LADWP Systems

LADWP Systems

Ladwp ITS Databases
Jeffrey Miguel Buford
University Of Phoenix















The Department of Water and Power ITS division has it own data management section.

It is called the ITS Data Management Group. Its goals and vision are to manage the

Department’s assets, establish data policy/standards, establish the enterprise data

architecture, and provide data base administration support Enterprise/Distributed

Systems. The Data management Group provides information on the ITSWEB site as a

single communication   access to standardize the DWP database environment.

The Data Management Web site provides access to the following services:

Enterprise Software Distribution- This section describes Oracle software distribution

policy, methods and all available Oracle software versions.

Enterprise Metadata Repository-Describes DIP(Oracle directory integration platform)

database information from Oracle, DB2, and IMS databases and their objects if they are

available to ITS.   It is the first step in building a high quality inventory system for the

Department’s information assets.

Data Management Group*

Data Access*

Data Administration Guidelines*

Database Review*










DWP also has a substantial application infrastructure based upon Oracle technology.  

The corporate website, Siebel as well as many other enterprise applications utilize Oracle

Technology. The corporate website currently stores the user ids and passwords and one of

two roles in the underlying Oracle database tables for authentication.   The Corporate

Intranet site home page is ITSWeb2.   From there you can navigate to the different

departments and sections that have web pages. You can also access other departments

outside of the department, including the City of Los Angeles web site.

DWP utilizes Oracle in their   main customer databases. Currently   the department has

two applications in...