WebSphere® and the Intelligent Electricity Network

Date: 22 April 2008
Venue: The IBM Toronto Laboratory, 8200 Warden Avenue, Markham
Location: Ontario, Canada

• Energy and Utility Business Challenges
• Intelligent Electricity Network – the E & U Solution
• Enabling Technology – IBM (ESB, BPM, Portal, Governance)
• Enabling Technology – OSI (SCADA/EMS/DMS)

Guest speaker:

Utility Information Systems(UIS) and IBM announce their first Canadian seminar to introduce the highly talked about Intelligent Electricity Network (IEN) solution – a solution aimed at assisting Power Utilities in handling the challenges of the 21st century: Aging Assets, Increased Demand, Lack of the “Right” information, Departing Expertise, increased customer expectations and Deregulation. The solution combines intelligence from the Network and Enterprise to deliver timely role based intelligence to key decision makers.

Realizing the chain effect of enterprise wide events on the Power Utilities operations, IEN provides a coherent infrastructure to streamline processes and information leading to timely decision making of critical business functions like grid management, outage management, asset management, maintenance, work management, budgeting, inventory, supply chain, engineering and planning.

• Allow better decision making     
• Provide efficient and reliable energy
• Improve efficiency and effectiveness in operations
• Increase service quality indices and uptime 
• Asset utilization and optimization
• Defer capital expenditure
• Regulatory Compliance
• Improved load forecasting, operations and maintenance
• Leverage real-time data for better enterprise wide decision making
• Harvest the intelligence of existing systems/applications
• Integrate Silo applications for better insight
• Enable visualization and Analytical tools
• Secure Infrastructure

The stakeholders of the Intelligent Electricity Network solution consist of senior leaders along with engineering staff from the following departments:

• Transmission and Distribution Department / Operations
• Engineering Department
• Maintenance Department
• Load Dispatching Centre
• Planning Department
• IT Department
• Inventory Control Department
• Business Analysts