Jersey Electricity PLC replaces Cognos with BOARD for Budgeting & Forecasting

The sole provider of electicity in Jersey; Jersey Electricity PLC, has selected BOARD as their budgeting and forecasting CPM solution.

Through established BOARD partner; Innovar Ltd, Jersey Electricity PLC selected BOARD as their long-term replacement for Cognos Planning which is no longer being developed. They are also looking for wider use of forecasting and to avoid potential dependency on spreadsheets. BOARD’s unified approach to BI and CPM has already enabled over 2,500 companies worldwide to create better business, better decisions.

Gregor Wake, Financial Controller at Jersey Electricity PLC: “We are a long-term capital intensive business that must meet the energy demands of today, while at the same time investing to meet the needs of the future.  Long-term planning is fundamental to our business. After considering several products, we have chosen BOARD as our preferred long-term replacement for Cognos, which is no longer being developed. We look forward to using BOARD to help support our budgeting and forecasting processes.”

Dominic Policella, Director at BOARD UK adds:  “I am delighted to welcome Jersey Electricity PLC to our ever-expanding list of clientele. We look forward to working with them to implement a solution that will transform the way they manage information across their business. Jersey Electricity’s choice is testament to BOARD’s revolutionary and visionary platform which unifies Business Planning with real-time Analytics in a single solution.”

About BOARD 

BOARD International is a leading global provider of software for improving business results through better decision making. By unifying Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management in a single product, the BOARD Management Intelligence solution enables companies to achieve a shared vision of their performance across the entire organisation, and thus a single version of the truth. Since 1994, BOARD has helped over 2,500 organisations improve their business performance by making better decisions. BOARD has a worldwide re-seller network with local partners across the globe.

About Jersey Electricity PLC

Jersey Electricity is a vertically integrated energy and energy services business based in Jersey, Channel Islands. Activities include importation, generation, transmission and distribution of power as well as energy services and solutions, retail, IT, consulting and property management.

About Innovar

Established in 2008 as a specialist planning company, Innovar are the Planning Experts. At Innovar they are all experienced planning consultants who have implemented planning solutions hundreds of times across numerous industries and sectors. All the team comes from financial backgrounds so they have a fundamental understanding of the issues and pressures that all finance departments are under. Innovar boasts of over 30 years of planning implementation experience.