Data Quality @ Essent

Inside the Data Fortress

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The pain of poor data quality

operational database

supervisor

reporting database

DQproblems

departmentalmanagers

data cleansingdownstream

director

team productivity report strategic reporting

DQ problems

data cleansingupstream

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The deregulated market:contracts, energy & money

• We buy wholesale energy

• We sell energy to customers

• Selling price – purchase price

gross profit

• We collect transport, distribution and

taxes

• That´s all we do

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The information we needCustomer

Identification Name, title, date of birthName, legal form, enterprise number, VAT number

Address Official address, plus other communication details

Contract

Validity Start date, end date

Product Inclusive price

Billing conditions Billing address, payment terms, etc.

Installation

Identification EAN

DGO

Address Delivery address

Energy Gas or electricity

Metering frequency Incl. metered timeframes

Estimated consumption

Profile

Network tariffs For calculating distribution & transport costs

GOS For gas only

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The information we need

Balance Responsible

Identification Essent trading, Gaz de France, Distrigaz

Product Fixed, variable, back to back

Price Per 15’ or per hour

Metered consumption

Installation EAN

Validitity From, to

Consumption In kWh

Meter index In kWh or m3

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Process

Application

Data

We are a data company

We collect this information

We update this information when it changes

We process this information correctly

Data Quality : “getting the data right”

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Cleansing for Dynamo

AxaptaBack Office

DQ & MigrationMecomsDynamo

WDMDun &

BradstreetAccess

RegisterDNB

Snapshots

Customer Installation

Tools

Data

Address Validation

extract

data pump

correctupdate insertscriptsexport

manual cleansing

Human Inference

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Dynamo : DQ built inThe Data Fortress

Address Address Validation

CustomerIdentify existing

customer

Eliminate duplicate

s

Known credit scores

Installation Access Register

Mystery Switch

MIG Controls Early fallout