KenGen has identified the need to improve the safety of the dams, as well as the efficiency of their operations.

The recommendations made, if implemented, can help KenGen seamlessly integrate reporting into business processes to improve efficiency, increase collaboration and compliance, and accelerate accessibility to information as part of the continuous improvement process.

Monitoring programs, including instrumentation and visual inspection, provide dam owners with knowledge that a dam is performing as expected, and the ability to detect a change in performance. The key part of that program includes visual inspection and instrumentation with the main purpose of furnishing data to determine if the completed structure is functioning as intended and "to provide a continuing surveillance of the structure to warn of any developments which endanger its safety".

Collaboration of these processes is a key part of the success of any dam safety program and to encourage effective sharing across the value chain, forward-looking dam owners and operators are now taking advantage of using a new generation of dam monitoring and reporting solutions.

The proposal to move from legacy reporting to a powerful enterprise-wide content reporting and data collection framework, now evolved from a conventional document repository, with the ability to manage large terabytes of data and integrate them into SAP and non-SAP business processes.