2 Getting Started

This guide is used during the Oracle Utilities Opower launch process to provide product design information, collect utility configuration preferences for the products being launched, and track the finalization of these preferences. The preferences are then used to set up your Oracle Utilities Opower products and platform. This documentation focuses on the configuration preferences for the Oracle Utilities Opower Digital Self Service - Energy Management Web Portal.

Note: This HTML documentation is for reference only. Your Delivery Team will give you an editable PDF or DOCX version of the document to capture your inputs. Once submitted to Oracle Utilities, all utility inputs recorded in the configuration guides are final and cannot be modified. Ensure that all configuration inputs are accurate before submitting them.

Product Overview

The Digital Self Service - Energy Management Web Portal is a flexible web experience that provides utility customers with personalized energy data, insights, and recommendations on how to save energy. The experience is delivered through modular, mobile responsive widgets that are included in a standalone web portal or embedded in the pages of a utility's web site.

The layout and design of widgets is responsive so that the functionality can display correctly on mobile as well as desktop displays. This design allows for a single version of a website that automatically adjusts based on the customer's screen size and orientation. Note that the responsive design can cause user experience variations because the components of a widget may be hidden or adjusted. For example, separate navigation options can be combined into a single drop-down list on smaller screen sizes.

Be aware that adjustments to account for smaller screen sizes can cause the appearance of widgets to be different than the images provided as configuration option examples. Additionally, the width of widgets that are embedded in containers is restricted by the container. This can cause embedded widgets to switch to smaller, responsive layouts at larger, overall screen sizes as compared to widgets that can utilize the full width of the page.

For information on the requirements and steps to embed widgets, see the Oracle Utilities Opower Digital Self Service - Energy Management Embeddable Widgets Integration Guide .

Disclaimers

Your utility might not have all of the products or features described in this document. Contact your Delivery Team if you have any questions.