Introduction
Utilities are companies that operate and maintain essential services in critical infrastructures such as electricity, gas, water, sanitation or telecommunications for the well-being and functioning of society.
The evolution towards the Utilities 4.0 model transcends the mere digitization of essential services (electricity, water, gas and telecommunications) to integrate advanced process automation and regulatory compliance with the eIDAS (and eIDAS 2) regulation, thus ensuring a framework of legal certainty and technical integrity in digital interactions between companies, infrastructures and citizens.
The business approach: Integrating operational efficiency technology and regulatory compliance
There is a great challenge in coordinating thousands of field interventions with maximum operational efficiency, document traceability and regulatory compliance.
Each work order involves technicians on the road, interactions with customers, asset data verifications, photographs, reports and, in many cases, documents that must be generated, signed and stored with full legal validity: inspection reports, installation certificates, service conformities, reading sheets, intervention reports, notifications or access agreements.
For these types of operations, the combination of Salesforce Field Service along with the Salesforce CertySign Connector becomes a key lever of digital business transformation.
Salesforce Field Service: connected, intelligent and predictive field operations
Salesforce Field Service enables utilities:
- Optimize planning and routing of technicians
- Automatically allocate resources based on skills and availability
- Real-time inventory management
- Capture readings, incidents and evidence from cell phones
- Operate even in offline mode
- Integrate AI-based predictive analytics
This makes the field operation a centralized and fully connected source of information.
But much of the operational friction and risk lies in the documentation associated with each intervention.
The added value of the Salesforce CertySign Connector within Field Service
The Salesforce CertySign Connector allows you to generate, send, sign and store legally valid eIDAS documents directly from the Salesforce Field Service mobile app.
This is especially critical in:
- Reviews and certifications of water and energy installations.
- Inspection reports.
- Notifications with legal value (cuts, reconnections, authorizations).
- Certificates of completion or maintenance
- Conformities and acceptances documented by the customer.
- Technical reports with photos, geolocation and temporary sealing.
With CertySign, a technician can:
- Automatically generate the document linked to the order
- Autocomplete data from Salesforce
- Include photos, readings and coordinates
- Sign or send a signature from a cell phone
- Leave full traceability and certified evidences
- Automatically record everything in Salesforce for auditing
All this reduces time, eliminates paper, and guarantees regulatory compliance, traceability and legal certainty.
Why this combination is strategic for utilities
Vision aligned with the IT Area’s digital business transformation.
The combination of Field Service + CertySign offers:
- More efficient processes
- Data-driven decisions
- Reduction of consumption and paper
- Increased documentary reliability
- Auditable and connected operations
Direct impact on business, customers and sustainability
This solution allows:
- Reduce unnecessary travel
- Improve SLA and resolution times
- Optimize invoicing and intervention closings
- Compliance with sectoral regulations (water, energy, telecommunications, public works)
- Increase end-customer satisfaction
A scalable, replicable and sustainable model
To create more efficient organizations, all documentation generated is integrated into Salesforce, offering strategic use of data to fuel:
- Operational dashboards
- Predictive models
- Continuous productivity improvements
- Sustainability and efficiency reports
Examples of use for utilities
▪ Integral water cycle
- Digitized inspection reports
- Field signatures with immediate validation
- Real-time connection and reconnection documents
▪ Energy and telecommunications
- Installation certifications
- Customer compliance after intervention
- Regulated notifications with legal value
▪ Urban and environmental services
- Certified incident reports
- Intervention report with multimedia evidence
- Adjustments or authorizations signed at the time
▪ Infrastructure maintenance
- Auditable review minutes
- Sealed and certified construction documentation
- Regulatory compliance monitoring
Conclusion
The Salesforce Field Service + Salesforce CertySign Connector integration enables utilities to move forward with a digital business transformation based on:
- Efficiency
- Data
- Sustainability
- Customer experience
- Legal certainty
All aligned to create more efficient and sustainable organizations.
At Unified Comms we help utilities deploy this end-to-end integration to maximize impact, efficiency and real value.
