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Publication Service.
The cloud-based transparency data service 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 Service, Virtimo offers a comprehensive solution for compliance with all publication requirements for energy suppliers in the different market roles, such as network operators, traders and storage operators.
Ready-made modules allow for a quick implementation in your company while simultaneously fulfilling all legally required functions:
- SO GL [System Operation Guideline]
- UMM [Urgent Market Messages, different platforms]
- Crisis prevention portal gas
- Redispatch 2.0
- REMIT [ACER publication requirements]
- PDWS [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. capacities and nominations via AS2 or web service, and enables configuration of the respective publication details.
Crisis prevention Gas, ACER, ENTSOG, BNETZA, web: everything handled!
Flexibly extendable, easily connected, comfortable to handle.
In addition to the standardized processes, the Publication Service 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 backend systems based on its numerous integrated connectors.
Various functional modules are available to you within the Publication Services, enabling you to use them in a consistent and comfortable way.
The Publication Service is provided geo-redundantly in several data centers in an active/active configuration, making it a particularly robust and high-performance service for energy suppliers. We carry out updates and maintenance automatically and without downtime. In this way, we ensure continuously high performance without any restrictions for you in terms of usability.
The Publication Service is therefore the ideal solution for critical scenarios and also helps to reduce support costs, as we ensure smooth operation without interruptions.
MAXIMUM AVAILABILITY WITHOUT DOWNTIME.
REDISPATCH 2.0: COMPLEX REQUIREMENTS, ONE SIMPLE SOLUTION.
Comprehensive processes, numerous systems, additional master data – the requirements of Redispatch 2.0 in the electricity sector are particularly complex. Implementation is particularly simple with the Publication Service, which guarantees compliance with the communication requirements specified in Redispatch 2.0 for the market roles of DSO [distribution system operators] and OE [producers/direct marketers/operation executives].
The Publication Service for automated exchange according to Redispatch 2.0 offers comprehensive features:
- Technical communication Connect+ for the new data provider [DP] market role
- Acquisition, processing and display of asset master data and other master data as well as completion as DSO
- Recording and transmittal of measures and recalls
- Automated generation of technical receipts; allocation of incoming receipts
- Flexible connecting of internal systems based on configurable workflows
- Case-related routing of the Redispatch processes to your systems
- Interfaces for transferring master data and prognosis data as well as recalls
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Essential functions and modules at a glance!
Dashboard.
Where business process monitoring is part of everyday work, a convenient monitoring and control interface is an essential tool.
For this task, the Publication Service 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 BPC [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 details of the individual publication processes, for example to view all processes with the status “Warning” on the current day. 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 such as renewed processing can be initiated right in the Monitoring module.
Complementing the tabular view, the Publication Service’s Monitoring also includes an expanded analysis option – the detail view. Besides presenting detailed process information, the detail view offers 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.
In monitoring, it is also possible to start publication processes manually, e.g. to retrieve the capacity contracts of a certain period and transmit them to ACER, or to report an Urgent Market Message [UMM].
In addition to launching processes from the web interface, the Publication Service offers the option to initiate processes which include manually recorded data [hence without a retrieval of time series or contracts from the backend]. If [planned or unplanned] unavailability occurs, Urgent Market Messages can be published directly from the Publication Service using a form. For convenient and error-free creation, it is possible to use existing templates. The UMMs can then be published on various platforms [e.g. ENTSOG, EEX] or on your own website.
Optionally, data can also be provided on the basis of Excel templates. Initiation is done via Excel-integrated functions which transmit the data into the Publication Service’s publication processes.
Master Data.
The Publication Service 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 Service offers inheritance functions for transferring parameterizations at master data or network point level.
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 also enable content monitoring of the processes, the Publication Service contains another module, the Compliance Cockpit. 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 backend. This relieves the backends of data calls from the website and simultaneously guarantees high-performance data provision on the website.
You save yourself effort.
Standard service for compliance with all publication requirements [crisis prevention Gas, Redispatch 2.0, 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 backends!
You can sleep soundly.
Integrated data quality control!
We provide answers.
Your contact at Virtimo.
Dirk Breitkreuz
Board Member
Virtimo AG