Through Certa Business Analytics, utilities can easily generate reports and thematic maps showing such things as past and current client outages by region or circuit and customer type, network availability by location or feeder and type of service, evolution of quality of service indicators, and location, state, and status of assets for operations and asset tracking purposes.
Certa Solution Suites Designed Specifically for Utilities
To help utilities optimize their service reliability and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their operations, asset management, and engineering functions, CertaLogic offers comprehensive Certa Solution Suites, comprised of robust applications designed specifically for municipalities, cooperatives, and investor-owned utilities.
Together, the Certa Platform, Certa Solution Suites, and Certa Business Analytics offer utilities an innovative solution that helps transform operations: a platform that ensures consistent, accurate, and high-quality information; a set of robust applications that address and enhance daily business processes; and business analytics tools that enable management at all levels to access and use accurate network- and business-related information from across the organization.
Learn more about how Certa Solution Suites and applications help utilities better target their network investments, increase productivity, and improve regulatory outcomes:
Certa Service Reliability Solutions
•Certa Outage Management System
•Certa Service Reliability Analysis
Certa Asset Management Solutions
•Certa Project Construction Management
•Certa Asset Tracking and Valuation
Certa Engineering Solutions
•Certa Geographic Information System
