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Who is Southern Company ? Regulated Utilities - Southeast Georgia Power Alabama Power Mississippi Power Gulf Power Savannah Electric & Power Southern Nuclear Non-Regulated Entities Southern Company Energy Solutions –PowerCall - (Home Security) –Energy Services - (Energy Management) –Premier Homes - (Apartment benefits) Southern Communications Services, Inc. –Southern LINC - (2 way phones - Industrial) Southern Energy, Inc. –U.S. power generation –International power generation –Energy power marketing & trading

Southern Energy, Inc

General Corporate Statistics Largest producer of electricity in U.S. and one of the largest in the world. U.S. Market Presence Southeast, Texas, California, New England Over 12 million customers served daily in 10 countries on 4 continents North America, Europe, Asia, South America Over 3.8 million customers in the Southeast Power Generation Capacity - 50,000 mw Regulated (SE Core Operations)31,000 Non-Regulated (SEI)19,000 5 year goal - add 20,000 mw (40%) in U.S. markets 45,000 + employees $12 billion revenue / $1 billion net income One of the most widely held corporate stocks in America

Future of the Electric Industry Deregulated Electricity Markets by 2003 High $ markets - Northeast / Midwest / West Low $ markets - Southeast / Southwest Southeast - 19% below national average cost Greater shift to Natural Gas More efficient - Peak cycle gas generators less pollution vs coal Electric and Gas Company Mergers Excellent synergies Southern and El Paso ? Increase efforts by Electric Utilities into unregulated business ventures Wireless / 2-way telephone - Southern LINC Home Security Business - PowerCall Energy Management - Energy Solutions Combined Customer Services - Premier Home Southern Company uses Oracle Financial products to help manage these new businesses

Oracle Applications Installed User Base: Oracle Interfaces with other mainframe systems

Multi-Organization Environment Reduce Costs 1 single installation for subledger applications Less costly to do apply patches & upgrades across all companies / organizations Database management much easier Greater Efficiency Single customer / vendor record - multiple addresses defined by organization Opportunity to centralize customer/vendor setup and maintenance Customer/Vendor Inquiry & Quick Picks Unique customer number - “SCS-1st Union” Custom logic to force unique number Typically must “quick pick” customer / vendor name - will default to 1st listed Poor error messages with incorrect company customer/vendor chosen

Multi-Organization Environment Standard reporting issues Define Company Code to match Organization Limited control to manage changes to customer/vendor names Custom logic to restrict changes to organization / responsibility level Alerts to identify changes made - too late ? Advocates centralized customer / vendor setup requires greater coordination among all organizations Oracle will require multi-org environment Release 12

Standardization vs Customization Maintain standard Oracle processes ? 1st perform Mgmt Cost / Benefit Analysis –If no competitive advantage exists –May require significant changes to business practices / procedures –Affect on staff personnel due to changes. Allows easier & quicker migration to future patches / releases More effective Oracle support Customize Oracle processes ? Expensive to customize & maintain –Increased implementation costs –Upgrades and patches (mega patches now) Southern Company Customizations Standardize where possible !

Lesson’s from Character to GUI People do not like change Give the “Big Picture - life will be easier” Potentially slower data input - initially keyboard > mouse > keyboard “Train the Trainer” One Super User per area Easier to view & navigate around screens Use window help to see navigation path to GUI More effective production support Great new features in Release 11i

When to upgrade to new releases ? Don’t be first in line Too many mega-patches being released Study the new upgrades for true value –Spend the $ / time to review customizations –new functionality may offer greater efficiency Constant retraining - people don’t like change Hardware issues & limitations Plan accordingly based on certification levels Time value of money - delay the costs Southern Company Currently on version 10.7 GUI Upgrading to version 11 Do not let Oracle support expire !

“The Effective Application Solution Organization” Proper staffing & training –Technical - DBA’s / Programmers –Functional - CPAs / Business Analysts Cultivate strong relationship with consultants Managing Oracle - “Manage the Vendor” Manage production issues –New Requests –Functional vs Technical problems Customizations –Version Management –Control / Structure Have Fun !