Eversource Energy,

we are a Fortune 500

and Standard & Poor's 500 energy company.

We are the largest energy company in the

Northeast, one of the 10 largest in the United States.

So, a pretty big presence, certainly,

countrywide. We are very committed

to serving our four million electric, natural gas, and water customers.

And I think Lauren mentioned, we are also very committed

and have a lot of focus on environmental leadership.

Our problem statement, and really what we were trying to solve with this Board implementation,

was the result of a merger that took place in 2012.

So, there were two large New England utilities, we merged,

and while there was a lot of emphasis in, really rightly so,

on implementing new accounting systems and general ledger

systems and budgeting systems, what

really fell by the wayside a little bit, and left us with a bit of a gap, was the

ability to get financial results and we were focused primarily

on expense budget results.

Getting that in the hands of our business users company-wide.

So again, it checked all the boxes.

We thought it offered a nice financial reporting capability.

Certainly that was just kind of the basis of what we were

looking for.

But it also had that graphic functionality.

It also had kind of that newer, more modern interface, and dashboarding capabilities as well.

So we thought that was going to be a big plus and generate some real

interest in our business units.

It also interfaced very well with financial systems, our existing financial systems,

as well as Microsoft Office.

And some of the packages we looked at didn't really have that close Microsoft Office

integration, and if any of you are in finance, you know that you

certainly can't pry Excel out of the hands of some of our finance

department.

It also met our response time requirements. I think I mentioned in a previous slide that

we were looking to go into a

lot of transactional detail.

We wanted to make transactional detail available to those end users.

So that was really a lot of data.

It was actually, we now have about, I think it's over 200

million rows of transaction level data.

So really a lot of data. And what was very important to us

was that the folks, when they wanted to click on that and get

that transaction level, that they weren't waiting a long time to do that. That it

was within a several second response time, you weren't waiting minutes to get a query to

return.

Such as happened in our accounting system,

but then that's another story.

So we actually rolled this out, we've got about 750 users right now

and it's a very diverse end user population.

It is anything from a financial analyst level to a cost center

manager to a program director,

project director,

right up to the executive level.

We have currently five primary capsules, or

databases, with all the relevant security associated with that.

We really do think that we have achieved all the

benefits that we set out to do.

We were able to really check all the boxes and

really make our corporate-wide reporting more

efficient, more pleasant for the end user.

We've been very closely partnering with Board on a couple of enhancements

that we really are quite excited about.

And one of those are metrics and performance scorecards.

So it actually, from the day we implemented in 2017, it actually

was a long time vision and desire of our senior management

for business, for our executives and our business users to be

able to see their performance metrics hand

in hand with their financial results.

So those two, in the eyes of management, are very closely linked and there

was a great desire to be able to provide that really in one system.

And so this project is going to be starting up very soon.