Energy

A Single Source of Truth for Strategy Execution in Energy

Keto AI+ Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) provides energy organizations with a unified “hub” for all portfolios, resources, budgets, and risks. Instead of siloed teams using disparate tools and spreadsheets, all strategic initiatives – from grid upgrade programs to sustainability projects – live in one cloud platform. This single source of truth gives executives instant, real-time visibility across the entire project and product portfolio​. You can consolidate ideation, project pipeline, resource allocation, costs, and risk data in one place, breaking down silos and enabling data-driven decision making. For example, Fortum’s Recycling & Waste division lacked visibility when different teams followed their own project tracking methods; after implementing Keto, they achieved a unified process and reporting method, making it far easier to get a complete overview of all initiatives and to prioritize effectively​ ketosoftware.com. User-friendly dashboards and customizable reports in Keto turn raw data into actionable insight – whether you’re reviewing capital expenditures on a grid modernization program or tracking the progress of a wind farm development. The platform integrates with your existing systems (ERP, HR, task management, etc.), so project data flows seamlessly without manual effort​. The result is enterprise-wide transparency: stakeholders from the CFO to project managers see the same up-to-date information on status, costs, and risks. “Thanks to the tool, we are now able to manage projects and resources in the portfolio and track and measure them transparently and in real-time,” says Alpiq’s IT Enterprise PMO about implementing Keto​. This transparency not only improves reporting and oversight, but also builds trust that strategic objectives are on track.

Strategic alignment is built into this unified platform. Keto AI+ lets you define your corporate goals (e.g. Improve grid reliability, Achieve 40% renewable mix by 2030, Enhance customer experience) and map every initiative against these objectives​ ketosoftware.com. This creates a live blueprint of how each project or program contributes to your energy strategy. Executives and PMOs can drill down from a high-level goal (say, “Decarbonization”) to see all related initiatives (like solar farm installations, coal plant retrofits, R&D on energy storage) and their status​. Conversely, project teams always understand which strategic goal their work supports, keeping everyone focused on the big picture. The platform acts as a compass, as Keto “ensures traceability – anyone can see the programs and projects contributing to each strategic objective… and AI-powered analysis highlights gaps or misalignments,” effectively keeping your portfolio pointed at the targets that matter​. This level of alignment is critical in the energy sector, where strategy-to-execution linkage can make the difference in meeting regulatory deadlines and hitting sustainability targets. Fortum’s strategy team notes that Keto allowed them to “connect the project portfolio to our strategy,” giving management and steering groups an overview of all projects, their progress, and how they interrelate​. With Keto as the connective tissue, energy companies standardize portfolio governance (with stage-gates, approval workflows, and KPI tracking) while retaining the flexibility to adapt to change. The platform’s no-code workflow automation means processes can be tailored to your organization’s needs without heavy IT development – users can configure forms, fields, and automation rules themselves, ensuring the tool fits both enterprise standards and local business unit needs​. In short, Keto AI+ serves as the digital backbone for energy strategy execution, where every innovation or infrastructure investment is visible, accountable, and aligned to your corporate vision.

Prioritize Investments and Plan with Confidence

With constant pressure to invest in modern infrastructure and innovation, energy leaders must choose wisely where to allocate limited budgets. Keto AI+ provides powerful capabilities for investment prioritization and scenario planning that give CIOs, CFOs, and strategy heads confidence in their decisions. The platform enables a structured evaluation of each proposed project – incorporating criteria like strategic alignment, expected ROI, risk level, regulatory urgency, and resource requirements – to generate objective priority scores​. By scoring initiatives on how strongly they support key goals (e.g. grid reliability, carbon reduction) and weighing that against cost and risk, executives can objectively identify “must-do” projects versus lower-value efforts. For instance, you might weight strategic alignment and ROI higher than risk or urgency, depending on your strategy. This data-driven prioritization ensures capital is deployed on the highest-impact programs – whether that’s a grid resilience upgrade or a new digital customer platform – rather than being driven by the loudest voice or siloed preferences.

Just as importantly, Keto allows leadership to perform what-if analysis on the portfolio before making big bets. Its scenario planning tools let you simulate different future conditions and their impact on your project mix. “Keto AI+ can let you simulate different portfolio scenarios (e.g., ‘What if we only have 80% of the budget?’ or ‘What if we fast-track Project X – what slips out?’) and see the impact on overall portfolio value,” helping the executive team understand trade-offs and make informed decisions​. You can model scenarios such as funding cutbacks, aggressive growth initiatives, delays, or regulatory changes and immediately visualize how the timing, resource load, and ROI of the portfolio would adjust. This is invaluable in the energy sector’s volatile context – for example, planning scenarios around different carbon price assumptions, or around potential new safety regulations, becomes much easier with Keto’s interactive roadmap and AI forecasts. In practice, this capability helped Alpiq (a leading Swiss energy company) when they realized their Excel-based portfolio tracking was no longer sufficient. Alpiq had been managing their IT project portfolio in spreadsheets, but faced limitations in resource planning, budgeting, and status reporting as the complexity grew​ ketosoftware.com. After adopting Keto’s SPM platform, they gained enhanced capabilities in portfolio management, resource planning and status reporting, allowing more efficient allocation of resources across projects and improved on-time delivery​. In other words, Keto gave Alpiq the analytical insight to optimize their project mix and timing, something manual spreadsheets couldn’t provide.

Real-time analytics in Keto further support confident decision-making. The platform delivers up-to-the-minute dashboards on portfolio performance – from high-level investment summaries down to project-level health metrics – so you can track benefits realization and adjust course quickly. Keto’s AI engine continuously analyzes project data to flag risks or anomalies that might threaten portfolio value​. For example, if a critical grid project is trending over-budget or a series of compliance tasks are slipping schedule, Keto will surface these issues early as alerts, allowing the PMO to course-correct before small issues become big problems. Automated forecasts can even predict probable project outcomes (duration, cost, risk) based on historical data, enabling a proactive approach to portfolio management. This means CIOs and PMO directors can go into steering meetings armed with forward-looking insights, rather than just backward-looking reports. Instead of wrestling with static reports, the executive steering committee can review live portfolio data – status, spend, risk levels – and make adjustments in real time. By providing a fact-base for tough calls (which projects to accelerate, pause, or kill), Keto AI+ helps leadership maximize the ROI of their entire change portfolio. In fact, Keto’s mission is to redefine how companies determine Return on Innovation (ROI) for strategic initiatives​. With traditional PPM tools, linking project outcomes to strategic value was murky; Keto’s platform changes that by directly tying each investment to strategic objectives and measurable results. Many companies invest heavily in R&D and innovation but lack the tools to measure returns or connect them with strategy – Keto provides clients real-time visibility into strategic portfolio performance. For a CFO, this means finally having a clear line of sight from dollars spent on, say, a renewable energy R&D program, to the tangible business value and contributions to corporate targets. For a Head of Strategy, it means being able to scenario-plan and reprioritize when market conditions shift, confident that the portfolio will still deliver on the company’s goals. Ultimately, Keto’s prioritization and planning capabilities enable energy firms to invest in the right things at the right time, and pivot fast when needed, without losing strategic alignment.

Mitigate Risk, Ensure Compliance, and Drive Sustainable Outcomes

Operating in a highly regulated and physically risky domain, energy enterprises must embed risk management and compliance tracking into their strategic execution. Keto AI+ is built with robust risk and resilience planning features to help foresee and mitigate challenges that could derail strategic initiatives. Every project in the portfolio can have associated risk registers – identifying potential issues (from supply chain delays to regulatory non-approval or climate-related disruptions), assessing their likelihood and impact, and assigning mitigation plans. This means that for critical programs like grid hardening or nuclear plant upgrades, all the key risks are logged and actively managed in one system. The platform’s AI can analyze patterns in project data and historical outcomes to flag emerging risks – for example, it might detect that several projects are experiencing similar delays due to a common supplier issue, or that a cluster of initiatives is overloading a particular team, raising execution risk. By surfacing these insights early, Keto enables a proactive approach to resilience: portfolio managers can reallocate resources or adjust schedules before minor issues become crises. In addition, dependency management tools in Keto help you map out critical inter-project dependencies (common in large energy programs) and treat them as first-class risk items – ensuring contingency plans are in place for dependencies and that any slip in one project’s timeline automatically updates connected projects. All of this fosters a culture of no surprises: energy CEOs and boards don’t like surprises, especially when it comes to major capital programs or compliance initiatives, and Keto helps make project execution as predictable and transparent as possible.

Regulatory compliance is another area where the Keto platform supports energy executives. Whether it’s planning for upcoming environmental regulations, reporting on ESG metrics, or ensuring projects adhere to safety standards, Keto provides the tools to keep compliance on track. You can set up portfolios specifically for regulatory-driven initiatives (for example, projects required for grid code compliance or EU Renewable Energy Directive targets) and monitor their progress separately. Real-time compliance dashboards let you track key metrics and deadlines – for instance, percentage completion of a mandated pipeline upgrade, or the status of permit approvals – so that nothing falls through the cracks. The system can send alerts if compliance-related tasks are overdue or if a project’s scope changes in a way that might affect regulatory requirements. Moreover, Keto’s powerful reporting and analytics engine makes it easy to generate the data needed for compliance audits or sustainability reports. The platform can generate custom reports and dashboards to track performance, identify trends, and support data-driven decisions in areas like health & safety, emissions reduction, and other regulatory KPIs. For example, if a Head of Strategy or Sustainability needs to report on the company’s progress toward a decarbonization goal (say, carbon intensity reduction by 2030), all relevant projects and their carbon impact contributions can be aggregated and visualized in Keto, ensuring that ESG tracking is integrated with portfolio management rather than an afterthought.

Indeed, ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) initiatives have become core to energy companies’ strategies, and Keto AI+ is well-equipped to handle them. The platform allows you to incorporate ESG criteria into investment scoring and selection, ensuring that projects are not only evaluated on financial return but also on sustainability impact and compliance. For instance, you might tag certain projects as contributing to emissions reduction or community development, and then easily filter or report on the ESG portfolio as a whole. Keto’s support for Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) is especially useful here: companies can set ESG-related strategic objectives (e.g. “Achieve 50% renewable generation” or “Reduce CO₂ emissions by X%”) and then link specific projects or programs to these OKRs. This provides clarity on how each initiative furthers the company’s ESG goals and allows for continuous tracking of progress. Built-in features like ESG risk assessments (to identify sustainability or compliance risks in projects) and ESG compliance monitoring (to track, for example, adherence to reporting standards or ethical guidelines) are available out-of-the-box. In practice, this means an energy CFO can confidently assure regulators, investors, or the board that all sustainability initiatives are being managed with the same rigor as financial investments. Keto’s customers are already leveraging these capabilities to drive sustainable outcomes: Wipak, a manufacturing client aiming to be carbon-neutral by 2025, uses Keto to manage R&D projects with full visibility into their sustainability impact. And in the energy sector, Alpiq uses Keto AI+ to manage their project portfolio with transparency, enabling them to “track and measure [projects] transparently and in real-time” as they pursue efficiency and sustainability goals. By integrating ESG metrics into day-to-day portfolio management, Keto helps energy companies not only meet compliance requirements but truly embed sustainability into their strategy execution – ensuring that decarbonization and innovation go hand in hand.

Trusted by Leading Energy Organizations

Keto Software’s proven track record in the energy industry provides assurance that its platform delivers results. Major European energy companies like Fortum and Alpiq have chosen Keto AI+ to connect their strategies with execution and to drive innovation at scale. Fortum – a forward-looking power company – uses Keto to manage its most important business development and sustainability initiatives, from renewables expansion to new circular economy projects. By doing so, Fortum gained much-needed transparency and improved its strategic portfolio decisions, as their Strategy & BI Manager attests. Alpiq, a Swiss electricity producer, implemented Keto to replace manual portfolio tracking and saw a significant improvement in data quality and project management maturity, with customized workflows supporting their governance processes ketosoftware.com. These industry leaders, along with other large innovators like Valmet and Danfoss, rely on Keto to tie together their objectives, projects, resources, and results. The platform’s robust security and compliance (trusted in highly regulated sectors) and its Made-in-Finland reliability give executives peace of mind that their strategic data is in good hands. Keto Software has also attracted significant investment (including from energy-focused funds) to continue advancing its AI-driven SPM capabilities – so you can trust that the solution is future-proof and continuously improving to meet emerging needs in the energy sector.

Partnering with Keto Software means equipping your organization with the tools to thrive amid the energy transition. Whether you are embarking on a grid modernization program, scaling up renewable energy projects, improving operational efficiency through digital initiatives, or bolstering risk and compliance management, Keto AI+ Platform provides the visibility, alignment, and intelligence to succeed. It enables strategy-to-execution alignment so that your bold goals (from decarbonization to growth) translate into actionable portfolios and on-the-ground results. It supports investment optimization – ensuring every euro or dollar is spent where it delivers the most strategic value. It strengthens resilience and governance, reducing execution risk in an uncertain world. And it accelerates innovation by engaging people with easy-to-use, AI-enhanced tools that make data entry and analysis a delight rather than a chore. The energy future will belong to those who can adapt and execute effectively. With Keto’s SPM platform, energy executives can confidently steer their companies through change – aligning resources with strategy, balancing today’s reliability with tomorrow’s sustainability, and ultimately maximizing their Return on Innovation in a rapidly evolving market. Empower your energy organization with Keto AI+ to turn strategic vision into lasting results, and join the ranks of industry leaders who are already reaping the benefits of smarter portfolio management.