John Petze of SkyFoundry wrote about Alarms, Energy Analysis Tools, FDD Tools and Analytics in an article for automatedbuildings.com, May 2013.  He offers some advice to property managers and building owner/operators who are taking an interest in how they can extract value from all the realtime data streaming from their many different controls systems in combination with their meter data, enterprise data, weather data and other easily accessible data streams.  The article was expanded into a whitepaper entitled Understanding the Data-Oriented Tools Available to Facility Managers, now used in some college courses on the subject.  You can  download it from here: