As one of the largest and most progressive municipal utilities in North America, Sacramento Municipal Utility District is utilizing HCL to help support its smart-grid initiatives through a comprehensive customer service and billing upgrade. SMUD has one of the most innovative smart-grid programs in North America; this implementation will leverage HCL’s business transformation methodology by combining its best practices with proven benefits delivery.
“HCL will help us integrate more than 150 customer business processes and provide an implementation of SAP CRM for the smart-grid,” said Marty Katz, Manager of Business Technology at Sacramento Municipal Utility District.
“We have a proven track record for helping companies that have invested in SAP solutions to transform their businesses in line with new market requirements,” said Steve Cardell, President of HCL AXON. “HCL has made a global commitment to utilities customers by enabling them to address their most pressing challenges by helping them assess and roll-out smart-grid programs in all of the major power markets,” he added.
HCL has a long and consistent track record of successfully delivering best-practice customer billing, enterprise asset management, and back-office solutions for regulated and de-regulated utilities organizations across the world. HCL has also implemented SAP's industry-leading SAP for Utilities solutions at over 40 investor-owned and public utilities. For more information, please visit: http://www.hcl-axon.com/Industries/utilities/
About HCL Technologies
HCL Technologies is a leading global IT services company, working with clients in the areas that impact and redefine the core of their businesses. Since its inception into the global landscape after its IPO in 1999, HCL focuses on 'transformational outsourcing,' underlined by innovation and value creation, and offers integrated portfolio of services including software-led IT solutions, remote infrastructure management, engineering and R&D services and BPO. HCL leverages its extensive global offshore infrastructure and network of offices in 26 countries to provide holistic, multi-service delivery in key industry verticals including Financial Services, Manufacturing, Consumer Services, Public Services and Healthcare. HCL takes pride in its philosophy of 'Employee First, Customer Second' which empowers our 77,046 transformers to create a real value for the customers. HCL Technologies, along with its subsidiaries, had consolidated revenues of US$ 3.5 billion (Rs. 16,034 crores), as on 30 June 2011 (on LTM basis). For more information, please visit www.hcltech.com
About HCL
HCL is a $6 billion leading global technology and IT enterprise comprising two companies listed in India - HCL Technologies and HCL Infosystems. Founded in 1976, HCL is one of India's original IT garage start-ups. A pioneer of modern computing, HCL is a global transformational enterprise today. Its range of offerings includes product engineering, custom & package applications, BPO, IT infrastructure services, IT hardware, systems integration, and distribution of information and communications technology (ICT) products across a wide range of focused industry verticals. The HCL team consists of over 85,000 professionals of diverse nationalities, who operate from 31 countries including over 500 points of presence in India. HCL has partnerships with several leading global 1000 firms, including leading IT and technology firms. For more information, please visit www.hcl.com
About HCL AXON
a division of HCL Technologies, is a Business Transformation consultancy that delivers significant value to large, complex organizations through the innovative implementation and support of enterprise applications. HCL AXON has a significant number of the industry’s most experienced professionals specializing in the delivery of sustained business improvement through technology enabled transformation programs. HCL AXON's consultants bring in-depth industry expertise alongside best practice functional knowledge to address the strategic, operational, information management and organizational effectiveness challenges faced by organizations today.
HCL AXON is renowned for its global ability to help clients define more ambitious strategies, build more effective organizations and shape more successful futures.
About Sacramento Municipal Utility District
As the nation’s sixth largest publicly owned utility, SMUD has been providing low-cost, reliable electricity for more than 60 years to Sacramento County (and a small portion of Placer County). SMUD is a recognized industry leader and award winner for its innovative energy efficiency programs, renewable power technologies, and for its sustainable solutions for a healthier environment. SMUD is the first large California utility to receive more than 20% of its energy from renewable resources. For more information, visit smud.org
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