Published on 21-May-2008
"The only limitation on Delaware Electric Cooperative is our imagination. With SOA, I fundamentally believe we will not be limited by our technology… " - Gary Cripps, Chief Financial Officer and VP of Finance and Information Technology
Customer:
Delaware Electric Cooperative
Industry:
Energy & Utilities
Deployment country:
United States
Solution:
Enabling Business Flexibility, Service Oriented Architecture
Overview
Delaware Electric Cooperative is a small company. They were founded in 1936 and had approximately $145 million in revenue this year. Delaware Electric serves 65,000 member owners in a cooperative business model that’s about 80000 service points, meters to your houses. And, they expect a growth of about 5%.
Business need:
Delaware Electric Cooperative had problems that were centered around proprietary applications. They had problems around having a great diversity of applications within the utility distribution company. And, technology change was extremely difficult.
Solution:
Delaware Electric Cooperative adopted an SOA strategy to address these issues.
Benefits:
Delaware Electric feels that conservatively on a consume program, home owners not commercial, they can drop 35 to 40 megawatts conservatively by being able to get real-time information now to these people which is $375,000 a month, month over month.