CASE IN POINT
Utility companies large and small face big decisions about their legacy and on-premise systems: It’s time to upgrade our platform – where do we begin? What business processes and supporting technology will we need? Do I have the right implementation and testing team in place?
Veracity began an engagement with a large utility company in 2012. The company was embarking on a 5+ year business and IT transformation that would replace most of the core legacy business processes and supporting IT technology stacks, including meter-to-cash lifecycle, both pre- and post-merger. The transformation included the following key technology components:
- Implementation and conversion to advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) metering technology
- Implementation of a meter data management system to support the AMI technology
- Conversion to an outage management system (OMS)
- Implementation of a customer care and billing system
- Development and implementation of new customer portals to support the customer care and billing system conversion and improve customer self-service capabilities
- Implementation of service oriented architecture subsystems
- Rebranding to support merger of systems
It became clear during the company’s transformation initiative that they did not have sufficient resources to test and validate all the new capabilities and functionalities. Veracity solved this problem by: providing a team of professional testers who contributed to 80,000+ hours of testing; validated data conversion results of 105 billion rows of data; completed 45,000 test cases; and our technical project managers and developers managed integrations for 40+ third-party vendor systems interfacing with the company’s customer care and billing and meter data management systems.