Platform Solutions
As we often say, “the road to smart grid is paved with smart data.” This smart data needs to be created and managed with scalable, secure, and interoperable IT platforms to ensure long-term viability of the infrastructure. Xtensible has been helping utility enterprises strategize, build, and grow enterprise integration and information management platforms. We apply over a decade of experience with standards, best practices, and leading platform technologies to meet utilities’ real-world challenges.
Enterprise Integration Framework
Xtensible’s Enterprise Integration Framework is an enterprise semantic modeling methodology combined with a set of design patterns, governance guidelines, industry standard models, and integration best practices that Xtensible’s customers use to establish and maintain a strategic integration and information management platform. Building on the MD3i Enterprise Semantic Model, our framework provides a model-driven design and development environment that leverages industry standards and interoperability, for both process integration and data integration needs of a utility enterprise. This environment, coupled with master data and identity management services and data and service quality and security management, forms the comprehensive framework to support the needs of end users, third parties, and customers of the utility with one version of truth.
Enterprise Information Management Framework
Like most data-driven organizations, utilities often become so involved with maintaining the dozens of individual data silos that are used to manage their business that they cannot see the forest for the trees. Trapped in the minutiae of perpetuating the status quo, they find it difficult to focus on achieving the benefits that come with transforming these ever-increasing data stores into valuable, knowledge-based information that can be used to drive profitable business decisions.
Xtensible’s mission is to help utilities see the forest. Our Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Framework includes the building blocks needed to achieve a corporate commitment to manage data as information assets. Complementary to our Model-Driven Information, Integration, and Intelligence (MD3i™) Solution Suite, the EIM Framework gives utilities the roadmap needed to leverage their data assets and presents a clear and accurate picture of their operations, customers, supply chain, and financial performance—across all areas of the organization—to enable an intelligent business. Finely tuned through years of real world experience, Xtensible’s EIM Framework provides best practices around people, process, and technology to assist organizations in building information management solutions that enable both IT and business agility and adaptability. Our EIM Framework encompasses five key components: vision and strategy, governance, core processes, organization, and infrastructure.
MD3i Solution Suite
The MD3i Solution Suite enables rapid adoption and deployment of Xtensible’s Enterprise Integration and Information Management Frameworks. This solution suite includes:
- A time-tested methodology that leverages industry standards while also providing adaptability to individual circumstances.
- Pre-built design artifacts, which are based on our extensive knowledge of industry standards and facilitate rapid adaptation and deployment, dramatically reducing time and effort.
- An integrated toolset that provides for model-driven design, utilizing accelerators to streamline the process. Integrated development tools build on the design-time model to rapidly develop web service adapters without writing code.
- Runtime reference engine and implementation accelerators, which increase the speed and quality of development and reduce the total cost of ownership.
With MD3i Solution Suite, systems integration is better, faster, and cheaper than with any other approach in the market place.