IBM Case Studies Energy Saving Trust: SoftLayer technology extends an energy analytics platform throughout the United Kingdom

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Energy Saving Trust: SoftLayer technology extends an energy analytics platform throughout the United Kingdom

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Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms
Applicable Industries	Utilities
Applicable Functions	Business Operation Facility Management
Use Cases	Energy Management System
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Data Science Services
Challenge	Energy Saving Trust (EST) needed a high-performance analytics solution to support carbon reduction initiatives in the United Kingdom. The company had pioneered a solution that brought together large datasets with advanced statistical models to identify optimal opportunities for energy efficiency measures. However, with massive amounts of detailed information spread across numerous sources, EST required a high-performance analytics solution to make the data comprehensible and actionable. Additionally, with a large number of government organizations hoping to use the information, EST required an easily accessible, highly available hosting platform for the analytics application. Read More
About Customer	Founded in 1992 and headquartered in London, England, Energy Saving Trust (EST) advises communities and households on the most effective ways to reduce carbon emissions, use water more sustainably and drive down energy costs. The firm teams with government entities, nonprofits and businesses to develop energy conservation tools and programs. EST had pioneered a solution that brought together large datasets with advanced statistical models to identify optimal opportunities for energy efficiency measures. Read More
Solution	IBM Premier Business Partner Assimil8 Ltd. developed an analytics platform based on IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10 software and geographic information system (GIS) technology from IBM Advanced Business Partner Esri UK to support EST’s initiative. Seeking powerful cloud technology to host the solution, Assimil8 provisioned SoftLayer virtual private, virtual shared and dedicated bare metal server resources in SoftLayer Amsterdam and London data centers. The solution provided EST with a high-performance analytics platform hosted in an easily accessible, highly available environment. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms

Applicable Industries

Utilities

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Facility Management

Use Cases

Energy Management System

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Data Science Services

Challenge

Energy Saving Trust (EST) needed a high-performance analytics solution to support carbon reduction initiatives in the United Kingdom. The company had pioneered a solution that brought together large datasets with advanced statistical models to identify optimal opportunities for energy efficiency measures. However, with massive amounts of detailed information spread across numerous sources, EST required a high-performance analytics solution to make the data comprehensible and actionable. Additionally, with a large number of government organizations hoping to use the information, EST required an easily accessible, highly available hosting platform for the analytics application.

About Customer

Founded in 1992 and headquartered in London, England, Energy Saving Trust (EST) advises communities and households on the most effective ways to reduce carbon emissions, use water more sustainably and drive down energy costs. The firm teams with government entities, nonprofits and businesses to develop energy conservation tools and programs. EST had pioneered a solution that brought together large datasets with advanced statistical models to identify optimal opportunities for energy efficiency measures.

Solution

IBM Premier Business Partner Assimil8 Ltd. developed an analytics platform based on IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10 software and geographic information system (GIS) technology from IBM Advanced Business Partner Esri UK to support EST’s initiative. Seeking powerful cloud technology to host the solution, Assimil8 provisioned SoftLayer virtual private, virtual shared and dedicated bare metal server resources in SoftLayer Amsterdam and London data centers. The solution provided EST with a high-performance analytics platform hosted in an easily accessible, highly available environment.

Impact #1	EST launched Britain’s first nationwide energy efficiency database, providing private sector and government entities with unprecedented insight for driving carbon reduction initiatives.
Impact #2	SoftLayer cloud infrastructure provides the highly reliable and available environment needed to make EST's data accessible to organizations throughout the country without fail.
Impact #3	Easy-to-provision SoftLayer technology accelerates infrastructure deployment for EST, significantly improving data warehouse workload performance for the firm’s energy analytics platform.

Impact #1

EST launched Britain’s first nationwide energy efficiency database, providing private sector and government entities with unprecedented insight for driving carbon reduction initiatives.

Impact #2

SoftLayer cloud infrastructure provides the highly reliable and available environment needed to make EST's data accessible to organizations throughout the country without fail.

Impact #3

Easy-to-provision SoftLayer technology accelerates infrastructure deployment for EST, significantly improving data warehouse workload performance for the firm’s energy analytics platform.

Benefit #1	Cut implementation time by nearly 96 percent.
Benefit #2	Accelerated infrastructure deployment from roughly one day to approximately one hour.

Benefit #1

Cut implementation time by nearly 96 percent.

Benefit #2

Accelerated infrastructure deployment from roughly one day to approximately one hour.

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Energy Saving Trust: SoftLayer technology extends an energy analytics platform throughout the United Kingdom

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