The client is a leader in operating complex energy networks. They’re the UK's biggest investor-owned utility and one of the UK's 20 biggest companies. Their UK gas business is the EU's largest integrated gas system.

As a subsequent stage to the development of CPM Phase 1, the current phase of work sought to leverage on the existing infrastructure to attain the anticipated levels of collaborative working. The scope of services spanned functional areas of program and project management, process consulting, product consulting, product implementation, application development and organizational change management.

A project team consisting of technical consultants and knowledge management consultants was formed to implement the solution. The various functionalities / business processes covered as a part of this phase may broadly be categorized into the following modules :

• Risk Management
• Mapping of the Relay Settings Procedure
• Managing the scheme templates and interfacing with the asset management application
• Managing the project related templates (as Lessons Learnt, Snag List etc)
• KPI Reporting and Management Dashboard
• Extending the information model developed in CPM Phase 1 and Drawing Management

The CPM solution provides a single window access to project information to all the parties involved in project delivery.

• Effective collaboration between the various parties involved in the development and commissioning of electricity and gas projects.
• Consistency and secure management of the various sources and types of content generated during a project life cycle.
• A step towards meeting of statutory requirements of Sarbanes Oxley for Records management
• Efficient risk management strategies for managing the risk profile for individual projects and the organization as a whole.
• Efficient tracking and control of mission-critical business processes.
• Transparency and accountability enforced at all user actions.
• Reduction in defaults (and consequent penalties) resulting from delays in providing design documents and drawings to suppliers for any project delivery.
• User friendly and actionable management dashboards to track the KPIs at various levels of the organization