HELPING UTILITIES WORK SMARTER

Helping Utilities Work Smarter is the philosophy that drives everything Powel employees do. All of us realize that in order to truly help our customers work smarter, we have to realize three goals.

We must possess a deep and detailed understanding of their business processes. We must apply our expertise and technology in new ways, developing innovative solutions for improving their operational efficiency. We must also take care of their business with exceptional training and technical support.

Our Operations Resource Planning (ORP) solutions represent the culmination of these objectives. These solutions allow utilities to manage operational support functions in a new way, making substantial gains in efficiency and customer service. Specifically, Powel ORP solutions focus on integrating the applications that support your business processes in an efficient way, enabling:

• An enterprise view of operations that effectively ties together realtime operations, operations support, and ERP business functions.
• An open systems data management environment that can incorporate multiple applications.
• A common enterprise architecture designed to share resources and manage data, databases, and data storage.
• A consistent interface that helps people throughout the enterprise make decisions and take action using accurate, common data in
  near real-time.

In the Powel vision of ORP, anyone in the utility can find any information they need to perform any function and make the right decision — whether they are in the field or the office, whether they are creating a design, maintaining an asset, analyzing the grid, optimizing generation, or charting the utility’s course in an increasingly competitive market. This is how we Help Utilities Work Smarter — and we look forward to helping current and new customers in 2006.