Visibility to near real-time data can help companies increase
effectiveness of efficiency and sustainability initiatives
ANDOVER, Massachusetts,
March 31, 2015 /PRNewswire/
-- Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy
management, today announced the launch of Performance Analytics, a
new suite of functionality within its award-winning StruxureWare
Resource Advisor software platform. Helping more than 4,500 clients
with over 20,000 users across 130 countries manage more than
$30 billion of energy spend, Resource
Advisor is the industry's leading energy and sustainability
platform. This functionality builds on Resource Advisor's already
powerful set of capabilities, which includes the ability to monitor
energy and carbon markets, manage key sustainability metrics and
report results to stakeholders on more than 400 types of resource
streams, including utility and facility data, weather data, and
water and energy usage.
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To become more sustainable and efficient, companies must
understand how their facilities consume resources on a site-by-site
basis in enough detail to find inefficiencies and fix them. But
they also need a simple way to look across the enterprise, in order
to prioritize efforts, measure results, report to their
stakeholders and compare themselves to their peers. Performance
Analytics now allows Resource Advisor users to collect, visualize,
and analyze near-real-time interval data from a variety of sources,
in context of this enterprise-wide view of their data.
"Companies are under tremendous pressure to reduce operating
costs and risk, while at the same time becoming more sustainable,"
said Steve Wilhite, Senior Vice
President of Energy and Sustainability Services, Schneider
Electric. "This is almost impossible without the right data, seen
in the right context. Resource Advisor provides this context,
and now Performance Analytics drills down to interval-level
information in a way that our clients are finding very
powerful."
Performance Analytics allows for data collection and integration
from multiple sources, significantly simplifying visualization and
analysis of interval data, while reducing the cost of data
acquisition. Leveraging Schneider Electric's founding membership
with the Green Button Association, Schneider Electric can collect
data straight from the utility, bypassing the need for on-site
meters and software. Schneider Electric can also tap into
existing utility relationships to obtain interval data, or data can
be obtained from a variety of meter, submeter or BMS data, which
may exist on-site or can be installed. This flexibility enables
customers to choose the most cost-effective way to develop a
complete picture of their consumption, whether at the site-level or
across their enterprise.
This software enhancement is in support of Schneider Electric's
successful approach of providing integrated software and services
for its clients. A cloud-based solution that increases
collaboration, efficiency and transparency within a single software
system, Resource Advisor can be used by the client, or as a means
to enable remote energy and sustainability management. For
companies in need of expertise or simply additional bandwidth,
Schneider Electric energy experts can also provide remote analysis
capabilities to identify new opportunities for efficiency or to
amplify existing in-house expertise.
For more information on how Resource Advisor helps simplify
complex enterprise challenges, watch this 3 minute video, or go to
www.resourceadvisor.com.
About Schneider Electric
As a global specialist in
energy management and automation with operations in more than 100
countries, Schneider Electric offers integrated solutions across
multiple market segments, including leadership positions in
Non-residential & Residential Buildings, Industries &
Machines Manufacturers, Utilities & Infrastructure and Data
Centers & Networks. Focused on making energy safe, reliable,
efficient, productive and green, the company's 170,000 employees
achieved revenues of 30 billion US
dollars in 2014, through an active commitment to help
individuals and organizations make the most of their energy.
www.schneider-electric.com/us