Download the Data Requirements for Advanced Analytics, to discover how your organization can use advanced analytics to discover relationships, predict the future and adapt to change.
This report will help you:
Understand the difference between reporting and analysis, and the unique data requirements involved in each practice.
Move past the simple design of a data warehouse for online analytic processing, and expand to fulfill the data requirements for advanced analytics.
Adjust your data management practices, including data integration and data quality, to fit the needs of an analytic database.

Learn how you can maximize return on enterprise assets – reduce costs, manage capital expenditures, and improve asset utilization and maintenance. The SAP Service and Asset Management solution provides end-to-end, integrated functionality to help you achieve superior enterprise asset management.

Learn how SAP AMI Integration for Utilities makes customer meter data automatically and instantly available to back-end systems supporting customer management, billing, and analysis. This integration enables cost-effective customer service, market efficiency, and optimized revenues and demand management.

This report will discuss how to:  Drive customer satisfaction and behavior with powerful demand side management  Implement flexible but reliable and efficient processes to increase your ROI while leveraging the existing infrastructure  Leverage billing, CRM and AMI to communicate with customers proactively in real time  Become more agile to meet future regulations and trends

Wonder how advanced meter infrastructure (AMI) can help utilities innovate cost-effective business processes for sales and customer service and facilitate market efficiencies and automate data exchanges? The SAP NetWeaver technology platform and service-oriented architecture can support your AMI implementation.

Learn how the SAP for Oil & Gas solution portfolio provides functionality that gives fuel marketers and distributors visibility into their distribution network, integrates customer information, and automates processes to improve efficiency, forecast accuracy, and adaptability.

This white paper discusses fundamental issues that impact an organization's ability to forecast accurately. These issues include the operational definition of "demand," what to forecast, how to measure performance, organizational practices and demand volatility. Without addressing these issues, the investment may yield no return.

Step-by-Step Ensure that your organization is getting the best possible forecasts, as efficiently as possible. Through this paper you will discover how the forecast value added (FVA) metric can be used to identify waste in forecasting processes and expose factors that diminish accuracy. The author provides detailed instruction on using FVA: from gathering data, to conducting analysis, to effectively reporting the results to management. He also discusses the real-world results of FVA analysis at companies from a variety of industries.

The U.S. is rich in renewable resources for electric energy production. In order to continue developing these resources, the North American electric power grid must be expanded, reconfigured or modernized to facilitate the challenge of moving large amounts of electricity over very long distances. The inability of the existing transmission system to move electricity from the resource rich, but often sparsely populated, parts of the country to population centers remains a primary barrier in achieving 20-30% renewable energy goals.

The principal technology used for long distance, high power transmission is high voltage overhead lines, whether AC or DC. However, a number of challenges limit a wider application of this technology. These challenges can be addressed effectively by DC superconductor underground cables, which when coupled with voltage source converters (VSC) enable multi-terminal transmission over very long distances. Together, these technologies form Superconductor Electricity Pipelines which are addressed in this white paper.

In this StreamServe whitepaper, EAC Principal Analyst Joshua Greenbaum discusses the impact of StreamServe’s document composition, management, and output solutions in the SAP market. His research, which includes customer interviews with multiple StreamServe/SAP customers across key industries such as utilities, oil and gas, supply chain and government – reveals a solution that dramatically increases the ROI for customers. While the solution significantly augments the functionality and value of SAP implementations, it also provides line of business capabilities that improve customer satisfaction and retention.