Enterprise Solutions
Energy and utility organizations across the UK & Europe are going through challenging times within a changing economic climate, rising expectations from regulators and customers combined with structural corporate changes.
Read MoreThe Enterprise Solutions Group (ESG) envisions working as a business solutions partner to Energy and Utility enterprises across UK and Europe. ESG are a team of specialists who provide end to end business solutions to the energy and utility sector. We are playing a crucial role in collaboratively addressing our customer’s business challenges with the right mix of people, processes and technologies. ESG has developed a unique set of skills and domain expertise, by working with many energy and utility companies in UK over the last decade. We have helped transform their business processes by using a combination of innovation, automation and integration, while providing certainty to cost and delivery time scales. We bring with us a team of committed and knowledgeable professionals who are passionate about applying technology to business challenges. We bring expertise in the following areas of enterprise IT:
Technology Consulting IT Strategy Development Working with customers to help align IT Strategy with their overall organization vision and business objectives, developing their IT organization structure and define technology roadmaps to realise their IT Strategy.Mergers & Acquisitions Due Diligence Advising potential utility infrastructure investors with IT costs (Opex & Capex), due diligence assessment and reporting. This provides our customers with a comprehensive view of the sellers IT estate including an IT transition framework with a detailed view of timelines, organization structure, programme structure and costs. IT Diagnostics and Assessment |
Enterprise Architecture EA is increasingly performing an active role in strategic business planning and considered a critical enabler for successful IT organizations. However, most organizations continue to face obstacles in implementing and managing an effective Enterprise Architecture according to recent industry analyses. Fortech understands that the key to an organizations success depends on the articulation of a clear vision and strategy, including a roadmap to achieve it. Our team of architects help organizations define their enterprise architecture goals and organization structures to achieve them. Our teams combine domain knowledge and enterprise architecture skills to ensure true alignment of the business processes and IT systems. Our expertise in the field of Enterprise Architecture includes:EA Assessment We apply industry best practices and our domain experience in performing 360 degree assessments of the current state of enterprise architectures, IT landscapes, identification of gaps and making recommendations.EA Strategy and Governance Definition of TO BE state architectures, roadmaps to achieve them and a structures to manage the TO BE state architectures. EA Management Product Evaluation and Selection |
System Integration Utility organizations across UK & Europe are undergoing massive transition and transformations triggered by mergers and acquisitions, changing regulations, the green agenda, higher customer expectations, new revenue channels and changing cost structures. To succeed, organizations need a trusted systems integrator (SI) who is willing to take end to end accountability for delivering solutions that meet business objectives with cost and time certainty. As Systems Integrator, we bring extensive experience and an outstanding track record of delivering large IT Transition and Business Transformation programs within budget and on schedule. We have developed a unique framework to deliver such programs and have built strong and experienced team. Our expertise in the area of Systems Integration includes:Program Management Overall management and governance of programs.Design Authority The provision of a single point of contact for all technical decision making and ownership of the technical solutions being delivered. Vendor Management Procurement Support Program Management Office (PMO) Solution Integrity Business Readiness |
Product Implementation Today’s E & U organizations rely heavily on packaged applications to run their critical front and back office businesses. Success requires knowledge of Business Processes combined with architectural and product specific skills to design, implement and manage complex product implementations. Fortech’s domain knowledge and systems integration capabilities, combined with a number of strategic relationships with major product vendors including SAP, Oracle, Ventyx ABB, ESRI make us a partner of choice for product implementation and support. We have established a track record of success in product implementation in Work and Asset Management, Mobile Workforce Management & Scheduling , GIS , Customer Services and other back office functions. Our expertise in the area of product implementation includes:Procurement Support Preparation of RFI, RFP, technical and commercial evaluation of response, scoring and shortlisting.Solution Architecture and Design Definition of solution architectures based on existing products within the enterprise landscape or new product sets and the delivery of an overall design to implement such architectures. End to End System Integration Program Management Assurance Services |
Information Management Most organizations are data rich but information poor – the Enterprise Solutions Group is supporting utility organizations achieve high performance by gaining insights from data and using these to make smarter decisions that improve business outcomes. High performing utilities typically have well defined information architectures and data governance in place. Fortech are working with organizations to build robust, analytical foundations in information management and business intelligence, paving the way for even more advanced analytical approaches. Our expertise in the field of information management includes:Information Architecture and Governance The creation of platforms and data ownership structures to assist organization’s meet their strategic and tactical goals.Enterprise Data Modelling We use industry standard frameworks and state of the art modelling techniques to provide optimised views of an organizations data. Data Quality Assessment Regulatory Compliance Enterprise Content Management Analytics solutions Business Data Warehouse solutions Knowledge Management |
Infrastructure Management A stable and performing IT infrastructure is critical to the success of any business today and Utility customers are no exception. The Enterprise Solutions Group offer a wide range of infrastructure services and solutions from consulting to implementation and support. Our architects and consultants are working right across the Utilities sector, managing and working closely with a number of well known infrastructure delivery partners to deliver technology refresh and consolidation programs. Our expertise in the field of Infrastructure Management include:Data Centre Migration End to end management and delivery of Data Centre Migration projects.Infrastructure Consolidation Design and implementation of infrastructure consolidation programs successfully migrating customers from physical to virtual platforms. Technology Refresh Enterprise Security |
Business Support The Enterprise Solution Group are helping Fortech’s customers to address evolving operational, regulatory, performance and cost challenges by applying technology that is fit for purpose, intuitive and easy to support. We offer end to end services covering complete application lifecycle management activities, from Business Process Definition to Application Development and Support, tailored to meet clients business requirements. We adopt a business aligned approach to developing and managing applications, enabling early engagement with a clients business, which helps gain eventual business acceptance and overall success of new initiatives. Our expertise in the area of Business support include:Application Modernisation and Optimisation We are advising and implementing solutions to transform legacy landscapes into rationalised, supportable and cost effective solutions, enabled by emerging technology platforms.Application Development and Support The provision of end to end services to orchestrate, design, deliver and manage bespoke business solution development on various technology platforms. Independent Validation and Testing |
Business Solutions With over a decade of experience working with E&U customers in various business functions, the Enterprise Solutions Group has developed a number of business solution frameworks that take an holistic and futuristic approach to people, process and technology. These solution frameworks have been built using our domain knowledge and first-hand industry experience aligned to specific customer expectations. Our solution frameworks are exclusive to the energy and utility sector needs and are technology agnostic, making our offerings flexible, yet unique. We have a wide range of framework solutions with specific propositions that include:Utility Connections An end to end solution framework to optimise, automate and integrate utility connections processes. When implemented the offering brings overall process simplicity & efficiency, optimised operational costs and total turn around times, with high levels of customer satisfaction.Capital Delivery Management A solution framework to effectively manage capital delivery projects to ensure control and visibility over unit costs, time and cost over runs, establish a consistent and reliable source of information leading to accurate decision making. Performance Management Utility Automation Hub |