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Data Management Q&A Series: Experts Answer Your Questions
By SGN Staff
Jun 2, 2010 - 4:56:46 PM

Perhaps one of the biggest issues facing electric utilities as they build out the Smart Grid and deploy smart meters is how to manage the resulting data surge. In collaboration with Accenture, a global leader in Smart Grid consulting, SGN presented the High Performance in Data Management webinar.

As a follow-up, Accenture experts responded to many of the audience-submitted questions that weren’t answered during the event due to time constraints. The full set of questions follows; click the question to see the experts' responses.

What is the industry definition of SOA and EDA?

Why isn’t a giant data warehouse a good option for managing meter data?

How distributed do you recommend for data and analytics architectures?

Do you believe data management patents originating in other fields will impact standardization of Smart Grid data management?

What are the top high-value business problems that can benefit from Smart Grid analytics?

What kind of non-customer data is most at risk for running up against regulatory requirements?

To correlate data you need timestamps. What is going to provide the "heart beat" or timing?

Is the IEC Common Info Model part of the DMTF CIM standards effort?

Do you have a sense of which data classes might have most value for utilities?

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