Bas van Dorst discusses how Agder Energi is embracing renewables and distributed energy resources through digital transformation. Some key points: - Digital transformation requires adopting new mindsets and operational approaches to drive efficiency, reduce defects, and increase customer satisfaction. - The market opportunity for digital innovation, connected devices, data, and analytics is massive, projected to be over $1 trillion by 2018 and include over 80 billion connected devices by 2025. - Agder Energi's digital transformation involves moving workloads to Azure in 5 phases to establish a cloud native platform, integrate with IT systems, launch new services, scale workloads, and continuously enable business innovation.

1. Bas van Dorst
Principal Solution Specialist Data & AI,
May 29, 2018

5. Agder Energi
Embracing Renewables and Distributed Energy Resources

6. Digital transformation requires a new mindset
Operational improvement
82% increased efficiency4
49% experienced fewer product defects4
45% increased customer satisfaction4
$913B
80B
180
Business transformation
through the Digital innovation,
People and Services
Market
opportunity
by 20181
Connected
devices by
2025 (IDC)
Zetabytes of
data
by 2025 (IDC)
Source: 1) IDC, Internet of Things Spending Guide by Vertical Market, 2014; 2) Bosch, "Capitalizing on the Internet of Things-how to succeed in a connected world", February 2014; 3) Accenture and Frontier Economics, 2015; 4) American Society for Quality, October 2015

7. 7Microsoft Draft - Confidential

8. 8Microsoft Draft - Confidential

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Microsoft - Confidential
Phase5Phase4Phase1 Phase3Phase2
Value
# workloads
• Complete a cloud native platform.
• Create organization that develops
and runs the cloud platform
• Integrate with current IT
• Bring additional workloads live
• Establish workload management
(intakes, backlog, priorities)
• Short Time to value
• Deploying new business models
• Effective usage of knowledge and
resources
• Become the standard for innovation
• Customer/ Business focus
• Continued platform development
• Scale up to factory model
• Additional self service functions
• Proof of value
• Launching workloads
• Playgrounds
• Cloud native service delivery and
operations
• Scale up workloads
• Development and re-use of certified
services
• Prescriptive Analytics
• Increase maturity
• Further reduction of time to
market
• Further enable business
innovation
• Experiment with
Azure • Customer invests in Azure
• Build Technical Foundation
• Complete a cloud native platform.
• Create organization that develops
and runs the innovation use cases
• Integrate with current IT
• Bring additional workloads live
• Establish workload management
(intakes, backlog, priorities)
• Cloud native service delivery and
operations
• Scale up workloads
• Development and re-use of certified
services
Data & AI Competence Center
• Build Technical Foundation

10. 10Microsoft Draft - Confidential
Use Case 1
(DevOps)
Use case 2
(DevOps)
Use case 3
(DevOps)
Play
Grounds
Customer Team
Workload intake, solutioning and advice
Product Team
IaaS Services PaaS Services
Platform Team
Platform Products Platform Ops
CCC

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14. A Z U R E D A T A & A N A L Y T I C S P L A T F O R M
Machine Learning
and Analytics
Big Data StoresInformation
Management
Event Hubs
Data Catalog
Data Factory
HDInsight
(Hadoop and
Spark)
Stream Analytics
Intelligence
Data Lake
Analytics
Machine
Learning
SQL Data
Warehouse
Data Lake Store
Data
CosmosDB
Intelligence
Dashboards &
Visualizations
Cortana
Bot
Service
Cognitive
Services
Power BI
Azure Analysis
Services
Azure Databricks
Social
LOB
Graph
IoT
Image
CRM
Apps + insights
Action

15. RESOURCES
• Get started with Azure IoT at: Azure IoT Hub; Azure IoT Suite ; Microsoft IoT Central
• AI-platform: https://azure.microsoft.com/nl-nl/overview/ai-platform/;
• Filmpje Satya Nadella: C:UsersbavandooVideosMicrosoft Data & AI
inpiration.mp4;
• LinkedIn posts In 3 stappen naar data gedreven energie bedrijf:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vandorst/detail/recent-activity/posts/;
• Microsoft On the Issues: The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its role in
society
• Download the book: The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its role in
society
• Groen Leven: BNR interview:
https://www.bnr.nl/programmas/hemmen/10342795/wij-worden-beter-en-
eerlijker-dan-de-huidige-energiebedrijven;
• MalerEnergi voorbeeld: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-
au/story/malarenergi-power-utilities-azure-iot-suite-machine-learning-
Sweden;
• Boek Satya Nadella: https://www.bol.com/nl/p/hit-
refresh/9200000060401220/;

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