Fixing a FTSE 100 Colossus

Our next No Code Hero is one you might have heard of, General Electric. One of the US’s largest utility suppliers, older than Pepsi and the Empire State Building, and no less iconic Americana.

General Electric (GE), an American multinational conglomerate with a revenue of over 95 billion dollars a year, are part of the no code revolution. In the time before the innovative software solution came along, GE were using a manual, multiple-step proposal generation process for internal work. As with every large company, their little problems soon became big ones.

GE needed to improve knowledge capture and retention, and project management and communication for wind farms. The previous method of working employed a highly manual, disjointed process that required substantial input from technical specialists.

To fix their internal procedure problems they went to EASA. A patented software solution provider that specialises in rapid creation of bespoke web-based applications which leverage existing assets such as, legacy applications, databases, spreadsheets and web-services.

EASA were able to completely redefine their operating process. They created a no code platform to ease their ‘CPQ’ (Configure, Price, Quote) process with a custom web app, this made proposal generation quicker and more independent. A solution that would have taken months to put in place using traditional coding methods.

Harnessing the Wind

Historically, wind farms have been difficult to manage. They are far removed from infrastructure, especially in the US, and work independently from each other. GE saw an opportunity to use no code solutions to fix issues like; integration with the power grid, optimisation of wind farm layout, load analyses, regulation, and the local environment and topography.

Before using no code platforms, the utility company answered the problems with manual emails, phone calls and meetings. Highly unproductive and time profligate activities.

EASA designed and created a custom web app using no code to reduce analysis and process speeds, and to enact global operating procedures that would be followed by using the web app. Wind ITO (Inquiry to Order) was built to create an error-proof process that provides consistent and reproducible results, a knowledge base that allows validation and verification of past analyses, enhanced productivity and a quicker turn-around on complex analyses.

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