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15th December 2004
Managing Information and Monitoring Performance in the
Water Industry
15th December 2004
The Company
• 450 employees
• 1,600,000 Customers
• 10,000 km underground pipes
• £50m annual capital programme
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• – June Returns, Periodic Reviews
• – Financial Information
• – CAPEX forecasting and monitoring
Decision support,
Supply planning and modelling
The Environment – A regulated industry
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The Starting Position - Architecture
Finance
Works Managemen
tHR
Telemetry
GIS
CISLab Info
OracleAS/400
?
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The Starting Position - Reporting
Business Systems Spreadsheets / Bespoke Databases
Manual querying and compilation, lack of procedures
= Many versions of the truth !
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The Blueprint - Architecture
Finance Works CIS Lab GIS Telemetry
BUSINESS SYSTEMS
E T L
Structured Database
Regulatory
Financial Operational
Information Portal
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The Blueprint – Reporting / Monitoring
Overall Performance Assessment
Finance Operations Cust. Services
Data Marts
KPI’s
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Decisions – ETL / Reporting Software
ETL
• Functional
• Affordable
• Scalable
Reporting
• User friendly
• Easy to administer
• Functionally rich
Our choice – Business Objects data Integrator
Our choice – Business Objects Web Intelligence
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Decisions – Prioritising the Programme
Finance Works CIS Lab GIS Telemetry
BUSINESS SYSTEMS
E T L
Structured Database
Regulatory
Financial Operational
Information Portal
Decisions – Prioritising the programme
Capex Opex
E T L
Structured Database
Finance Works Lab GIS Telemetry
Debt & Enquirie
s
Electricity
monitoring
CIS
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Progress and Benefits – so far
• Departmental / Cost Centre accounts available to all
• CAPEX project info available to all project managers
• .NET project progress form linked to Data Mart
• Electricity usage report using data from suppliers website
• Debt and complaint information verified and automated
• Cost of Water Production by site
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Blueprint for the future
• River Basin analysis
• Deployable Output
• Drought forecast and analysis
