Kona Work and Asset Management
One platform, all your operational data
Kona began as a platform helping mobile users reliant on asset and customer data to better serve the rate-paying public. As our platform matured, Kona evolved into a enterprise-class work and asset management platform that can drastically improve a utility's ability to run more efficiently and improve the useful life of their critical assets.
Kona Work and Asset Management
One platform, all your operational data
Kona began as a platform helping mobile users reliant on asset and customer data to better serve the rate-paying public. As our platform matured, Kona evolved into a enterprise-class work and asset management platform that can drastically improve a utility's ability to run more efficiently and improve the useful life of their critical assets.
Kona addresses the key problems of infrastructure resilience and operational efficiency across industries.
Serving utilities from water, wastewater, electric, gas, and municipal waste management, Kona can improve operations while giving users a simple and effective computing experience.
End-to-End Work and Asset Management
Kona supports every worker, asset and piece of data in utilities' work and asset management workflow. One tool to efficiently manage every division: operations & maintenance, planning & engineering, customer service and quality & compliance.
Delivers ROI
Kona provides enterprise-scale efficiencies, technology and savings at a fraction of the cost of other systems. The platform is simple and easy to integrate into your current information infrastructure, reducing project overhead and uncovering cost-saving insights. Most Kona clients see ROI within a year.
Customizable Application Framework
Your business is unique. Why shouldn’t your critical applications be as well? Kona offers an affordable, simple platform flexible enough to meet any utilities' needs. The old battle between Buy vs. Build simply does not apply - you can have the best of both with low cost, custom workflows, and tailored integrations. So, if you need an enterprise-class WAM platform or a tool to track a specific project, Kona can fulfill your user's needs.
Empower Field Workers
Field workers are vital to keeping our infrastructure running. How well is the utility capturing the wisdom and experience of these workers? Often, not very well. Kona puts users first, giving them a tool to facilitate focused communication, efficient workflows and access to any content, anytime. As a mobile-first tool, Kona shines on tablets and enables offline work, ensuring field workers have the information they need even when they're out of network.
GIS-based
Built around rich GIS maps with a flexible user-interface, field workers and their managers get a system that provides real-time insight into their work and how it fits into other utility projects. Kona provides real-time visibility into all assets, work and field workers.
Simple + Intuitive
Designed from the ground up with functionality in mind, Kona is intuitive for everyone in the utility workflow chain to use. Onboarding and training is straightforward, which ensures workers up and down the utility workflow use the tool properly and the organization reaps its full benefits.
Operational Excellence
Kona provides operational transparency from frontline to corner office, a 360-degree operational view critical for today’s utilities. It not only powers every facet of work and asset management, but also integrates seamlessly with other business-critical systems to enable smart, informed decisions, superior customer service and efficient operation. With Kona, you’ll use resources with pinpoint accuracy and efficiency.
Informed Decision-making
By integrating a utility's business-critical applications into one platform and displaying aggregated data, Kona helps utilities managers make smart, informed business decisions and strategies both now and for the future.
Kona Integrates
FAQ
Yes. Utilities can fulfill all their WAM needs with Kona. However, since we built the platform from the ground up to integrate, it also can be used efficiently and cost-effectively with your current system or systems.
If your systems don’t talk to each other like you think they should, Kona is for you. Kona was designed from the ground up to integrate with the critical tools utilities use to manage their businesses, including one of its most vital, its people.
- Kona is simple and easy to implement and can be white-labeled. Help your clients with a powerful, effective technology platform that will make them more efficient, save them money and simplify their workflows.
Kona Case Studies
Denver Water
Denver Water serves 1.4 million customers in the greater Denver metro. Since engaging with Confluence Group in 2010, Denver Water has seen over $20 million in ROI by reducing meter failure and efficiently addressing customer concerns.
Badger Meter
Badger Meter, which sells and services utility meters in the U.S. and Europe, began white-labeling Kona to manage its installations more efficiently.
Western Disposal Services
Western Disposal Services, a waste, recycling and compost service that serves 45,000 residents in central Colorado, turned to Kona to manage its work and asset management.
Tempe (AZ) Water Department
Tempe (Arizona) Water Department turned to Kona to help manage its meter replacement project. It helped the utility know what to replace, where the meters to be replaced were located and ensured field workers were paid the right amount.