Small World implementation, integration and support

Smallworld Systems Integration Many utility IT experts view GIS as the foundation system to support business processes for design, outage management, inspections, and maintenance. Some go as far as saying that GIS is the “center of the universe”. Whatever your viewpoint, most of us can agree that GIS is most effective for managing network assets when properly integrated with other utility systems such as Customer Information System (CIS), Work Management System (WMS), and Work Force Management (WFM). GE Smallworld provides several mechanisms for systems integration including SOA Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) using Geospatial Server (GSS), Smallworld Application Server (SIAS), and traditional point-to-point interfaces. If your systems interface diagram looks like a bowl of spaghetti, or you are delaying systems upgrades for fear of changing something that works, call the experts at GeoSpatial Innovations for common-sense solutions to complex problems.

Smallworld SOA Enterprise Service Bus GE Smallworld Geospatial Server provides a foundation for a suite of SOA integration products providing geospatial and domain specific services to enterprise applications such as work management, asset management, and customer information systems for the Smallworld product portfolio including Smallworld Electric Office, Smallworld Gas Distribution Office, Smallworld Global Transmission Office, Smallworld Network Inventory, Smallworld Network Resource Manager (NRM) and Smallworld Design Manager.

Smallworld GeoSpatial Server

GSI developers use the Smallworld EAI Toolkit software to build enterprise application integration (EAI) connectors and adapters to EAI broker products such as Tibco, Vitria Technology Inc., SeeBeyond Technology Corporation and WebSphere® MQ (formerly MQSeries®) by IBM® using XML, messaging and Java™ interface.

Smallworld Internet Application Server (SIAS) Smallworld Internet Application Server (SIAS) can be used to make facility and land data available throughout the organization as a stand-alone application, or embedded in a legacy web-application. GSI has developed web-based call taking applications, and plotting and reporting applications all driven from the SIAS platform, deploying specialized tools to the enterprise without the need for localized software installations or maintenance.
Electric Analysis Integration GSI’s Smallworld Circuit Extractor provides a mechanism to export circuit data from the substation to the customer to common electric analysis tools including ABB FeederAll, MilSoft Windmil, Cyme, and SynerGee Electric. The Circuit Extractor can be easily configured to most data models within a few days. The application can be run in batch to periodically export files in MultiSpeak XML GIS-EA files to be loaded into the analysis engine, or inserted directly into the database.

GSI has also built real-time interfaces to SCADA or CIS data (such as Summer and Winter Peak KWH data) from Oracle 10g using a MultiSpeak XML Web Service. The configuration information is in the form of a standard URL and is persisted from session to session to allow users to retrieve the appropriate data and return it in standard XML format defined within the MultiSpeak interface specifications. The interface can also perform calculations of engineering formulas when it presents the results to the user.