Digital Transformation in the Utilities Industry with SEEBURGER Consulting, Innovation and Technology

EDI Exchange and Partner Onboarding

The smooth exchange of data across multiple channels is a prerequisite to conduct fast, efficient and profitable business with other utilities and partners such as banks, suppliers, and customers as well as logistics and service providers. SEEBURGER’s solution, deployable on-premise, hybrid or in the cloud, offers seamless onboarding for new and existing customers and secure end-to-end channel execution, refining your business infrastructure and supporting your digitalization strategy.

Automated partner integration and master data management creates competitive advantages and reduces the cost of partner management

To connect partners, the necessary coordination of processes, both technical and organizational, are lengthy and often involve different systems and interdepartmental communication to meet compliance regulations. Additionally, it is time-consuming to maintain up-to-date connections for current partners. Usually, manual steps such as phone calls and follow up emails are required, and various internal departments such as sales and IT are needed to complete the information gathering process.

Using SEEBURGER’s solution, onboarding, provisioning and change management processes can be created as fully automated processes, including message-validation for all B2B standards such as UN EDIFACT, ANSI X12, ISO20022 etc., communications testing and endpoint provisioning.

• Web-portal for easy online onboarding

• Easy master data management with bulk editing capabilities

• Self-service for keeping partner data up to date
         

• Configurable flow and workflow control for all involved processes

• Connect easily and smoothly to your ERP and CRM backend systems

• Fast and highly automatable message exchange in numerous formats

EDI Exchange and Partner Onboarding in the cloud

If you are looking for a quick and easy way to simplify your partner onboarding and management, our SEEBURGER Community Management Application in the cloud will be exactly what you are looking for.  Enjoy all the capabilities of the on premises installation with the flexibility of a cloud based service. No license fees, no hidden costs.

• Seamlessly integrates into existing infrastructure (easily push-pull information)

• Full history of connections recorded

• Highly customizable and brandable tool for multiple use cases

SEEBURGER E-Invoicing and Mobile Bill Pay

E-Invoicing enables you to optimize the level of automation in your billing processes, reducing costs while increasing efficiency. With its flexible connectivity to various back-end systems, the solution is easily connected to already existing IT infrastructure and allows you to transform your paper or PDF Invoices into structured data invoices that are suitable for automated processing.

The SEEBURGER E-Invoicing Solution

Based on the successful Business Integration Suite, the e-invoicing solution provides the central platform for electronic invoicing embedded in your existing application infrastructure. The solution is highly customizable using on your custom invoice structure and needs and can be adapted to various partner mappings. It supports various international standards (such as ZUGFeRD 2.0, Peppol) as well as the possibility of a delivery via E-Mail or managed file transfer. Additionally, the solution features the possibility to export data from your ERP system in the format that is needed for uploading your invoice to the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Invoice Processing Platform (IPP).

• Flexible solution with multi-mapping support
• Compatible with various backend systems and data sources
• Easily connectable to existing infrastructure
• Supports multiple invoice formats and protocols
• Highly customizable and automatable solution
• Tailor made to cater needs of utilities customers

SEEBURGER E-Invoicing in the Cloud

The cloud solution provides you with the full scope of services of our on-premises installation as quickly and easily as a cloud service. This way, you too can use E-invoicing without the need for your own on-premises installation and benefit from the attractive pricing and easy scalability of the cloud solution.

• Low setup and maintenance effort 
• Flexible solution with multi-mapping support
• Supports multiple invoice formats and protocols
• Tailor made to cater needs of utilities customers
• Automatable with customizable triggers and rules
   

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SEEBURGER Mobile Bill Pay

Empower your customers to pay their bills on the go with the convenience of a mobile bill pay solution. SEEBURGER’s long experience with data integration and invoicing topics produced a highly flexible and customizable solution suitable to cater to all your customer’s needs. It is up to you to choose what suits your concept best – whether it is online form bill payment on a portal or embedded within your application. 

• Easy, online form based mobile bill payment
• Easily embeddable into custom mobile applications

• Compatible with various providers and back-end systems
• Safe and secure data processing

SEEBURGER Secure Data Service

This solution enables secure data exchange between external partners, service providers, customers as well as internal applications and systems.

• Reliable and secure data exchange for your company
• Full integration in MS Windows environments

Sending sensitive data via E-Mail will be a thing of the past. The Secure Data Service offers companies a wide range of possible applications for the secure transfer of data. The data transfer can be set up as a fully or partially automated solution that is process-controlled or triggered by a user.

Internal data exchange can take place between customer systems (post office to accounting) or locations (central office to branch office and vice versa). In addition, the service enables your company to securely exchange data with B2B customers (RLM load profiles - customers) and partners (new customer data to sales partners). It can also be used for spontaneous ad-hoc transfer cases, as often needed in ongoing projects, and intends to replace the use of e-mails for the transmission of sensitive data with its full integration into the Microsoft Windows environment.

Integration and API Management

Utilities, which are in the midst of the digital processes are now forced to become both providers and consumers of data streams, as the use of APIs is introduced and an expectancy in the digital ecosystem. Undoubtedly APIs provide businesses with a more flexible and agile ways to integrate systems, applications and enable digital services, both internally and externally. But in this "gold rush" of information - reliability, performance and resilience has become increasingly important, as systems, applications, and data are added to existing enterprise IT architecture at a very high rate. API usage is a driving force in the media industry where "data" is core to the success of the business.

SEEBURGER’s Business Integration Suite features a wide range of API management tools and solutions to empower you to simplify your network while maintaining the highest security and communication standards. Whether you want to run mobile apps, e-businesses, cloud applications, location or POS connectivity or CRM, ERP or ETL connections: with a broad support of different API technologies and preconfigured components, the SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite (BIS) supports your company in its implementation all integration scenarios.

• API Management and API Integration with a multitude of preconfigured components
• Highly flexible and easily scalable
• Definition, Management, Implementation and Publication of Interfaces (APIs)
• Documentation tools for interfaces and processes
• Highest security standards for you data security
• Support of all common communication protocols and formats

Internet of Things and Distributed Energy Resources

In times of an ever increasing amount of data and new storage technologies, data and application integration becomes a highly important topic. SEEBURGER‘s Business Integration Suite (BIS) offers solutions for every integration scenario that might come your way. The suite enables you to integrate data and speed up your networking and data exchange to real time – while staying highly secure and flexible at the same time. Whether you want to integrate branch offices into the headquarters’ data feeds, mobile worker data or transformation stations – our suite helps you accomplish these ideas, and many more. 

Especially the integration of data from remote grid infrastructure, such as transformation stations, electric vehicle charging stations, distributed energy resources, smart meters or grid batteries. These integration tasks prove to be a daunting task with various devices, communication standards and file formats in place. SEEBURGER’s flexible integration solutions enable you to save time and resources while dealing with these complex and multidimensional integration tasks. Leverage the new data coming in from these IoT devices to create new value for your partners and customers.

• Integrate EV’s, DER’s and other emerging technologies
• Harness the power of connected data
• Provide new integrated services faster
• Build a foundation for your digital transformation
• Customizable solutions for every integration scope
• Single platform for all solutions