IT Effectiveness
Infosys' IT Effectiveness (ITE) offering helps Utility companies develop the right information and technology components to build and enhance solutions. ITE works within your operational constraints, adapts to organizational culture and ensures that business grows based on your strategy and plans.
IT Effectiveness encompasses four key areas: IT Organizational Effectiveness, IT Delivery Effectiveness, IT Applications Effectiveness and IT Infrastructure Effectiveness.
IT Application Effectiveness (AE) assesses your current application / project portfolio to realize incremental business value of your applications while ensuring regulatory compliance and reducing the total cost of ownership.
| Challenge |
Solution |
Benefits |
| Enhance operational efficiency to gain competitive advantage |
AE offers business benefits through a 3-phase delivery model
Assess Phase
- Improvement Opportunities
- Application Profiles / Scorecards
- Application Landscape
- Qualitative Business Case
- High Level Roadmap
Align Phase
- Business case for recommendations
- Approximates time estimates
- Implementation Roadmap
Alter Phase
- Transformed Application Portfolio
- Governance Mechanisms
- Service Level Agreements
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AE achieves business process standardization to improve operational efficiency, which directly impacts IT-related costs |
| The repeal of the Public Utility Holding Company Act (PUHCA), as part of the US Energy Policy Act is set to accelerate M&A activity. The industry landscape makes optimal IT integration and consolidation a business imperative |
AE addresses M&A by creating application repository, identifying opportunities for application consolidation, integration and reducing technology diversity |
| Utilities have to comply with diverse regulations such as Sarbanes Oxley (SOX), environmental protection, security, etc. Companies must implement applications that provide a seamless view of the enterprise for regulatory compliance |
- AE results in a consolidated view of entities such as customer and product. It eliminates data duplication across systems
- AE enhances application flexibility, enabling regulatory compliance
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