Abstract:
A method is provided for analyzing energy or environmental factors relative to energy. One or more processors of a data management system receives a plurality of signals relating to a plurality of streams of data. The signals directed to at least one of: energy physical assets, energy related environment factors, energy availability, energy usage and energy source. A data transformer is used to transform the data to item and attribute characterizations. The data transformer uses a processor to organize the first, second and third streams of data according to their associated items and attributes. One or more analytic engines are used to receive the items with their attributes from the data management system and provide multi-dimensional analysis relative to a scale of study for at least one business intelligence, where multi-dimensional analysis is defined as analysis that compares, calculates, correlates, or operates on items and/or attributes from at least two distinct dimensions. The one or more processor of the data management system are used to provide multi-dimensional analysis of the data for at least one business intelligence that is defined as contributing insight into the impacts of physical assets on environmental resources or cultural factors, or the impacts of environmental resources or cultural factors on physical assets in the context of a question related to quantity, quality or efficiency of one of more business activities. The one or more analytic engines provide one or more outputs of processed and correlated data that is sent to an analysis qualifier to determine a quality of analysis. The data analysis evaluator determines a quality score for information generated by the analytic engine.