Energy Management Software
Improvements & Customisation of Existing Software
We assisted Keele University’s estates department with improvements of its existing custom-built software.
The energy management software required some additional functionality to help the organisation save time and leverage better business intelligence and reporting.
What are the benefits of the software improvements?
Usability
A simple interface improves usability and time spent
Automation
of manual steps improves business reporting capabilities and ensures no processes are missed
Business intelligence
The database has extensive management information reports
About Keele University
Keele University was the first new UK University of the 20th Century, with graduates obtaining some of the best academic and employment success rates across the country. The site is the UK’s largest integrated campus with many of the students and staff living on site.
A large estates department is required to administer and provide upkeep of the many residences and facilities. The energy management system tracks the installation, maintenance and costs incurred from energy meters, with a particular emphasis on sustainable use.
Energy Management Software
Keele’s estates department needed to extend the functionality of its energy management software, simplify some key processes where stages were being missed, and speed up report creation.
Their current energy management software had some issues which need addressing:
- A lot of time was spent creating reports which should have been straightforward and easy to produce
- A number of their processes contained manual elements which were at risk of being forgotten
- New users also had trouble learning the current processes
Their current software needed improving and modifying to help save time, automate manual steps, and provide better business intelligence and reporting functions.
The Solution
Improvements and customisation of the existing software
Simplification of these processes would allow new users to easily learn these new processes.
Our experience allowed us to improve, amend and customise their software to provide a streamlined process.
Automation and inclusion of their manual processes into the system overhauled and improved their business reporting capability to allow quick and easy report creation.
The Results
Enhanced Business Intelligence & Software Usability
A new, cleaner interface has helped users to better grasp how the system works. Changes to how the system assigns energy usage patterns have saved time spent using the system.
This specialist software is based around a database, with extensive management information reports and graphs to improve business intelligence.
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