Webinar recording

How to Avoid an
In-House of Horrors: The Battle Between Build vs. Buy


Build vs. Buy examines the factors that lead energy retailers to develop in-house software solutions or purchase third-party software.

Together, Gorilla and CGI will discuss the pros and cons of each approach and when a retailer should consider one of the other.

Industry Insight
“Over the next ten years, 4x more energy will come from wind and solar PV generated by residential consumers. Along with continued growth in the EV market, consumers are expected to become 33% more energy efficient. Without adding automations to your data strategy, these impacts on the energy supply chain threaten to eat into revenues.”

Joris Van Genechten, VP of Product and Engineering at Gorilla

Portrait of Joris Van Genechten, VP Product and Engineering at Gorilla
What you will learn?
Identify and prioritise the most business-critical data points
Learn how AI & data accelerate client growth and enabling businesses to predict the future
Uncover the steps necessary to build a data strategy that will harness the power of AI
What you will learn

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Key capabilities that energy retailers need from modern software platforms

How to evaluate the total cost of ownership against ROI

How Gorilla helps energy retail leaders balance company-wide priorities with team-specific goals

Long-term financial implications of different software strategies in energy retail

Where the road ahead can take you in terms of adding new markets, terms and products

Speakers

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portrait Steven White Director strategic planning at Southstar Energy Services

Alan Griffiths
VP Consulting Expert, CGI

portrait of Chris Turner, Managing Director, B2B Markets, SouthStar Energy Services LLC

Joris Van Genechten
VP Product & Engineering, Gorilla

Portrait of Ruben Van den Bossche, Co-founder and CEO of Gorilla

Tommy Mörtberg
Head of Sales, EMEA, Gorilla

Portrait of Ruben Van den Bossche, Co-founder and CEO of Gorilla

Greg Videen
Solution Consultant at Gorilla

How to choose the right data platform that meets complex needs

“Increasingly now, energy retailers want highly-automated, high data volume solutions with minimum user intervention. Retailers want the flexibility to change and introduce new products quickly, and it’s important that whichever solution is chosen can support change without major redevelopment or a significant amount of additional testing…”

Alan Griffiths
VP Consulting Expert

“Too often a self-build solution is looked at as a project versus a product. A project is a one-off delivery of something, whereas a product is something that is built for the ages, that’s a long-term vision. Maintenance, support, scalability, software updates… They are all important things to take into account to keep the customer happy for the long term…”

Joris Van Genechten
VP Product & Engineering
"SouthStar has a very specific footprint for C&I customers that have very flexible pricing types. We looked at the self-build option, but not everything was going to be scalable. Not only has Gorilla’s platform been very flexible in a way that helps us do what we need to do, but it is scalable, and we look forward to being able to take that into the future.”

Joris Van Genechten, VP of Product and Engineering at Gorilla

About Gorilla

Say Goodbye to slow pricing

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Bespoke pricing

Don’t settle for slow and inefficient pricing processes. Get multi-site pricing at the meter level in under a minute.

Residential Pricing

Scale more, spend less, boost your margin. With Gorilla, you can open up a world filled with decision-ready prices in as little as one hour.

Forecasting

Take advantage of automation to unlock swift and accurate forecasting to better navigate an ever-changing market landscape.

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Are you ready to unleash the data?

Gorilla provides energy data applications for pricing, forecasting, and portfolio analysis. Thanks to a growing partner network and client base across the globe, Gorilla empowers retailers in the global energy community to reinvent their offerings with data that align financial and net-zero goals