Energy & Utility Analytics

Digitally transform your business with advanced analytics and AI from edge to cloud.

THE SAS VISION FOR UTILITIES

Why choose SAS^® for utility analytics?

Worldwide, utilities are facing multiple transformations and disruptions – from climate change, to distributed generation, to new business models. Analytics is essential to the digital transformation of the entire utility enterprise. Recognized as the No. 1 analytics brand in the utilities industry, SAS delivers solutions and technologies that provide the analytics foundation utility leaders need for their organization’s digital transformation.

THE SAS VISION FOR ENERGY & UTILITIES

Why choose SAS^® for analytics?

Worldwide, utilities are facing multiple transformations and disruptions – from climate change to distributed generation, to new business models. Analytics is essential to the digital transformation of the entire value chain. Recognised as a leader in AI and Analytics by top analyst firms, SAS delivers solutions and technologies that provide the analytics foundation and business solutions energy & utility leaders need, for their organisation’s digital transformation and in support of sustainability targets.

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Nimble, flexible solutions
Get the power and freedom you need to innovate with analytics in the cloud. Whichever SAS Cloud option you choose, we tune the solution to your requirements so you can focus on solving your analytic challenges and quickly realise value.

Energy Forecasting
Get ahead of the new energy environment. Improve financial and operational performance with short and medium-term load, price and revenue forecasting. Use longer-term, net load forecasting to support grid design and capital planning.

Customer Insight
The new energy environment requires a deeper understanding of customer needs. Stay ahead of the curve with predictive delinquency propensity, next offer and service needs insights.

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Procurement Integrity
Fraud, waste and abuse cost utilities hundreds of millions of dollars every year. Empower your audit team to stop the bleeding.

Credit & Collections
Leverage advanced analytics and real-time decisioning to achieve true customer-centricity. Reduce roll-rate and debt collection costs.

Easy Integration – can we say ‘Open Source integration’
Combine the power of SAS Platform with open source technologies and balance your rapid self service needs with robust governance.

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Asset analytics
The path from reactive to predictive maintenance starts here. Maximise asset availability and have a positive impact on the bottom line with predictive maintenance optimisation and time-to-failure modelling.

SAS in the Utilities Industry – Facts & Figures

90%

utilities on the Fortune 500 using SAS

>560

global energy customers

No. 1

utility analytics brand

Analytics is essential.

Extract business value from your IoT data in minutes, not months, monitoring assets in real time to forecast performance and demand, implement predictive maintenance and anticipate failures before they happen.

UTILITY ANALYTICS SOLUTIONS

Enabling Better Decisions With Industrialized, Open Analytics

SAS accelerates customer-centric digital transformation, enabling greater reliability, resource utilization, risk mitigation and customer satisfaction with an open analytics platform that unifies increasingly diverse data and analytics ecosystems. We empower and inspire utilities with the most trusted analytics.

Procurement Integrity

Fraud, waste and abuse cost utilities hundreds of millions of dollars every year. Empower your audit team to stop the bleeding.

Energy Forecasting

Get ahead of the new energy environment. Improve financial and operational performance with short- and medium-term load, price and revenue forecasting. Use longer-term net load forecasting to support grid design and capital planning.

Asset analytics

The path from reactive to predictive maintenance starts here. Maximize asset availability and have a positive impact on the bottom line with predictive maintenance optimization and time-to-failure modeling.

Customer Insight

The new energy environment requires a deeper understanding of customer needs. Stay ahead of the curve with predictive delinquency propensity, next offer and service needs insights.

Revenue Assurance

Nontechnical energy losses cost utilities more than US$100 billion annually. Proactive credit and collections and revenue recovery operations are your hedges against these insidious financial losses.

Powerful Partnerships

Analytics is essential.

Extract business value from your IoT data in minutes, not months, monitoring assets in real time to forecast performance and demand, implement predictive maintenance and anticipate failures before they happen.

REAL-TIME DECISIONS IN
ENERGY & UTILITIES

How real-time intelligent decisioning can help utilities support customers and protect the bottom line

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Energy & Utilitites Companies Working Smarter with SAS^®

CASE STUDY

Telenor

Telenor Norway uses SAS Analytics to enhance business decisions and continuously adapt to customers’ needs.

CASE STUDY

ScottishPower

ScottishPower is one of the top six energy providers in the UK, serving more than five million households and businesses. Founded in 1901, the company is a fully-owned subsidiary of Iberdrola, one of the world’s largest utilities.

ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES

Accelerate Your Digital Transformation

There’s more to SAS than classic analytics. We’re at the forefront, innovating many areas of business. Learn more about what makes us unique and how our capabilities can change your game and accelerate your digital transformation.

AI & Machine Learning

Use cutting-edge, embedded AI capabilities to unlock new insights across the utility enterprise and solve your most complex problems.

Cloud

Experience the agility and interoperability that comes with a complete range of cloud offerings. Get insights from your data on your terms – on-site or through a variety of cloud configurations and alternatives.

Data Management

Get a complete, integrated, governed and trusted view of all your enterprise data – including big data – and eliminate overlapping, redundant tools and systems.

Real-time Decisioning

Automate intelligent decision-making to solve, build smarter and faster networks, improve customer service and protect revenues.

Internet of Things (IoT)

Transform, analyze, visualize and operationalize your IoT data at scale with AI and streaming analytics – from the edge to the cloud – to make more intelligent, real-time decisions.

Open Integration

Access our open analytics platform from the interface or coding language of your choice, giving you the freedom to experiment, act and achieve.

Operationalizing Analytics

Make the best decisions every time – even when making thousands or millions of them each day – by operationalizing analytics at scale.

SAS Viya

Going from data to decisions faster is about to get a whole lot easier. SAS Viya is an AI, analytic and data management platform that runs on a modern, scalable architecture.

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Energy & Utility Analytics

Digitally transform your business with advanced analytics and AI from edge to cloud.

SAS^® Grid Guardian AI

Why choose SAS^® for utility analytics?

Why choose SAS^® for analytics?

Why choose SAS^® for analytics?

SAS in the Utilities Industry – Facts & Figures

Analytics is essential.