Overview of Participating Applications
This section provides a general description of each of the edge applications supported by the integration.
Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing
Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing (CC&B) manages customer information associated with field activities and processes the associated billing. Typically processing begins when a customer logs a request, or field activity, for work. Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing communicates this field activity to Oracle Utilities Mobile Workforce Management as an activity, or to Oracle Utilities Work and Asset Management v1.9.1.x as a service request or to Oracle Utilities Work and Asset Management/Oracle Utilities Operational Device Management v2.1.x as a field activity.
Oracle Utilities Mobile Workforce Management
The Oracle Utilities Mobile Workforce Management product is comprised of three distinct functional components:
• Resource Planning and Scheduling: Supports resource planners and service managers in managing resources, planning shifts, and scheduling work. The system manages activity requests sent in from host systems as well as automatically generates shifts and optimizes the schedule based on business rules.
• Common dispatching functionality: Supports dispatchers as they handle exceptions throughout the day, and enables context-based decision making at the dispatcher level. The system can be configured to automatically dispatch all activities or limit auto-dispatching to certain activity types or shifts. The system maintains real-time communication with mobile resources, tracks the location of crews and vehicles, and enables dispatchers to monitor and manage activities, crews, alerts, and key performance indicators. Common dispatching functionality is provided through the Common Dispatching Interface (CDI) portal.
• Mobile communications platform: Supports mobile crews as they perform service work, facilitating communication with the dispatcher, providing GPS-based mapping services, and processing activity status updates and work completion details. The application runs on a Mobile Data Terminal (MDT) device.
Oracle Utilities Work and Asset Management
This integration supports two versions of Oracle Utilities Work and Asset Management. This section provides information on each version.
Oracle Utilities Work and Asset Management v1.9.1.x
Oracle Utilities Work and Asset Management v1.9.1.x manages work processes from the creation of a service request to the completion of work and processing work related charges. Once an order is translated from one of the other systems to become a service request in Oracle Utilities Work and Asset Management v1.9.1.x, the systems continue to communicate status updates, create bill charges when needed, and to close out the work.
Oracle Utilities Work and Asset Management/Oracle Utilities Operational Device Management v2.1.x
Oracle Utilities Work and Asset Management/Oracle Utilities Operational Device Management v2.1.x manages work processes from the creation work orders and activities to the completion of work and processing work related charges. Once an order is translated from one of the other systems to become a field activity in Oracle Utilities Work and Asset Management/Oracle Utilities Operational Device Management v2.1.x the system sends the cancellation or completion information.
Within the integration, the system sends distributed work (e.g. item install, item remove, and item exchange) to Oracle Utilities Mobile Workforce Management by creating activities. Oracle Utilities Work and Asset Management/Oracle Utilities Operational Device Management v2.1.x may also create a questionnaire type of activity that is sent to Oracle Utilities Mobile Workforce Management to handle inspections, condition assessments or other types of asset related work.