stephan amsbary, hp january 20, 2006 closing panel discussion: mitigating risk
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Stephan Amsbary, HP January 20,
2006
Closing Panel Discussion:
Mitigating Risk
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It’s being done today• Learn from other utilities:−Pennsylvania Power &Light
• 1.2M meters
−Wisconsin Public Service• 1.6M meters
−Over 20M meters in USA
−ATCO• Over ten years experience
−Others
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Adopt similar industries best practices• Long-distance telecom mergers required
new approaches to maintain high-volume services while expanding offerings−Sprint, MCI
• High SLA/volume financial institutions−Stock market, credit-card & ATM applications
• High risk/SLA Healthcare −Clinical applications, Telemedicine (evolving)
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Learns Learned so far• There is no perfect turn-key answer− It’s a mix and match environment
−Field experience & COTS offerings are evolving
• Stick to standards−Don’t create yet another virtual “meter”
• Adopt a phased approach−Experiment with a couple of vendors to gain
experience
−Roll-out early deployment slowly: work out the bugs
• Supplier contracts should have “money back” clauses if they fail
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Technology Infrastructure• Ensure rock solid telecom infrastructure− Integrated monitoring and maintenance
−Leverage communications infrastructure intelligence when possible
• Choose best of breed COTS offerings−Avoid adding custom coding to standard
offerings
• Surround COTS offerings with an integrated “ever-present intelligent” framework
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“Ever-present” IT framework• Integrated “think-speed” response and
information delivery requirements:−Handle individual application outages
−Provide instantaneous disaster continuance
−Minimize COTS software package modification
−Minimize errors though simplified operational and integration complexity
−Extend COTS offerings through a SOA/SOE integration techniques/practices
−Provide absolute overarching application-wide auditability
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Select mature partners• Choose partnerships with tight cross
discipline integrated approach• Choose partners with experience−Experienced project team
−Partnership’s point-of-view aligned with Ontario’s Energy direction
−Partnership’s commitment to success• Willingness to share risk – “money back”
• Best of breed approach and integration
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Summary• Ontario’s bi-directional, Province-wide Smart-Metering
needs are evolutionary not revolutionary• Experienced, dedicated partnership is required• An “ever-present” IT and telecommunications
foundation is a critical component• Take time in a phased approach, problems can be
worked-out before impacting the next deliverable
• However:− Expect initial roll-out delays and problems
− Software packages are rapidly evolving to address requirements
− Acceptable fall-back: Existing process in Ontario works
