ElectraNet places concentrate on info monitoring

ElectraNet, a power transmission driver in South Australia, is establishing a main info monitoring system and “single source of truth” improved OpenText.

The business had actually formerly applied OpenText however just partially of business.

The software application has actually because been “reconfigured” to encounter the entire of ElectraNet and to “provide a better user experience” to urge interaction with the system, info monitoring lead Sharon Schumacher informed a current OpenText top in Sydney.

Schumacher stated that when she signed up with ElectraNet, “there was very little in the way of a framework [for] information management”.

“[We’ve] got decades of information that needed to be managed in some way [and be] centralised to provide a single source of truth,” she stated.

“There were several diverse areas – not unusual in info monitoring in the majority of business.

“It could be that [information] was stored in a server location, in a SharePoint or in personal OneDrives; these hold lots of different information that could be business critical.”

Schumacher stated that OpenText is currently being placed as a “strategic enabler … ensuring that our data, documents and our information assets are managed effectively right across the business.”

The business is making use of the OpenText web content monitoring – likewise called Extended ECM – system with the venture link desktop computer customer and a combination with M365.

“The reason that we’ve put that in is it allows co-authoring on ‘single source of truth’ information that resides in OpenText and it allows different entry points for your entire company,” Schumacher stated. “It’s a very powerful tool and it works seamlessly.”

Departments of ElectraNet are in charge of tidying up and moving their very own info products right into OpenText.

Migration tasks began in May in 2014.

“We’re now nearing 800,000 items of migration and we’re not finished,” Schumacher stated.

“Our journey is very young. We’ve probably got six-to-12 months left of this journey before the migration is complete.”

So much, the business has actually seen advantages consisting of lowered management expenses and enhanced governing conformity.

“We are aligned with the SOCI Act; that’s a really big thing for us as an infrastructure company,” Schumacher stated.

The business has strategies to boost the OpenText atmosphere in the future.

“We’re just about to release OpenText mobile, [which] makes it easy for workflow approval for anybody that’s on the road and accessibility to field staff, meaning that they are always accessing the current information,” Schumacher stated.

ElectraNet is likewise readied to update to variation 24.4, and “investigate integrations with other business systems like SAP and SuccessFactors”.

The business is likewise wanting to Aviator, which is the brand of OpenText’s AI item.

“I’m not a very big AI user but the power that AI will give to our OpenText platform is enormous and so I’m really looking forward to the intelligence and governance that it’s going to give us,” Schumacher stated.