Itron, Inc. announced last month that it has released its first set of specialized analytic software applications built on the Active Smart Grid Analytics™platform. Each application is bundled with Itron’s Analytic Accelerators and Extension Toolkits, which help utilities take full advantage of their smart grid data.

Built to leverage Itron’s industry-leading metering, communication network and meter data management solutions, these analytic applications provide actionable business intelligence to enable specific smart grid solutions for distribution operations, revenue cycle services and customer engagement. Each analytic application is operational “out-of-the-box” and comes with an Accelerator and Extension Toolkit. Each Accelerator offers immediate value by providing a fully-functional set of analytic dashboards and reporting tools, but also establishes an ideal launching point to develop customized analytic solutions using the ASA Extension Toolkits.

By embedding best-of-breed technology from SAP, IBM and Teradata, Itron’s ASA solution creates an extensible platform to incorporate data warehousing, business intelligence, interval meter data and state-of-the-art analytic methods. The solution allows utilities to combine and analyze data in new ways, providing new insights into their systems to streamline operations and lower costs.