Starting 2017, the electric utility industry is gearing up to adopt a common data exchange format for sharing personnel information during outage events. This will make the process of exchanging supplemental staff information during an outage event: easier, more reliable, more accurate, and ultimately lead to process automation. Macrosoft has been consistently striving to promote common roster and our efforts are on to discuss the common template issues that will need to be addressed in order for utilities to adjust to this new innovation.