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understanding of City philosophy, staffing, and current capabilities related to the technical and business aspects of analytics and reporting. Operational, exception, and Business Intelligence Reports will be defined through specific use cases. These use cases will identify the interactions between users and systems to obtain the desired output at the desired time interval and frequency. Task 5A - Discovery and Use Case Identification To understand Santa Ana goals, readiness, and existing staffing and infrastructure to support the BI Reporting effort, UtiliWorks will conduct a series of discovery sessions. These sessions are intended to determine the utility's technical and business readiness to leverage the AMI data. UtiliWorks will lead discovery sessions to assess the capabilities and maturity of operational systems such as SCADA, CIS, GIS, and OMS. This includes how robust the software is and the ability of the software application to integrate with other systems, both inbound and outbound. We will assess the City's level of commitment to each respective software application and how well the staff understands the underlying system architecture, data structure and data quality. Participants are likely to include: system owners, power users, analysts, and system administrators, UtiliWorks will lead discovery sessions with City staff to identify and document existing reports, dashboards, and data analytics currently performed. UtiliWorks will assess the technical capabilities of the City staff such as the ability to extract data, develop queries, integrate data with other systems, and develop reports. UtiliWorks will also assess the analytical capabilities of existing staff and identify any apparent gaps that would hinder the BI Reporting effort. UtiliWorks will lead discovery sessions with utility executives and department heads to outline respective goals related to the enhancement, monitoring, and tracking of electric utility, water utility, and business operations. This will include the identification of existing and desired reports, dashboards and analytics. The outcome of these discovery sessions will help to define the future reports, dashboards, and analytics to be developed and inform the use cases that UtiliWorks will explore with City SMEs in the subsequent task. Assumptions; Up to eight (8) use cases will be identified for future analysis. Deliverables: Onsite Kickoff Agenda and Presentation, Information coilected via discovery to be summarized in the Recommendations Report Task 5.2 - Use Case Design A use case defines the interactions between users or systems to obtain the desired data or information at a desired time interval and frequency for a defined purpose, UtiliWorks will facilitate one-on•one whiteboard sessions with the designated SME(s) to develop the specific use cases identified in the discovery sessions. The desired result of this process is that staff begin to think about what data or methods for data retrieval and usage are available beyond their current day-to-day activities. These sessions should be limited to those individuals responsible for performing the task at hand to facilitate an in-depth discussion. These sessions The City of Santa Ana Page 1 14