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Enterprise Information Management

As A Key Enabler of Smart Grid

Brad Williams, VP Industry Strategy, Oracle Utilities, [email protected]

UCAIug Joint Conference - CIM, Nov. 17, 2011

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Smart Grid and the need for


Real-time interaction with new smart grid devices and

distributed intermittent renewable resources

Leverage smart grid investments to further optimize grid


Leverage smart grid investments to further optimize grid

operations and customer interaction

Improve safe and reliable grid operations given increase

dependency on systems and data to drive customer and

grid performance

Utilities need Enterprise Information Management

if they are dealing with…

• Exponential Growth of Information

• Moving from Transactional to Real-Time

• Technology crossing Utility Silos


• IT/OT Convergence

• Smart Device OT Governance

• Enterprise Information Management

• Interoperability and Security Standards


EIM is an organizational commitment to structure,

secure and improve the accuracy and integrity of

information assets; solve semantic inconsistencies


across any boundary; and support the technical,

operational and business objectives within the

organization's enterprise architecture strategy.

Source: Gartner

EIM Is a Comprehensive Program — Not a Technology

� Vision — How EIM supports the organizational

vision, such as enterprise agility

� Strategy — How to achieve EIM objectives and

support other strategies, such as IT optimization

� Governance — Defining and implementing

governance processes required to achieve EIM

objectives

� Organization — How EIM is positioned in the

Essential Building Blocks of EIM


� Organization — How EIM is positioned in the

organization and specific roles

� Process — Defining and implementing

processes, such as stewardship, to achieve EIM

objectives

� Reference model — CIM

� Metrics — Measuring the EIM program to ensure

it is delivering value and achieving its objectives

Source: Gartner

EIM Requires Organizational Commitment

Utility Enterprise

Process

Technology

A commitment to EIM is recognition

that information in the enterprise is as

important as process (application

development) and infrastructure

Information

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Technologydevelopment) and infrastructure

(technology)

• EIM is operationalized as a program with a defined budget, charter, staff and project plan

• The commitment to EIM may be contentious in some organizations — politics and turf issues.

• Other motivators: "Separation of duties" for compliance Source: Gartner

EIM Must Cross Utility Silos


IT and Operations Technology (OT)

• Smart Grid is bringing IT and OT closer

together

• Smart Grid systems increasingly use modern

IT platforms, security, and protocols (IP)

Governance must be resolved…


• Traditional Utility Operations Technology (OT)

systems have been outside of the scope of IT

and the CIO

• The lack of a successful IT/OT governance

impedes performance

• Impact on security and complianceSource: Gartner

Example – OT Field Device Configuration


Configuration management gone dreadfully wrong….

Smart Device Lifecycle Management

New Smart Grid Devices change business processes across the enterprise.

Microprocessor-based based devices need configuration changes, firmware

updates, security, and compatibility issues that must be managed throughout

their lifecycle.

– Smart grid devices included are:

• Meters

• Field Sensors, controls and communication equipment


• Field Sensors, controls and communication equipment

• Substation devices (RTU’s, relays, communication, etc.)

• Beyond meter devices (home area networks, smart thermostats, distributed

generation, electric vehicles, etc.)

– Configuration and compliance management:

– Firmware Updates & Security Patches

– Support Governance and Regulatory Audits (NERC-CIP)

– Smart Grid Network Operations Center (NOC) Support

Information Architecture for the Smart Grid…

Customer Communications | Portals, Apps, Social Media

Core Utility Functions

Analysis | Business Intelligence & Analytics


Foundational | Servers, Storage, Database & Security

Integration | Applications, Intelligence, Technology, Hardware

Customer Meter Grid Work Demand

Meeting the Smart Grid Challenge• Much more data, many more events need to be handled much more quickly

• New and existing business processes need to be integrated reliably, securely,

and inexpensively

• Operators, and customers expect increased visibility and control

• IT must respond with a flexible, secure, scalable infrastructure


Ad Hoc Point to Point IntegrationStandards-based Service

Oriented Architecture

Declarative

Re-use

Building a Successful Architecture for Enterprise

Information ManagementVisibility, Control,

AnalyticsEnterprise

Security

Canonical

Services -CIM


Loosely

Coupled

Layered

Architecture

Core Business

Applications

CIM DataMapping

Proprietary"New Facilities“Message

GIS OperatorCreates NewLine Extension

Enterprise Information ManagementAsset Data Synchronization Example

CIM-EncodedMessage

1

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MDM WAM SCADA GIS Eng Analysis


X-Ref & Rules

3Message isvalidated

Applications updated withnew facility information

Message

AIA Oracle Service Bus + Process Integration Pack (CIM)

4444

MWMBICC&B NMS

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Leveraging Smart Grid Data to Do More

BI and the Unknown – ‘The Two Parts’


Enterprise-level BI Analytics Reporting Tools

BENEFITS

• Best-of-breed tools for analysis and reporting• Common BI toolset across the Utility

CAPBILITIES

• Provides schemas for all core utility applications• Reporting for datamarts & regular normalized databases• Dashboards, reports, and graphs


• Dashboards, reports, and graphs

CERTIFICATIONS AND INTEGRATIONS

• Materialized views for datamarts• Reporting tools• ETL tools• Spatial mashups of multiple sources of data

Unstructured Analytics – EV Grid Impact Analysis

GenerationDistribution

Forecast EV Adoption,

Design EV Rates, and

Provide Billing Options

Planning and Operational

Tools to Manage Network

Capacity ConstraintsAvailable Energy for EVs


19

Generation

Transmission

Consumers

Pattern recognition

identifies EV

charging loads

The Road Ahead . . .

• Smart Grid is about managing and

leveraging lots of real-time information to

– drive safe, reliable, and cost-effective utility performance

– engage customers with consumer energy choices that


– engage customers with consumer energy choices that

improves overall satisfaction and performance

• Enterprise Information Management Must be leveraged as

a discipline achieve the Smart Grid vision

Questions


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