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Publication Framework.
The transparency data solution for energy suppliers.
Providing transparency information is a central obligation for all energy suppliers. Various European and national supervisory committees set extensive requirements for the timely and complete provision of transparency data.
With the Publication Framework, Virtimo offers a comprehensive solution for compliance with all publication requirements for energy suppliers in the different market roles, such as network operators, market area directors, traders and storage operators.
Ready-made modules allow for a quick implementation in your company while simultaneously fulfilling all legally required functions:
- Crisis prevention
- REMIT [ACER publication requirements]
- Transparency including Urgent Market Messages [ENTSOG publication requirements]
- DVGW [BNetzA publication requirements]
- Web Publication [display on your website]
Each of these compliance modules contains the respectively relevant specific processes and technologies for the transmission of information, e.g. transmission of initial nominations via AS2, and enables configuration of the respective publication details.
Crisis prevention, ACER, ENTSOG, BNETZA, web: everything handled!
Flexibly extendable, easily connected, comfortable to handle.
Additionally, the Publication Framework is flexibly extendable in order to take on individual company-specific publication requirements, e.g. for reporting or for visualisation on the company website. It is easy to connect to many different back-end systems based on its numerous integrated adapters.
The Publication Framework contains various functional modules, each of which is available in all of the different compliance modules. This warrants consistent and comfortable handling.
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Essential functions and modules at a glance!
Dashboard.
Providing a convenient monitoring and control interface is one of the most important features in supporting business process monitoring for everyday use.
For this task, the Publication Framework contains dashboards which offer a quick overview of all processes and their statuses. The Dashboard and the respective monitoring functions have their technological basis in the Business Process Center, so that an integration of further functionalities can be provided on this basis – for example for market communication.
Monitoring.
Starting from the Dashboard, it is possible to drill down directly to the process details of the individual publication processes in order to gain a quick overview of particular processes, e.g. all processes with the status “Warning” today. The drill-down draws up the respective Monitoring view, in which numerous analysis options (display of publication information, display of data to be transferred) are available in addition to comprehensive search, filter and sorting features. In the event of errors or alerts, treatment (e.g. renewed processing) can be initiated right in the Monitoring module.
Complementing the tabular view, the Publication Framework’s Monitoring also includes an expanded analysis option – the detail view. Besides presenting detailed process information, the detail view offers particularly convenient options for displaying the reported data (e.g. in XML format, with highlighted syntax). The process detail view can be drawn up directly from the display of process information in Monitoring.
Another part of the Monitoring module is the integrated option to launch publication processes, e.g. to retrieve the capacity contracts of a certain period and transmit them to ACER, or to report an Urgent Market Message.
In addition to launching processes from the web interface, the Publication Framework offers the option to initiate processes which include manually recorded data (hence without a retrieval of time series or contracts from the back-end). This can be done on the basis of Excel templates which are directly provided by the Publication Framework for any process type. Initiation is done via Excel-integrated functions which transmit the data into the Publication Framework’s publication processes.
Master Data.
The Publication Framework contains its own module for the management of relevant master data for publication processes. This comprises client master data (e.g. EI code) as well as publication-relevant network nodes, including their configuration. Moreover, examination rules and their configuration are managed in the Master Data module. These are part of the business plausibility checks which are summarised and visualised in the Compliance Cockpit.
In order to minimise maintenance effort, the Publication Framework offers inheritance functions to transfer the same parameterisations directly to all linked master data.
Compliance Cockpit.
The Dashboard and Monitoring functions described pertain to the supervision of process execution.
They provide a very good overview of all launched publication processes and their current statuses. To enable content monitoring of the processes, the Publication Framework contains another cockpit, the Compliance module. This module presents the planned processes for each particular object and provides and overview of the current execution status.
The Compliance Cockpit thus enables supervision over the completeness and correctness of all processing. In addition, the Compliance Cockpit makes it possible to check the external processing status (e.g. of ENTSOG), compare it with internal processes and easily identify potential deviations.
Web publication.
The Web Publication module enables direct compliance with publication requirements on your own website. As a default component, is easy to integrate and contains all required interfaces and flexible configuration options for customisation according to your individual needs.
In addition, the Web Publication module contains integrated data storage, e.g. for temporarily storing retrieved data from the back-end. This relieves the back-ends of data calls from the website and simultaneously guarantees high-performance data provision on the website.
You save yourself effort.
Standard product for compliance with all publication requirements [crisis prevention, ACER, ENTSOG, BNetzA, web]!
You gain time.
Monitoring, interfaces, validation and error handling are included!
You spare your nerves.
Workflows for the connection of client-specific back-ends!
You can sleep soundly.
Integrated data quality control!
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Your contact at Virtimo.
Steffen Lehmann
Head of Sales
Virtimo AG