Consulting
We are committed to embed our metering solutions perfectly into your meter reading processes.
Many years of experience qualify our consulting team to offer support for all questions around automatic meter reading and mobile meter reading.
The successful support of our consulting team led to several optimized systems of our customers. A large number of satisfied customers relies on our services.
We offer you help and advice ...
- ... for application analysis and application adjustment
- ... for system design
- ... with a system analysis during running operation
- ... for system customization
... for application analysis and application adjustment
- Together with you we analyze your existing application and give you advice on portraying your company-individual processes.
- We provide different possibilities for the optimization of your process flows in the field of communication settings and communication workload, organization of master data (meter administration, metering point assignment, cyclic synchronization of master data between different systems, etc.), daily reading control, processing of non-plausible values and data gaps, data transmission.
- Together with you we test and select a conversion to a drawn up solution.
... for system design
- We analyze your ZFA-F environment
- reading of used / planned metering points
- recommendation for communication set-up (type, grouping of servers, type and number of the central system modem
- We make recommendations for the operation of the central system
- selection of the hardware architecture and equipment depending on the ZFA environment for the database, automatic client(s) and operating clients (e.g. terminal server environment or internet environment)
- We plan your backup / restore concept and therefore guarantee data security
- only for the database
- for the total ZFA infrastructure, i.e. COM-F, automatic clients, network
- We document your ZFA system
... with a system analysis during running operation
- We support you in problematic case / fault scenario:
- analysis of the database using tools (ITF, Oracle, others)
- analysis of the communication formation
- We search for low-performances:
- analysis of the response time with focus
- database (optimizer, memory requirement, hardware),
- network (topology, network trace),
- installed components (ODBC versions, database versions, client hardware)
... for system customization
- We optimize your system performance by
- adjusting optimizers
- recommendations concerning infrastructure
- We equip your system with check mechanisms
- automatic database check
- automatic sending of Oracle reports and Alert-File
- We execute a backup / recovery test for your system
- only for the database
- complete ZFA infrastructure, i.e. COM-F, automatic clients, network, database
Procedure
We use the following flowchart to coordinate a consulting service:
Please do not hesitate to contact us!