A new standard for reporting tools
Why PCI Insights?
Say goodbye to countless hours wasted wrestling with scattered data, inflexible tools, and error-prone manual processes. PCI Insights™ brings data together in one intuitive tool, empowering you with the ease of use and flexibility of a modern cloud-based solution. Whether you want to leverage our pre-built reports, dig deep into the details with ad-hoc queries, or build interactive dashboards in minutes – PCI Insights™ delivers the perfect blend of simplicity and power so you can focus on uncovering insights that drive your business forward.
Access your data all in one place, no coding required
Access an organized catalog of data that makes it easy to import/export, connect to apps, APIs or BI tools.
Fast and reliable reporting, at scale
Our modern, resilient software architecture enables PCI Insights™ to process very large data sets in minutes.
Interactive visualizations turn data into "aha" moments
Leverage out-of-the-box reports from industry experts, customize them, or create your own.
Insights in action
Customer Use Cases
These are some of the ways that PCI Insights users are gaining more value from their data than ever before.
Validating RTO settlements
- Consolidated data from across markets into a unified validation platform
- Enabled invoice validation by operating date and settlement type
- Tracked unit performance at 5-minute granularity for detailed analysis
- Built custom reports
- Provided front office, back office, and P&L visibility across all markets
Automating RTO Back-Office Settlement Validation
A back‑office team needed to validate complex ISO/RTO settlement invoices and reduce time spent reconciling spreadsheets. PCI Insights:
- Centralized day‑ahead and real‑time settlement data in curated data marts
- Enabled reporting across all market charge codes, not just energy
- Allowed analysts to build validation reports and dashboards in minutes
Result:
Faster, more confident settlement validation with full visibility into total market charges across resources and timeframes.
Preparing for a market transition
- Showcased SPP IM data integration and visualization
- Demonstrated new PLA (Price Location Availability) features
- Provided real-time operational readiness tools for market transition
Preparing for a new market entry
- Delivered on-site training sessions
- Built multiple reporting mechanisms for current operations
- Developed EDAM preparation dashboards and workflows
Self-serve report building
NIPSCO sought to reduce reliance on IT for report generation and improve access to up-to-date operational data. With PCI Insights, they:
- Deployed an online portal integrated with Microsoft Teams for report sharing.
- Eliminated manual report distribution via email.
- Enabled users to access the most current data directly from a centralized application.
Result:
Reduced IT dependency, faster access to insights, and improved collaboration across departments.
AI-readiness
- Demonstrated agentic AI readiness and smart data architecture
- Provided ERCOT RTC+B (Real-Time Co-optimization + Batteries) use case implementation
- Built foundation for AI-powered decision-making with AWS integration
Automated settlement and invoice validation
A public power utility used PCI Insights to:
- Automate manual settlement and invoice validation processes.
- Combine invoice statements with settlement data to break down charge codes by unit and settlement point.
- Streamline validation workflows and ensure accuracy.
Result: Faster, more accurate settlement reporting and reduced manual effort.
Price trend analysis
AECI used PCI Insights to:
- Aggregate real-time and day-ahead pricing data.
- Identify price fluctuations at 15-minute intervals.
- Compare real-time prices against day-ahead market trends to optimize bidding and trading decisions.
Result: Improved market responsiveness and data-driven decision-making.
Unit offer tracking and version control
A public power utility used PCI Insights to:
- Store multiple versions of submitted unit offers.
- Compare historical submissions to resolve disputes.
- Enhance transparency in bid submissions.
Result: Better auditability and compliance in market operations.
Comprehensive CRR net congestion report
By combining front office, settlement, and ETRM data, the utility built a comprehensive CRR net congestion report for month-end closing.
Result: Unified view of congestion costs and improved financial accuracy.
Creating a single source of truth
Cooperative Energy relied on multiple third-party vendors and siloed data sources, making it difficult to track generator performance and settlement accuracy. PCI Inights:
- Consolidated data from multiple systems into a single source of truth.
- Built operational dashboards to track generator performance, dispatch flags, and regulation penalties.
- Used visual insights to drive internal conversations and performance improvements.
Result:
Enterprise-wide visibility, improved operational decision-making, and stronger collaboration between settlements and operations team.
Turn data into actionable insights
PCI Insights™ packages consistent, reliable, and timely data from across your front, middle, and back office into one intuitive analytics tool. Built from the ground up on modern, cloud-first technology, with one purpose — to serve insights that help you improve your organization’s efficiency
Consolidated Data
- Easily consolidate data from internal and external sources in one place. Stop wasting time copying and pasting
- Quickly drill down to underlying data to discover the real story of what’s happening and why
- Experience data that is always accessible, reliable and fast
Intuitive Reporting
- Simple enough that anyone can build and save reports, without coding or IT support
- Easily generate compelling and visually appealing data visualizations
- Customize your own dashboards with drag-and-drop tiles that present your most important data and KPIs
- Export large volumes of data quickly to share with colleagues or manipulate in other tools
Smarter Decisions
- Uncover insights you can act on with data packaged ready to inform your most important decisions
- Coming Soon: Get automated alerts on events, trends and discrepancies to ensure you’re always informed of critical information
- Coming Soon: Highlight opportunities in real-time and pre-validate them with supporting analysis
Available, organized, curated
Our data vision
To empower our customers to reach better decisions, we believe that data should be:
One centralized and accessible data catalog.
Organized
Exploration and extraction of data so easy that anyone can do it.
Curated
Actionable out-of-the-box reports you can customize and save.
Product Webinar
How 3 utilities built enterprise dashboards with PCI Insights
Watch our webinar with Cooperative Energy, NIPSCO, and IPA to see how utilities are using PCI Insights to unify data from RTO markets and ETRM systems, streamline reporting, and deliver real-time decision support — no code required.
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Empower Your Team with an Intuitive Analytics Platform
PCI Insights brings your data together into a single user-friendly analytics platform.
Key Features
PCI Insights™ is built to bring you everything you need in a modern energy analytics platform
Dynamic Calculations and Custom Formulas
- Easily incorporate your own calculations and business logic into reports
- Create custom metrics and KPIs calculated on‑the‑fly as new market and operational data becomes available
Customizable Pre-Built Reports and Dashboards
- Start with out-of-the-box content created by industry experts
- Tailor to your needs by adding/removing metrics, visualizations, filters
- Save your customized reports and share across the organization
Intuitive Dataset Builder
- Use visual tools to build datasets in minutes without coding
- Easily bring together data from multiple PCI data services
- Empower business users with self-service data modeling
Direct Data Querying
- Use our built-in SQL interface to run ad-hoc queries across datasets
- Join PCI data with your proprietary data to create new derived datasets
- Connect PCI Insights data directly to Power BI, Tableau, or internal BI platforms
Curated, Analysis-Ready Data
- Transform raw market tables into curated, analysis‑ready datasets
- Reduce data complexity by up to 90%, enabling faster reporting without stitching together dozens of tables
Rapid ROI realized
"PCI's integrated solutions have delivered significant cost savings and efficiency gains for Santee Cooper. Their tools and support have been invaluable to our business."
- Chris Moore, Business Analyst, Santee Cooper
More time for analysis
"We're able to do our jobs faster and easier, and it just gives us time to focus on analyzing the data, instead of preparing data."
- Brad Lafler, Market Optimization Lead, Lincoln Electric System
Unified platform and team
"I think the fact that multiple departments can use the same tool, it kind of helps bring all of us together speaking the same language."
- John Mayhew, Senior Real Time Trader, PNM
Trust through transparency
"I see our PCI relationship more like a peer or a teammate than just a provider or supplier."
- Juan Guichard, CEO, Ammper Energia
Integrated suite of tools
"Having one vendor where all of those different tools and solutions work with each other, it just made sense for us instead of having a vendor to do this and a vendor to do that."
- Jason Smith, Senior Engineer, Santee Cooper
Tailored software solutions
"If PCI isn't able to find a solution directly in their products, we work with them in several different capacities to come up with customizable solutions in their product. And those have worked very well, even through upgrades in their system."
- Tucker Smith, Sr. Market Coordinator, Basin Electric
Reports in minutes, not hours
During PCI’s INFOCUS Conference, customers were challenged to create reports in PCI Insights with no prior training. Many were able to complete full reports in under 3 minutes.
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