For decades, our company has built deep expertise in renewables—and today, we’re applying our nature-positive approach to tackle the toughest energy challenges facing the UK.
Our ultimate goal is to help the entire country embrace 100% renewable electricity. As part of that mission, we’ve constructed more than ten onshore wind farms over the last 20 years and have more than 4GW of renewable capacity in our future project pipeline.
Harnessing the power of the wind
Wind turbines are massive: the tips of our largest turbines reach a maximum height of over 250 meters above ground level. As you might imagine, wind projects involve complex engineering and careful project management—much of which happens before any construction work begins on site.
Building a new wind farm starts with finding a location based on factors such as wind potential, supporting infrastructure, suitable terrain and more. Naturally, one of the all-important deciding factors is the ability to purchase the land, which makes land development a key aspect of our day-to-day work.
Land development can be a complex process that involves large amounts of documentation. We need to be able to manage records such as land deeds, land use agreements and correspondence with local planning committees over the entire project lifecycle, which can be seven years or more.
Becoming an independent company
Recently, our parent company was acquired by a green energy fund, and the decision was made to spin off the renewables arm as a separate, independent company. But before moving forward, we had a document management mountain to climb.
Over the years, we’ve accumulated more than one million project-related documents in our parent company’s on-premises OpenText Content Management platform. By a strict deadline, we needed to move those documents to a new repository.
We set out some key criteria for a new solution. We felt that a cloud-first strategy was the best fit for a newly independent business, as it allows us to stay agile, focus on our core competencies, and reduce operational costs. We also wanted to ensure that our employees could get up and running with the new solution quickly and find documents with ease.
Selecting a software-as-a-service solution
We felt that OpenText Core Content Management delivered on all our requirements. The solution is software-as-a-service, which means there was no need for us to procure and manage costly IT infrastructure. OpenText Core Content Management is also fully compatible with the Content Management platform, which gave us the confidence that we could quickly and easily move data off our parent company’s system and into the OpenText Cloud.
Working with our experienced OpenText business partner QPES, that’s exactly how the project went. The QPES team helped us complete the migration on time—and whenever there were bumps in the road, they solved them quickly and effectively. Before long, we’d brought all one million documents to the cloud: a total of over 700 GB.
Boosting productivity, streamlining management
With OpenText Core Content Management, we’re making it even easier and faster for our people to find, create, and work with documents. The solution is just as easy to maintain as it is to use—a massive plus for a brand-new business.
Although we’re just getting started with OpenText Core Content Management, we can already see massive potential to improve our operational efficiency. For example, we’re excited to look at how automated workflow capabilities can help streamline our work.
We also plan to make greater use of the built-in integration between OpenText Core Content Management and Microsoft 365. Our employees rely on Microsoft Teams to drive their day-to-day work, and the ability to store content in OpenText Core Content Management and work on it within Teams will bring a major productivity boost to our green energy projects.
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