How Badenova is removing manual tech evaluations

Challenge

At a regional utility, the IT organization carries a uniquely complex mandate. Grid control and smart metering operate under entirely different standards than customer and billing systems, and sustainability reporting adds another layer on top. The result: each new initiative arrives with its own requirements list, its own vendor shortlist, and its own compliance documentation, none of it connected.

Decision-relevant information and compliance evidence had to be assembled from scratch for every initiative, and every team was working from a different picture.

Solution

Badenova now runs tech decisions on Stackgini, covering everything from economic planning for energy projects to centralized identity management (IAM), CRM, procurement, and IT security management. Regardless of domain, the demand follows one path: structured requirements capture, vendor-agnostic market scan, automated compliance checks, and a ready-to-approve decision brief.

The requirements framework is built around Badenova's own regulatory and organizational context, covering functional needs, IT standards, and compliance dimensions including architecture guardrails and data protection. With 7,597 validated system requirements, 45 market analyses and 18 reuse analyses completed to date, Badenova now has a growing institutional knowledge base that makes each new evaluation faster and more informed than the last.

Result

Badenova now reaches decisions in days, not months. Business units consolidate everything about a tech demand in one place, run transparent comparisons against a consistent set of requirements, and walk away with a documented decision.

Across IT and the business, there is now one shared way to evaluate technology. In an organization where the pace of the energy transition sets the speed, that matters.

And the best part: the process is fast enough that the business never has to slow down to accommodate it.