Market leader powercloud provides an SaaS solution for the energy industry / PwC becomes a consulting and solution partner / The joint goal of the partnership is to advance digitization in the energy industry
Düsseldorf, September 18, 2020. Today, auditing and consultancy company PwC and powercloud GmbH, provider of the leading digital platform for energy suppliers, announced that they intend to work together as part of a strategic partnership.Founded in 2012 in Achern, South Baden, powercloud GmbH firmly believes that customer orientation and cutting-edge technology are essential for utility companies if they are to regain their competitive capacity. Modern open cloud platforms are the agile heart of utility companies, enabling new products to be introduced for low costs within a short period of time. While utility companies reinvent themselves, powercloud goes about reinventing their “engine room.” Automation, customized offers, and digital channels reduce service and acquisition costs while increasing customer satisfaction.
Making energy suppliers fit for the digital future
Making energy suppliers fit for the digital future
“As a digital platform—and in the age of digitization—powercloud gives companies the opportunity to set up their IT in a customer-oriented manner based on up-to-the-minute IT principles. In our opinion, the platform is very well suited to support the process of efficiently transforming into a digital company,” says Philipp Schmidt, partner at PwC Germany in the Digital Utilities division.
“The energy transition, digitization, and increased competition on account of new green options are forcing energy suppliers to develop completely new business models—and this can’t be done with outdated IT systems. With our digital solution, we are able to rapidly support existing suppliers, network and metering point operators as well as municipal utilities in completely automating their processes,” comments Marco Beicht, CEO of powercloud. “powercloud contains all the business processes and data necessary for the ‘energy industry engine room’— an end-to-end solution where all services can also be booked individually. These include billing processes, market communication, payment transactions, receivables management, invoice verification, tariff and offer calculation, and many other areas. Through our powerApp store, we and various partner companies offer over 80 additional apps that cover the individual requirements of power supply companies. Highly automated processes are the DNA of powercloud. Anyone who has previously performed these tasks manually saves an enormous amount of effort with powercloud,” says Beicht.
“Through this cooperation we can help our customers—whether small municipal utilities or large energy suppliers—to prepare for the digital future and the energy industry of tomorrow and beyond. Together with powercloud we will advance digitization in the energy industry and make suppliers ready for a digital future,” sums up Philipp Schmidt.
