04 — Product · PR-550
Oracle Utilities Network Management System
Control-room software for electric distribution utilities: an operations network model built from GIS, outage management with call handling and storm estimates, switching with safety documents, and distribution management options such as power flow, fault isolation and restoration, Volt/VAR optimization, SCADA and DER management. Licensed as outage and distribution management suites with options.
// FIG. 04 · Capability coverage
Each tile is an L1; the bar is how many of this product's capabilities realize something beneath it. Our judgment, not a vendor claim.
Direct & Govern
Finance
People & Workplace
Customer & Market
Products & Services
Operations & Supply
Technology & Data
Resilience & Responsibility
Industry L1s
- Plant Operations0
- Production Planning & Scheduling0
- Manufacturing Quality & Compliance0
- Industrial Engineering & Continuous Improvement0
- Plant & Process Safety0
- Dealer & Distributor Network0
- Aftermarket & Service Parts0
- Platform Engineering0
- Software Product Release0
- Site Reliability0
- Developer Experience & API Ecosystem0
- Subscription & Tenant Operations0
- Product Analytics & Experimentation0
- Trust & Compliance Assurance0
- Open Source & Community0
- Merchandising & Assortment0
- Store Operations0
- E-commerce & Omnichannel0
- Category & Trade Promotion0
- Loss Prevention0
- Consumer Insights0
- Store Network & Real Estate0
- Returns & Reverse Logistics0
- Network Planning & Engineering0
- Network Build & Field Operations0
- Network Operations & Assurance0
- Subscriber Order & Activation0
- Usage Charging & Subscriber Billing0
- Content & Programming0
- Advertising Sales & Operations0
- Communications Regulatory Obligations0
- Network Planning & Investment0
- Network Construction & Field Work0
- Network Operations & Control21
- Generation & Treatment Operations0
- Metering & Meter Data0
- Utility Customer Service & Billing0
- Energy Supply, Markets & Flexibility0
- Utility Regulation & Resilience3
- Transmission System Operations0
Product capabilities · 11
How to read maturity and confidence
Maturity · how much it covers
- core
- What the product is built around; the capability is covered end to end.
- strong
- Covered well, with a few gaps a buyer would notice.
- partial
- Covers part of the capability; expect to pair it with something else.
- emerging
- New or thin; on the roadmap more than in the product.
Confidence · how well it is evidenced
- Evidence confidence: high
- The vendor's own documentation describes this module doing it.
- Evidence confidence: medium
- Documented, but how far it reaches into the capability is our reading.
- Evidence confidence: low
- Our judgment; we found no public page that confirms it.
- PC-550.10
Operations Model and Model Management
Evidence confidence: highMaturity: coreBuilds and updates the operational network model from GIS extracts and shows the network as switched, including temporary changes, for every other module to use.
Vendor page: docs.oracle.com/en/industries/energy-water/network-management-system/251200/nms-licensing-info-user-manual/NMS_LICENSING_251200/NMS_Licensing_Information.2.2.html ↗ - PC-550.20
Outage Management (Web Trouble)
Evidence confidence: highMaturity: coreGroups customer calls, meter and device signals into outage events, predicts the device that operated, tracks crews and restoration times, and records customer-level outage durations and causes.
- BC-1530.20.10Outage Detection & Prediction
- BC-1530.20.20Outage Crew Coordination
- BC-1530.20.30Estimated Restoration Times
- BC-1530.20.40Reliability Interruption Records
- PC-550.30
Outage Management Call Center
Evidence confidence: mediumMaturity: strongTakes customer trouble calls, answers outage status queries and tracks callbacks to customers once supply is restored.
- PC-550.40
Storm Management
Evidence confidence: mediumMaturity: strongEstimates when assessment and restoration will be complete by network area during a major event, and forecasts how added crews change those estimates.
Vendor page: docs.oracle.com/en/industries/energy-water/network-management-system/2601/nms-users-guide/NMS/07_Storm_Management.08.4.html ↗ - PC-550.50
Web Switching Management
Evidence confidence: highMaturity: coreBuilds, checks, approves and executes planned and emergency switching sheets step by step, with the safety documents that protect crews.
- BC-1530.30.10Switching Program Preparation
- BC-1530.30.20Switching Execution & Confirmation
- BC-1530.30.30Safety Clearance Issuance
- PC-550.60
Fault Location, Isolation and Service Restoration
Evidence confidence: highMaturity: strongUses SCADA triggers to find the protective device that cleared a fault, isolate the faulted section and restore healthy sections from alternate supplies.
Vendor page: docs.oracle.com/en/industries/energy-water/network-management-system/2601/nms-users-guide/NMS/19_FLISR.20.11.html ↗ - PC-550.70
Volt/VAr Optimization
Evidence confidence: highMaturity: strongRecommends tap, regulator, capacitor and DER settings to operators to meet a goal such as lower losses or conservation voltage reduction.
Vendor page: docs.oracle.com/en/industries/energy-water/network-management-system/251200/nms-licensing-info-user-manual/NMS_LICENSING_251200/NMS_Licensing_Information.2.2.html ↗ - PC-550.80
Power Flow and Advanced Feeder Management
Evidence confidence: mediumMaturity: strongUnbalanced power flow for operator decisions, feeder load forecasts and overload watch, and suggested switching, including for load shed events.
- BC-1530.10.30Voltage & Loading Control
- BC-1530.10.60Emergency Load Shedding
- BC-1530.30.10Switching Program Preparation
- PC-550.90
Flex SCADA and SCADA Interface
Evidence confidence: highMaturity: strongDistribution SCADA with alarms and controls, or an interface that brings an external SCADA's measurements and alarms into the operator's view.
Vendor page: docs.oracle.com/en/industries/energy-water/network-management-system/251200/nms-licensing-info-user-manual/NMS_LICENSING_251200/NMS_Licensing_Information.2.2.html ↗ - PC-550.95
Operations Mobile Application
Evidence confidence: mediumMaturity: strongField app for crews to receive work, update status, report damage and blocked roads, and respond to switching steps.
- PC-550.97
Grid DERMS and Edge DERMS
Evidence confidence: mediumMaturity: partialDispatches distributed energy resources through optimized plans, allocates network capacity to them, and controls aggregator-managed resources behind the meter.
Vendor page: docs.oracle.com/en/industries/energy-water/network-management-system/251200/nms-licensing-info-user-manual/NMS_LICENSING_251200/NMS_Licensing_Information.2.2.html ↗
Sources · checked
The public vendor documentation this mapping is based on. Maturity and confidence are our judgment, not the vendor's claim.
- Utilities Network Management System | Oracle oracle.com/utilities/network-management-system
- Product Descriptions (Network Management System Licensing User Manual) docs.oracle.com/en/industries/energy-water/network-management-system/251200/nms-licensing-info-user-manual/NMS_LICENSING_251200/NMS_Licensing_Information.2.2.html
- Oracle Utilities Network Management System - Get Started docs.oracle.com/en/industries/energy-water/network-management-system/index.html