QlikView for utilities. Reducing Utilities Costs

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1 QlikView for utilities Reducing Utilities Costs

2 QlikView: Reducing Costs in utilities Today s utilities market is multi-faceted, complex and unpredictable. Privatization, streamlined regulation and competition have resulted in multiple mergers and acquisitions. Additionally, emerging technologies, rising energy costs, economic slowdown and pressures to implement green initiatives can all have material effect on the running of a business in the utilities sector. One of the top, if not the greatest challenge for utilities, is cost reduction. Notable issues include: Merging large volumes of data spanning multiple sources and lines of business Data in multiple General Ledgers across complex Chart of Accounts and Cost Centers Analyzing activity-based costs and expenses simultaneously across multiple geographies, languages and currencies Producing consolidated reports on demand and eliminating business user reliance on end-of-month reports Key to reducing costs is Business Discovery. By consolidating large volumes of data from disparate sources into a single view, users are able to vastly increase visibility into cost control and spot cost saving opportunities. QlikView also has an extensive Partner solution and consulting offering dedicated to cost reduction. The results speak for themselves. Customers have experienced: 33% decrease in operating costs across the entire enterprise 45% decrease in total cost of ownership 20% decrease in reporting overhead costs 31% decrease in BI overhead costs

3 Cost Reduction and Expense Management Through Insight Cost reduction in utilities is characterized by: Extremely large quantities of raw, unprocessed, unwieldy data Long process-completion times Multiple information formats; no true source of insight Increasing demand for self-service In the present climate businesses are focusing on reducing costs while improving efficiency and allocation of resources: Executive KPIs and Scorecards Advising on customer experience, concept to cash, process improvement and status across regulatory compliance operations Accurately delivering performance against assets and workforce as well creating reductions in the cost to serve human resources Delivering workforce optimization while balancing drive for overall cost reduction QlikView is #1 in: Performance* Satisfaction with development tools* Lowest total cost of ownership* Query performance satisfaction** financial management Providing customer insight and minimizing the propensity of churn procurement Continually improving efficiency of the supply chain, delivering multiple cost savings National Energy Daily Schedule App Dashboard it management Enhancing efficiency in projects and technology costs * Gartner: BI Platforms User Survey, 2011 ** BARC: BI Survey 10, October 2011

4 Cost Reduction Priorities Core themes have emerged that best optimize cost reduction: Collaboration Internal collaboration between departments is essential to reduce costs; working towards a common goal. Areas of collaboration can span supply-tendering, innovations in efficiency and clear communication of expenditure limits QlikView enables collaborative decisionmaking through Social Business Discovery; driving knowledge that can cascade across teams, departments and the enterprise Visibility Increased collaboration yields increased visibility. With an accurate picture, effective analysis and measurement can occur, enabling early identification of potential opportunities QlikView enables insight by unlocking data across the organization, allowing its business users to explore and exploit the associations across data to provide insight Efficiency Vital to maximize profit and competitiveness QlikView takes the guesswork out of decisions, allowing business users to make faster and smarter decisions more consistently in groups or on their own QlikView maximizes Collaboration, Visibility and Efficiency QlikView SAP Materials Management Purchasing App Dashboard

5 QlikView for Cost Reduction: Solution Areas Executive KPIs and Scorecards CXO dashboard Process improvement Regulatory compliance IT Management IT asset management Project Portfolio Management IT chargeback Technology spend Agile development System and application monitoring Financial Management Profitability analysis Financial reporting Debt management Expense management Operations Management Performance KPIs Asset management Operations monitoring Outage management Smart metering Workforce planning and optimization Procurement ROI analysis Preferred vendor relationships Discount analysis Supplier spend / vendor analysis Human Resources Training costs Employee vs. contractors Vacations and involuntary time off Retirement / succession planning Employee enablement

6 Key Product HIGHLIGHTS QlikView is a Business Discovery platform that unlocks the power of information. Associative Experience Allows business users to explore by making selections and getting instant feedback on what data is associated and what is unrelated Global Search Offers business users key word search across all your data with the simplicity of popular search engines and the ability to share what you find Comparative Analysis Extends the QlikView associative experience to enable interactive comparison of user-defined groupings QlikView on Mobile Enables mobile business users to benefit from Business Discovery on tablets or smartphones Data Visualization Presents data in charts, graphs, and geographic maps, allowing business users to visually assess performance What-If Analysis Empowers business users to test scenarios and assess the impacts of possible outcomes QlikView is proud to provide solutions across multiple functional areas for companies such as: Essent NV Energiedienst holding HSE Kayserigaz NIE Energy PRIMAGAS Southern Water Veolia Water Wheelaborator Transaction Level Detail Permits virtually unlimited slicing and dicing, enabling business users to uncover specific drivers for trends and risks Rapid Data Integration Creates a single view of information from multiple sources, one true account

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