Energy: Case Studies
- Avista
- When Washington Water Power changed its name to Avista Corp., the changes ran far deeper than the company's new stationery design.
- Avista (Web Solution)
- When Avista wanted to modernize its Web solution to improve the customer experience, as well as implement new interactive tools for monitoring usage, viewing billing and payment history, and conserving energy, EDS provided the front- and back-office integration to support these new functions.
- BP Canada Energy Company
- To reduce payroll-processing costs and update an old mainframe system, BP Canada and EDS implemented new HR software and upgraded the technology environment. And, as the relationship has grown, the team has worked together to continuously improve processes and respond quickly to ever-changing business and regulatory demands.
- EDS (Enterprise Labs)
- Enterprise Labs had reached the capacity limits of its facilities. The team initiated an aggressive virtualization program, renovating a lab into a virtualization center capable of hosting 5,000 virtual servers.
- Global Oil and Gas Company
- A world-leading oil and gas company projected it could significantly reduce its procurement spend with a globally implemented electronic-purchasing system. There was just one problem – the majority of its suppliers were still doing business through paper catalogs.
- Hidroeléctrica del Cantábrico
- To maintain focus on strategy and business development in a newly deregulated Spanish energy market, Hidroeléctrica del Cantábrico chose EDS as its technology partner in 1998. The results of our long-term collaboration: a flexible, highly scalable IT environment able to keep up with the utility’s rapid growth.
- Interconnector (UK) Limited
- Interconnector’s planned 146-mile underwater natural gas pipeline would not be able to function efficiently without a system to manage gas flow.
- Leading Energy Company
- Growing competition, Sarbanes-Oxley accounting requirements and mounting IT costs threatened this energy leader's position in a changing energy market. The company diligently sought to reduce costs and improve services while strengthening its internal financial controls.
- Power Management Implementation
- Inspired by ClimateSavers, EDS wanted to align more than 90,000 computers to EnergyStar power management standards. Through an internal system and multiphase plan, the company implemented a small change with a big impact.
- SaskEnergy
- SaskEnergy, Saskatchewan’s natural gas utility, serves more than 323,000 homes, farms, and commercial and industrial customers throughout the province. To offer its customers the kind of 24/7 responsiveness that has quickly become the standard in the Internet age, the company called on EDS to help build an expansive new customer service Web site.
- SaskPower
- With cost pressures increasing in almost direct proportion to customer expectations of service excellence, SaskPower needed the information infrastructure to help it provide affordable, highly responsive power delivery.
- Solutia
- When it came time to find new, innovative ways to lower enterprisewide expenses and improve business processes, Solutia collaborated with its trusted IT provider, EDS, an HP company.
- Solutia (Centralized Messaging)
- With its global applied chemicals business growing more complex, Solutia Inc. decided that centralizing employee communication and collaboration worldwide would help better focus and simplify operations. IT partner EDS, an HP company, helped make it happen.
- Utility Company
- To fuel new growth and enhance customer service, this energy company wanted to offer customers a more interactive way to receive and pay their energy bills.