Member Spotlight | Big Data Management Services

Powering Green Button Data Across the Energy Data Ecosystem

Big Data Management Services (Big Data) is a leading provider of integrated data management solutions and services that help utilities, energy providers and technology companies securely exchange, manage and operationalize data across complex systems. Green Button standards are a critical part of that work, providing a common framework for customer-authorized access to energy information and secure data-sharing for customers and organizations that use that data.

Big Data utilizes its deep technical expertise and experience with Green Button technology, workflows and operational considerations on both sides of a Green Button data exchange. In addition to offering its own Green Button Connect My Data (CMD) third-party solution, Big Data also hosts utility Data Custodian platforms and white-labeled third-party solutions for CMD platforms for other organizations.

Big Data's own Green Button-enabled third-party solution is currently onboarded on 20+ utility-provided Green Button platforms in North America. Those Big Data solutions support standardized access to customer-authorized energy data across a range of utility environments and underscore the company's experience in onboarding, authorization, testing, data exchange and ongoing production connectivity.

From connectivity to production-ready data exchange operations

A successful Green Button implementation involves more than establishing an API connection. Utilities and third-party solution providers must manage customer-authorization, security, onboarding, testing, data delivery and integration with downstream systems. Big Data utilizes its expertise in enterprise data management, cloud management and API integration to help its clients move from basic connectivity to providing reliable, production-ready data exchange solutions.

For utilities, Big Data provides and hosts the infrastructure needed to make customer-authorized information available using Green Button standards. For third-party solution providers, Big Data supports Green Button CMD connectivity directly or can provide white-labeled solutions for organizations that want to leverage Green Button standards without building and operating the underlying infrastructure themselves.

Big Data solutions validate, transform, normalize, route and integrate data into the systems that use it. Big Data solutions enable Green Button data to become part of operational workflows that support customer engagement, energy analytics, billing, energy management and other digital energy services. Big Data not only moves the data from one system to another, but makes it reliable and useful within the broader business environment.

Supporting interoperability and open standards

Big Data's work with Green Button is part of its strong commitment to advancing interoperability and open standards across the energy industry. The company's leadership has longstanding involvement with the North American Energy Standards Board (NAESB), including standards work that supports retail electric and gas market transactions, Green Button and OpenFMB.

"Green Button standards provide a critical common framework for secure, customer-authorized energy data exchange," said Cade Burks, Chief Digital Officer at Big Data Management Services. "Big Data operates across utility Data Custodian environments, third-party solutions for CMD platforms and our own Green Button connections. That first-hand expertise enables us to provide what matters most in production: reliable connectivity, scalable data exchange and, ultimately, ensuring data is actionable once it reaches its destination."

As utilities and energy companies continue expanding digital services, standardized access to customer energy data will become increasingly important. Big Data sees Green Button standards as part of a broader move toward an energy ecosystem where authorized information can flow efficiently and securely between utilities, customers and service providers without requiring a unique integration for every relationship.

Through its membership in the Green Button Alliance, Big Data Management Services is helping advance that vision while providing the proven infrastructure and operational expertise to deliver the benefits of Green Button standards-based solutions in real-world environments.

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