Service providers represent external entities that serve various roles relative to the application, including head-end systems, billing systems to which the application sends bill determinant data, market participants in a deregulated environment, outage management systems that receive meter event data from the application, or other parties that require or provide information to the system. The head-end systems that collect and send measurement data and meter events to the application are defined as service providers.

A service provider that represents the NES must be present in your system. If this is not present in your configuration, add it. Refer to the Oracle Utilities Service and Measurement Data Foundation documentation for more information about creating service providers.