SOA and IT Integration Solution

In order to achieve more synergy across business lines, reduce software operations and maintenance costs, leverage transaction-level monitoring and management, and enable a more real-time business, BRIDGE clients are turning toward a service-oriented architecture strategy coupled with a message-oriented integration middleware.

The Bridge SOA/Integration Solution leverages the FAME™ Enterprise Methodology to deliver the following:

• Business model and business process review and analysis, use case definition and analysis
• As-state state definition and analysis of how business processes and events are supported by applications and systems, and how those applications are integrated to deliver the functionality and data required by the business.
• As-is state review of Enterprise and Integration Architecture
• Non-functional requirements definition for each key system/data flow (e.g. performance, security, fault tolerance, availability, RPO, RTO, etc.)
• Integration product evaluation against specific business and technology requirements
• Data modeling and standards analysis
• Integration Architecture Planning, Design and Roadmap definition
• Integration platform installation and proof of concept
• Integration Services Design, Development, and Testing
• System integration, test and implementation management for ISO and Utility Systems, including: Market and Energy Management Systems, Dispatch and Compliance Systems, Load Forecasting and Management, ICCP Systems, Customer Management, Credit and Risk Management, Outage Management, Meter Data Management, Plant Interface System, Settlements and Billing, Water Management, Demand Management

Smart Grid Integration

Application integration is a key to Smart Grid success. Smart Grid strategy calls for enterprise-level integration of applications and islands of data to improve information flow throughout the enterprise. The Smart Grid strategy must effectively leverage existing functionalities from numerous distribution, transmission, asset management and other enterprise systems including advanced metering infrastructures, meter data management systems, customer information systems, billing systems, outage management systems, geographic information systems, work management systems, energy and distribution automation management systems, SCADA, mobile workforce systems, supply chain management systems and other enterprise applications.

Real-time integration with single and consistent view of information and data throughout the organization provides for the development of new processes and capabilities such as Load Curtailment, Self Healing, Fault location detection and restoration, remote connect and disconnect, advance billing, time of usage and variable rate billing and other such demand management programs.