Ebook: Driving utility sector transformation with new data experiences
Meeting pressing challenges around efficiency, sustainability and transparency through data democratization.
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OPENDATASOFT FOR ENERGY & UTILITIES
Drive the energy transition by unlocking value from your data assets
Data portals: A driver for transformation in the Energy & Utilities sector
The energy and utilities sector manages large-scale networks and infrastructures that generate enormous, growing volumes of business, network and sensor data, every second of every day. Sharing this data across the organization with all employees and externally is vital for multiple reasons. It enables utilities to digitize, increase operational efficiency and improve decision-making to meet the challenges of the energy transition and decarbonization. Data sharing with partners and customers accelerates collaboration and innovation across ecosystems, generating new services and ensuring competitiveness. Sharing builds trust with consumers and regulators, delivering transparency and efficiently complying with open data legislation through seamless communication with all stakeholders.
The benefits of data portals
Improve efficiency and decision-making
by sharing the right data, in the right format and at the right time, across your organization and beyond
Meet changing regulatory requirements
and increase transparency by opening and sharing your data, making it available to audiences in understandable ways, ensuring compliance best practice
Save time and decrease costs
through seamless, rapid data sharing that reduces time to insight and lowers expenditure for your employees and partners
Enhance ecosystem collaboration
by sharing your data with existing and new partners, including local authorities, developers and researchers in accessible, understandable ways
Drive decarbonization and underpin the energy transition
through data-driven innovation, delivered via internal collaboration and by sharing across your ecosystems, including with startups and researchers
Improve customer-centricity through new services
built on innovative uses of data to meet changing customer needs, strengthening trust and increasing loyalty and engagement
Realize all your use cases with a data portal
Internal Data Portal
Bring together all your organization’s data assets through your internal data portal and make it discoverable and available to all employees, enabling them to use it seamlessly during their daily working lives, without requiring technical support or training.
- Create interactive dashboards and maps to centralize all your IoT sensor data, delivering a clear vision of your assets to improve maintenance and minimize risk
- Centralize your customer data and queries to process them more efficiently, develop attractive services, and improve the customer experience
- Develop data-driven services tailored to your employees’ roles to enable them to work more efficiently
Ecosystem Data Portal
Strengthen and accelerate collaboration through your ecosystem data portal, making information available to all stakeholders in ways tailored to their specific needs. Work together to achieve net zero with new and traditional partners, providing a forum for communication, collaboration and innovation.
- Create secure spaces to share your and your partners’ data and build collaborative plans to achieve your shared net zero goals
- Provide your data securely to local authorities and organizations to better manage infrastructure and services
- Make your data available through APIs to power partner applications and services
Open Data Portal
Boost transparency and engage all of your stakeholders through your comprehensive, accessible open data portal. Go beyond regulatory compliance requirements by providing in-depth, understandable information that explains your strategy, monitors ongoing performance, and builds a community:
- Create interactive dashboards and visualizations to keep the public informed about the status of your infrastructure and any planned or unplanned outages
- Communicate your targets and transformation plans for achieving Net Zero, better engaging stakeholders
- Enhance services for customers by integrating real-time data and interactive forms to encourage greater communication
UK Power Networks accelerates collaboration through data sharing
To accelerate decarbonization across its ecosystem, UK Power Networks (UKPN) delivers an optimized, personalized experience via its data portal to different stakeholders, such as public authorities, energy generators, and property developers.
Our solution
- Increases the accessibility and interoperability of UKPN’s data through tailored visualizations, dashboards and data stories, built on user needs
- Encourages reuse through built-in APIs for every dataset, accelerating the design and deployment of new uses
- Makes it simple to find data through powerful search and filter functionality
The benefits
- Engages stakeholders and empowers them with the required information and use cases to plan and drive decarbonization efforts
- Optimizes current network operations, increasing efficiency while meeting changing energy needs
- Underpins a vibrant ecosystem that works together to achieve net zero
Successfully moving to a Net Zero world heavily depends on open data – ours and that of our ecosystem partners. It has to be interoperable, readily consumable and drive near real-time insight. Through our portal we therefore wanted to break down barriers and build a community of stakeholders around our data.
CIO, UK Power Networks
The Key Capabilities of a Data Portal
Opendatasoft’s data portal solution enables data leaders and organizations from the energy and utilities sector to quickly create a one-stop shop for the rapid discovery and use of their data assets at scale, internally and externally.
Seamlessly connect to all your internal and external data sources
through over 80 connectors for easy integration with your data tools and business applications.
Ensure data quality
control through more than 50 processors that automate common tasks such as formatting fields, correcting errors and standardizing formats.
Enable data preparation and enrichment
through Opendatasoft’s Data hub, providing free access to over 30,000 public datasets, available to combine with your own datasets.
Create compelling data visualizations and interactive dashboards
in just a few clicks through our no-code studio or via our advanced mode for more complex visualizations.
Securely share data assets
through a range of download and reuse options including APIs, allowing users to easily create their own uses from your data.
Better understand how your data is being used
internally and externally, across your ecosystems through in-built data lineage capabilities, while improving data portal management efficiency.
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Ebook: Driving utility sector transformation with new data experiences
Meeting pressing challenges around efficiency, sustainability and transparency through data democratization Download our new ebook and learn how data democratization benefits the utility sector: the challenges the sector faces as it moves to Net Zero how data, and data democratization, delivers key benefits to utilities best practice advice on creating and scaling an effective data program examples of use cases from our customers: UK Power Networks, Birdz Veolia, Energias de Portugal, Schneider Electric, Elia, GRDF, and Enedis.
Ebook: Driving utility sector transformation with new data experiences
Meeting pressing challenges around efficiency, sustainability and transparency through data democratization Download our new ebook and learn how data democratization benefits the utility sector: the challenges the sector faces as it moves to Net Zero how data, and data democratization, delivers key benefits to utilities best practice advice on creating and scaling an effective data program examples of use cases from our customers: UK Power Networks, Birdz Veolia, Energias de Portugal, Schneider Electric, Elia, GRDF, and Enedis.