DATA SHEET
CA Automic for Oracle Utilities
At A Glance
CA Automic for Oracle Utilities provides an automation platform that significantly reduces the time to implement and
operationalize an Oracle Utilities environment. It allows for a reliable, accurate and trouble-free operational environment,
enabling seamless integration across the entire application landscape and giving visibility and control to demanding areas,
such as smart meter readings and accurate bill production, to drive the business forward.
KEY BENEFITS
Business Challenges
• Increase operational efficiency Implementing and running Oracle Utilities places several demands on IT Operations. If
handled incorrectly, this can result in slower implementation, a higher number of manual
• Go beyond basic email notifications
operations, reduced quality of service and accuracy of results, and an inability to easily
• Simplify job cancellation adopt the next technology change. This raises a series of challenges:
• Object-oriented development and
reusable jobs
• How to implement in a timely and safe way to improve time to value
• Eliminate the need to submit jobs one • How to connect this system of record to smart metering and the broader application
at a time landscape to drive operational efficiency
• Monitor and manage entire process
• How to safely maximize the thread pool to deliver results to the business earlier
flows in one location
• Pass job parameters without manual • How to check that bill production is accurate
intervention
• Intelligently manage the Oracle
Utilities Thread Pool to safely maximize
resources and deliver results earlier
Solution Overview
Our Oracle Utilities solution was co-developed, tested and validated with Oracle to
provide scheduling and automation facilities for utility companies. This solution was
designed to implement Oracle’s own Best Practice Guide for Utilities, bringing the
following benefits:
• Reduces batch implementation time from months to a matter of days.
• Simplifies integration of Oracle Utilities with wider application landscape.
• Improves throughput with dynamic management of the thread pool.
• Ensures completion of processes to both business and IT standards.
• Dramatically improves functionality to automate processing.
• Safely maximizes computing resources.
The result is faster processing with fewer errors, ensuring a reliable, accurate and trouble-
free billing process.
CA AUTOMIC FOR ORACLE UTILITIES
Reduce Implementation Time Related Products
• Preconfigured to support all standard CA Automic Release Automation. Drive Agility and speed to digital business apps and
Oracle Utilities Customer Care and core commercial applications
Billing (CC&B) business processes.
CA Automic Service Orchestration. Deliver the IT Services your users, applications and
• All CC&B jobs and job streams can be
infrastructure need, when they need it
quickly imported.
• Job streams can be simply modified CA Automic Workload Automation. Deliver the fully automated enterprise with
in the drag-and-drop GUI to meet the intelligent business automation.
specific needs of your organization.
Automate Business Processes
Spanning Multiple Applications
The CC&B scheduler cannot handle
FTPs, instead requiring the FTPs to be
run manually or executed using scripts,
increasing the potential for error. But even
the simplest Oracle Utilities process needs
to encompass multiple technologies. CA
Automic for Oracle Utilities automates
all of the following steps, providing a
complete solution:
1. FTP the meter read and payment files
to the CC&B system.
2. Start processing upon receipt of the
incoming meter read and payment files.
3. Load the data.
4. Process the data.
5. Extract the bill print extract file.
6. FTP the bill print extract file to your
outsourced print vendor.
The end result is faster, more reliable
processing without the need for significant
development effort or operator training,
and exceptional levels of service to both
internal and external customers.
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