Located in Boulder, Colorado, The Confluence Group has served the energy and utility industry with data integration and application development solutions since 2002.  Since 2009, our focus has moved from pure data integration to developing mobile-first applications aimed at helping companies achieve operational excellence.  This focus led us to develop KONA Work and Asset Management – an industry solution which has processed over 3,000,000 work orders for water utilities in the last three years. 

Our mission is to improve the sustainability and resilience of public infrastructure.  It is not enough to help utilities operate at a lower cost: we seek to improve the longer-term investment in fixed assets as well as reduce the risks and liabilities associated with failure.  We also recognize that no utility exists in an island.  Systems operators have a broad stakeholder ecosystem of other utilities, public citizenry, and businesses and, so, most of our research and development in 2016 is focused on interagency openness and data sharing and we look forward to presenting at AWWA ACE in June on these and other topics.

Relevant Publications

The Confluence Group, in conjunction with Denver Water, produced a three-part series on mobilization for the AWWA Journal.  Links to these images can be found here:

The Cost Benefit Analysis Approach & Platform Rationale – http://confluencegroup.com/AWWA/AWWA%2011-2012%20-%20Mobilization%20Methodology%20for%20Denver%20Water%20and%20Confluence%20Group-Sm.pdf

Implementation Methodology – http://confluencegroup.com/AWWA/AWWA%202-2013%20Mobile%20CBA%20Assessment-dist.pdf

CBA Assessed and ROI Validated – http://confluencegroup.com/AWWA/AWWA%208-2012%20-%20Mobilization%20CBA%20for%20Denver%20Water%20and%20Confluence%20Group-Sm.pdf