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SAP Advanced Metering Infrastructure Integration
applications and technologies created, managed and maintained environments that drive business change. SAP NetWeaver provides a
within the IT infrastructure serve as the engines of the enterprise. The composition platform that enables IT departments to compose and
ability of IT to respond to emerging business requirements such as AMI orchestrate enterprise services using model-based development. With
in a rapid, cost-effective manner determines whether or not an these enterprise services, organisations have a far easier time rapidly
organisation can keep pace with market changes and maintain a enhancing existing business processes or developing and deploying
competitive advantage. new business processes.
This is where enterprise service-orientated architecture (enterprise Enterprise SOA is a journey. Organisations can implement enterprise
SOA) comes into play. Enterprise SOA is a business-driven software SOA-based applications on a project-by-project basis and move
architecture that goes beyond the fundamentals of service- gradually toward the benefits of service orientation.
orientated architecture, allowing utilities to flexibly expose various
technology components within the IT landscape as web services and SAP NetWeaver weaves a variety of key IT activities, all of which can
more easily compose solutions to support AMI. perform using the integrated components of SAP NetWeaver in a
flexible, step-by-step approach at low cost. This approach is
A web service represents a self-contained, self-describing piece of particularly valuable to utilities organisations making the transition
application functionality that can be found, accessed and used to AMI.
by other applications using open standards. No longer will it be
necessary for programmers to spend time making inflexible point- With the bidirectional capabilities of AMI supported by the SAP
to-point connections between applications; IT can now rapidly NetWeaver technology platform and enterprise SOA, utilities can
and cost-effectively string together new processes by exposing monitor customers for delinquent payments, disconnect customers to
existing application components as web services and employing prevent further unauthorised usage and quickly reconnect them when
them for new purposes. Aligning the IT requirements with the SAP outstanding issues have been resolved. AMI promises to help utilities
NetWeaver platform enables organisations to compose new business stay competitive in ways that older metering and data-exchange
solutions rapidly while obtaining more business value from existing technologies simply cannot. ■
IT investments.
To learn more about how SAP can help meet the emerging demands
As the foundation for enterprise SOA, SAP NetWeaver helps for smart metering and AMI, please contact your SAP representative or
organisations evolve their current IT landscapes into strategic visit us at
www.sap.com/utilities
CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION
Opening address from:
� Dr. Pornchai Rujiprapa, Permanent Secretary
of Energy, Ministry of Energy, Thailand
Featuring leading utilities from 13
countries including:
� Provincial Electricity Authority, Thailand
� Metropolitan Electricity Authority, Thailand
� Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand,
Thailand
� Tenaga Nasional Berhad, Malaysia
� Ho Chi Minh City Power Company, Vietnam
� Manila Electric Co, the Philippines
Co-located with � PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara, Indonesia
� Electricite du Laos, Laos
� Sarawak Energy Berhad, Malaysia
� Electricité du Cambodge, Cambodia
� Korea Electric Power Corporation, Korea
� Xcel Energy, USA
� National Grid Corporation Philippines,
Philippines
� Transpower New Zealand Ltd, New Zealand
� TEPCO, Japan
� Western Power, Australia
New policy updates from ASEAN
regulators:
� Energy Commission Malaysia, Malaysia
� Energy Regulatory Commission, Thailand
For more information please contact:
� Directorate General of Electricity and Energy
Utilization, Indonesia
Synergy Asia-Pacific � Energy Regulatory Commission of Philippines,
9TemasekBoulevard
the Philippines
# 09-01 Suntec Tower Two
Singapore 038989
� Electricity Regulatory Authority of Vietnam,
Phone: +65 6407 1498 Vietnam
Fax: +65 6407 1501
� Electricity Authority of Cambodia, Cambodia
www.td-asia.com
� Energy Market Authority, Singapore
www.td-asia.com
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