Energy & Utilities

Largest EfW renewable energy provider and processor of millions of tons of waste

About Covanta

0
 Years

of providing energy from waste

Over 
0

locations worldwide

$
1
 Billion +

20 years - with the help of eTag Technologies

Objectives

Enhanced Device Management

Fulfill DSNY reporting requirements for the millions of tons of waste

Enhanced Device Management

Perform asset tracking using existing hardware (i.e. RFID, servers) at each facility

Enhanced Device Management

Reduce manual efforts performed at the MTS and facilities

Actions Taken

Understand the long term strategy

Held several executive C-level meetings to understand the goals of the business, including M&A activity and contracts the Company was likely to close.

Took a tour of the facilities

Took tours of the facilities to understand the different processes, and the devices that were involved.

Know the people and systems Involved

Got an intimate understanding of the people and systems involved in the day-to-day efforts of the facilities and what information those folks required to get their jobs done.

Design and execute a security model

Designed and implemented a security model that worked like the business did, with a hub and spoke like model, the hub being the Company’s HQ and spokes being different transfer facilities.

created prototyped solutions

Rapidly prototyped solutions to show that the eTag Fuse Platform could connect to all the different devices and federate access to data and systems properly for everything required to get the job done.

Continued building on the model

Continued building on the model, allowing the Company  to acquire several more facilities and win over $1B+ in new contracts for waste management.

Solutions

Configured the eTag Fuse Platform

And seamlessly unifying disparate technologies, applications, and data sources across 7 different locations.

Configuration of Process Automation

To facilitate the automation and scheduling of several different waste management processes reducing the need for human intervention.

Created custom dashboards

For crane, heavy equipment, and other operators to use for the job, decreasing the chances of making mistakes while on the job to near 0%.

Ben Cabrera

Vice President & Chief Information Officer

“As part of our strategic growth plan, We  were looking to expand into complementary new businesses including Intermodal waste transportation, metals processing, and ash processing. The eTag Fuse platform provided a common digital platform which created the business process automation and technology to support those three new business verticals.”

5/5 Stars

Axis Point

Objectives:

  • Why: CEO had a vision to decrease the amount of time employees wasted searching for resources to get their jobs done and duplication of effort.
  • Centralize access to applications and information across the organization.
  • Enable visibility to the resources the org has so there is awareness and democratized access.
  • Maintain a centralized platform for company and departmental communication.

Actions:

  • Established key personas
  • Collected information from departmental leaders on applications to include
  • Had planning sessions with infosec and IT to coordinate identity management and application security integration
  • Met with stakeholders for company and departmental communication ownership
  • Using session information, designed and implemented the solution
  • Multiple personas defined, each has a guided experience for the resources needed to do their job
  • Customized landing pages for each persona, with operational reporting needed
  • SSO experience to simplify access to the different resources
  • File Shares / data and company announcements
  • Custom app to enter in announcements for each persona, as well as events
  • Centralized user management, etc.
  • Multiple personas defined, each has a guided experience for the resources needed to do their job
  • Customized landing pages for each persona, with operational reporting needed
  • SSO experience to simplify access to the different resources
  • File Shares / data and company announcements
  • Custom app to enter in announcements for each persona, as well as events
  • Centralized user management, etc.
  • Multiple personas defined, each has a guided experience for the resources needed to do their job
  • Customized landing pages for each persona, with operational reporting needed
  • SSO experience to simplify access to the different resources
  • File Shares / data and company announcements
  • Custom app to enter in announcements for each persona, as well as events
  • Centralized user management, etc.