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Electric Utilities Services Overview

Link strategic imperatives with performance measurement
When you can see and understand how people, processes, infrastructure and assets act together across your electric company to affect business performance, you can respond rapidly and effectively to whatever demands, opportunities and threats come your way. The Jefferson solutions can help you see and understand your entire organization in a business context—and take action based on that holistic view. Streamline costs, improve operational efficiencies and help eliminate redundancies to meet your strategic goals.

Accountability for improved operations
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requirements can be an opportunity to improve and streamline system controls, and improve real-time business process efficiency, even beyond the scope of specific regulatory compliance. The Jefferson solutions can help you take advantage of such regulation requirements to drive performance improvements, such as:

Providing information visibility and analytical tools to help optimize the balance between business performance and improved internal controls.
Spotlighting executive and management accountability for performance.
Enhancing communications through better content delivery among internal and external stakeholders.
Enabling information to be leveraged for better decision making across the enterprise.
Consolidating, integrating and standardizing multiple applications and ad hoc systems to help eliminate redundancies and reduce the cost of supporting disparate systems.

Balance performance with controls
Delivering consistent, improved performance and maintaining regulatory compliance don’t have to be mutually exclusive goals. The Jefferson solutions for electric utilities delivers integrated processes, enabling technology and relevant content for improved decision making and productivity.

Insight-driven decisions
The Jefferson solutions for electric utilities creates a framework that is designed to enhance performance across the enterprise and streamline regulatory compliance. This can provide:

Linkage between financial measures and operational performance indicators.
Improved predictive capabilities for reporting early estimates of actual vs. budgeted performance.
Reduced time spent on data manipulation and reconciliation.
Access to relevant information for faster, more accurate decision making.
Regulatory data and analysis, such as:
- Financial performance
- Service quality and reliability
- Environmental commitment
- Safety and training
Consistent information between the enterprise, business units and external stakeholders.
Reduction of ad hoc systems and reporting.
Improved employee empowerment and accountability.
- Workforce Analysis
Simplified reporting and communication with corporate management.

Because employees don't have to spend time on manual reconciliation, or sift through mountains of unrelated data, they have more time to focus on your company’s strategic imperatives. And they can add value beyond crunching numbers.

Jefferson helps electric utility companies manage performance A large electric company was in a situation where conflicting organizational priorities were preventing the corporate vision from becoming actionable. Too much random data was hindering employees’ responsiveness. The Jefferson solutions helped them prioritize, be more responsive, and understand the internal and external drivers that impact financial measurements. Jefferson helped them achieve this by implementing:

Selective process measures that provided key business insights in a timelier manner.
Prototype process models to be delivered and analyzed.
Recommendations for system platforms to integrate with current IT technology infrastructure.

Improve decision making for better returns
By combining a reduction in infrastructure and application costs with improved productivity for IT, finance and business areas, the Jefferson solutions can help your employees focus on meeting your strategic goals, saving time and money. Consolidating, integrating and standardizing multiple applications and ad hoc systems can help eliminate redundancies, reducing the cost of supporting disparate systems.