Integration Overview
Oracle Utilities Customer to Meter integration to Oracle Utilities Network Management System helps to manage outage business process between customer information and outage management systems.
This pre-built integration between the leading applications makes sure the seamless automated flow of outage information. It also makes relevant outage information visible from a single application. Key business processes automated by this integration include synchronization of customer data and trouble calls from Oracle Utilities Customer to Meter to Oracle Utilities Network Management System. It also supports the ability to query job history, trouble call history, and planned outages from Oracle Utilities Customer to Meter.
For more information about the product functionality, refer to the Oracle Utilities Customer to Meter Integration to Oracle Utilities Network Management System Implementation Guide included in this release.
The integration supports the following flows:
Synchronize data
Send trouble calls to Oracle Utilities Network Management System with a customer or device.
Query trouble calls
Query job history
Query planned outages
The following diagram shows the business processes that are supported in this integration product:Business process diagram
The integration uses Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle BPEL Process Manager (an Oracle Fusion middleware product) to coordinate the data flow and data mapping. Oracle BPEL Process Manager provides a comprehensive solution to create, deploy and manage cross- application business processes with both automated and manual workflow steps.
This is a bi-directional integration. Data is sent from Oracle Utilities Customer to Meter to Oracle Utilities Network Management System and vice versa to support trouble/fuzzy calls, job/call history and customer information synchronization.