Enbridge fortifies CIS with HP Integrity platform
Business situation
Prompted by steady growth and a desire to serve customers better, Enbridge Gas
Distribution Inc., Canada’s largest natural gas utility, wanted to modernize its legacy
Customer Information System (CIS)
As the company’s revenue engine, the CIS calculates and processes customer bills.
Enbridge wanted to add more functionality to the system and a richer customer relationship management (CRM) function. Making these changes on the existing IBM mainframes computer would have been onerous, time consuming, and not cost effective. Enbridge generates more than 2 million bills monthly by aggregating information from meter reading and other management systems. Batch processing the core
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This innovation supports new functionality that improves quality of customer interaction and satisfaction.
• Empowers business processes with direct control related to customer service
•Make available a platform for further business innovation and service improvements offered to customers4
Impact of the Innovation
A Customer Information System (CIS) is critical to ensure customer satisfaction and meet complex billing requirements. A CIS manages account, consumption and billing data, and delivers a distinct solution for tracing all interactions with your customers.
Customer Information Systems of today are far more complex and intuitive than
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8 | P a g e earlier traditional utility billing systems. Having a recently updated Customer
Information System (CIS) allows company to build the kind of customer relationships needed to maintain and thrive in today’s ever competitive marketplace. The right CIS can do wonders for utility company and make it easier for Enbridge Company to:
Track Customer Information
Manage Customer Relationships
Generate
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Torbay Hospital renders services to a local population of approaching 300,000 people; in addition to around 100,000 visitors at any one time throughout the summer holiday period. The Medical assets Support Services at Torbay Hospital manage over 10,000 medical devices. The need was to find an appropriate RFID tracking solution that could locate medical device in the medical equipment library and wards of hospital.
The Torbay hospital in exploration of finding a system that required smallest investment in the IT network and offered a low total cost of ownership.
Harland Simon installed a solution using Active RFID tags to track medical devices such as infusion pumps, bladder scanners and other equipment in the medical equipment library.
Types of Innovation
This RFID innovation is consider as process innovation. The regular process of searching a device is shifted from manual to computer aided searching
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1. What types of applications are described here? What business functions do they support How do they improve operational efficiency and decision making? Applications described here are email, design, spreadsheets and which would support the operational functions of a business. The iPad and iPhone in the case of Eric Jackson allows him to be mobile conduct business with clients and employees share ideas designs and hold meetings without being present.
(Outrigger case 113&114) For the human resources part, Outrigger have 26 full time IS professionals who dealing with hardware support and software support. (Outrigger case 115) And provide on-the-job technology training to workers to help staff familiar with the IS. (Outrigger case P116) 3 What should be, in your opinion, the role of the IS function at Outrigger Hotels and
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The article provides many good examples that current companies use IT to manage their customers. To attract customers, the company should build four interconnected capabilities: automation, proactive personalization, contextual interaction, and journey innovation. With four interconnected capabilities, companies can provide to customers easy way to contact with companies, and companies can easily collect information about customers and keep journey with customers. Also, companies can recommend some products to customers based on their information, so companies can build strong relationship with customers. With four interconnected capabilities, companies will have more way to communicate with their customers.
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From: Leo Read (-- removed HTML --) Sent: 10 August 2023 12:57 To: Dillon, Stephanie (-- removed HTML --) Subject: CAUTION: External email - Unit 11 Answers Unit 11: Process information about customers 1.1. Describe the functions of customer information systems Customer Information Systems (CIS) are specialized software systems that collect, store, manage, and analyze customer-related data to support various business functions and enhance customer interactions. These systems play a crucial role in helping businesses understand their customers, personalize experiences, and make informed decisions.
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The RFID applications included attendance recording, to access the control, tea and coffee vending machine services and an e-purse, along with biometric security features of the organisations. Reliance Industries adopted this concept across the entire group of companies. Reliance Retail has made plans for using RFID to support its operations. The company has developed five RFID-deployment scenarios, including the tracking of reusable crates of fresh food; item- and case-level tracking of high-value goods; and pallet and case tagging of various