This section describes new features and functionality included in this release of Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management including the following:

This section describes new customer interaction enhancements introduced in this release, including:

Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management is responsible for calculating the financial settlement amount for the customer's participation in a demand response event. At the conclusion of the demand response event, Oracle Utilities Grid Edge Distributed Energy Resources Management Systems sends the device’s event participation outcome to an analytics engine and Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management. The analytics component computes the actual energy reduction achieved during the event duration and passes it to Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management as a "kWh Avoided" value.

In parallel or a few days after the event, Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management receives hourly prices, market prices, or other price components relevant to the event timeline. Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management uses the kWh Avoided value and price inputs to calculate the amount to credit to the enrolled customer who participated in the event. Periodically or following a business event (for example, move-out or unenrollment), Oracle Utilities Digital Management Service aggregates the unbilled settlement credit amounts and sends them to the CIS application for processing on the customer's energy bill.

The key components of Customer Settlement are the following:

This calculates an event level financial settlement and records it for the participating service point.

See About Event Settlement Transactions and About Customer Settlement Transactions in the Business User Guide for more information.

This section describes new product usability enhancements introduced in this release, including:

You can query service tasks created by the enrollment and unenrollment processes using name, address, and external ID as filters.

This introduces service task query to the application and renders portals and zones that are only applicable to Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management.

You can configure a new Completion Event Type to record work-related tasks (such as installation, removal, exchange and maintenance) performed on controllable devices.

This provides the ability to record the work completion outcome and make the necessary updates.

This section describes new batch processing enhancements introduced in this release, including:

You can synchronize customer information from legacy customer information systems to Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management using a flat file-based data load approach. A plugin-driven batch loads the customer data as part of the initial synchronization at the start of the implementation and any ongoing updates will be incrementally synchronized to Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management. The batch creates an inbound synchronization request to stage the data upload and subsequently the synchronization request transforms the snapshot, and creates or updates the following data objects in Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management:

A similar flat file-based load approach enables you to convert data for existing enrollments within the legacy DRMS application. An upload batch job creates an inbound synchronization request to stage the data conversion and subsequently the synchronization request transforms the snapshot and creates the following data objects in Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management:

This facilitates synchronization of relevant customer information and conversion of required objects from legacy systems to Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management.

See Importing Data From External Systems in the Administrative User Guide for more information.

This section describes new integration-related enhancements introduced in this release, including:

Completion event types define the completion events that capture closeout information received from an external application. The Update Controllable Asset completion event type records the installation and/or removal of Work and Asset controllable devices initiated by Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management. It captures information as Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management sends the install or removal activities to an external system, updates the device collection of the device location in Meter Solution after receiving the completion information from the external system, and updates the assets in Oracle Utilities Work and Asset Management.

This allows a single completion message from the external application (such as Oracle Field Service) to install or remove devices in Oracle Utilities Meter Solution and assets in Oracle Utilities Work and Asset Management.

You can leverage the Oracle Integration Cloud flow to send work activity requests from Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management to Oracle Field Service and enabling field crews to receive relevant work details like locations and assets, complete the required work, and capture work details.

Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management creates the work orders and its associated work activities as part of the device setup step for the enrollment or unenrollment of controllable devices. The work activities contain key information such as work type, work window, duration, required crew, and so on.

The Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Cloud Service-Oracle Field Service integration enables you to send work activities to Oracle Field Service, manage the completion of field activities, and send the completion details to Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Cloud Service for processing.

This allows field crews to receive work-related details like locations or assets, complete the required work on time, and send work completion details.

See the Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Cloud Service-Oracle Field Service Configuration Guide for more information.

The Program Event lifecycle within Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management now mirrors the relevant statuses of event stages within Oracle Utilities Grid Edge Distributed Energy Resources Management System, allowing you to map Oracle Utilities Grid Edge Distributed Energy Resources Management System event stages to Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management program events.

The Program Event REST service creates the program event and captures the status transition operations but the following status are specifically considered by the Program Event REST service:

This captures DERMS event stage statuses relevant to Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Cloud Service at a program level.

Refer to Program Enrollments and Program Events in the Digital Asset Cloud Service / Digital Asset Management Inbound Web Services section of the Administrative User Guide for more information.

Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management provides a new Program Event REST service to capture the creation of Oracle Utilities Grid Edge Distributed Energy Resources Management System event stages and state transitions. In Oracle Utilities Grid Edge Distributed Energy Resources Management System an event can be created over multiple stages separated by time durations. While the overall event may span across different programs, each stage will be linked to a Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management program. In addition, the Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management Program Event business object lifecycle now mirrors the relevant Oracle Utilities Grid Edge Distributed Energy Resources Management System event stage states, enabling the mapping of an event stage to a program event.

An event stage transitioning to the "Scheduled" status as part of an Oracle Utilities Grid Edge Distributed Energy Resources Management System event sends an outbound message with the following attributes to the Oracle Integration Cloud flow:

The Oracle Integration Cloud flow calls the Program Event REST service to create the program event in Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management. When the event stage within Oracle Utilities Grid Edge Distributed Energy Resources Management System transitions to the next status, an outbound message with the following attributes is sent to the Oracle Integration Cloud flow:

This enables you to send relevant event statuses from Oracle Utilities Grid Edge DERMS to Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management, monitor the event progress, and trigger customer notifications at a program level.

Refer to the Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Cloud Service Integration to Grid Edge Distributed Energy Resources Management System Configuration Guide for more information.