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Provides for
geographically dispersed personnel to collaborate on the various regulatory
activities and requirements.
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Provides for
the Discovery, Testimony, Transcripts, Work Papers, and General Rate case
workflow.
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Provides
automatic emails with links to the requested information to responsible
parties at different stages of the workflow process.
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Provides
versioning for in-progress Data Requests.
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Provides for
printing the data requests ready for filing.
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Provides for
visual notification of objections and confidentiality.
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Track and
report information needed to be filed with the Data Request, i.e., large
attachments, confidential information.
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Views /
Reports will be available to address the informational needs of Management,
such as, milestone dates by Data Request Set, Witness, or Preparer.
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Provides for
the entry of the Data Request question and response text by either keyboard or
import mechanism.
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Provides for
the automatic entry of key milestone dates for each Data Request set,
question, and supplemental response.
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Support
changes of status for each Data Request set, question and supplemental
response.
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Provides for
the linkage of non-voluminous attachments to an Data Request question or
supplemental response.
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Provides for
the identification (non-electronic format) of non-voluminous and voluminous
attachments for each Data Request question or supplemental response.
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Provides for
the creation of a paper deliverable (including linked attachments and a list
of non-linked attachments) to be filed.
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Provides for
the creation of “witness books” - a book provided to each witness containing
all Data Request questions / responses (and linked non-voluminous) to which
they were a contributor.
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Provides
on-line help manuals. Classroom and one on one training is available.
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Subject
Matter Category and issues coding for each question will allow viewing and
searching based on these selections.
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Provides for
full text, coded category and issues, and key words searching in all modules.
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Calendaring
module provides pertinent proceeding events and dates. Key personnel will
receive automatic emails prior to the event.
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Provides a
central data dictionary for all modules.
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The General
Information module contains all legal documents, such as applications, briefs,
other relevant decision orders, etc. and the general information pertaining to
the proceeding (e.g., press releases, news articles, team roster, phone list,
etc..)
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Provides for
protecting documents so only authorized users can access them.
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Transcripts
can easily be loaded the same day for full text searching and review.
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Provides an
audit trail for all documents.
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Once a
document is filed, changes to that document are not allowed and the versions /
production history is permanent erased.
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Each user is
assigned a role that is reflective of their regulatory case process authority
and governs access to the system based on what tasks they are allowed in a
pure paper-based environment.
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Legal
departments’ requirements maintaining confidentiality / propriety / secured
and authorized access to documentation is further fortified by systems
controls.
