Business intelligence systems enable users to interactively view and analyze their data to make timely, accurate, information-based decision.

They give you in-depth knowledge of your business, at your fingertips; at the exact moment you need it. It transforms your data to help you make better decisions, lower expenses and increase your competitive advantage.

Denver Water

Denver Water is a local government utility company supplying water to the City and County of Denver and nearly 50% of Denver Water customers who live in the surrounding suburbs.

Our most recent project involved developing a TM1 based Project Budgeting and Estimating system for the Engineering division of Denver Water. This system captures labor, expense, design, administration and construction estimates for 400+ capital projects that range from several months to 10+ years in duration.

Denver Water is a long-standing customer in which we have successfully implemented a number of projects, including:

Financial Planning

At Denver Water, we rearchitected financial planning application built around Microsoft Excel and Cognos TM1 to streamline the budgeting and planning process for the Finance division. This system captures budget information from all divisions within the company and consolidates this information for reporting to the water board. With this system, they were able to analyze their actual expenditures, compare against budget and forecast, as well as run multiple planning scenarios to determine the optimum monthly liquidity and to make quick decisions based on real time information.

Engineering Project Planning

The Engineering Project Planning project expanded the financial planning system to the Engineering division of Denver Water. The Capital Project Budgeting System incorporated Microsoft InfoPath and SharePoint Services 2003 to deliver a solution that would enable Denver Water to push down accountability further into the organization, streamline business processes, and facilitate communication across multiple divisions. This new process, which allows managers and other responsible parties to develop and input their own budget estimates using Microsoft InfoPath, has resulted in heightened awareness and accountability. The long-range and annual planning processes have been consolidated, drastically reducing the time requirement for plan development and allowing more time for analysis and decision making. Improvements in collaborative communication via InfoPath and SharePoint have improved forecasting and cash management capabilities. Engineers now have a clear picture of the financial implications of their decisions while Finance better understands the impact of financial decisions on Engineering processes.

SharePoint Portal Integration

In this latest project, the engineering dashboard previously developed in SharePoint Services 2003 was re-architected for MOSS 2007. Custom SharePoint master pages were built, specifically for the Engineering department, along with a specialized service to automatically refresh SharePoint list information from external web service applications. This enables users to manage the information they desire by using native SharePoint functionality, thereby reducing the need for support from IT. This has allowed Denver Water to focus their internal resources on mission critical issues rather than departmental support.