There are various ways in which cases can be modified either based on planned outages or based on real-time system conditions. It is assumed in this paper that basecases for planned outages studies are either provided by the user or provided through an automated process that builds cases with planned outages and load forecasts. The development of basecases with real-time system conditions data was built as a separate module as shown in Fig. 3. Real-Time cases can also be provided through EMS. However, mapping real-time system to operations planning cases can reduce gaps between operational planning assumptions and problems observed during real-time system conditions.