Monday, April 30, 2012 | 8:00 - 4:00 pm | Texas 5

Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Empower the Utility Enterprise by Delivering Dashboards and Business Intelligence – Everywhere

Tony Isler, Business Development Manager, Stonebridge Technologies
 

Laura Karbarz, Business Productivity Solution Specialist, Microsoft

Steve Molsberry, Business Intelligence Practice Director, Stonebridge Technologies

Microsoft SharePoint has become the de facto business collaboration and information management platform for the enterprise, providing a unique set of capabilities within a single unified infrastructure. This course explores how utilities are using SharePoint 2010 to support content management, collaboration and business intelligence (BI), including self-service BI and spatial dashboards.

This course will discuss how utilities can leverage their SharePoint investment and Bing Maps to build dashboard solutions for Incident and Outage Management with integration to the company’s GIS systems and other back office applications. A review of the latest BI components integrated with SharePoint 2010, including the new SQLServer 2012 data visualization features of Power View will also be provided.

Course Objectives:

• Identify the six major capability areas with SharePoint;

• Identify opportunities within your organization to apply SharePoint technology;

• Describe how utilities can use business intelligence and SharePoint to deliver key information to decision makers across the organization;

• Describe how utilities can create spatial dashboards that provide powerful, easy to use visualization of incidents, outages and smart meter information.

	In her role as a senior business productivity specialist, Laura Karbarz advises customers on how to leverage Microsoft technologies to deliver business results in the energy market. She has more than 24 years of experience in the technology industry as a sales and consulting services executive. Laura has become a leader in articulating the value and return on investment of information technology purchases and implementation. Laura started her career in the consulting industry as an application architect and developer evangelizing leading edge object-oriented technologies. As a senior manager at Accenture, she led many large enterprise systems development and implementation projects including customer order systems for electric and gas utility customers, energy trading systems, customer care and finance. Laura graduated from the University of St. Francis in Joliet, Illinois with a B.S. degree in Computer Science.
	As Stonebridge’s Business Intelligence practice director, Steve Molsberry is responsible for advising customers on how to deploy business intelligence technologies to provide better visibility to organizational performance and gain competitive advantage. He has more than 20 years of experience in consulting services with a primary focus on data warehousing, analysis and reporting solutions. Steve started his career in the consulting industry as a data warehouse architect and developer creating solutions that provide information to decision makers across an organization. As a data warehouse architect, Steve has led multiple projects in a variety of industries that consolidate information from diverse systems to provide a single view of the customer. Steve graduated from Vanderbilt University with a B.A. degree in Economics.