Oracle has announced the availability of the latest release of Oracle Business Intelligence for Utilities, a key component of the growing family of analytics products, which helps utilities access, organize and use the data they need to monitor activities, make decisions and meet organizational goals. This solution helps utilities leverage and gain visibility into the vast data influx from smart meter and smart grid deployments.

Oracle delivers Oracle Utilities Business Intelligence for Utilities as a separate, pre-built solution which includes extractors and schema that pull data from specific Oracle Utilities production applications; dashboards that display information on maps; and graphical dashboards that analyze and summarize information in charts, stoplights, top 10 lists, alerts and more.

Built on the comprehensive, industry-leading Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) platform, Oracle Business Intelligence for Utilities enables utilities to easily organize data from across the enterprise into reports, conduct ad hoc queries, in-depth analyses and deploy proactive notifications and alerts. Oracle Business Intelligence for Utilities delivers intelligence across maps, charts and mash-ups – graphics that make it easy to absorb complex data and to grasp relationships (i.e. between an outage event and its location). Utilities can use these near real-time visuals to improve decision-making and to update customers and first responders more quickly on situations like outage restoration.

Oracle is also releasing Oracle Utilities Advanced Spatial Outage Analytics and Oracle Utilities Outage Analytics. Designed to work with Oracle Utilities Network Management System, these modules help utilities glean intelligence from their outage and distribution management systems.

Oracle Utilities plans to release several new business intelligence modules to support its other mission-critical applications over the next year.