A key part of the AMI foundation, meter data management (MDM) represents a new capability for utility companies. MDM is expected to provide a robust, granular view of usage patterns to, ultimately, create and deploy demand management levers such as time of use (TOU) pricing. The challenge is that utility companies need to execute business analytics now; thus avoid being overwhelmed by the infusion of interval data or being forced to make major warehousing decisions that have profound cost and time implications.

This article explains how analytic bridging can be used accelerate the time-to-analytic value as utility companies exploit critically important interval data.