Designed to Consolidate Energy Data

Energy industry participants are challenged with gathering, rationalizing, linking and maintaining large volumes of disparate operational and market data. Data with many dimensions from different sources housed in separate systems has made it difficult to give business users easy access to the information they need — when and how they need it — in order to make decisions.

Data Warehousing solutions built from scratch can be expensive, hard to assemble and complex to manage. Further, a “one-off” Data Warehouse solution makes it hard to deploy a Business Intelligence (BI) infrastructure that is easy and flexible to operate.

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PCI Data Warehouse

The PCI Data Warehouse is designed exclusively for energy companies to manage, analyze and report on generation, transmission and demand-side data from PCI-based and non-PCI data sources. Primarily a reporting and interfacing database, the PCI Data Warehouse helps speed up reports and integration, giving you more time to focus on your work. The PCI Data Warehouse is a powerful strategic platform that will put your firm at a competitive advantage by marrying high-level data integration and management with the increasingly important areas of business analytics and reporting. Success in deploying a Data Warehouse system is all about having a provider who knows your business and can help you exploit all of your data, whether it comes from proprietary in-house sources, from other external sources, from PCI or a combination of all three. PCI Data Warehouse Benefits• Out-of-the-box Implementation

The PCI Data Warehouse comes predefined with schemas and wizards to help you hit the ground running.

• Streamlining and speeding up the speed of data mining, analysis and reporting Because different information sets from different systems are stored together, they are easier to access.

• Flexible deployment The PCI Data Warehouse can be utilized to create a reporting or interface database.

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• Fast creation of new reports and BI “Analyzers” Business users and IT personnel can create and test new reports in hours or days instead of weeks or months.

• Stability The PCI Data Warehouse incorporates a robust, industry-standard design, helping to guarantee stability over time.

• Common data model for all types of data PCI has made a significant investment in encoding all data objects into a consistent, consolidated star (snowflake) schema that allows for easy interfacing or reporting.

• Scalability The PCI Data Warehouse system can adjust to your growing business needs over time.

• Openness Use the PCI Data Warehouse together with a data aggregator to optimize data collection and reporting.

Maximize Performance and SecurityPCI uses an optional Data Mart Wizard to automatically create new data marts, which can be used to create data sub-sets for security enhancement and response time improvements. The PCI Data Warehouse supports role-based security and can create separate data marts as well as terminate them on-the-fly, providing more flexibility for your enterprise. Open IntegrationThe PCI Data Warehouse can be deployed and linked to multiple SQL databases (Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, etc.) and a variety of BI tools (Pentaho, QlikView, Cognos, BusinessObjects, Hyperion, Powerbuilder and Microsoft Excel).

Data Quality ImprovementAn integrated business rules engine is used to translate data and to check quality. For example, units or contracts may have different names in different systems that change over time. PCI allows you to map these names as they are imported into the Data Warehouse. The rules engine supports simple business rules (for mapping the name changes) to advanced logic changes thus ensuring data consistency. Both built-in and custom rules are available. PCI’s Business Intelligence (BI) “Analyzer” SuiteIn addition to providing data for interfacing, reporting or analysis, PCI has developed a number of BI Analyzers that can be deployed out-of-the-box on top of the PCI Data Warehouse. PCI’s growing suite of Analyzers includes:

• Profit & Loss Analyzer

• Congestion Analyzer

• Settlement Analyzer

• GenTrader Analyzer

PCI Data Warehouse