Services
Xtensible provides a number of services tailored specifically for how you want to move toward an intelligent utility of the future.
For those who seek to educate and strategize, we offer:
- Workshop: Typically a 2 day event that provides (Day1) an overview of our EIM and MD3i Framework and how it leverages industry standards for jump starting your journey, and (Day 2) an overview of the relevant standards such as IEC CIM and how other utilities are leveraging MD3i and CIM for their business IT programs. It is designed for both business and enterprise IT to understand the value and options to pursue.
- MD3i Training: Typically a 2-3 day event that provides training on the details of the MD3i Framework including information modeling methodology, tools, patterns, and relevant standards. Basic knowledge and experience with UML, WSDL/XSD, XML, and DDL is required.
- Strategy Consulting: Typically a multi-week effort that involves utility enterprise IT and architecture team to develop a comprehensive strategy and roadmap around enterprise information management so that data and information can be managed as assets to enable the transition into intelligent utilities. Strategy includes people, process and technology aspects of the information management needs. May include a small Proof-Of-Concept.
For those who understand the value and are ready to implement, we offer:
- Semantic Information Modeling: Enterprise Semantic Model development methodology consulting: helps utilities establish an overarching and consistent methodology to develop and use an Enterprise Semantic (Information) model for integrating IT systems.
- Integration Services Design: SOA artifacts requirements and design for ISO and/or utility business and IT programs: Power Market and Management, AMI, Smart Grid, Work/Asset Management, Outage Management, Geographical Information, Distribution Management, CIS and other enterprise systems integration.
- Information Management Services Design: Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse design using ESM to drive data base modeling and ETL design for ISO and/or utility business and IT programs: Power Market and Management, AMI, Smart Grid, Work/Asset Management, Outage Management, Geographical Information, Distribution Management, CIS and other enterprise systems integration.
For those who seek to augment your IT project and operational support, we offer:
- ESM Model Maintenance and Support Services: Provide on-going modeling and maintenance services as utility ramps up its internal capacity to manage and leverage such model. These services also provide maintenance of software components of the MD3i Framework that are developed by Xtensible.