What is Core E&O?

Milsoft’s Core E&O system is an information driven system that incorporates the utility’s actual electric distribution network through a circuit model server.

Each electric utility has a mission: to provide its customers with economical and reliable electric energy service.  To help carry out this mission utility employees use a variety of software applications.  This creates challenges since not all software applications are integrated or even interoperable.  As a result, additional effort and time are required to communicate data between and among the applications.

Milsoft’s vision is to provide you with the very best software and support to help you accomplish your mission.  We know that you want to use software to get your work done and not have to struggle with interoperability and data management. We developed the Milsoft Core E&O system for this purpose; to allow your team to focus on its real work and not on getting your software and data to work together.
 
View a copy of the Milsoft Core E&O Diagram
 
View our Core E&O Brochure
 
View the Core E&O Release Document
 
How Does Core E&O Work?
Milsoft’s Core E&O system is an information driven system that incorporates the utility’s actual electric distribution network through a circuit model server.  The system includes project management tools for convenient data management. Third party applications data is made available to all applications and to your entire team via an integration server.
 
Circuit Model Server
Within Core E&O, all of Milsoft’s software applications share the detailed, as-built, as-energized electric utility distribution system network model and data through a circuit model server:
  • Geographic Information System (GIS),
  • Engineering Analysis (EA),
  • Outage Management System (OMS),
  • Field Engineering (FE), and
  • Communications (IVR)

Integration Server

Data from third party applications (e.g., CIS, AMR, SCADA, AVL) is integrated and made available through an integration server which includes the capability for industry standard data exchange formats like MultiSpeak.

 
Open Platform API
An applications programming interface enables third party applications to integrate directly into the Core E&O system.
 
Communications (IVR) Server
Milsoft Communications (formerly known as Milsoft IVR) operates on a separate server which is integrated into the Core E&O system.
 
Project Management
Project Management (PM) tools enable all team members throughout your utility to create and use their own versions of the network and associated data as necessary for their job responsibilities.  For example:
  • Engineering
  1. additions / modifications for system planning
  2. additions / modifications for design
  3. and construction of new facilities
  • Operations
  1.     configuration changes for potential or actual sectionalizing
  2.     configuration changes to for post storm / disaster circumstances
  • Mapping
  1.     as planned
  2.     as constructed
  3.     as energized
  4.     historical configurations archive

 

Your team can conveniently update the master electric distribution system network model subject to your utility’s business rules and processes, for review and approval. Updates then are automatically incorporated for every application and data base through Core E&O’s Circuit Model Server.
 
Data Bus
All of the data from Milsoft’s internal applications and from external third party applications is available to your team and applications based on user and application credentials.  This is represented for convenience in the diagram as a single data bus.  Milsoft’s Core E&O system will continue to add functionality to the data bus.
 
Benefits of Core E&O
  • Milsoft’s Core E&O system makes it possible for your teams to share information among third party and other Milsoft applications to assist your engineering and operations teams in providing the best possible service to your customers.
  • A key component of Milsoft’s Core E&O system is our Integration Server which allows Milsoft to provide data interfaces to 3rd party as well as Milsoft applications.  Milsoft has led the way with our support of MultiSpeak and approach to no-holds-barred integration.
  • Project Management is a key component of Milsoft’s Core E&O system. There are several operational teams inside your utility that need to work on    projects concurrently. From Field Engineering to Outage Management, simultaneous access to data is mission critical. Keeping track of who is    working on what in the system, is vital to all operational teams. The Core E&O systems project management capability ties together key operational functions within your utility.
  • The Milsoft Core E&O system ensures that the performance of the applications and data management is limited only by the capacity of the server and network infrastructure installed to support the Core E&O system.
  • Your team, from one end of your operation to the other, can use the same software system, the same network model, the same data.  Cross team collaboration is the goal.