1. Brian Jore, Teradata Corporation
Brian is a senior utilities industry consultant focused on working with
companies to increase business insight through analytics and
business intelligence. Brian recently served as the Director of
Business Analytics for Xcel Energy, an $11B combination electric/gas
regulated utility. He served in this position for 4 years during which
time he built a business intelligence function, which facilitated the
recovery of millions of dollars in incremental revenue and collections
during this period. Brian oversaw all data warehousing, business
intelligence and analytics activities for Xcel Energy.
Previously, Brian was the Chief Information Officer for Minnesota Sports
and Entertainment, the holding company of the NHL’s Minnesota Wild,
as well as its four related business ventures. Brian was one of the
first employees of this expansion organization and oversaw all
aspects of IT as well as consumer database marketing, technology
corporate sponsorship and Internet properties.
Brian graduated with honors from Luther College with a BA in
Economics and Management and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
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2. End-to-End Business Insight
Integrating data throughout the value chain to monitor business
performance and formulate analytical correlations drives previously
unseen business insight.
Utilities Logical Data Model
Correlations Asset Reliability Usage Studies Meter to Cash
E2E Insights OMS Analysis Grid Capacity Planning EE Programs
Tracking Geospatial DR Event Analysis Customer Mgt.
Supports vertical/ODS and horizontal/integrated enterprise reporting
Provides ad hoc environment to uncover most impactful analytics as
smart grid matures
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3. Analytics Now and In The Future
• Teradata is addressing current business challenges
• Customer management
• Metering and billing concerns
• Regulatory management
• Standalone transaction systems and data stores
• Labor-intensive data gathering and manipulation
• Inconsistent data results
• Teradata positions the utility for future changes
• AMI and Smart Grid data
• Systems changes and historical data
• Enterprise views during transitional periods
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4. Hard Dollar ROI
Proven analytics and process monitoring capabilities
are driving significant dollars to the bottom line
> Revenue management – not billed and
under-billed revenue
> Credit and collections – reduction in bad
debt write-off
> Supply chain analytics – reduction in per
unit costs
> Rate planning and implementation –
prevention of under-priced rate design
and under-recovery post implementation
> Asset maintenance – extend asset life &
proactively change-out equipment to
reduce unplanned outages
> IT cost savings – reduction in storage
costs, reduction or avoidance of FTE costs
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5. Resources
For more information on
Teradata or Teradata for Utilities
go to teradata.com or
http://www.teradata.com/t/industry-expertise/utilities/
Brian Jore
Teradata
brian.jore@teradata.com
612-669-4393
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