Case Study: Ausgrid achieves minutes‑instead‑of‑hours reporting and a single view of customers with SAS Data Management

SAS adds power to Ausgrid's data demands

Ausgrid, which supplies electricity to 1.6 million homes and businesses across greater Sydney, the Hunter and Central Coast, faced the challenge of drawing meaningful, audit-ready insights from 67 billion meter-reading records accumulated over seven years to meet internal decision-making, regulatory compliance and forecasting demands. The complexity of multiple data sources and tight reporting windows made timely, reliable reporting difficult and consumed highly skilled resources.

By implementing SAS Data Management to integrate SAP customer and billing systems, GIS, meteorology and B2B feeds, Ausgrid established a single view of the customer and automated key reports and diagnostics. The solution cut monthly consolidation time from hours to minutes (reports that once took skilled engineers are now produced in under a minute), freed analysts to focus on strategy, and improved Ausgrid’s ability to support regulatory submissions and analyze network impacts such as solar generation.

Ausgrid

Daniel Collins

Manager for Strategic Analysis