To exercise its statutory duties and the fulfillment of its institutional mission, ONS developed a series of studies and actions to be performed on the system and its agents which involves the intensive use of information processing relying heavily on the use of IT.

The main results of the actions undertaken by corporative IT in 2012 include:

• Implementation of Cloud Computing Tool

The successful experience with the pilot project adopted in Newave signals new technological levels for the electricity sector, with positive impacts in other mathematical models. Cloud Computing is a tool that enables access to programs, services, and files, as well as the processing of large volumes of data remotely, through an Internet provider. This concept is was adopted by corporate IT in its 2012 strategic plan focusing on Mathematical Models, Mobility, Electronics Collaboration, Backup and Restore, Business Intelligence and Recovery in Case of Disaster.

For Newave, in a case of Monthly Planning of Operation - PMO, showed a reduction of approximately 40% at run time. The expectation is that this project has a great impact in the form of intensive processing and mathematical models throughout the electric sector.

Further tests were conducted with the Community Atmospheric Model - CAM, developed by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in the USA. It is a climate model that needs high processing performance and plenty of disk space.

Models Organon and DECOMP are also being tested in the organization. The latter will be processed in a distributed environment in 2013, following the same path of Newave. A test case whose resolution time took 35 minutes in the computing environment had resolution time of 3 minutes when running in the cloud.

•    Application Systems Projects completed  

Throughout 2012, major projects and development actions of support systems to finalistic areas that contributed significantly to the management of data and information were completed, among which:

- Disturbances System Analysis Project - SPERT, which guarantees the improvement in quality of disturbances analysis process, treatment and receiving of oscilographic files.

- Load Forecast System for Energy Studies Project - SPCEE, which deals with the Implementation of Models for Data Treatment. It supports the improvement of the process and increases the quality of load forecasts.

- Exporter XML Common Information Model (CIM XML) Project, which ensures the integration and updating of data of the grid available in the Technical Database - BDT with the database source of REGER.

- Daily Production Scheduling System Integration - PDP to enable the functioning of the Supervision and Control SSC- REGER with current SSC routines and load limits through ETL processes for use in Real Time by REGER.

- Automation of the process of the thermal generation involving agents and ONS's Regional Centers, generating reliability gain and productivity.

- Compliance with Resolution no. 454 of ANEEL establishing criteria and conditions for the commercial operation of reinforcements and expansion of transmission facilities to be integrated into the BIPS, with impacts on ONS's processes and systems.

- Automation Integration between the Electric Power Commercialization Chamber and the Operator of the new Compensation and Settlement System- SCL.

- Review of the methodology of Project Management and ONS's first stage of implementation of the Management System Project EPM 2010 to improve project management systems development, as well as support to decision of project portfolio of Corporate IT.

- Completion of the first phase of ONS's System Development Methodology automation project, with the deployment of Microsoft Team Foundation, initiating actions to increase agility and improve the quality of development and maintenance of systems.

•     Advances in Information Security

Due to the strategic and critical aspect of Information Security for ONS, special attention was given to the preparation of the terms of the Policy for Use and Security of Information and Organization Associate Assets. In addition, a security device has been implemented (Web Application Firewall) that increases the level of protection of ONS web applications against cyber-attacks.

•     Advances in Infrastructure

In 2012, ONS completed the implementation of the new Service Desk system and the integration of modules Management and Monitoring of server infrastructure, system applications, local network and telecommunications links that allow the performance of proactively in the analysis, detection and repair of possible outages and performance degradation of the environment.