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Smart Energies, Paris, France.

During the conference, the GridPocket team will be available to showcase our solutions. 

Smart Energies 2019
17th and 18th of June 2019
Paris, Palais des Congrès, France
Stand: B5

Site plan (GridPocket's stands is circled in red) :

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The top five reasons to partner for the development of your customer portal.

You’re a utility company wanting to launch a new customer portal solution. You have two choices: develop the solution in-house or externalise the service to a software company specialised in energy consumer platforms.

The arguments for developing a service yourself can sometimes appear obvious, you get to specify exactly what you want (let’s assume you know exactly what you want) and you do not have to deal with a complicated and expensive supplier. On the other side, partnering with the right SaaS (Software as a Service) provider renders these arguments for developing in-house obsolete.

Here are five reasons why you should choose a SaaS partner instead of doing it yourself :

Customisations

To have your product exactly as you imagine you want it, is important, right? The thing is though, partnering with an experienced and leading company gives you just that - experience. It’s likely you’ll get what you want, and even much more, things you didn’t fully realise you needed at the start. While partnering with a company who knows the blueprint for what a successful customer portal solution should contain, you’re going to get 95% of the product as you want it (or better) with no extra development costs. Out of the box. The extra 5% is usually easily customisable and can be added on top. 5% customisation is always cheaper than 100%.

Product improvements

Today users expect state of the art user experience and if you don’t live up to those standards, they are happily willing to change to a better product made by your competitor. Beating or even just keeping on par with major competitors will require a large software and product development team. You’ll need to be agile and move fast. Using a SaaS service from a company whose core business it is to stay relevant and on top of UX and current trends ensures you automatically get all the latest innovation and updates, without having to invest heavily yourself on developments of new features and improvements.

Underestimated maintenance

The cost of maintaining a digital product is always underestimated. If you look at the cost of building the product from zero, it might not look prohibitively expensive at the start. Then suddenly you need to replace dependencies on depreciated products, you need to fix critical bugs, ensure you follow new compliance rules, integrate new technologies, etc. All the stuff that would just be part of an ongoing SaaS agreement.

Time to market

Developing something yourself requires you to build the service from zero, as we’ve mentioned. This includes all the preliminary market research and usability testing, through to software development. Investing in a SaaS service means most of that work is already done and the product can be delivered in a fraction of the time. In competitive markets, such as the one for utilities, where being constantly innovative is an immense advantage, the cost of waiting for you products to be complete can be even more costly than that of the actual product development.

GridPocket’s SaaS solution is low-risk and cost efficient

Great software engineers and product developers are increasingly hard and expensive to find. At GridPocket, we have a passionate and highly skilled team that will help you succeed with our proven SaaS solution. A platform that not only includes technology but also our unique utilities market experience.

With GridPocket’s SaaS offering you get a ready, turn-key, white-label platform that’s customised to become uniquely yours, with continuous product updates and improvements. The cherry on top of the cake: we can have the platform deployed in a matter of month!

More information? Please contact us!

GridPocket just participated to the first meeting of the DEFEND project with the presence of European project officer Georgios Kaiafas at the ATOS premises in Barcelona.

The main objective of the project is to create a platform capable of helping companies and institutions manage the several requirements of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance. This new regulation has come into effect since last May and has caused lot of turmoil both within companies and public institutions due to the stringent requirements and under the menace of very hefty fines.

Among the many partner present at the event that represent the totality of the consortium, notice Ionian University from Greece; the children hospital of Madrid; Abilab, an innovation center for the banking sector in Italy; Business-e, an Italian system integrator; the Bird and Bird Law Firm; the University of Brighton; PDMFC, a system integrator from Portugal; and the Pesthera Municipality from Bulgaria.

The main task of the GridPocket is to participate in the specification of the requirements for a privacy management framework thus leveraging its expertise in privacy and application of GDPR and Gridpocket will be a leading partner in the preparation of pilots capable of showing the worthiness of the platform.

Gridpocket has just completed the rollout of its GDPR compliance program, in time for the deadline of the 25^th of May; and it has joined this project to further enhance the capabilities offered to its clients.

GridPocket keeps growing and our offices had become too cramped with the extra activity. Since the benining of this year we have moved to new premises in Sophia Antipolis. With space for up to 30 persons, this marvelous site is equipped with a cantine, a swiming pool and a tennis court. It will let us reach the next level of awesomeness.  

The new GridPocket website is now online. Visitors will now be able to discover all solutions developed by our team and discover the GridPocket's vision for the future of the Smart Grid Industry.