document: HEW selects network management software For more than 100 years , Hamburgische Electricitats-Werke AG -LRB- HEW -RRB- has provided a reliable electricity service to the city of Hamburg , Germany . Today , the company supplies electricity to some 1.7 million inhabitants via 285000 connections . During 1999 , the year the energy market was started in Germany , HEW needed to operate and maintain a safe and reliable network cheaply . The development and implementation of a distribution management system -LRB- DMS -RRB- is key to the success of HEW . HEW 's strategy was to obtain efficient new software for network management that also offered a good platform for future applications . Following a pilot and prequalification phase , HEW invited several companies to process the requirements catalog and to submit a detailed tender . The network information management system , Xpower , developed by Tekla Oyj , successfully passed HEW 's test program and satisfied all the performance and system capacity requirements . The system met all HEW 's conditions by presenting the reality of a network with the attributes of the operating resources . Xpower platform provides the ability to integrate future applications
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extractive_keyphrases: hamburg germany distribution management system network management software xpower tekla oyj
abstractive_keyphrases: hamburgische electricitats-werke