Ellio Financial

Answer All the “What-ifs” and Set the Rates You Need

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Meet Ellio Financial

Ellio Financial is a highly functional financial planning module designed to help utilities plan for and develop solutions to financial and rate-setting challenges. This tool offers capabilities that will help you better understand the impacts of your capital programs and rates, ensuring you make decisions that support the unique needs of your community.

Your toolkit for delivering financial sustainability

With Ellio Financial, you can forecast your revenues and funding requirements over a five- to 30-year planning window.

Graphical visualizations support the comparison of multiple scenarios

The integrated scenario builder and dashboards allow users to simultaneously compare the financial impacts of multiple variables, including rate adjustments, customer growth, borrowing costs, capital projects, and more.

Enterprise-wide collaboration, simplified

Ellio’s organization-based subscription model simplifies team collaboration for as many users as you need, without annoying per-seat licenses. Your subscription comes with unlimited users, and customizable access permissions for each.

In-depth analysis of rate and affordability impacts

Designed for water and wastewater utilities by Raftelis experts, our scenario builder provides you the opportunity to model a wide range of situations and consider their impacts. Ellio Financial is designed to help you better understand impacts on affordability and rates, and better serve your customers with that knowledge.

Getting started is easy

Common questions about Ellio Financial

Will Ellio Financial save me time?

Ellio Financial is designed to be user-friendly, and easy to set up. Compatible with Excel, it’s easy to import and set up your current models in Ellio. From there, it offers dashboarding tools to help you analyze information more efficiently and scenario builders that allow you to run several scenarios much easier than you would in Excel. Additionally, Ellio is web-based, making enterprise-wide collaboration simple.

Is Ellio Financial a self-service platform? What happens if I need help with a model?

Raftelis experts custom-built Ellio Financial considering the questions and challenges we’ve faced while working with 1,000+ utilities across the country, ensuring you can use the tool yourself or understand the tool we use to assist you. There are two ways to leverage Ellio:

As a self-service platform with a few hours of consulting time built into the beginning of your experience. This helps ensure all your data is entered correctly and you have the foundation you need to use this tool successfully.

As a tool with consulting services included. We have a tiered pricing structure to ensure you receive the support you need to use Ellio effectively. With this option, you’ll not only have access to Ellio Financial and its vast capabilities but also Raftelis’ financial experts.

How does an Ellio subscription work?

Ellio Financial is a subscription-based service that is billed annually. With that subscription, your entire team gains access to the organization’s Ellio account for seamless collaboration and on-the-go use.

Is Ellio customizable to my utility’s existing rate structure?

Ellio is flexible to nearly all types of rate structures commonly used in the water and wastewater industry, and Ellio Financial is customizable to fit your specific needs. Considering inputs like customer class, meter size, and tiered structure, this tool seamlessly fits into your toolkit.

Can Ellio account for several capital projects?

Able to manage individual capital projects or overall programs and their funding sources, Ellio Financial will accommodate as many capital projects as you need.

How do I get started?

Getting started is easy—book a demo with us.

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Learn more about where Ellio Financial can take your organization by booking a demo with us.