The Ultimate Experience and Forum for Milsoft Users! Milsoft Utility Solutions is proud to announce our 2010 Users Conference to be held June 8th through June 10th, 2010, at the Renaissance Hotel in the heart of beautiful downtown Nashville, Tennessee! As always, we encourage and welcome your attendance at this premier event.

Becoming PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliant is the responsibility of the utility and is accomplished by completing a Security Standard Self-Assessment Questionnaire, which is a validation tool intended to assist merchants and service providers in self-evaluating their compliance with the PCI Council. During this Webinar, we will cover the details of what constitutes being PCI compliant, and PA-DSS (Payment Application Data Security Standard) validated, and what steps your organization should take in order to become compliant.

SageQuest announces that its Mobile Control GPS vehicle management solution has achieved MultiSpeak® certification for interoperability with Milsoft Utility Solutions’ DisSPatch outage management system (OMS) on MultiSpeak® Version 4. By integrating Mobile Control with DisSPatch OMS from Milsoft, both companies have taken information critical to each of their customers and combined it to deepen analysis they deliver independently. Utilities can now efficiently prioritize crews to outage locations expediting restoration of service to their customers.

Milsoft is seeking an experienced Enterprise Application Architect/Software Engineer to work on our Core Engineering and Operations server software.  Position is based in Abilene, Texas. Candidate must possess skills and experience in designing and developing SOA/ESB server software; strong understanding of network security and architecture; ability to provide technical leadership and play a pivotal role in the implementation and development of our software. 

Electric utilities have till now used proprietary, closed telecommunications systems for communications with their AMR devices.  The Smart Grid and Smart Meters will ultimately require open, industry standard Internet Protocol (IP).  If you are contemplating Smart Meter deployment, you should choose a packet switched, IP telecommunications system, not a proprietary, circuit switched one.

The qualified candidate will maintain and update support documentation, plan, test, and deploy application upgrades/fixes/patches and be available for travel to customer sites to install or train software. 

The qualified candidate will be able to maintain and troubleshoot operations of mission critical call processing hardware and software applications in a 24x7 support environment. The qualified candidate will maintain and update support documentation, plan, test and deploy application upgrades/fixes/patches and be available for travel to customer sites to install or repair custom hardware/software. 

Minimum 3 years experience in commercial software with Java development experience. Knowledge of web development, MSSQL, and XML is highly preferred. Education minimum: B.S. Computer Science degree. Successful candidate will be highly motivated, a self starter, and team oriented. This is not an entry level position. If you want to join a growing company that genuinely cares about its customers and employees, and ARE HIGHLY QUALIFIED, please send your qualifications to: hr@milsoft.com or fax your resume to 325.690.0338, Attention: HR. NO direct calls please.

SmartGridMan will be attending and presenting at this landmark conference on renewable energy for the electric cooperative market.  Hosted by the Minnesota Rural Electric Association and Dorsey and Whitney LLP, the two-day conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota is intended to inform renewable energy developers on the electric cooperative market.  National leaders and experts on renewable energy, Smart Grid and rural electric cooperatives will be presenting at the conference, including yours truly, SmartGridMan.

Milsoft is proud to announce the formation of the DisSPatch Mutual Assistance Network (DMAN) for our DisSPatch OMS customers.  DMAN provides a platform for our OMS users to join a coalition which provides access to experienced dispatchers who might be available to assist each other during times when power service is disrupted.

Milsoft Utility Solutions, Inc. Milsoft Utility Solutions and Clevest Solutions Inc., leading providers of real time service, incident response systems and mobile workforce management solutions, have successfully collaborated in passing the latest MultiSpeak® Version 3 interoperability test and are the first companies to pass the Version 4 test! This testing is just another example of Milsoft’s renowned commitment to complete and open integration with complementary products, and partners, using the MultiSpeak® platform to drive the interoperability process.

Milsoft Utility Solutions, an industry leader in engineering analysis, outage management, interactive voice response, geospatial information systems and field engineering solutions, announced today that it has successfully interfaced its PORCHE Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system with Exceleron Software’s Pre-paid Account Management System (PAMS.) Deployed at Central Electric Membership Corporation in Sanford, North Carolina, customers who elect (or are required) to use pre-paid as a payment method can also now utilize the automated PORCHE IVR system to retrieve account balances and make payments using credit cards or e-checks.