Informed Decision Making Solutions

Improve business flexibility and performance with solutions for analyzing events, optimizing solutions, developing insights and correlating reactions to change in a timely fashion. IBM offers strong analytics and effective business dashboards to help you:

• Assess carbon reduction programs to evaluate their effectiveness.
• Create strategic plans by optimizing energy line load profiles or analyzing workforce metrics.
• Drive new interactions with customers by empowering them to monitor personal utility consumption
• Target new time-of-use energy packages to encourage users to save electricity during peak periods.

• Automatically monitor the health of the utility network and detect anomalous activities.
• Remotely sense damage to utility assets and dispatch repair crews prepared with solutions to the specific problem.
• Better predict demand and manage supply accordingly.
• Aggregate data from business and operational systems to develop further insight into business and network performance.
• Use operational metrics and dashboards to help you develop better plans and processes.
• Empower consumers with information.

IBM has proven enterprise software products for Informed Decision Making solutions which are used by energy and utilities companies worldwide.

• Cognos Business Intelligence

  Gain visibility into your business, manage assets and drive performance. This software delivers reporting, analysis, dashboards and scorecards. It provides real-time measurement and analytics of utility sensors, meters and energy loads to increase operational efficiency.

• WebSphere iLog Business Rule Management System

  Improve utility operations and planning through visualization and decision making technology. This software helps address complex problems across the utility with optimization tools for:

• Power system resource planning, generator scheduling and risk management.
• Fuel supply, transport and storage.
• Grid planning and management.
• Crew and maintenance scheduling.

• WebSphere Business Events

  Detect, evaluate, correlate and respond to business events. Operational Managers can define and manage event processing. This software improves insight and awareness for event-driven business conditions.

• WebSphere Decision Server

  WebSphere Decision Server combines business rules management and business event processing technologies in a single offering.

• Information Integration, Data Warehouse and Master Data Management

  Provide meaningful information and insights to your stakeholders. This software portfolio is the foundation for mastering information to optimize single-view delivery and helps transform segmented data systems into fully integrated systems.

• Netezza

  Near real-time analytics warehouse for understanding dynamic information in time. This software helps you make meaningful decisions for optimizing outcomes.

To learn more about how IBM Informed Decision Making solutions can help your business grow, contact your IBM representative or IBM Business Partner.

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