Thursday, 23 October 2008

SAP India Strengthens Control in Utilities Industry

With an objective, to provide a platform for India’s utility industry professionals to share industry insights and implementation best practices, SAP India recently held a ‘Utility Customer Value Networking Event’, in New Delhi.

Major utility players including NTPC, Reliance Energy, NDPL, Mahanagar Gas, Chhattisgarh State Electricity Board, Tata Power, IGL, NPCL, GIPCL, and APCPDCL partnered with SAP to successfully transform their businesses to respond to fast-changing customer and market dynamics, said SAP.

Powered by SAP NetWeaver, SAP’s comprehensive integration and application platform, SAP for Utilities is a family of business solutions that cater to utility enterprises of all sizes. It has been deployed in more than 1100 utilities worldwide as the enterprise backbone to ensure utility business processes work seamlessly and efficiently--even across lines of business--and enable utilities to manage performance to goals.

“SAP is fully committed to partner with Indian utility companies to ensure that they can successfully execute on the national vision of ‘Power to All by 2012. It gives me immense pleasure to initiate this forum that elucidate and facilitates Indian utilities manage their transformation to successfully respond to today’s needs and prepare for tomorrow’s challenges,” said Dr. Deb Bhattacharjee, Vice President, Value Engineering, Industry & Solution Group, SAP Indian subcontinent.