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ORACLE UTILITIES
Meter Data ManagementExpress Implementation for Electric UtilitiesAn Oracle Utilities Professional Services Offering
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Can Your Utility Handle Huge Data Volumes?
If you’re planning residential interval metering—or if you’re already engaged in it—you know the challenge of expanding data volumes. Interval metering increases utility data handling requirements by orders of magnitude.
In the past, you’ve likely assigned all tasks related to metering and billing to your CIS. Now, with interval metering, you need a more robust data structure to help you:
• Validate, handle, and store huge new data volumes
• Extract full value from interval metering
Interval metering can turn data management into a Big Data nightmare.
Transform the Way You Handle Meter Data
Oracle offers a new and better way to handle meter data:
•Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway brings data into your utility and distributes it across multiple applications.
•Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management gathers, validates, and stores meter data, then uses it to offload the production of bill determinants from CIS.
By offloading tasks onto these new applications, you ensure that your revenue engine continues to meet all your needs and that you’re in a position to extract full value from your interval metering investment.
Oracle solves data-volume issues with new applications.
Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management
Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway
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Approaches to Implementation
Bringing on these robust new applications is a significant commitment in time and money.
In the past, almost all implementation projects started with a series of meetings—frequently lasting for months. Working together, your staff members, vendor representatives and systems implementers explored the applications’ full flexibility to handle your business processes.
It’s a proven approach to implementation. It works—if you can afford it.
Flexible, robust Oracle applications can accommodate existing and new business processes.
A New Approach Dramatically Lowers Your Costs
Today, traditional implementations are no longer the only option. Oracle offers an alternative.
With Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management Express Implementation, you can slash costs while significantly improving time-to-value.
An Express Implementation replaces those months of business-design meetings with a standard set of proven, pre-configured business processes that reduce implementation times by months.
Oracle completes your business process design before your implementation kicks off!
Oracle replaces months of business process design work with proven, pre-built standard business processes.
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You Get Proven Business Processes
Many utilities have unique business processes. If you do—even if only three or four of your processes vary significantly from those of most utilities—consider an implementation approach that gives you the choices you need.
Express Implementation, on the other hand, works very well for the hundreds of utilities whose business processes-- interfacing with meters, validating meter reads, producing bill determinants--follow the logical business flow used by most utilities in their regions.
With Express Implementation, you take advantage of the similarities among utilities by adopting proven, pre-designed standard business processes at far less cost.
Now, a new way to end the Big Data Nightmare.
Standard processes save your staff hundreds of hours of work.
CIS
• Receives bill determinants for billing use
METER
OTHER USAGE SOURCES
Meter Data Management
• Performs VEE
• Stores all metered usage and events
• Produces bill determinants
Smart Grid Gateway
• Interfaces with devices
• Sends usage and events to Meter Data Management
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Your Implementation Team Arrives Fully Prepared
When you choose Meter Data Management Express Implementation for Electric Utilities, your Oracle Utilities consulting team arrives with:
• Industry standard device types and device configurations
•Device event types
• VEE groups, including rules for different customer classes
• Standard time-of-use groups for all customer classes
•Usage group types for bill determinants
• Productized adapters to head-end systems
You Get Immediate Benefits
With Express Implementation, you:
•Reduce the risk of cost overruns. Eliminate scope creep. Meet your schedule.
• Speed time to production. Meet customers’ and regulators’ emerging expectations promptly.
•Get a coherent, pre-tested solution designed by an experienced Oracle Utilities consulting staff.
• Speed training. Your staff uses with Oracle’s pre-tested collateral for business processes and test cases. They learn on prototypes of the screens they will use when they take full ownership of the project.
Conference-room pilots jump-start staff learning.
Software•Business Processes•Configuration Workbook•Configured Software•Customizations
Hardware•Hardware Sizing• Installation Guide•Batch Schedule
Services•Project Plan•Workshop Schedule•Testing Collateral• Implementation Guide
Before your implementation project begins, Oracle Utilities Professional Services consultants have already completed:
Conference-room pilots jump-start staff learning
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You Get a Long-Term Upgrade Path
Meter Data Management Express Implementation for Electric Utilities kick-starts your production. Then it facilitates your future.
When business requirements change or you want additional functionality, you can:
•Use the products’ full ranges of features and functions.
•Modify or expand your basic business processes.
•Add additional applications that further improve your operational efficiency and customer satisfaction.
You Get a Long-Term Partner
When you partner with Oracle Utilities, you get peace of mind.
As the global leader in mission-critical utility business solutions, Oracle is committed to investing in business solutions to meet your needs today and long into the future.
START HERE...
OVER TIME, ADD...
CIS
DATA
Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management
DATA
Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway
Oracle Utilities Business
Intelligence
Oracle Utilities Customer
Self-Service
Oracle Utilities Mobile
Workforce Management
Oracle Utilities Network
Management System
Oracle Utilities Work and Asset
Management
Oracle Utilities Customer Care
and Billing
Oracle Utilities Operation Device
Management
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