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Connecting the dots is a great children’s game, where you have
to connect certain dots in the right order. Once all the correct
dots are connected in the right order, you recognize a picture
which was not visible before. And this is what AED-SICAD’s team has
been doing since many years: Work with GIS customers, with strong
focus on the utility domain, to find out what are the important IT
systems and how these can be connected to let emerge strong and
stable business processes, not visible be-fore. System integration
is often a touchy subject, where barriers like frictions between
departments, what IT interfaces to use, data quality and questions
on the design of the processes have to be overcome. AED-SICAD’s
team has lived through these questions during many customer system
in-tegration projects. The highly skilled and experienced team has
been implementing integrations with SAP, DMS, SCADA or network
calculation systems since at least 15 years and has built up a very
extensive, unique and esteemed know-how in this area. Add the
expertise in utility workflows of our customer-focused team, and
you will have a hard time to find a comparable set of skills in the
market.
Besides our experience, AED-SICAD offers within the scope of its
Esri-based UT for ArcGIS Product Suite the standard EAI tools UT
Integrator and UT Server, which form the technological basis for
our work. This allows for different types of integration like e.g.
back-end or front-end integration, or complete unification of the
GUIs of the systems to be integrated.
AED-SICAD – Connecting Your IT Systems
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NCS
SAPSAP – GIS IntegrationTraditionally, the SAP system manages
rather the administrative and fi nancial side of assets, where-as
the GIS focus on technical attributes and geo-graphic location.
However, both systems work on the same assets, and this is always
only one real-life object. To ensure data integrity and remove
duplicate data entry, system integration is critical.
In the maintenance process, e.g. the GIS might serve much better
in the selection of assets than the SAP, or the information about
the next and the last date of maintenance should be refl ected to
all GIS clients. This allows using each system with its inherent
strength and passing on the required information to the other IT
system. The UT Integ-rator assures back-end, real-time data
synchroni-zation, and in the front-end area assures lean and effi
cient business processes through unifi ed GIS/SAP GUIs.
NCS – GIS IntegrationAnalyzing the Impact of Prosumers on Your
NetworkMaintaining stability in the electrical grid: It is one of
the major challenges for electrical utilities in the field of
renewable energies. At times when consumption of energy is fine, we
now see raises and drops in the low voltage network due to energy
producing sources, e.g. wind turbines and solar panels (PV,
photovoltaic). These “Prosumers” may cause instabilities in our low
voltages dis-tribution networks.
On the basis of ArcGIS Server and UT Server, AED-SICAD provi-des
special Apps for fast and simple network impact analysis by means
of network calculations together with tools for planning and
sketching: One may add new prosumers or real consumers, or one may
simulate different network switching constellations. These tools
should help utilities to fulfill their legal obligations not only
in the context of renewable energies. The UT Server Plan and NCS
Apps will help them to perform a quality assessment regarding any
new customer application to install a solar panel or an equivalent
device in the network. This will improve the overall quality of the
distribution network.
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Unifying User Interfaces AED-SICAD focuses on delivering to its
customers smart user interfaces, which com-bine from different
backend IT systems (e.g. SAP and GIS) exactly those data and
functions which a certain user in a certain role needs for a
certain task in a workflow. For a SAP Shutoff Notification, we e.g.
integrate also a GIS web map, allowing finding all affected
customers using a downstream trace.
Smart, unified GUIs are not only used in the web, but also in
the mobile context: The Collector for ArcGIS is a great, low-cost
tool by Esri to collect information in the field. But not until you
can serve with this same mobile tool two or more backend IT Systems
(e.g. SAP, GIS, DMS …) it will leverage all its power. One of the
core technologies for these smart user interfaces is the UT
Integrator, making sure that all data are delivered in the right
form at the right end. Connecting the dots!
DMS
GIS
DMS – GIS IntegrationMost of our utility customers manage diff
erent en-vironments for GIS, for Distribution Management (DMS) and
for Supervisory Control and Data Acqui-sition (SCADA). Still it is
essential to have the same data in all diff erent environments.
UT Integrator provides a solution to bring relevant spatial and
attributive information from the GIS into the SCADA environment. In
general the GIS is consi-dered as the source of this network data,
however the SCADA system needs properly derived GIS data as a
source. Changes in the data are synchronized by the UT Integrator.
This may be in a product related format or in a more standard
format, e.g. CIM, the Common Information Model.
Outage Management may be performed inside the GIS, however if
you would be using a DMS system for that, it also would require to
synchronize the data between GIS and the DMS. Especially the GIS
con-nectivity is supportive to fi nd potential causes of faults in
the network. When assigning a crew to a specifi c fault in the
network, it is crucial to know where crews are and if they are
available for a certain job. UT Ser-ver enables you to perform
tracing analysis to locate an incident.
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AED-SICAD is one of Europe’s largest providers of
state-of-the-art GIS applications based on the Esri platform for
the utility sector. Within the AED Solution Group, more than 340
GIS professi-onals are working on implementing standard or custom
Esri-based solutions for our customers. AED-SICAD has been
implementing GIS/SAP, GIS/DMS, GIS/Network Calculation and other
integ-rations since 15 years and has built up a unique know-how in
this area.
AED-SICAD is Esri Platinum Partner and works together with Esri
strategically on the utility market in EMEA. AED-SICAD is also SAP
Application Development Partner and has reached SAP Silver Partner
Status. The UT Integrator from our UT for ArcGIS Product Suite has
been certified by the SAP Integration and Certification Center to
integrate with SAP ERP 6.0.
UT for ArcGIS Product SuiteGIS-Based Network Asset
Management
The UT for ArcGIS Product Suite is the leading, Esri-based
vertical solution for utilities for Europe and Middle East. It
combines profound process and industry know-how with the strengths
of the world‘s leading GIS base technology from Esri. It is focused
on enterprise GIS implementation for utilities, combining high-end
and smart desktop modules, rich web clients and various mobile
clients, e.g. for smart devices with a strong focus on system
integration and a services-based architecture.
AED-SICAD GmbHTel.: +49 89 45026 0Fax.: +49 89 45026 102email:
[email protected]
Munich OfficeCarl-Wery-Str. 22D - 81738 MunichGermany
Bonn OfficeMallwitzerstr. 1-3D - 53177 BonnGermany
Your contact personFlorian Brandi-Dohrn+49 89 45026
[email protected]
