Sunday, 17 February 2019

Oracle Utilities Customer to Meter (C2M) is a Single instance comprising CC&B and MDM systems



       In Oracle Utilities Customer to Meter (C2M) solution, CC&B and MDM systems are installed together. The C2M system comprises of CC&B, MDM, SGG, SOM and ODM in a single instance

       The primary aim of C2M is to provide an integration free single Oracle utilities system with:
      Single database 
      Single framework & application
      Single unified User Interface

       At the high level, the features are supported by different C2M subsystems are as below:

      CC&B: Sales and marketing, Program management, Customer account management, Rating, Billing, Budget plans, Deposits, Loans, Payment processing, Credit and collection

      MDM: Measurement Data management, VEE, Usage Subscription, Usage calculations

      ODM: Smart Device management including life cycle, Tracking firmware versions on smart devices

      SGG: Usage and Event data loading, two-way smart command management

      SOM: Service order management, smart command orchestration

Application Module
Supported Subsystem
Customer account
CC&B
Rate and Billing
CC&B
Payments
CC&B
Credit and Collection
CC&B
Devices and Items
MDM
Measurement Data
MDM
Usage calculation
MDM
Service Order
SOM
Command orchestration
SOM
Device Inventory
ODM
Device Testing
ODM
Firmware upgrade
ODM

       Integration free Internal Interaction within subsystems:



      C2M application components have internal integration for admin and master data between different subsystems. New X1 layer OUAF components used to achieve Customer to Meter specific data synchronization functionality.

      “Customer to Meter Master Configuration” provides a summary of master and administration data integration free internal interaction configuration. This contains configuration about consolidated maintenance objects, extendable lookup mapping of admin data between CC&B and MDM and master data synchronization between different subsystems.

      “Seeder Sync Request Master Configuration” encapsulates the master data synchronization mapping of Customer to Meter for below entities.
       CC&B Person –> MDM Contact
       CC&B Service Agreement –> MDM Usage Subscription
       CC&B Bill Cycle –> MDM Bill Cycle 
       CC&B Contract Option –> MDM Dynamic Option
       CC&B Contract Option Event –> MDM Dynamic Option Event

      “Master Data Synchronization Configuration” master configuration is used to retrieve a specific identifier type that is used to convert from the CCB identifier to the identifier of corresponding MDM object.       

9 comments:

  1. Excellent information / update Senthil. Thanks for sharing.

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  2. Thanks for Sharing this. This is really helpful in understanding the overview of C2M.

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  3. Wellcome back. Thanks for sharing.

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  4. Hi Senthil, This is very useful. Could you also explain what are the risks/ challenges of using C2M over CCB & MDM standalone. OR in which cases should a business have these systems implemented standalone instead of C2M

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  5. This is great Senthil. Appreciate you generous help.

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  6. Hi Senthil, this was a great post! Do you know if any Utilities have gone live with Oracle's C2M implementation yet? I know a few were implementing it (Hydro Ottawa, Nashville Electric) but have not heard of anyone being live...

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