The Big Picture of Outage System Integration
Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing is the central repository for customer information; for example, name, address, phone number, etc. Oracle Utilities Network Management System is the central repository for outage information; for example, outage calls, affected supply nodes, expected restoration time, etc.
In an integrated environment, each system provides information to the other system so that they can operate together seamlessly.
The outage system uses the set of current customers to determine and manage outages to minimize their impact
The outage system is informed of outages captured in Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing
Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing uses the current status of an outage at a given premise for customer service