Future Proofing Your Distribution Management System

What are the information technology investments you need to make today to ensure your DMS provides optimal efficiency, flexibility, and security tomorrow? The evolution of the intelligent grid means millions of intelligent endpoints and an exponential increase in data that must be communicated, managed, and acted upon in real time. For electric utilities, this means huge investments in new Information technology to update Distribution Management Systems (DMS). But technology, data communications, and security standards in our industry are still evolving - and to some degree are still unproven. How do we know that the DMS investments we make today won’t be obsolete in five years? How do we know that they will continue to interface with the other evolving systems in the new intelligent utility?