With 4 million customers and nearly 39,000 megawatts of generating capacity, Atlanta-based Southern Company (NYSE: SO) is the premier super-regional energy company in the Southeast and a leading U.S. producer of electricity.

Though it has 25,000 employees and nine operating companies, Southern did not have a consistent, automated way to create or distribute an accurate picture of its organization. Its people used a confusing and inefficient combination of presentation graphics programs and drawing and diagramming software. As a result data integrity and critical HR functions were negatively affected. Inefficiency reigned.

When researching automated organization chart software, the company found that only OrgPublisher by Aquire had the flexibility and high level of performance it required. “The first day we used OrgPublisher we had an org chart up and running,” said Tim Moon, HR Staff Analyst. “It was amazing.”...