Country Energy
Country Energy is Australia's newest and largest regionally based energy business.
Formed in July 2001 by the merger of three energy companies, Country Energy supplies a range of services, including electricity and gas, Internet services, appliances, green energy solutions and energy management consultancy to 700,000 customers across an area covering 72% of the state of NSW.
Country Energy operates two IT Help Desks providing high level support for IT and Communications to 2500 employees in 105 regional offices.
The combined help desks manage around 3000-3300 problems a month. A team of second level support technicians provides on-site support.
Business Scenario
Country Energy provides essential services to household, commercial and business customers. Delivering these services efficiently and effectively depends heavily on ensuring that IT and communications related problems are quickly resolved.
The first challenge facing Country Energy following its formation was to have its service management infrastructure integrated and operational in the shortest possible time.
The second challenge was providing on-site support to a network of widespread and often remote centres. This regularly involves journeys of several hours for technicians, who need out-of-hours access to details of existing and newly logged jobs while they are 'on the move'.
These technicians also require access to associated documentation, details of current related incidents and the company's knowledge base.
Business solution
The Infra 100% web application provided a perfect fit for Country Energy's dispersed operations and distributed support model.
It enables incidents logged by the helpdesks to be distributed across the state and accessed 24x7, without requiring the infrastructure and administration overheads of traditional client-server architecture.
Benefits
Infra's Internet built architecture gives Country Energy flexibility and maximum efficiency from valuable IT resources, delivering service management within best practice standards. It has enabled the rapid deployment of the solution across the company's existing desktop and server environments.
The Future
Country Energy plans to extend its use of Infra to the automation and deployment of its business processes.
The Infra Customer Portal has the potential to provide employees and regional offices with the ability to self-log incidents and search the problem database.
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