Issue
There is a need for a single Compatibility Matrix that shows EBO, PME, Energy Expert and relevant software versions all in the same location.
Product Line
EcoStruxure Building Operation, Other
Environment
- EcoStruxure Energy Expert (formerly Power Manager)
- ETL tool
Cause
Energy Expert version compatibility information is currently available but is stored in many different places such as release notes and online documentation, rather than one single matrix.
Resolution
The full ETL for EBO compatibility matrix is shown in the following table.
| Energy Expert | PME | EBO | ETL | Integration Utility | .NET Framework |
| Power Manager 1.0 | 7.2.3 | 1.6.1 | 3 | 1.0.14304.2 | 4.5 |
| Power Manager 1.1 | 8 | 1.6.1 1.7.1 | 4.1 | 1.0.15306.1 | 4.5 |
| Power Manager 1.2 | 8.1 | 1.6.1 1.7.1 1.8.1 | 4.3 | 2.1.16081.1 | 4.6 |
| Power Manager 1.3 | 8.2 | 1.8.1 1.9.x | 4.6 | 2.2.17056.2 | 4.6 |
| Energy expert 2.0 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 3.0.18215.3 | 4.6 |
| Energy expert 3.0 | 2020 |
3.0 3.1 |
6 | 3.1.19319.1 | 4.6 |
| Not commercialized - (n/a) | 2021 | 3.2.3 | 6 | Integrated - (n/a) | 4.8 |
| Not commercialised - (n/a) | 2022 | 4.0.2/2022 | 6 | Integrated - (n/a) | 4.8 |
| Not commercialised - (n/a) | 2023 | 5.0/2023 | 6 | Integrated - (n/a) | 4.8 |
Great care must be taken when choosing the correct version of ETL to use when integrating Energy Expert and EBO, as there are actually two families of ETL in production. One ETL designed and tested for PME use only and ETL for EBO designed and tested with an EBO Extract Task specifically for integrating the two systems. (For example, a version of ETL 4.7 exists, but this is not ETL for EBO and therefore does NOT contain an EBO Extract Task, even though it is a valid version of ETL for the Power Community)
New
PME 2023 now offers EWS Client 1.2 which can be used to transfer data from EBO to PME instead of ETL. The merits for and against using this new EWS Client rather than ETL are discussed at length in the PME 2023 System Guide
