Customer has multi-year resource and energy saving program for its subsidiary entities. Resource saving program includes periodical monitoring and analysis of resource saving initiatives.

A special multi-tier IT system is being developed to support this program.

Complexity of this task lies within the need to integrate all power and resource saving initiatives at each subsidiary company and connect them at head company level where final initiative approval decisions made and their status monitored.

To support these business functions the following tasks should be completed on technical side:

• Building of single corporate data bus for data interchange between head and subsidiary companies;
• Implementation of user tools for program approval and monitoring on corporate SharePoint portal;
• Building visual reporting and BI tools using specialized instruments from market leaders, like QlikView, or similar products.

ISDK took part in this project as a contractor starting from the second phase, when certain parts of the system were already implemented in subsidiary companies. However, those implementations in subsidiary companies were done in isolation, without single logical, structural and information model. Implemented modules were not suited to support unified corporate business functions.

As a result on a second phase of the project – implementation at parent company level – the following tasks were of high priority:

• analysis and description of existing processes (as-is analysis),
• development and approval of business requirements for implementation at corporate level (to-be analysis),
• refinement/development of logical, informational and structural design for this solution,
• preparation of detailed functional and technical requirements for main components of the system to be built:
  • Data enterprise bus,
  • SharePoint portal,
  • Reporting & BI tools based on QlikView.

Project team included 15 people – business and system analysts (including 3 people from ISDK), architects for corporate data bus and workflow processes based on SharePoint (lead architect was from ISDK), developers and QlikView product and integration experts (including 1 person from ISDK).

After analysis and design on the second phase of the project ISDK together with general contractor did the following:

• Functional and system analysis resulting in documentation on AS-IS and TO-BE process and model descriptions;
• System should support in total more than 2000 users with different access rights;
• Development of business processes and corresponding functional, logical and data models using ARIS (Architecture of Integrated Information Systems) methodology;
• Development of AS-IS and TO-BE model diagrams also using ARIS methodology, more than 150 models of different types were developed;
• Design of data exchange between enterprise bus and system modules in subsidiary companies;
• Design and pilot development of the module for parent company resource saving program visualization and management on corporate SharePoint portal;
• Pilot integration of QlikView analytical tools and SharePoint user environment.