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ORACLE UTILITIES METER DATA ANALYTICS
KEY FEATURES
Tracks actual performance against key performance indicators, identifying gaps, and assessing the effectiveness of solutions
Drills down into current and past performance
Drills back into data details in Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management and Oracle Utilities Customer Care & Billing
Displays operational measures as charts, maps, trend lines, and other easy-to-interpret graphics, right out of the box
Builds on Oracle Business Intelligence (OBI), the industry-leading, comprehensive, enterprise platform that offers guided and ad hoc analytics, and advanced reporting and publishing
Provides decision support for managers and executives dealing with consumption, load, and customer service issues
Features easy configuration, extension, and upgrade
Supports very large data volumes
KEY BENEFITS
Improves efficiency by helping utilities:
Identify and correct deviations from key performance indicators and goals.
Decrease losses from unbilled energy
Reduce asset costs
Improves customer satisfaction by helping utilities:
Identify potential customer energy savings
Ensure billing accuracy
Oracle Utilities Meter Data Analytics offers pre-built dashboards that help you
improve metering performance and analyze consumption trends.
Interval metering data volumes pose an increasing challenge to utilities. Merely processing the
data may require new hardware, software, and business processes. Even more daunting can be
the challenge to maximize data value in order to realize a return on your interval metering
investment.
Oracle Utilities Meter Data Analytics helps utilities extract and use the information buried
in meter data. Its pre-built dashboards and KPIs drive business intelligence into all parts of the
utility by helping staff and executives:
• Analyze consumption trends.
• Monitor meter asset performance and make better buying decisions.
• Compare the performance of metering service providers and correct problems.
• Identify and target customer segments for specific energy efficiency and demand
management programs.
• Decrease losses from unbilled energy.
• Make more effective maintenance decisions that help avoid catastrophic grid failures.
Dashboards
The eight pre-built dashboards in Oracle Utilities Meter Data Analytics provide 69 answers
needed to improve metering business processes.
Meter Data Analytics: Sample Pre-Built Dashboards
Overview Performance Usage Summary Usage Details
Executive Dashboard
Quality
Quality Analysis
Timeliness
On-Time Analysis
Estimation
Usage Views
Usage Analysis
Top N Analysis
Unreported Usage Details
Usage Trend
Degree Days
Usage by Day
Usage by Hour
Usage Comparison
Devices & Installations VEE Exceptions Device Activities Device Events
Device Status
Installation Trend
Devices Without Measurements
Devices Without Measurements Details
Exception Trend
Exception Analysis
Exception Analysis Detail
Activity Trend
Activity Analysis
Activity Analysis Detail
Activity Duration
Event Trend
Event Analysis
Event Analysis Detail
Event and Exception Correlation
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Business Intelligence Foundation
The pre-built dashboards in Oracle Utilities Meter Data Analytics rest on a robust business
intelligence toolset. With it, organizations can readily produce additional performance
management tools like scorecards, standard reports, and ad hoc analyses for a wide variety of
purposes. This toolset also delivers analytics on mobile devices.
Oracle Meter Data Analytics and Oracle Business Intelligence provide a complete set of tools for driving business intelligence across all field service processes.
Business Processes
Used together, Oracle Meter Data Management’s eight dashboards and 69 graphic displays
enable utilities to analyze and improve an almost limitless array of business processes and
metrics. Below are a few examples:
Tamper Event Monitoring
Protect revenue by identifying tamper events that need investigation and correction.
In this example, the Events dashboard identifies the devices associated with tamper events. By drilling back to Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management, you can check device history for previous revenue-protection concerns.
Business Objectives/
Issues
Gain Insights
Take Action
Monitor Tamper Events
Check whether devices have revenue
protection concerns
Are there alarming numbers of tamper events this month?
Identify regions with high numbers of tamper
events
Identify devices with highest number of
tamper events
Drill back into MDM for device details
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Device Performance
Protect revenue by identifying and repairing or replacing non-functioning meters.
In this example, Oracle Utilities Meter Data Analytics helps utilities identify non-functioning meters, determine whether the meters have common factors (location, manufacturer, etc.), and then target repairs.
Track Low-Usage Customers
In this example, the Consumption dashboard helps protect revenue by identifying service points with low consumption, then drilling back into Meter Data Management to compare current and historical consumption.
Business Objectives/
Issues
Gain Insights
Take Action
Devices withoutmeasurements?
Target efforts to receive measurements
from devices
Are there devices that stopped receiving measurements?
Slice the information to understand a pattern
Drill into details of each device
Drill back into MDM for detailed deice history
Business Objectives/
Issues
Gain Insights
Take Action
Service points with lowest consumption
Target efforts to receive measurements
from devices
Identify service points with lowest
consumption
Drill back into MDM for detailed service
point analysis
Compare current-monthconsumption with
historical consumption
RELATED SERVICES
Use of Oracle Utilities Meter Data Analytics requires:
Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management 2.0 or higher
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g
Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management Extractors and Schema
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Results
Oracle Utilities Meter Data Analytics provides fast, easy ways to answer questions about
consumption, load, and the performance of assets and service providers. It turns data into
information that helps you extend asset life, choose the right service providers, and ensure the
accuracy of customer bills.
Contact Us
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representative.
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