A standard product implementation should use the Oracle Utilities Network Management System standard CIS, IVR, and mobile data interfaces with an officially supported middleware gateway such as the WebSphere MQ gateway. SCADA system integration should be done utilizing the Oracle Utilities Network Management System Live Energy Connect ICCP Adapter, Generic SCADA Adapter, or MultiSpeak-based web services SCADA adapter. AMR/AMI and AVL integrations should be done using the Oracle Utilities Network Management System MultiSpeak Adapter. Paging and email notification integration should be done using the Service Alert module.

When interfaces are required to non-standard systems that cannot be supported by the standard interfaces described above, they should be generally implemented utilizing the published APIs and should not directly read or write to the Oracle Utilities Network Management System operations database.

Database level and/or reporting integration may be done using the Oracle Utilities Analytics database and must utilize tables and attributes described in the Oracle published schema.