Energy & Utilities

Senate® has been working with oil and gas majors for many years. From the management of data and IT applications, to optimal decision making and real-time management, we help our clients to improve, and ultimately transform, their upstream, downstream and head-office operations. This is based on our deep understanding of specific industry processes, combined with cross-sector insights. We have a full service offering – from consulting to full business process outsourcing.

Security of supply, energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions are emerging as major new issues for utilities. Other challenges include competition, compliance and regulations, aging assets and workforces, which continue to hit even harder.

Oil and gas businesses need to expand for meeting the rapidly growing global demand. Their workforces are aging, with the threat that their knowledge will leave with them. In the downstream business, achieving ever-improving operational efficiency is essential to improve margins. A host of other issues, from safety and compliance to security, are of critical importance but threaten to distract management from running their businesses.

Information technology plays a vital role in meeting these challenges. Better use of data, and knowledge, is at the heart of improved decision making, and is essential to increase production and reduce costs. Innovative applications of information technology, based on deep industry knowledge, can transform oil and gas businesses. Senate® is working with its clients to realize this transformation.

With today’s ever-changing economic climate and government initiatives, it’s more important than ever for utility companies and administrations to create better solutions. Advanced solutions are required for generation, transmission and distribution. These solutions should not only save money and protect the integrity of the transmission and distribution grids but also enable innovative new services and improve business processes.

The top business issues identified are:

• Security (information and physical)
• Reliability
• Regulatory actions/changes
• Supply adequacy
• Disclosure and compliance
• Cost management or savings
• Energy procurement and flexibility
• Optimization
• HR/intellectual capital management
• Consumer eEducation

Our combined industry, and business expertise helps utilities overcome challenges and create repeatable solutions based on national priorities.

The combined effect is that utilities need to transform what they produce, how and what they sell, and how they transport and distribute energy and water. This will have a profound impact on the way that they manage their assets, their people and how they interact with their customers. To support these changes, leading utilities are already starting to develop a more accurate, detailed, view of their business operations. They are turning this into real-time, outcome driven, decision making to bring about the balance between performance improvements, cost reductions and risk management that their stakeholders demand.

Information technology will play a vital role in this transformation. Senate® has a unique combination of experience, industry knowledge, solutions, and global delivery capabilities to enable clients for doing it. We provide a full service offering from consultancy to full business process outsourcing. Our solutions extend from smart metering to real-time enterprise asset management and running central markets. We are a leading implementer of major third party solutions, including SAP.

Senate® Solutions

Senate® is helping clients build, integrate and support solutions of enduring value. Our business solutions support the entire solution life-cycle, from enterprise architecture to application development, integration and support.

Specifically our energy and utilities solutions include:

• Enterprise Resource Planning
• Billing and Customer Information Systems
• Application Development and Management
• Infrastructure Outsourcing (including help desk)
• Security
• GIS
• Work Management Systems