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CIM User Survey: Model-Driven Integration Standards Are Used and Useful in Electric Utilities
12 February 2009
 
Bradley Williams   Zarko Sumic  

We provide the results of a survey examining business practices and the technology issues of utility Common Information Model initiatives. Electric utilities are finding additional value from technology initiatives that leverage CIM integration standards.





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Table of Contents


    
 Analysis

1.0
    
 Introduction
2.0
    
 Survey Demographics
3.0
    
 Utility Functions Where CIM Is Being Used
4.0
    
 Enterprise Service Bus Vendors Used by Utility CIM Implementations
5.0
    
 CIM-Related Expertise Within Utility Companies
6.0
    
 CIM Vendor Survey
7.0
    
 Methodology of Survey

    
 Recommended Reading


List of Figures


Figure 1. 
 Utility Organization Type Responding to the CIM User Group Survey, 2008
 

Figure 2. 
 Size of Utility in Terms of Number of End-User Customers
 

Figure 3. 
 How CIM Is Currently Used or Planned to Be Used
 

Figure 4. 
 CIM Use by Business Function, 2008
 

Figure 5. 
 2006 CIM Use by Business, Function Survey
 

Figure 6. 
 Number of Applications in Each Utility Affected by Operational CIM Implementations
 

Figure 7. 
 Sum of All Applications Affected by Operational CIM Implementations
 

Figure 8. 
 ESBs Used With Utility CIM-Based Messaging
 

Figure 9. 
 CIM Expertise in Each Company, by Role
 

Figure 10. 
 CIM Vendor Types
 

Figure 11. 
 Vendor Areas of CIM Support
 

Figure 12. 
 Vendors' CIM-Supported Functions
 

Figure 13. 
 Number of Utility/ISO Clients the Vendor Supports With CIM
 

Figure 14. 
 Vendor's Enterprise Service Buses Supported
 

Figure 15. 
 Distribution of CIM Experts in Each Vendor
 



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