Hear from our executive team about: key developments in the industry focusing on data quality, internationalization, and business intelligence; recent accomplishments in Standards and key upcoming projects; IDW platform update including an outline of the next generation platform's new features, and the schedule for roll out; an introduction to the powerful features of the new IDX platform and transition schedule; and a summary of IDEA’s roadmap in the coming years.

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Industry Outlook

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World of Rapid Change
Information Overload and Technology Adoption
Fifty Years of
Technology
Change and
the way
Business
Operates

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Electrical Industry Change

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Our World Today

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Technology Free
Zone?

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Internet of Things
(IOT)

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Go Technology
https://youtu.be/NrmMk1Myrxc

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Building Information Modeling – (BIM)

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IOT Requires Data Sync and Data
Integrity

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Leadership in International Standards

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Investments for 2020
Standards-based product content and B2B services that increase sales and
speed-to-market
Data Quality
Technology
Standards

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Standards

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Standards
are the
Foundation
for
IDEA’s
Services
IDW
• Fields, structure, rules
• Data quality – industry best practices
IDX
• EDIPro
• XML
Industry Standards Committee
oBuilt by the industry for the industry
oVolunteers

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Industry
Standards
Committee
Key ISC initiatives
• POS alignment with NEMRA
• Update of 1993 standards built by
NEMA/NAED/NEMRA
• Identification of Critical Attributes

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Key Standards
Department Initiatives
Renewed focus on the North
• Canadian Certification Program
New focus on the East
• ETIM International (ETIM North
America)
• Standards business development in
Europe
oInteracting and learning from our
customers’ European entities

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Standards
Roadmap
2017 - 2020
Rethinking our approach to industry
standards
Rethinking
Expanding focus beyond IDW/IDXExpanding
Reinventing our role as Standards Body
for the industry
Reinventin
g

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IDW

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Current Gen Platform Being Enhanced
Four releases to date in 2017
• March - Field Level data
quality metrics
• April – Standards Release
(scrubbing rule and CMD
enhancements)
• May - Custom mapper tool
for distributors for CMD
Attributes, Top Line report
enhancement)
• July – K Status edit, new text
types, digital extraction file
enhancement
July
March
May
April

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Custom Category Attribute
Mapper
.
.
~ 5000
Categories
.
.
Attribute 1
Attribute 2
Attribute n
Attribute 1
Attribute 2
Attribute n
Attribute 1
Attribute 2
Attribute n
Attribute 1
Attribute 2
Attribute n
Attribute 1
Attribute 2
Attribute 3
Attribute 4
Attribute 5
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Attribute 200
IDW

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Field Level Data Quality
Metrics
10 %
91 %

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Supporting Great Progress in Quality
0% 5%
11%
22%
30%
0%
76%
87% 88% 91%
0%
25%
50%
75%
100%
April 2015 Feb 2016 Aug 2016 Feb 2017 Aug 2017
Programmatic Excellence:
Field-level and Item-level Results
Excellence (Item level) Excellence (Field Level)

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Stibo Systems Rated as Industry
Challengers

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Tailored MFR and DIST Portals
Manufacturer
UI
Distributor
UI
Admin UI
NetSuiteIDW
Sync
Image
Dev &
Test
Extract/Mapping
Mongo
Oracle

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Key Benefits of Next Gen IDW
1 2
3 4
5
6
7
8 9 10
IDW
MFR
DIST

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1. Easier Loading onto Platform

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2. Validation Workflows to Manage Errors

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3. Data Versioning

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4. International

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5. Authorization

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6/7.Integrated Extract and Mapping Tool

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8. Power Search Tools

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9. Help

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10. Enhanced Data Quality Tools Quality

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When? IDW Transition Schedule

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• 4:15 PM IDW round table
• Join User Group
• Monthly status updates,
• demos, and
• information on pilot
Get Involved

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IDX

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IDX Now Leveraging Multiple Platforms
• Redundancy
• More solutions that
better fit customers
needs
• Managed services

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IDX Next Generation Platform
Why the need for a Next Generation IDX Platform?
• State of the art technology and reliability
• World class analytical tools
• IDEA & Liaison Strategic Partnership

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Competitive Advantages
IDEA Competitors
Electrical Industry Owned/Domain Expertise in
other vertical
Industry Agnostic
State of Art Network Minimal Technical Investments
Greater Transaction Visibility Weak Reporting Tools
3-10 Day SLA’s for on-boarding 30 Day SLA’s
US based Support
(Customer Service and Mapping)
Typically overseas support
Dedicated Program Manager Bullpen Support

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2017: New IDX Platform and Service Model

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Healthcare
& Life Sciences
7000+ customers including over
300 blue chip customers and
nearly 25% of the Fortune 500
Diversified base of Fortune 500 and
mid-market companies searching for
cost-effective solutions
Financial Services
Retail & Consumer
Goods
Manufacturing &
Distribution
Diverse and Extensive Customer Base

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Simplified, accelerated
implementation
✓ Discovery & design
✓ Installation &
configuration
✓ Customizations
✓ Testing
✓ Go Live!
Continually assess & identify
areas for improvements
✓ Modifications necessitated
by usage changes
✓ Client specific minor
enhancements
*when effort falls within Managed
Services hours
✓ Close collaboration
between Managed
Services & Product
Marketing/Engineering
Stress-free maintenance
✓ Program Manager as
single point of contact
✓ Continuous system
management
✓ Continuous system
monitoring
✓ Issue resolution
• Business hours response times
of 1 hour or less for SEV 1 issues
• 24/7 support for System down
issues
Onboarding Day to Day Management Continuous Improvement
IDX Managed Services
IDEA Support is US Based

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LENS –
Premier
Transactio
n Visibility

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LENS –
Business
Intelligenc
e

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IDX Transition
Phase 3
2016 2017
Phase 4
Phase 2
Phase 1
2018

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• Stop by for a LENS demo
• Attend todays 4:15 PM IDX round table
• Schedule your migration/upgrade wave
today
Get Involved

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IDEA 2020

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IDEA’s Role
in the
Industry
• Investments
• Platforms
• People
• Control
• Technology
• Flexibility
• Faster Reaction
Time

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