Smallworld* Geospatial Software Integration With Oracle® Applications

GE's Smallworld geospatial software suite, designed specifically to manage network facilities, offers flexible and effective solutions for integrating with Oracle products. Oracle application-based organizations can maximize their Oracle investment and realize the benefits of GE powerful network solution for effective, complete, and lower-cost management of their data and facility assets.

GE's seamless integration strategy with Oracle provides key benefits to the network, the utility industry and other customers:
  • Lower cost of ownership through supported, integrated industry applications
  • One-point of access to all spatial and tabular enterprise data
  • Compliance to mandated "100% Oracle Solution" enterprise database
  • Compatibility with Oracle 9i and Oracle 10g

GE Oracle Solution Suite

GE's Geospatial Oracle solution set consists of five modules that can be used individually or in various combinations:

Oracle Spatial SOM: Allows Oracle Spatial data to be used as if it were native Smallworld data, enabling view, edit, insertion, update and deletion of Oracle Spatial data from the Smallworld environment. Allows combined modeling of Smallworld and Oracle Spatial data.

Oracle Interface: Allows view and analysis of Oracle data tables within the Smallworld session.

Oracle Workspace Manager (OWM) SOM: Enables multiple, concurrent views of an entire database for large numbers of users - enabling the long transaction cycle in Oracle.

InSync: Publishes attribute and spatial data from the Smallworld environment for access by the organizations' other Oracle based applications and conversely allows changes in Oracle to be reflected in the Smallworld application.

Repository: Allows the entire Smallworld solution to be embedded in Oracle for database management, backup, and machine maximization while preserving access to Smallworld software's powerful network tracing, support for internal worlds, and long transaction functionality.

Figure 2. The combination of Oracle tools from GE can be deployed to reach 100% Oracle database utilization.

Additional Benefits for the Network Utility Enterprise

The solutions provided for Oracle applications by GE can enable your organization to:
  • Propogate changes, save time and reduce errors with one-time data edit or entry through GE products (in the field or office) through a centralized Oracle database, and out to financial, work management, customer information, and other corporate systems
  • Reduce IT labor by implementing Smallworld Repository on Oracle, allowing the Smallworld and Oracle databases to be administered simultaneously
  • Achieve improved system performance of spatial analysis applications with the carefully balanced client-server architecture that optimizes data storage and analysis
  • Provide a current, seamless, and consistent database environment to department based applications across the enterprise
For more information on our solutions, GE provides the following additional documents:

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