Utilities
Product & Project Management
Application Performance Management for Nation’s Largest Public Power Supplier
- Delivers energy to 10M people across seven southeastern states
- 90+ years in service
Business Need
- Modernized application performance management (APM) tool with cloud, AI, and machine learning functionalities
- Focus on monitoring security, application, and business performance
- Seamless APM integration across entire IT landscape
- Enhanced scalability and cost efficiency
- FedRAMP compliance – legal counsel approval for tool compliance and security
Challenge
- Endeavoring 2-5 years to identify and deploy a successful APM tool
- Lack framework or governing principles to establish APM
- Legacy tool used at bare minimum – poor organizational understanding of how/why to use APM
- Not able to monitor performance at the user or application level
- Ineffective identification and diagnosis of performance issues
Solution & Results
- Led and managed an APM tool evaluation, RFP, and selection
- Established an internal APM grading system by benchmarking top tools and curating SOW/RFP evaluations
- Strong focus on predictive and prescriptive analytics capabilities (bots and AI for modernized functionality)
- Enhanced analytics and reporting by boosting visibility to KPIs, metrics, SLAs, and support, enabling proactive business decisioning
- Saved up to $700K in evaluation costs vs. other vendors and improved evaluation efficiency
- Accelerated time to decision and deployment by 4-6 weeks
- Enabled expedited APM tool alignment with cross-collaborative business and IT needs
- Increased security monitoring, application, and business performance