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End-to-End Solutions 

Our six integrated solutions comprised of modules are flexible to meet clients’ needs and built to support analytics across the enterprise through a robust selection of coordinated inputs and outputs. UI’s flexible framework and unparalleled processing power enable it to easily scale from departmental-focused models to fully integrated enterprise-wide solutions so you can build upon the analysis over time with our 21 value-added modules to choose from.

With UI’s fully integrated planning solutions for utilities, you can:

  •  Leverage solutions seamlessly across utility departments
  •  Utilize powerful reporting tools within each solution
  •  Get the best of both worlds — pre-built and client-specific business logic — both running in the same flexible rules-engine
  •  Receive SaaS hosting and services to relieve IT department burdens
  •  Stay in the know about upgrades and new releases

Ready for a more in-depth exploration of UI solutions? Watch our 30-minute End-to-End Video to get the full scoop on our solution and module offerings and how they can help you enhance your utility’s performance.

UI solutions are designed to bolster specific functional outcomes throughout the utility.
Click on any of the boxes below to learn how they can enhance your utility’s departmental operations.

   “We had the UI Financial Module for years before we brought in the rest of the            asset and forecast modules – we are now able to forecast closing for capital      projects; that is a huge support for forecast information – couldn’t do that before.”


                                                                                                       UI Customer

The Power of Our End-to-End Solutions

Automated data transfer

Quickly transform large amounts of data into meaningful information throughout the solutions

End-to-end solutions

Users can work with shared data and connected transparent rules throughout the forecasting processes

Leverage single interfaces across multiple modules

Easy, fast, and seamless to maintain one version of the truth

UI Solutions and Modules

Click on the top-level solution to see which modules are commonly incorporated. Then click the module that interests you to find out more about that module, the solution it belongs to, and how it combines with other UI solutions and modules to bring you more value.

Targets & Assumptions Module

Time constraints during rate case or month-end processes often mean that accuracy is sacrificed to allow process completion. UI’s Targets & Assumptions Module creates consistency among your teams by aligning assumptions across the business to reduce the margin of error even during crunch times.

This Module integrates with other modules as part of the following solution:

Financial Planning

Financial Statements Module

Producing accurate pro-forma financial statements is a complex, intensive process involving synthesizing various variables from disparate data sources with limited resources. UI’s Financial Statements Module simplifies the process for you by providing a complete set of statements that serve as the single source of truth for your company’s financial outlook.

This Module integrates with other modules as part of the following solution:

Financial Planning

Taxes Module

Tax Departments require a fully integrated, detailed income tax forecasting solution that produces federal and state results with the ability to pivot between corporate scenarios. UI’s Taxes Module has you covered for all your financial planning needs and boasts enhanced data transparency.

This Module integrates with other modules as part of the following solution:

Financial Planning

Financing Module

Today’s organizations are pressured to deliver financing plans in less time and with limited resources. UI’s Financing Module makes it easy to know if you’re meeting changing business requirements with its seamless modeling of debt and equity.

This Module integrates with other modules as part of the following solution:

Financial Planning

Today’s utility organizations must deliver accurate filings that meet increasingly complex logic and strict regulatory guidelines while operating with constrained timelines and manual spreadsheets. UI’s Regulatory Accounting Module eliminates the burden of spreadsheet management for you and gives you time back for strategic decision-making.

This Module integrates with other modules as part of the following solution:

Revenue Module

A precise understanding of current and future revenues is critical to running a successful enterprise but is challenging in the rapidly changing utility landscape. UI’s Revenue Module makes it easy for you to accurately forecast future revenue and analyze variance trends with its historically validated rate engine.

This Module integrates with other modules as part of the following solution:

Plant Book Module

Having a detailed, reliable forecast of current construction work, plant in-service, and depreciation is important. UI’s Plant Book Module does this for you by interfacing with plant accounting and budget systems to produce an accurate and detailed capital forecast to support all your financial planning and regulatory filing needs.

This Module integrates with other modules as part of the following solution:


Plant

Expenses Module

Since utilities are almost always under pressure to bend the cost curve, O&M spending is often heavily scrutinized. UI’s Expenses Module conveniently isolates O&M expenses for you and makes it simple to view everything you need regarding your full budget details.

This Module integrates with other modules as part of the following solution:


Budgeting

Traditional budgeting methods and budget vs. actual reporting views aren’t well suited to meet corporate objectives regarding “bending the cost curve” and maximizing regulatory return. UI’s Work Drivers Module enables you to develop budgets and forecasts by linking budgets to their cost drivers.

This Module integrates with other modules as part of the following solution:


Budgeting

Capital Spending Module

Efficient decision-making and forecasting of capital spending are critical to the long-term health of the enterprise. UI’s Capital Spending Module has your best interest in making wiser capital investment and operational decisions with its fully-vetted capital project view. 

This Module integrates with other modules as part of the following solution:


Budgeting

Labor Module

Producing a balanced labor budget is a manual, time-consuming process that we know is no easy task. UI’s Labor Module takes the guesswork out of it for you with accurate forecasting and modeling features so you can develop optimal business plans.

This Module integrates with other modules as part of the following solution:


Budgeting

Core Budgeting Module

We understand the need for a web-based, user-friendly, flexible platform to facilitate the creation of your budgets. UI’s Core Budgeting Module gives you this and makes completing budgets and collaborating across your organization more manageable. 

This Module integrates with other modules as part of the following solution:


Budgeting

A forecasting module must be able to calculate loaded costs and allocate shared services using the same methodology as the actuals system of record, run this process with monthly detail, and more. UI’s Loadings & Allocations Module can do this for you multiple times daily by leveraging an in-memory allocations engine. 

This Module integrates with other modules as part of the following solution:

Budgeting

Plant Tax Module

The ever-growing regulatory scrutiny around excess and deficient deferred taxes requires a tax depreciation forecast that is precisely detailed and can be updated swiftly as capital planning changes. UI’s Plant Tax Module enables you to easily meet all your financial planning and regulatory needs by expediting property records. 

This Module integrates with other modules as part of the following solution:


Plant

Adopting the best toolkit for addressing a myriad of possible tariff changes is essential. UI’s Rates & Tariffs Module allows you to easily define rules and calculations to analyze the impact of various regulatory changes across an entire customer base.

This Module integrates with other modules as part of the following solution:

Regulatory

Regulatory Filings Module

We understand clients need efficient and consistent regulatory filing processes that provide more value-added analysis time. UI’s Regulatory Filings Module supports you in creating reporting packages, performing analysis of supporting testimony results with ease, and more.

This Module integrates with other modules as part of the following solution:

Regulatory

Load Forecasting Module

Clients must better understand energy efficiency, customer behavior, and distributed energy resource trends and relationships to predict their future load more accurately. UI’s Load Forecasting Module enables you to forecast customer count, usage, and peak demand to support your planning and regulatory functions.

This Module integrates with other modules as part of the following solution:

Meter Data Module

The limitations of legacy data tools challenge the utility industry, and utilities require more flexibility and powerful tools than ever to facilitate data-driven decisions that benefit the utility and its customers. UI’s Meter Data Module empowers you with advanced analytics so you can better understand your key accounts.

This Module integrates with other modules as part of the following solution:

Billing Module

As the utility industry moves to more complex rate structures across all rate classes, it’s critical to have fast, flexible, and scalable billing systems to support the new rate structures. UI’s Billing Module addresses the evolving complexities of the customer billing process so you can keep your customers happy. 

This Module integrates with other modules as part of the following solution:

Customer Service Module

Clients must present clear rate options, comparisons, and bill impacts to their customers through easy-to-use, web-based interfaces that allow them to analyze pricing options directly. UI’s Customer Service Module makes this feasible for you by offering a scalable solution that strengthens customer relationships through robust rate analytics for all stakeholders.

This Module integrates with other modules as part of the following solution:

Energy Supply Module

Utilities must meet their customer’s forecasted energy demand considering sustainability and reliability goals, market dynamics, technology complexities, and constraints in the portfolio mix. UI’s Energy Supply Module enables you to provide comprehensive and informed results to comply with IRP filings requirements and meet LRP needs.

This Module integrates with other modules as part of the following solution:


Integrated Resource Planning