Data Quality Issues And Solutions For Enterprise Energy Management Applications (Part Ⅱ)

摘要

Addressing energy-related data quality issues takes a combination of the right tools and the right process. Using a data quality software application can address individual issues; however, a commitment from management and the availability of the proper resources is needed to ensure data quality assurance is an ongoing process. Data quality needs a champion to drive the program and one or more data stewards to execute the necessary steps. Given the importance of energy as a key commodity for an organization, and in turn its impact on profits, the champion can be anyone from an executive through middle management level, including corporate energy managers, operations or facilities managers, or engineering managers. In terms of day-to-day execution, data cleansing tasks are typically assigned to one or more people within a facility management group, someone with a title such as data administrator, or clerical staff specially trained in the data quality tools and rules. Often, it makes more sense for a business to concentrate on its core competencies and outsource the data quality function to an energy management services company.