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Paul De Martini

Newport Consulting Group

Future enabled through new technologies, data, analytics, apps

Customer Experience Evolution

CustomerIn Control

CustomerIn Context

CustomerCollaboration

Prosumer

Green Button

Multiple Uses for Data

Example: Smart meter systems provide key data to a variety of business uses

Time Scales in Electric Operations

Data is increasing reshaping electric system planning, engineering and operations

Time scales range from years to sub-millisecond – reliable data access and distribution to appropriate systems become critical gating issues

Data Latency & Quality

Data being used by several processes/systems

Each with unique latency requirements

Data quality essential –as it persists across the enterprise

Quality checks increasingly need to occur close to the source

Governance Across Organizational Silos

No longer a 1:1 relationship between data source and process owner

Need for “data stewardship “ and governance framework to reconcile multiple business uses of data