Copperleaf Technologies Innovation in Asset Management with C55

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Copperleaf Technologies
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Innovation in Asset Management with C55
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50 Most Promising Utilities Technology Solution Providers
F
rom smart meters to rooftop solar and energy
storage, innovative technologies have the
capacity to disrupt the utilities industry.
After remaining reasonably unbothered for the last
100 years, the lattice is in front of embracing new
technologies that are sprouting new business models,
altering consumer prospects and causing regulatory
models to acclimatize.
The emerging technology solutions are reinventing
the industry—automating and enhancing distribution
grids, improving security and compliance efforts, and
helping to harness meaningful information to keep
costs down. With these advances, the industry can
better serve their customers and grow the business.
Amidst this technology advances, the aging
infrastructures, complex ecosystems, stricter
regulations, and higher expectations set a challenging
backdrop for energy and utilities. But connected
technologies offer powerful opportunities to
modernize operations while cutting costs and
generating insights. Technology is enabling
utilities to embrace new challenges and pursue new
opportunities.
In the last few months we have looked at hundreds
of solution providers who primarily serve the utilities
sector, and shortlisted the ones that are at the forefront
of tackling challenges faced by the industry.
In our selection we have looked at vendor’s
capability to fulfill the needs of utilities sector—
both from a provider and consumer perspective—
through variety of services that support core business
processes, including innovation areas related to
cloud, SaaS, Big Data and analytics.
We present you to CIOReview’s 50 Most
Promising Utilities Technology Solutions Providers
2014.
Company:
Copperleaf Technologies Inc
recognized by
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Utilities Technology challenges and impacting the marketplace.
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Copperleaf Technologies,
Inc.
Key Person:
Judi Hess
CEO
There are three
elements to a successful
AIPM strategy; Predict,
Optimize and Manage.
Copperleaf’s C55
solution is the only
solution that addresses
all of these aspects of
AIPM
Description:
Copperleaf C55 is a unique Asset Investment
Planning & Management (AIPM) solution that
provides investment decision support to help
utilities decide where and when to invest in
its infrastructure to maximize performance,
minimize risk, and deliver the highest value to
all their stakeholders
Website:
www.copperleaf.com
asset intensive industries make investment
decisions with greater confidence. This
means understanding the investment
needs over the long term horizon (20+
years), and developing investment plans
to keep risk in the infrastructure at
acceptable levels, while maximizing
performance and respecting cost and
resource constraints.
Spearheaded by
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their creative and passionate CEO, Judi
Hess, Copperleaf provides utilities with
world-class software solutions coupled
with advanced methodologies developed
over 20 years by helping energy utilities
with Asset Investment Planning. “The
Copperleaf C55 solution embodies our
extensive experience helping utility
companies improve their performance,
manage their risk, and create plans to meet
their targets. C55 is the leading AIPM
solution for utilities, and is now actively
managing more than $120 billion dollars
in investments across our clients,” asserts
Hess.
“There are three elements to a
successful AIPM strategy; Predict,
Optimize and Manage. Predict means
being able to determine the long term
needs of your assets, so that you can
develop investment plans to minimize
risk and reduce costly unplanned
failures and outages. Optimize means
being able to determine the optimal set
of investments and the timing of those
investments that deliver the greatest value
to the organization and its customers.
And finally, Manage means being able
to track your actual performance against
your plans and continuously adapt to the
ever changing business environment.
Copperleaf’s C55 solution is the only
solution that addresses all of these aspects
of AIPM,” says Hess.
Copperleaf takes pride in its unique
Value-based Decision Model that helps
utilities assess the contribution of a wide
variety of dissimilar investments so they
can confidently compare and make tradeoff decisions.
Utilities routinely manage hundreds,
if not thousands, of investments.
Determining the optimal solution
for this number of investments while
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Judi Hess
respecting multiple funding, resource
and timing constraints
cannot be
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accomplished manually or through the
use of spreadsheets. Copperleaf’s C55
TECHNOLOGY
uses advanced Mixed
Integer
Liner
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Programming techniques (MILP) to
determine the optimal solution for
thousands of investments in minutes.
“Copperleaf is squarely focused on
innovation, we hold an annual conference
for customers to share best practices and
provide ideas that drive the roadmap for
the product. The latest version of C55
introduced program analytics capabilities
that enable optimal investment levels to
be determined for populations of assets,
and sophisticated data visualizations that
help clients easily derive business insights
from large volumes of data. At Copperleaf
we focus on providing our customers with
exceptional value, and we strive to make
working with Copperleaf an extraordinary
experience”concludes Hess.
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nergy utilities are facing increasing
expectations to deliver impeccable
performance,
despite
aging
infrastructure, and tightening financial
& resource constraints. Copperleaf
technologies, headquartered in Vancouver
BC, provides a unique solution to help
utilities succeed in this challenging
business environment. Copperleaf has
developed a unique Asset Investment
Planning & Management (AIPM) solution
called C55. C55 provides investment
decision support to help utilities decide
where and when to invest in their
infrastructure to maximize performance,
minimize risk, and deliver the highest
value to all their stakeholders.
Founded in 1993, Copperleaf helps
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