To explore how utilities are going beyond simply managing the volume of data from intelligent infrastructure, we recently had an opportunity to speak with Larsh Johnson, co-founder and chief technology officer at eMeter, a Siemens Business. ...more
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What utilities can learn from telecom analytics
To learn more about what utilities could learn from examples in the telecom industry, Christine Richards recently spoke with Paul Moon, vice president, GridMaven, who spent much of his career in telecom before focusing on the utility industry. ...more
Updates on your favorite Institute working group teams
Like everyone else, Christine Richards can't resist the opportunity to play off the basketball mayhem that is getting underway today. Like you're doing with your favorite basketball team, find out what's happening with our working groups focused on asset optimization, analytics personnel, customer marketing and segmentation, data quality and integration, and meter data analytics. ...more
Part of the Analytics Leadership Series
Utility customer service executives are now seeing value in being able to segment and market to customers in more granular segments with the goal of improving -- or changing -- the utility-customer relationship. Mike Smith talks with HP Exstream's Paul Woods to explore the dynamics of customer communications management that leverages the power of analytics. ...more
Looking back at key themes from the event
Kim Gaddy looks back on the Utility Analytics Summit this past week, and reflects on themes that emerged from it. ...more
Gold nuggets of wisdom from California
What would an analytics conference be without invaluable insights? In this article, we will explore some of the key happenings at the second annual Utility Analytics Summit in Napa, California, which wraps up later today.
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Part of the Analytics Leadership Series
Mike Smith chats with Bill Devereaux of Oracle Utilities about how executives at utilities can improve their performance by taking a more data-centric approach to decision making. ...more
From getting started to enterprise transformation, it takes not just people, but injecting the right technology, too
People, and how they blend into analytics initiatives, is a critical topic to consider when discussing utility analytics. H. Christine Richards took some time to chat with Michael Whitaker and Jeff Adams at ICF International about the role of people and technology in analytics initiatives. ...more
Building the case for enterprise analytics
While it is too early to nail down an applicable model for enterprise analytics, a few things will drive the development of an enterprise model for analytics. A key driver will likely be the dynamic that behaviors of one business function captured in one database will impact behaviors of one or more other business functions, which reside in other databases. However, the opportunity to proactively leverage the knowledge of these relationships does not exist in today's utility operating model. We recently had the opportunity to discuss this dynamic with the folks at C3 Energy, a San Francisco area company that is working on this issue. ...more
Entering the world of predictive maintenance
Mike Smith talks with James Jeude and Dharmesh Mistry of Cognizant about where they see opportunities for impacting utility operations through predictive analytics for asset maintenance. ...more
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Analytics Speak
The hardware, software, professional services, business processes and people needed to successfully support and implement analytics initiatives across the enterprise that are not specific to either customer analytics or grid analytics. Examples within this area include.
- Analytics hardware, such as analytics-specific servers
- Software and middleware that support analytics applications or offer enterprise-wide analytics capabilities
- Communications networks
- Professional services, such as data management and integration