Key Facts
With a mission to ensure energy security and underpin the transition to renewables, the integrated energy provider needed to modernise their ways of working.
With V2 AI’s expertise, delivery times for new releases have been accelerated from two weeks to one day, significantly reducing the time to market.
It has also increased business trust by integrating security into all phases of the release lifecycle.
The Client: Ambitions for Increasing Clean Energy
An established integrated energy provider with a long history in large-scale generation aims to expand its renewable assets while maintaining a reliable electricity supply to millions of customers. Its current focus on expanding clean energy capacity while maintaining grid stability plays a crucial role in supporting Australia’s sustainability and energy security goals.
The Challenge: A Focus on Real-life Problems and Opportunities
To deliver on its strategy and enable scaled operational efficiency, the company embarked on a journey with V2 AI to reimagine how it operates as a modern, secure, and data-driven utilities provider. Having more frequent and trusted releases would enable it to drive innovation and speed to market, allowing customers to receive on-demand, reliable, and clean energy.
V2 AI initially defined a roadmap, starting with a maturity assessment, to identify the challenges, opportunities, and use cases that would initiate the transformation. We then executed against a robust framework to identify areas for improvement and inform the implementation pathway that would help our client achieve its security and speed-to-market objectives.
We needed to reimagine our ways of working and work in more agile and iterative ways. We recognised there had to be a far more efficient, secure and collaborative approach, and V2 AI really brought the pathway, roadmap and experience to the table." - Software Development Manager
The Solution: Accelerating Speed to Market
Working with V2 AI, the integrated energy provider has delivered on the first phase of the transformation, starting with DevSecOps, which has enabled the organisation to:
Streamline workflows by adopting modern tooling for build and deployment
Ensure security awareness is a fundamental part of the application development mindset, culture and processes
Shift toward automated testing for software quality assurance for increased agility
V2 AI took a dual delivery approach with the client team to implement the tooling, customise workflows, and migrate pipelines, ensuring the client team was upskilled and confident in incorporating the new way of working into their daily workflows.
A Partnership: Delivering Agility, Value and Trust
After working with V2 AI to implement the DevSecOps strategy, the energy provider was able to achieve several key outcomes:
Accelerated Delivery Times
The development cycle time has been significantly reduced from 2 weeks to 1 day, thereby accelerating the time-to-market for new features.
Increased Security
By proactively addressing vulnerabilities before they become breaches, as a result security incidents have been lowered by 40-60%.
Improved Trust
Addressing issues early cuts remediation costs by up to 10x, and automation increases deployment frequency, driving more frequent and reliable releases.
V2 AI, together with our client, is excited for the next phase of their journey, driven by strong data capabilities that underpin the transition to renewables, with expansion through wind and solar projects.
Teamwork is a core value at our company. We wanted to work with a partner that would help us not just build our internal capability but really push the boundaries of what's possible. We were able to achieve this working in partnership with V2 AI." - Head of Transformation & Cyber Security
