Utilities

Transform and scale utility operations—increasing resilience, regulatory readiness, and profitable growth through the energy transition.
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Power the energy transition

Deliver cleaner, more reliable power and unlock new growth opportunities during this unprecedented green energy transition.

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Drive utility growth and efficiency with solutions that enable you to:

  • Improve customer satisfaction, loyalty, and profit margins.

  • Create new revenue streams and grow revenue per customer.

  • Optimize maintenance strategies, creating a closed-loop system.

  • Support your supply chain while improving asset performance and sustainability.

  • Align insights and planning to make decisions faster and more confidently.

Turn insights into customer value

Gain deeper insights into customer needs and consumption patterns to offer the products and services tailored to each customer segment.

Support energy transition and new business models

Help customers define, streamline, and manage meter data measurement concepts by adopting new business models to collect and monitor meter data.

Digitalize and optimize operations

Increase asset availability, and measure and improve asset performance by allowing asset owners, plant managers, and reliability engineers to optimize maintenance strategies.

Build sustainable supply chains

Achieve sustainability objectives by managing ESG data, ensuring compliance, and embedding sustainability into core business operations.

AI for utilities

Streamline operations, improve reliability, and achieve sustainable industry-specific outcomes with embedded industry AI assistants and agents.

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Autonomous Asset Management

Increase asset reliability and uptime while ensuring regulatory compliance, safety, and sustainability.

Explore utilities solutions from SAP and partners that can help your business run better

Achieve enhanced customer experience, cost-effective transformation, and sustainable growth across energy efficiency programs with energy and non-energy products.

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Customer service management

Strengthen customer service and resolve issues faster with a solution that:

  • Boosts customer service responsiveness by connecting processes and data.

  • Reduces cost with AI tools that handle customer service inquiries.

  • Maximizes customer accessibility through omnichannel service offerings.

  • Optimizes the service agent experience using a unified view of customer data.

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Utilities self-service AI agent

Reduce costs and build loyalty with multilingual, 24/7 support from a Utilities Customer Self-Service Agent.

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Customer engagement

Engage utilities customers and maximize lifetime value through data-driven personalization and automated omnichannel processes.

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Enterprise-grade e-commerce

Achieve profitable growth by offering energy-related and non-energy-related products and services.

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Customer data management

Manage customer data using one central solution with a 360-degree view of the customer—helping to boost engagement and growth.

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Modern self-service experience by SEW

Improve customer engagement with modern, digital self-service capabilities from a browser or mobile device.

Meter measurement concept management

Define and manage meter measurement concepts throughout cross-cloud landscapes by:

  • Optimizing business processes across divisions using streamlined business processes.

  • Advancing UX with a comprehensive definition of meter data measurement concepts.

  • Ensuring the highest data quality with meter collection validations.

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Convergent invoicing

Streamline customer experience and administration by integrating multiple products and services into one system.

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Subscription billing

Grow subscription revenues and improve customer experiences with consolidated bill generation.

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Smart mobility and transformation

Create new revenue streams with mobility as a service across connected, electric, and shared vehicles.

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Distributed energy resources

Support distributed energy resources (DER) by defining, streamlining, and managing measurement concepts in cross-cloud landscapes.

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EnergyCommunity

Empower prosumers to produce renewable energy using generators and batteries and sell it to their neighbors, creating new revenue streams for utilities and their customers.

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Maintain asset health, optimize performance, and reduce risk

Optimize overall asset performance by:

  • Balancing asset performance decisions based on cost and risk profile.

  • Using data insights to anticipate failures and take corrective actions.

  • Planning, scheduling, and executing maintenance and service operations.

  • Integrating intelligent technologies that deliver new value and optimize processes.

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Asset performance management

Maximize value by balancing the performance of each asset against the cost of that performance and the associated risk exposure.

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Field service management

Empower technicians to rapidly resolve issues and boost customer satisfaction with mobile tools and AI-based recommendations.

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Emissions management

Run sustainable and safe operations and protect your utilities brand by measuring emissions and tracking compliance.

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Flexinergy

Improve visibility with unified, scalable monitoring of real-time metering and emissions data.

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Asset Lifecycle Management Suite for SAP Asset Performance Management

Maximize asset reliability and reduce downtime with AI-assisted maintenance and risk-based inspection in SAP EAM and SAP APM.

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PiLog Data Quality and Governance Suite for Supply Chain and Asset Lifecycle Management

Improve equipment uptime by enhancing data quality, reducing maintenance costs, and maximizing asset availability.

Real-time financial analysis

Apply real-time financial data to enhance profitability and help:

  • Make better finance decisions with AI assistants and predictive analytics.

  • Shorten utilities financial reporting cycles with automated finance processes.

  • Reduce days sales outstanding, bad debt, and costs with real-time analytics.

  • Grow your business with risk mitigation and streamlined compliance standards.

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Workforce management

Optimize staffing, control labor costs, and maintain compliance with automation, real-time insights, and smooth integration.

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Human capital management

Use streamlined HR functions to motivate employees and keep them happy and engaged.

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SAP Time and Attendance Management by WorkForce Software

Comply with local laws and improve employee engagement by gaining visibility into workforce costs and reducing administrative effort.

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Avalara AvaTax for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

Minimize manual work and increase accuracy by accessing current sales and use tax rates on a cloud-based platform.

Protect critical utility operations with sovereign cloud infrastructure

Strengthen security, compliance, and resilience with a sovereign cloud for utilities, helping protect the systems and information that keep critical services running.

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Maintain full control over your data, infrastructure, and compliance:

  • Keep utility data local with strict residency controls.

  • Protect workloads with national security–grade safeguards.

  • Improve oversight by centrally managing data access, location, and governance.

  • Help comply with utility regulations with built-in policies and standards.

  • Modernize securely with trusted AI and flexible cloud deployment options.

See how customers are succeeding with SAP solutions for utilities

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SAP named a global leader in digital energy sustainability

Learn why Frost & Sullivan recognized SAP’s innovative solutions that help companies achieve energy and sustainability goals.

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Harnessing AI for utilities

Learn how AI is transforming the way utility companies interact with customers, resulting in significant operational savings and increased satisfaction.

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The future of SAP Service Cloud

Discover the future of the SAP Service Cloud solution, in which AI and human agents collaborate for fast, smart, and personalized support.

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Master the energy transition

Learn how SAP and our global partner ecosystem can help you deliver smart, sustainable solutions to embrace the energy transition.

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See our solutions in action

Learn how solutions tailored to your industry can help you improve operations, innovate faster, and grow with confidence.

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See what’s ahead for your industry

Explore SAP road maps to learn about upcoming innovations, product advancements, and future capabilities.

FAQ

The utilities industry includes electric, gas, water, and environmental services.

ERP integrates supply chain, operations, financials, customer service, human resources, and other data to streamline operations, enhance data visibility, improve supply chain efficiency, and support compliance and innovation.

Yes, our robust partner ecosystem includes a wide range of business process extensions, such as enhanced price optimization and order management. Our services partners support distributors of all sizes with planning, implementation services, and post-go-live support. Explore the full catalog of extensions on SAP Store or search for service partners on SAP Partner Finder.