Function of IT department is to assist in the delivery of quality IT products and services by managing the enterprise Data Center.
The department is responsible for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Care & Billing (CC&B), Web Servers and network connectivity. IT strives for the optimum usage of enterprise data to achieve business objectives and assists the management in strategic decision making.
PESCO IT Department has implemented the following projects successfully:
A state of the art Data Center has been established.
USAID Power Distribution Program has developed a state of the art Data Center and highly sophisticated and intricate Infrastructure in the PESCO Environment. All core IT equipment for PESCO’s ERP/CIS and other IT applications will be hosted in this Data Center, thereby enabling the creation of a central repository of all data for PESCO.
This Data Center will enable all users in HQ and 60 Remote Offices to connect to this centrally hosted Data and access records for their needs. PESCO Customer Services Centers (CSCs) will be able to fetch the complete user data including previous bills, user details and related data from anywhere in PESCO thus enabling the one window concept.
The intranet portal for PESCO has been designed to manage and automate the internal business process of the company. This solution will help to extend the capabilities of PESCO staff by offering powerful content management solution to share with departmental users as well as interdepartmental users as per their assigned roles.
PESCO Intranet portal is specially designed to bring information together from different departments.
Each department gets their dedicated area on the page for displaying information; the designated user from the department will update their relavant data on the Web Portal.
The aim of having Portal is to help PESCO in achieving twin objectives, quick retrieval and availability of information. Portal will be the technology that PESCO will use for sharing documents with employees. The portal will use web technology to manage and publish organizational information on local servers that is readily accessible by staff.
PESCO HQ and remote offices have been equipped with the latest Network Infrastructure. Further 24 out of 60 offices have been provided with equipments as well. The remaining offices have been connected through the MPLS.
ERP is business process management software that allows an organization to use a system of integrated applications to manage the business needs and automate many back office functions related to technology, services and human resources.
PESCO ERP consists following modules to handle the daily tasks:
AMR meters have been deployed PESCO wide, covering 12000 customer (above 20KW) out of 2.8 million customers and up to 55% revenue of PESCO is being generated by these AMR meters. AMR, is the technology of automatically collecting consumption, diagnostic, and status data from energy metering devices and transferring that data to a central database for billing, troubleshooting, and analysing.
AMR technology doesn’t just provide simple consumption reads. It also provides capabilities like outage notification, demand reset, tamper information and interval data logging twice a day. The technology streamlines a utility's daily operations in the field. It is easy-to-use and flexible, allowing utilities to maximize their field service representatives by using defined work flows that support daily work assignments
AMR technologies include handheld, mobile and network technologies based on cellular platforms.