2013 Solution Providers

Visualization is a key component for successful enterprise infrastructure management. Esri’s Geographic Information System (GIS) software provides the best way to integrate your organization’s disparate IT programs into one common operational system. When visualized, large amounts of data come to life providing easier analysis, faster decisions and better communication.

GE is a diversified infrastructure, finance and media company taking on the world's toughest challenges. From aircraft engines and power generation to financial services, medical imaging, and television programming, GE operates in more than 100 countries and employs about 300,000 people worldwide.

GE’s Digital Energy business is a global leader in innovative technology solutions for a 21st century electric grid. Our solutions enable greener more distributed generation, efficient and reliable energy delivery, productive utility operations, and informed and empowered consumers. We strive to become the most profitable business among our global competitors by aggressively investing in technology and people while driving for best in class supply chain, services and commercial capabilities.

Bentley is the global leader dedicated to providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure. Bentley’s mission is to empower its users to leverage information modeling through integrated projects for high-performing intelligent infrastructure. Its solutions encompass the MicroStation platform for infrastructure design and modeling, the ProjectWise platform for infrastructure project team collaboration and work sharing, and the AssetWise platform for infrastructure asset operations – all supporting a broad portfolio of interoperable applications and complemented by worldwide professional services. Founded in 1984, Bentley has grown to nearly 3,000 colleagues in more than 45 countries and $500 million in annual revenues.

ICS provides specialist consultancy services to infrastructure businesses. We are a niche organisation, providing bespoke solutions to enable companies to optimise business performance and maximise investment returns. Our investment optimisation tools and techniques have being supporting infrastructure companies achieve better regulatory outcomes for several years, with a number of water and electricity distributions companies using our investment optimisation system in the 1994 regulatory price reviews. Since this time we have continued to grow and are now the leading supplier of investment optimisation in the UK, and a developing supplier in Europe. We have experience of supporting companies in a wide variety of industries: water, energy distribution and transportation, telecommunications, and power generation.

Infor is a leading provider of business software and services, helping more than 70,000 customers in 164 countries improve operations and drive growth. To learn more about Infor, please visit www.infor.co.uk/solutions/eam

Invensys is a global technology group providing solutions, software, services and equipment to monitor, control and automate processes in a wide range of environments and across almost every sector.

Through our 3 divisions – Controls, Operations Management and Rail – we employ over 20,000 people in 50 countries and our solutions are in daily use in over 180 countries worldwide. We develop and apply advanced technologies to enable the world’s manufacturers, energy providers and railways to safely and efficiently unlock the full potential of their people, assets and business operations.

The Lloyd's Register Group provides independent assurance to companies operating high-risk, capital-intensive assets in the energy and transportation sectors, to enhance the safety of life, property and the environment.

Our clients typically manage large scale, high-value assets where the cost of mistakes can be very high, both financially and in terms of the impact on local communities and the environment. In such a setting, organisations need advice and support they can trust.

Verico AS is a company specialized in offering services and products within Enterprise Asset Management. Our references within the Utility sector span industries like electric power generation and distribution, gas distribution and other utilities. The company project portfolio show that our strong multi disciplinary team has successfully completed demanding projects for Transmission System Operators (TSO) like Statnett SF (Norway) and TenneT BV (The Netherlands), and a number of regional utility companies in Norway. In addition to our unique photography based data acquisition and quality assurance service, we provide services within asset data modelling, asset documentation, software development and integration, project management and more.

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with approximately 259,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$27.9 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2012. Its home page is www.accenture.com.

Atrium provides Enterprise Asset Management software known as Atrium’s EAM. Our partnership approach ensures the management view of an organisation’s property portfolio reflects business objectives and workflows enabling organisations to improve performance, add value and reduce costs through better management of their assets.

Atrium’s EAM suite is designed to meet the demands of both operational and strategic property asset management comprising:

ATRIUMvision - Strategic asset investment planning, enabling an organisation to make evidence-based decisions to optimise property performance

ATRIUMproperty - Operational property asset management, delivering efficiencies and a joined-up approach in the day-to-day management of properties from an estates, compliance and maintenance perspective

Atrium’s EAM is supported by quality assured services designed to ensure swift implementation, allowing clients to quickly realise return on investment.

With around 120,000 people in 40 countries, Capgemini is one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services. The Group reported 2011 global revenues of EUR 9.7 billion. Together with its clients, Capgemini creates and delivers business and technology solutions that fit their needs and drive the results they want. A deeply multicultural organization, Capgemini has developed its own way of working, the Collaborative Business ExperienceTM, and draws on Rightshore ®, its worldwide delivery model. Learn more about us at www.capgemini.com.

Rightshore® is a trademark belonging to Capgemini

Corven Consulting is the leading business change management firm specialising in asset intensive industries. We work with our utilities, infrastructure and energy clients to help define and translate strategic initiatives into a pragmatic, operational reality.

We have deep hands-on experience of delivering change in the areas of operational excellence, procurement and supply chain, operational risk management and leadership development. Our Clients include BP, Shell, National Grid, Network Rail, Thames Water, UKPN and Centrica

We work by engaging the organisation in the design of the solution and ensure the benefits are sustainable by transferring capability and driving changes in behaviours at all levels of the organisation.

GHD is widely acknowledged as a world leading asset management consultancy. This is reflected in a portfolio of clients of more than 500 transit agencies, transport companies and utility companies worldwide. Our longstanding willingness to take a lead in asset management’s global advancement continues with contributions to developing the International Infrastructure Management Manual and PAS-55. Our success is demonstrated through our projects – with 84% improvement in performance and 20% saving on operational expenditure. Further, our ability to assess an organisation’s management system’s maturity extends beyond PAS-55 to include the highest level of current leading-edge asset management practices using a long-established assessment approach. We’re passionate when it comes to sustainability. We look to measure whole life value in terms of financial, environmental and social aspects and offer specific skills in carbon footprinting and sustainability strategy development.

QlikTech is a leader in Business Discovery -- user-driven Business Intelligence. QlikTech’s powerful, accessible Business Discovery solution bridges the gap between traditional business intelligence and office productivity applications. Its QlikView Business Discovery platform enables intuitive user-driven analysis that can be implemented in days or weeks. The in-memory associative search technology it has pioneered allows users to explore information freely. QlikView Business Discovery works with existing BI applications and adds new capabilities: insight for everyone, zero-wait analysis, mobility, an app–like model, remixability, and a social, collaborative experience. Headquartered in Pennsylvania, QlikTech serves more than 26,000 customers in over 100 countries.Want to try QlikView for yourself? Visit www.qlikview.com.

Rolta enables its customers to realise their business objectives through its deep domain expertise in the Utilities and Oil & Gas sectors, where its systems integration experience is unrivalled. Rolta’s services and solutions cover the entire life-cycle for the process industries, from engineering design, through to operational excellence, and including enterprise asset management, business intelligence and analytics to enable effective decision-making. Rolta has unique intellectual property in the geospatial arena, where it provides enterprise level solutions and GIS integration with ERP systems. Headquartered in India, Rolta is a multinational organization, with customers in more than 40 countries.

Optimize infrastructure asset management with Tensing solutions

Tensing offers a full suite of products and professional services to support all mobile processes related to infrastructure asset management. Utility and Field Service industries as well as the public sector recognize the value we add by making our expertise available to our clients. Organizations throughout Europe, North America and Australia use Tensing solutions to lower costs while increasing quality of service.

Customers choose Tensing because:

• Over 25 years of experience in GIS and mobility guarantees the best total solution
• We understand customer needs and business processes
• We offer a complete package: consulting services, software solutions, application hosting and mobile hardware
• Combining geospatial and work order data boosts productivity and quality of service
• Our Integrated Work Management Suite offers the most complete platform to support just about any service process

UMS Group is an international consulting firm specialized in the global energy and utilities industry. Founded in 1989, the company offers over 20 years of experience in the energy and utilities sector We help bridging the gap between business strategy and day-to-day operations by offering enabling products and service offerings. Our key solutions are in Asset Management and Performance Management. Through the use of benchmark products we give utility companies an insight how well they perform in comparison with similar companies.

The UMS Group Europe team consists of a core of industrial seasoned consultants accomplished by young professionals.

Costain is an international engineering and construction group with a reputation for technical excellence founded on more than 140 years. The Costain name has been at the forefront of many world-famous projects including the Thames Barrier and the Channel Tunnel. In 2012, Costain was identified as one of Britain’s Most Admired Companies.

As an engineering solutions provider, we focus on developing intelligent solutions to meet national needs. Our whole-life focus on Asset Intelligence is underpinned by data acquisition, analysis and insight providing end to end asset lifecycle solutions to our customers. We operate in the water, waste, power, oil & Gas, highways, airports and nuclear process market sectors.

Esito Consulting are Implementation Consultants with a depth and breadth of experience in translating Manufacturing, Engineering and Maintenance Strategies into operational reality, implementing programmes that deliver improved reliability, safety, cost and production output.

Esitos consultants do this by reducing exposure to risk. Working in true partnership, shoulder to shoulder with all levels of client management and supervision, they design, develop and implement systems, processes and organisation structures to change behaviours and deliver significant sustainable operational and financial benefits.

Esito bring exceptional project management, business transformation, communication skills and talent to transfer knowledge and skills to achieve sustainable improvements for their client businesses.

“When making asset decisions for a competitive edge, SEAMS provides intelligent asset planning capabilities which reduce costs, increase profitability and balance risk. Our intuitive analytics software supports modelling, evaluation and optimisation of the economic, environmental and social outcomes for investment scenarios. We evaluate risks and increase profit through qualified management decisions based on accurate, auditable and transparent model outputs, providing visibility for future outcomes.”