Manage and Resolve Outages
An Outage Management System Designed for Everyday Utility Operations
The DataVoice Outage Management System (OMS) is an intuitive platform designed for modern utility operations. Built for electric, water, gas, and broadband utilities, it helps operations teams detect, manage, and restore outages with real-time visibility while keeping customers informed throughout the restoration process.
Trusted by utilities for more than 30 years, the DataVoice OMS supports more than 3.3 million utility meters across 78 utility organizations representing seven utility service types.
Built Around Utility Operations
The DataVoice Outage Management System (OMS) gives utility operations teams a centralized, real-time view of every outage. From the first outage report through service restoration, the DataVoice OMS helps utilities monitor system conditions, coordinate response efforts, and keep customers informed throughout the restoration process.
The DataVoice OMS integrates with customer information systems (CIS), advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), geographic information systems (GIS), SCADA, and other critical utility systems to provide a complete operational view of every outage. Mobile workforce capabilities extend that visibility to field crews, enabling timely updates from the field.
Today's utility customers expect timely, accurate communication throughout every outage. The DataVoice OMS helps utilities meet those expectations by providing multiple ways for customers to report outages and receive status updates through IVR, text messaging, mobile applications, and your utility's website.
The DataVoice OMS captures detailed outage information that supports operational analysis, regulatory reporting, and storm recovery efforts. Historical outage data helps utilities identify recurring problem areas, improve planning, support FEMA documentation, reduce unnecessary operational costs, and continuously improve service reliability and customer satisfaction.
Systems Integration
CIS/FIS
The DataVoice OMS integrates with the CIS and or the FIS for the up to date customer information. This allows the customer’s key contact information to be part of the outage for quick communication. The FIS data integration allows a customer that was disconnected for non-payment to not be able to report an outage, but be directed to the appropriate solution.
Meters
The DataVoice OMS integrates with numerous different metering (AMI) systems. Utilities can assess meter status at individual service locations or down-line from a specific device. In some case, staff can get access to blink analysis, tamper detection, and other real-time AMI data without ever leaving the OMS.
SCADA
The DataVoice OMS offers several different options for integrating with SCADA. When SCADA indicates a device has locked open, it can result in an immediate outage in OMS. In certain case, OMS can even track switching changes as they happen in SCADA or a distribution management system (DMS).
Vehicles
The DataVoice OMS can provide direct access to vehicle location data from different AVL systems. This allows staff to identify the closest crew so they can minimize response time and improve customer service.
Mapping Integration
One of the most essential integrations for a full-fledged OMS is the integration to mapping or GIS. DataVoice can help utilities translate their GIS or CAD data into meaningful maps available to the entire utility, both online and offline.
GIS Publisher
The DataVoice GIS Publisher taps into the utility’s mapping data and extracts the information essential for outage management. Publisher integrates with common GIS tools including ESRI, CAD, and various engineering analysis tools.
Training and Disaster Recovery
Daily Backup and Training System
Just as the name suggests, the daily backup and training system makes a copy of the live OMS each day. While it doubles as a backup system, users can also use it to run scenarios and practice using the system. They can even use a module called Outage Replay to reenact past events.
Replicated Backup
For utilities that want a more robust disaster recovery option, the replicated backup is a secondary OMS system that sits in the background. Its database is continuously updated to match the production system, and it stands ready to go live as soon as it is needed.
Continuous System Monitoring
DataVoice monitors all OMS systems automatically. In many cases, we can detect hardware and software issues and intervene before it becomes a larger problem. DataVoice support is available 24/7.

