It would be one of the most artistic methods to describe our complex workflows that beat around the bush, which we have to deal with every day in our business processes, as chain reaction machines. (as it is called in the literature: A Rube Goldberg Machine). It is no coincidence that the famous cartoonist Rube Goldberg is an engineer. Let’s clear the deck and take a step back and look at the work you do; you can see that it is actually a magnificent chain reaction machine. Grab your coffee, turn on the computer, think about which business departments you talk to, what different types of data you examine until you come to that decision stage that will actually serve a single issue. Can you see how many different issues lead you to the point of making that decision or preparing and presenting that report? Why doesn’t this happen by itself? Wouldn’t it be great to have all those separate topics reach a single level and a decision by themselves?
It is an obvious issue for everyone in the energy sector that there are many sub-specialties under the energy domain. Moreover, these business disciplines, which serve the same subject, feed each other, and are related. All those tasks that require expertise in the energy sector are streams that merge at the trade point, which is the heart of everything, and turns into a waterfall. What happens in the minds of professionals is like a chain reaction machine, the info on snow thickness in a region combined with the air temperature, extending to consumer habits and seasonal changes in neighboring countries. Estimated and actual values coming from a different department and locations, web services, time series that should be followed moment by moment by the market operator and system operator, flowing emails… Each piece of information is kept on different platforms. It is necessary to reach and compile all this information so that the right decisions can be made in day-ahead and intra-day market participation.
One of the most basic goals of smartPulse is to offer the user a structure where they can manage their needs on a single platform. Nobody has to work inside a complex chain reaction machine! For a more sustainable business life, you can start a new working style in which the business processes you will define on this portal are triggered by operational, commercial and forecasting smartBots according to your business rules and the results are automatically communicated to other stakeholders.
Hande Aydemir
