Should your customers foot the bill for your IT modernisation strategy?

Reduce the need to pass costs on to customers by adopting an alternative approach to IT modernisation strategies. The key is to turn IT systems from a cost centre into a profit centre, empowering CIOs to reduce the operational cost of maintaining existing systems and increasing the funds available for innovation.

11

July

  • 3PM London / 10AM New York
  • Free

Why attend?

Searching for an alternative approach to modernise your IT strategy without passing costs on to customers?

 

Utility companies are being pressured to upgrade their mission-critical systems, and at the same time, face resistance from politicians and the public when it’s suggested that customer bills should increase to fund much needed modernisation.

What if there was a win-win for you and for your customers?

The key is to transform your IT systems from a cost centre to a profit centre, empowering CIOs to reduce the operational cost of maintaining existing ERP systems while increasing the funds available for innovation.

Join Coy Wright, VP, Energy, Utilities, & Resources Industry Solutions, Rimini Street and Dave Keating, experienced broadcaster, journalist and moderator, for an intriguing discussion focused on ways to drive investment in IT modernisation while reducing expenditure.

Be celebrated as a champion of modernisation by presenting your strategic vision and value of IT to the board

Since its foundation in 2005, Rimini Street has helped utilities clients in the UK optimise their existing core applications and achieve their unique business goals. With differentiated, responsive software support from Rimini Street that derives greater ROI for the organisation, leading CIOs have learned and celebrated that resources and funds can be unlocked and re-directed toward innovation.

Join us for a discussion about the options utility CIOs have, and how IT can truly become a winning profit centre. The session will include topics such as:

  • Tackling the vendor mindset. Major software vendors are pushing their customers to adopt the cloud. Some are even forcing it by imposing deadlines to cut off full support. And if that doesn’t work, they’ll often raise the threat of software audits. How should you expertly and confidently navigate your vendor’s strategy and get to the best for your organisation?
  • Building the business case for change. You need to demonstrate to the board that IT modernisation will deliver value and appease growing stakeholder frustrations. The question is, how should a CIO assess the merits of moving to the cloud or staying put? Do you know your true range of options? How can you evaluate time-to-value to understand where precious resources should be targeted? We can help demystify.
  • Why innovating at the edges is a more effective approach for utility companies. Maintain your existing core applications, optimise them, and focus resources on introducing best-of-breed innovation at the edge. Why? Because this approach is more effective for utility companies in gaining greater flexibility while being more affordable and nimble for industry inflections.

 

Join Coy Wright, VP, Energy, Utilities, & Resources Industry Solutions, Rimini Street and Dave Keating, experienced broadcaster, journalist and moderator, and learn how focusing on IT strategies will provide you with a smart path forward to positioning the strategic value of IT to the board and be seen as a champion of modernisation.

Choose your own path on your ERP roadmap. How? Let Rimini Street Help.

Join Rimini Street’s ERP experts on this webinar as we provide IT and Finance leaders with resources to help demystify, simplify and strategise an ERP path that meets your business needs – not your vendor’s.

Together, let’s analyse the benefits, risks and costs associated with different paths – whether it’s staying on-prem or moving to various versions of your ERP systems, based on your timeline, both real and perceived.

Most importantly, let’s get you back in the driver’s seat of your own IT roadmap and to your business goal destination: GROWTH & PROFITABILITY

 

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Dave Keating
Journalist, Moderator in Power Utilities

Dave Keating is an American-European journalist based in Brussels who moderates live events. He is ranked as the number one EU social media influencer for 2023, coming second in 2022 and third in 2021 and 2020. He has been covering energy and climate policy for 15 years, most recently as the senior writer for EnergyMonitor.ai. Before arriving in Brussels in 2010, Dave covered the boardrooms of London, the US Congress in Washington, the cafés of Paris, the politics of Prague, the courtrooms of Chicago and the streets of New York City.

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Coy Wright
VP, Energy, Utilities, & Resources Industry Solutions

Mr. Wright serves as VP, Energy, Utilities, & Resources Industry Solutions. In this role he is responsible for global strategy and business development to build and grow revenues across the energy, utilities, and resources (e.g. mining) industries.

Mr. Wright is an accomplished information technology executive with more than 25 years of success in energy-related businesses, across the upstream, midstream, and downstream lifecycle for traditional fossil fuels and renewables industries. He has managed multiple global SAP and Oracle implementations/operations, one of the first production SAP Business Suite on HANA go-lives, and one of the first production S/4HANA go-lives on AWS.

Mr. Wright has been a successful early adopter and developer of several current mainstream cloud technologies including an early online banking system, one of the first Microsoft Office sharing ventures, then as an early adopter of Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), the precursor of Office 365.

Prior to joining Rimini Street, after a short stint in private equity, Mr. Wright was Chief Information Officer and Vice President of IT and Digital for Engie North America, where he was responsible for all IT and Digital for the North American region of the French renewable energy company. His scope included Digital Solutions, Cyber Security, IT Architecture, IT Operations, and business applications for the Renewables, Energy Solutions, Networks, and Thermal/Supply business units.

Previously, Mr. Wright was Chief Information Officer for Pacific Drilling, a startup global deep water drilling contractor with operations in West Africa, Brazil, and the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.

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