Steve Studer, of Zia Consulting has worked with a wide spectrum of Energy and Utilities companies providing insights and best practices around effective content management and change control. This presentation talks about his experiences in providing frictionless information transfers between organizations, systems, and the people and processes supporting them. Some of the concepts Steve will touch on during this session include digital handovers, effective content creation and dissemination, and information audit and analytics tools that can automate and improve business decisions. Key points of the webinar include: Managing streaming data as well as static documents Documents of record versus version noise Content dissemination and consumption Content federation Audit and analytics Content retention and governance

1. Streamlining Information
Transfer for Energy and
Utilities

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Today’s Presenter
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Steve Studer
Enterprise Sales Director,
Pacific NW
Zia Consulting

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Today’s Agenda
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Challenges with Content in E & U
Information transfers and Digital Handovers
Content in Motion and Content at Rest
Methodology and Lessons Learned
5 Q&A
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1. Tag content so it’s easier to find
2. Include a Document ID and/or URL to reference Document
location
3. Provide content in a format that is most useful for the consumer
and can also stand the test of time
4. Include Timestamps and Watermarks as indicators for the
consumers
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Safety Tip
for the Day

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Think about all the content produced
and consumed in in the Energy Sector
Documents Stored by Utility Companies
•Engineering Documents
•Right of ways
•Permits
•Easements
•Service Contracts
•Maintenance Records
•Service Records
•Client agreements
•Client Specific documents
•Billing Statements. Logs & other Stream Data
•Employee Records
•Employee Benefit and payment records

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Content Spend for
Nuclear
“Annual ongoing regulatory costs range
from $7.4 million to $15.5 million per
plant, mostly related to paperwork
compliance.”
Read more: https://www.americanactionforum.org/research/putting-
nuclear-regulatory-costs-context/#ixzz5h4e781UL

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Digital Handovers for EPC
& Owner Operators
Transforming the paper based
world to enable Frictionless
Information Transfers
Digital Handovers are an
Evergreen/Infinite Loop Process
Content effects People, Systems and
Business Processes
ECM isn’t just good file management
it’s the catalyst for efficient and
effective knowledge transfer

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What about Oil and
Gas?
Innovate or Die
Low oil prices are highlighting the
effects of operational inefficiencies
Data Silo’s are profit killers
Companies need to leverage secure
opensource systems for joint
operational and maintenance planning
Minimize turn-around time and
operational costs by integrating
connected and automated content
repositories

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5 Tips for Information Transfers
Energy & Utilities
Leverage
content federation
and governance
Leverage the right
tools for content
dissemination and
consumption
Untap content potential
by combing structured
data with
unstructured content
Move to auto
classification,
audit and
analytics
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Segregate documents
of record versus
version noise

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01People
Our consultants average 15 years in
ECM
03Technology
Use only best-of-breed ECM tools
02Process
Proven methodology over hundreds
of successful ECM implementations
04Commitment
Dedication to our clients’ success
Why
Zia Consulting?
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What Zia
Does
Strategy
We are committed to
providing measurable
business results on time
and within budget
Integration
Seamlessly integrate with
existing line of business
applications
Customization
We build content
solutions to meet each
customer's unique needs
Migration
Effectively migrate
business-critical documents
to a modern ECM platform
without interrupting daily
functions
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12. Q&A Time!

13. Thank You!