Energy Efficiency Collaboration Platform

Direct Technology’s EECP is a powerful, fully functional, state-of-the-art, enterprise level software tool that is configured and tailored specifically to follow your utility’s business rules and requirements. EECP allows you to quickly and efficiently manage and administer every aspect of your portfolio of DSM/EE and similar customer-centric programs. EECP will manage customer participation and vendor interactions at every level while providing you with the ability to organize and connect all participants – vendors and other services providers alike – in one collaborative environment. With EECP, DSM/EE Program Managers can work in real time to manage all of your DSM/EE programs, no matter how simple or how involved. EECP can be easily integrated with your utility’s line-of-business software systems (Accounting, CIS, MDM, ERP, etc.) for an even greater degree of control. EECP allows you to effectively manage your DSM/EE programs while guaranteeing efficiency, cost effectiveness, and regulatory compliance!

Management Reporting

EECP’s Ad-Hoc Report Designer puts a host of reports and information at your fingertips giving you the information that you need to make intelligent program management decisions on the fly. EECP includes a robust set of pre-configured, out of the box Productivity and Statistical Reports. Generate one-click reports such as Total Program Expenditures, To-Date Energy Savings, Program Budget Remaining, New Participants Enrolled, Vendor/Partner Metrics, and many more important program and productivity statistics and indicators. You can also easily create your own custom reports with just a few clicks in EECP’s easy to use User Configurable Reporting Environment. Or, if you prefer, Direct Technology’s Professional Designers will be happy to work with you to configure one or a whole portfolio of reports that will meet your business needs.

Program and System Auditing

EECP includes a Comprehensive Auditing Module that empowers “Authorized Agencies” to act as de facto first level audit support. Data entry errors are uncovered before they are submitted for payment to minimize or eliminate costly and time consuming re-work. Compliance is verified in “Locked Audit Trails.” Security is assured.

EECP’s Advanced Change Tracking Framework guarantees that any change made to any key component, such as workflow steps, invoices, user permissions, etc. are captured and are available in a complete, secure, locked audit trail. For each key modification the system records the date, time, and user who made the change, as well as the specific field(s) modified; tracking both the field’s original value and the changed value.

EECP meet and exceeds the requirements for Sarbanes-Oxley financial integrity audit trails. Program Integrity and Financial Compliance are assured with EECP.

Security

Data Security is of paramount importance to the modern utility. Nobody is more aware of this vitally important requirement, nor takes Data Security more seriously, than Direct Technology.
Direct Technology has crafted EECP with Data Security Protections exceeding those found in Microsoft® Active Directory – the robust Data Security standard employed by a majority of Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies. Because EECP often interfaces directly with the utility’s sensitive Financial and Customer Information Systems, ECCP’s Data Security must be impeccable — and it is!

EECP’s Data Security Module has been meticulously crafted to be a comprehensive, easy-to-interface, and wholly secure solution to manage permissions to ECCP’s modules, interfaces, databases, and the important data there under. Security is organized into four categories – User Management, Group Management, Roles & Permissions, and Data Access. Full Audit Module and Data Security Module Integration guarantees Data Security throughout the EECP application, while state-of-the-art security management guarantees the integrity and security of data residing in your most important financial and customer data systems

Workforce and Vendor Scheduling

EECP’S Workforce Scheduling Module puts you in control of your in-field partners and associates; automatically scheduling the most efficient use of available resources. The Workforce Scheduling Module reduces program management costs by minimizing time spent both in scheduling and in management of external resources; thereby improving resource utilization and avoiding costly double booking and similar scheduling conflicts.

Dynamic Program Configuration

Using EECP’s Integrated Configuration Modules, Program Managers are easily able to configure and publish new programs by simply tailoring the Program's Specific Business Rules.

EECP’s Integrated Workflow Engine automatically applies your rules and logic to assure that every program enforces your utility’s rules and requirements (dates in force, income requirements, time constraints, etc.) assuring that required information, properly formatted and validated, are collected at the right time and in the right fields, leading to the right, verifiable results every time.

EECP provides the flexibility and the granularity for Program Managers to configure and create both global and program-specific, on-the-fly business and validations rules such as:

• Context specific eligiblity criteria (e.g. rates, account class, structure types, previous participation, usage criteria)
• Program year goals, budgets, and limits.
• Available program measures
• Flexible measure limits, costs and savings information
• System access control and security
• Automated auditing and monitoring with notifications / alerts
• Custom to-do / work queue lists
• Authorized list of vendors and contract amounts
• Complex and one-click management reports
• Financial system account code mapping and integration
• Customer Information System integration
• Online self-service applications for enrollment
• Vendors and Vendor Employees
• Allow 3rd party vendors to upload data from external system.