Aclara MDMS
Delivering power, flexibility, and scalability for all Aclara Software solutions
The power of Aclara Software applications begin with an Oracle-based data repository underlying all application modules. Aclara MDMS performs the critical functions of data integration, validation, estimation and editing (VEE) and data storage and management. Aclara MDMS has an open, accessible, and versatile architecture, maintains a complete audit trail, and leverages Oracle to provide exceptional data management and transactional performance for even the largest applications.
Aclara MDMS can be configured to pull in, normalize, validate, and store data from any number of systems, including CIS, SCADA, GIS, load research, load schedule systems, weather, and other legacy and middleware systems, creating a central data repository.
Key aspects:
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- Flexible Data Management - Data configuration is extremely flexible; there are no proprietary data storage structures and business users can readily establish the appropriate data structure with no programming. The data architecture is readily configurable and is designed to store virtually any data entity and an unlimited number of user-defined characteristics for each data entity.
- Efficient Data Structure - Leveraging a Star-schema data structure and "wide storage", Aclara MDMS Data is optimized to handle large volumes of interval data in an efficient manner. The system is currently supporting the largest AMI deployment in North America with 1.4M hourly meters.
- Powerful Validation, Estimation and Editing - An extremely efficient VEE engine addresses the most common validation routines, while a powerful Logic Builder allows the business user to configure any custom rules without programming.
- Comprehensive Audit Trail Capability - For every action involving the addition, deletion, or processing of data, the system records the date, time, and user ID. All input data and superseded calculations, scenarios, results, and configuration settings are time-stamped and saved - no data is ever lost or overwritten. This feature allows users to reproduce historical application computations.
- Flexible Billing Determinant Calculations – Turning AMI data into billing values support the entire meter to cash process. With the powerful Logic Builder as the backbone for the computations, rates of any complexity can be computed.
