CASE STUDIES
Proven experience with value added results
What does your future look like in our everchanging world?
Utilities around the globe rely on Xtensible to build and execute on their future vision reached through digital transformation driven by their data. We work with our clients in a consultative manner or hands-on, through your entire journey or targeted projects, to help you reach your strategic business objectives. Our approach reduces overall risk, increases maintainability and reusability, and improves flexibility and scalability to support your future business needs.
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Client Journey: Reimage the Grid for a Clean Energy Future |
Strategic Planning & Digital Transformation |
| The Need: This Xtensible utility client provides approximately 15 million people with electricity across a service territory of approximately 50,000 square miles. Xtensible has been part of their journey for more than 15 years. The services Xtensible has been asked to provide for vastly different projects include architecture, design, integration, analytics, and corporate strategy.
The Result: As a foundation, Xtensible worked with the utility to architect their Enterprise Analytics Platform. Approximately 10TB of data is now processed on a weekly basis. |
The Need: The Utility is wanting to articulate its strategic intent and determining the impact more clearly on its business model.
The Result: An enterprise-wide Grid Modernization Digital Transformation Roadmap addresses the needs of people, processes, and technology. Documented and understood plan that articulates the dependency between projects and programs. |
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Digital Transformation Planning For Business, People, and Process |
Starting an Analytics Journey for the Utility |
| The Need: The Utility is deploying new systems, replacing aging ones, has a vision of connecting business, people, and things together and is executing a complete digital transformational change with added business capabilities
The Result: Identified and aligned key strategic business goals and objectives. Established an integration reference architecture and business processes and artifacts to support these goals and objectives. |
The Need: The utility needed to how a common understanding about analytics in order to develop a data analytics plan with objectives, initial use cases, organizational responsibilities, tool requirements, and technology selections.
The Result: A series of workshop and training sessions were provided resulting in knowledge transfer and initial decisions as to how the utility will proceed with their analyst journey including objectives, metrics, the need for a data architecture and initial proof-of-value. |
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Modern Network Model Management Solution change to Modern Grid Network Model |
Integration Strategy For ADMS and the Future |
| The Need: The utility needed a common approach to network model management to support operation, planning and customer services with ability for upgrades and the ability for ongoing maintenance as the network evolves.
The Result: A design for a network model management system was created in conjunction with the needed archterural consideration forming the foundation for the Grid of the Future. |
The Need: The utility saw the need to go beyond a typical advanced distribution management system integration, by also focusing on related areas such as customer and meter as part of their grid modernization program.
The Result: An integration design was completed for 12 data areas related to advanced distribution management as part of the overall grid modernization program at the utility. Use cases were identified building their repository in support of grid modernization. |
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Foundation for Asset Management and the Future |
Pursuing Asset Management Data |
| The Need: The Utility searching to optimize operations by improved and efficient utilization of both data at rest and data in motion across the enterprise. Accomplished through a Common Information Model approach, supporting current and future business analytics.
The Result: Enterprise Asset Management provisioning of asset related data to business users for analytics and visualization, including real-time conditions, financial decisions, inventory, planning and procurement. Established a foundation for the enterprise. |
The Need: The Utility wants to use their disparate asset related data for operations, maintenance, support, and financial decision making.
The Result: Data files where processed, including profiling and corrections, utilizing Xtensible developed IP, deposited in a standards-based data store for consumption by existing asset related applications, such as pro-active replacement strategy for assets, for ad hoc analytics, and for use by future use cases as the utility continues its modernization and innovation activities |
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Available Transfer Capability Modernized |
Open Access to Energy Market |
| The Need: The Available Transfer Capability (ATC) methodology used in the region was developed several years ago and needs to be modernized based on regional, operational, and regulatory drivers.
The Result: Numerous internal and external systems are connected and coordinated based on IEC CIM and ENTSO-E standards. |
The Need: To ensure grid reliability and efficiency, and upgrade of the entire information technology systems to position for the future.
The Result: Based on the IEC CIM and the Xtensible Model Driven Integration methodology, the design and integration of 22 systems provided by 7 vendors was completed.
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