Accenture Helps Towngas Transform Its Engineering Project Management Capabilities with a New Digital, Cloud-Based Solution
May 18 2016 - 8:57PM
Business Wire
Major Public Utility Company in Hong Kong
Brings Greater Agility and Efficiency to Its Project Lifecycle
The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited (Towngas), one of
Hong Kong’s largest energy suppliers, has collaborated with
Accenture (NYSE:ACN) to launch a new digital engineering project
management solution – Corporate Project Information Management
(CPIM) -- with automated business processes and mobile
capabilities. Accenture designed, developed and deployed the
solution, working with Avanade to host it on a scalable cloud
platform.
Based on Microsoft Project Server and SharePoint 2013, CPIM
incorporates the industry leading practices for managing
engineering projects and integrates with corporate systems such as
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship
Management (CRM) to offer the end-to-end project lifecycle from
project initiation, tendering, scheduling, materials management,
cost monitoring, inspection and invoicing to project closure.
“The new solution achieves greater flexibility and efficiencies
across all areas of project-management,” said Susanna Shen, Head of
Corporate Information Technology, Towngas. “With a consolidated
view of our material requirements, our site engineers and
inspectors can make real-time updates on project progress,
capturing photos and videos with an Android mobile application.
Moreover, our customer service agents can obtain more accurate,
real-time information and respond more quickly and effectively to
our customers’ needs.”
Accenture was chosen for the project that went live in October
2015, based on its deep industry and technology experience,
including cloud and mobile technology, Accenture Delivery Methods
and its 10-year track record of delivering complex IT systems for
Towngas.
“This has been a truly collaborative effort with Towngas,” said
Kenneth Cheng, managing director and client account lead,
Accenture. “It’s a great example of digital transformation of
project management tools, from planning to execution to making
faster and more insightful business decisions. Going forward, it
creates a model for utility and oil and gas companies in Greater
China to apply cloud and software-as-a service (SaaS) capabilities
to project and portfolio management using the latest infrastructure
and mobile technologies.”
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About Towngas
Founded in 1862, The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited
(Towngas) was Hong Kong's first public utility. Today, Towngas is
one of the largest energy suppliers in Hong Kong, operating with
world-class corporate management and leading-edge business
practices. With a pipeline network consisting of more than 3,500km
of gas pipes, Towngas supplies town gas to over 1.8 million
customers in Hong Kong. In mainland China, Towngas is running 222
projects across 25 provinces, autonomous regions and
municipalities. These projects encompass upstream, midstream and
downstream natural gas sectors, water sectors,
environmentally-friendly applications, energy resources’
exploration and utilization, as well as telecommunications.
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