Australian energy company gets a power boost from SAP HANA
Client:
SA Power NetworksChallenge:
- Completely overhaul aging business operations systems
- Improve the ability to make business decisions based on real-time data
- Enhance reporting system to help meet regulatory requirements
Solution:
- Conduct trial migration of ERP and business warehouse functions to SAP HANA
- Migrate other essential business applications to the SAP HANA platform
- Move new hardware to an enhanced disaster recovery environment
Results:
- Successful migration to SAP HANA platform provides access to latest SAP software versions
- Substantial improvements in business reporting and transaction times
- Real-time analysis on live data
Challenge
SA Power Networks, a company that builds and maintains electric power infrastructure in South Australia, teamed with DXC Oxygen to migrate to a new SAP HANA platform to improve analytics, speed transactions and meet stringent regulatory requirements.
As a power distribution network manager, SA Power Networks builds and maintains the poles, wires and substations that deliver electricity to 850,000 customers. The massive power-line network stretches across thousands of miles of South Australia, comprising some 73,000 street transformers and 400 substations. One of the biggest challenges for the company is contending with requirements of the six regulatory bodies that govern the energy industry in Australia, at both the national and state level.
Solution
To meet those regulations, SA Power Networks enlisted DXC Oxygen, one of the leading SAP solution providers in Australia and New Zealand, to help implement a SAP HANA platform that enables the electricity distributor to analyse energy data in real time. The complex SAP migration kicked off with the migration of the company’s business warehouse (BW) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) platforms to SAP HANA, and continues with other key business systems.
Result
SA Power Networks CIO Chris Ford says the SAP migration was the conclusion of a significant investment to future-proof the company’s SAP implementation and to ensure that business systems were supportable. “Our ERP and BW systems had been in place for a number of years and needed overhauling,” Ford says. “The move to SAP HANA provides us with a database and reporting system that helps us meet regulatory reporting requirements and enables end users to perform real-time analysis on live data.”
“We are one of the first companies in Australia to undertake a migration of this magnitude,” says Ford. “Thanks to a great team effort in the face of some challenging last-minute obstacles, it was delivered to plan.”
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