SCANA, Xcel Energy, Southern Company and Pepco Holdings, have just completed upgrades to their operational support systems to a newer version of Oracle Utilities Network Management System. The continued investments demonstrate Oracle Utilities' commitment to providing Outage Management and Advanced Distribution Management solutions for utilities. Oracle Utilities Network Management System links smart grid operations and business processes together, providing storm proven outage management and key distribution management functions that help utilities improve operational excellence and provide critical customer communications.