Enterprise data environment
This paper will report the progress of M3i`s evaluation of the communication challenges facing their client base and offer evidence that the puzzle is about to be solved. This paper will introduce the Enterprise Data Environment. In order to create a basis for Enterprise Data Environment (EDE), the fundamental data bases created and maintained by an average electrical utility must be discussed. The AM/FM industry began almost 30 years ago while the first {open_quotes}fast-pencil{close_quotes} system dates back to the 1960`s. The industry, which has undergone a series of transitions and name changes over the years, had its beginning as Computer Aided Drafting (CAD). As the name suggests, the technology drew lines and circles and was a tool for a draftsperson. One extension to CAD was Computer Assisted Mapping (CAD/CAM). This extension to CAD led to the creation of maps and was the technology renamed Automated Mapping (AM). One of the reasons for the name change was CAM also stood for Computer Aided Manufacturing. When data bases became more robust and popular (in the 1970`s), the natural extension to CAM (Computer Assisted Mapping) was to add a data base of the structures and facilities represented on the maps. Since data bases are managed, the technology was logically called Facilities Management (FM). Hence, Automated Mapping/Facilities Management or AM/FM. It is also called Geographic Information Systems or GIS. The main problem with AM/FM is that the data bases are created, maintained and updated by draftspersons from the AM perspective. Traditionally, these data bases have been as much as six months out-of-date. Because a utility relies on up-to-date data, it might be wondered how any work was achieved with AM/FM.
- OSTI ID:
- 192142
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-940129-; TRN: 96:001037-0081
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: International symposium on distribution, automation and demand-side management, Orlando, FL (United States), 17-20 Jan 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of Fourth international symposium on distribution automation and demand side management (DA/DSM 94); PB: 747 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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