IBM Solution Architecture For Energy and Utilities Framework

IBM provides software, solution accelerators and best practices to help Energy and Utility companies reduce operating costs, accelerate deployment of intelligent network programs (like smart grids), provide energy management tools to consumers and limit security threats while reliably delivering electricity, gas or water.

The Solution Architecture for Energy and Utilities Framework (SAFE) is an innovative, powerful software platform that helps provide network visibility and control, process automation and business collaboration for solutions across the energy and utility value chain.

The framework delivers utility business functionality with industry standards to facilitate integration between applications and devices across the utility business domains. It is flexible and allows the utility to build a plan that leverages this functionality over time based on business needs.

The Solution Architecture for Utilities and Energy Framework strengthens line-of-business and IT collaboration by supporting seven software capabilities critical to smarter Energy and Utility solutions:

• Asset, Device and Service Monitoring: Visualize infrastructure availability and performance through device, event and usage data to speed time to resolution.
• Business Process Automation
• Informed Decision Making: Use data and information aggregated from business and operation systems to analyze events and develop insights to improve business flexibility and performance.
• Improved Customer Experience: Deliver convenient, personalized customer experience to help consumers manage their energy consumption more effectively
• Business Process Automation: Model, manage, and optimize business processes resulting in faster time to market, increased customer satisfaction, and higher productivity
• Regulatory, Risk & Compliance Management: Manage large quantities of utility documents and processes to comply with government mandated regulations
• Security Solutions: Comprehensively manage and prevent security risk across all business domains