MDM is at the core of the energy industry, where traditional systems were made by meter vendors that had to show data collected by their meters in an IT system. No more no less. With the ongoing energy transition much more is required. More flexible systems are needed that run processes on a more diverse dataset with much more data points. Not only consumption and production data, but also power quality, windspeed, cloud coverage and temperatures are needed. The systems must cope with various data-resolutions, from hourly to minutes’ values.

In summary, there are more diverse datasets, increased data frequencies and more data points to be validated, stored, versioned, aggregated and analysed. Such analysis can be for a load demand forecast, anomaly detection to find fraud or a complex unbilled energy calculation in each of your meters. In order to get a grip on these massive datasets, control the data quality and get value out of them Energy companies need more than an MDM, they need a solution that goes beyond MDM.