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The IBM Solution Architecture for Energy and Utilities Framework
Turn on smart grid technology
The world is ready for more intelligent, dynamic energy networks, offering transparency and automation to optimise performance, security and energy use. IBM has developed a rich portfolio of solutions for utility business transformation connected through a powerful software platform — the IBM Solution Architecture for Energy and Utilities Framework (SAFE). Our framework provides network visibility and control, process automation and business collaboration for solutions across your energy value chain. IBM SAFE enables solutions that increase your business intelligence and insight.
Use business insight to thrive in an interconnected world
Focus on your core business processes and strategic initiatives with the IBM Solution Architecture for Energy and Utilities Framework (SAFE). Integrate, manage and optimise utility systems for more instrumented operations, collecting data from assets, devices, networks, servers and applications. The framework approach interconnects IT and line-of-business management to collaborate on technology solutions. Our framework allows you to move at your own pace to add network capabilities and integrate the applications of your choice — including legacy systems. The resulting intelligent infrastructure provides visibility and control, supporting both process automation and an information infrastructure.
A framework for success
Our framework approach can help you work smarter by focusing on value, exploiting new opportunities and acting with speed. IBM SAFE helps establish the foundation to:
- Improve the customer experience by empowering your consumers to proactively manage their energy usage with near-realtime detailed consumption information.
- Enhance service management with insight gained from corporate information to improve distribution and supply decisions.
- Reduce costs by delivering projects across the energy value chain faster, accelerating adoption of utility standards and increasing the flexibility of your infrastructure.
- Manage risk by helping to ensure the security of systems and information across the energy value chain.
Accelerate solutions for smarter energy
By enabling business and IT collaboration, IBM SAFE can help address solutions across key business areas, including:
- Asset lifecycle management — track, document and make decisions about the procurement, deployment, operation, maintenance and disposal of field assets.
- Asset, device and service monitoring — visualise infrastructure availability and performance by using device, event and usage data, providing realtime control and analysis to speed time to resolution.
- Informed decision making — use data and information aggregated from business and operational systems to analyse events, develop insights and correlate reactions to change to improve business flexibility and performance.
- Improve customer experience — enable interactive communication combined with self-service capabilities to provide consumers more control over their energy management.
- Business process automation — model, manage and optimise business processes, resulting in shorter time to market, increased customer satisfaction and higher productivity.
- Regulatory, risk and compliance management — meet increased regulatory oversight, new regulations and enforcement initiatives through improved workflow and document management.
- Security solutions — comprehensively manage and reduce risk across virtually all business domains.