The energy and utility sector is challenged to maintain essential public services in the context of increasingly heavy regulations, a generational shift in human resource capacity, budgetary and tariff restrictions, and a wall of network investment. To achieve both operational efficiency in the short-term and ensure the capacity to deliver services effectively on a modern network in the long-term, leading energy and utility actors demand technologies that help them master cascading effects, optimize tactical and strategic plans, and make credible, justifiable tarif cases to industry regulators.