OREANDA-NEWS. On 04 March 2009 was announced, that Vice President of SAP AG for solutions for energy and housing-and-public utilities sectors in the EMEA region demonstrated new SAP solutions and projects are internationally applied and planned to be launched in Russia, to the IDGC of Centre General Director.

Business cooperation of Evgeniy Makarov and Maher Chebbo is more than one year old. During the whole time of cooperation, Mr. Chebbo has been supervising the project of SAP implementation in IDGC-1, organizing work meetings with the lead experts of SAP AG for getting acquainted with the best experience of SAP solutions in the sector.

The foreign partner of the power specialists told in detail about joint projects of SAP, ITRON, Landis+Gyr, and OSIsoft companies on integration of energy-metering systems with the AMI (SAP for Utilities) solution. The similar project is being adapted now in Belgorodenergo branch of IDGC of Centre. The parties agreed on the information interchange and interaction.

Besides, Maher Chebbo confirmed compliance of SAP solutions applied in IDGC with quality standards regarding the electric power measuring, interaction with the consumer and automation of the process of technological connection with use of SAP IS/U, CRM, PM, SD modules, etc. The solutions passed quality assurance in SAP company and are implemented in all branches of IDGC of Centre, JSC.

Functionality of ObjectLevelCost presented by SAP, drew the power the specialists' interest concerning an opportunity of the detailed analysis of charges in all fields of the company's activities.

Acting Deputy Director of IDGC of Centre for IT and business modeling Dmitry Lagunin said, "SAP is a toolkit which renders information support, and influences the speed of information reception and processing by employees. The speed and quality of the decisions made depends on the quality of SAP implementation, its compliance with the company processes, and filling-in by data."