XMtrade® is a multiutility system for trading and managing of various types of energy (electricity, heat, gas, water and also with emissions and waste).

  • Allows communication at registration of daily diagrams, allocation of cross border capacities and exchange of metered data.
  • Covers a broad spectrum of functions for various commodities; starting with scheduling of offtake and delivery, through processing of measured data, allocation of costs, billing, up to risk management and technical controlling.
  • Is appropriate for energy traders, suppliers, local distributors, energy wholesale customers, as well as for independent energy producers. The solution is conformed to company’s processes, not vice versa.
  • Optimizes management of flow of power, data and finance. Implementation of the system makes cashflow transparent, significantly contributes to rationalization of energy management and increases productivity of company’s business processes.
  • Allows utilization of liberalized power market opportunities to achieve economic assets. System is permanently upgraded in accordance with up to date state of the market liberalisation.
  • Is a solution for Slovak and Czech energy market.

 
XMtrade® functionalities
 


Contracts

  • management of business partners,
  • management of bilateral contracts,
  • management of energetic products,
  • generation of EFET contracts,
  • managerial information about contracts.
Registration of daily diagrams
  • generation of daily diagrams according to contracts,
  • registration of daily diagrams,
  • intraday registration of diagrams,
  • handling with the ACK, AR and CR notifications,
  • support for optional 7–day registration.
Cross border capacities
  • allocation of cross border capacities,
  • preparation of realisation diagrams.
Management of balancing groups
  • customer management,
  • management of agreements and agreement partners,
  • generation of agreements,
  • management of offtake points,
  • management of product pricelist,
  • generation of payment schedules,
  • electronical communication with distribution system operators (DSO).
Management of metered data
  • importing of metered data from automatized systems of data acquisition,
  • importing of metered data from DSO,
  • aggregation of metered data,
  • visualization of metered data,
  • support of offtake model diagram.
Offtake and supply planning
  • management of scenarios of offtake,
  • generating of scenarios,
  • predication and planning of offtake and supply,
  • generating requests for buying and selling.
Optimization
  • transformation of offtake prediction diagram to a combination of standard products available in the market,
  • support for various optimization criteria (minimizing final price, maximizing of area covered by diagram, minimizing of excessive/insufficient buying),
  • support for limits, fixed to individual products, for whole range as well as individual hours,
  • considering the average price of deviation into pricing of the excessive and insufficient energy,
  • unlimited and transparent creation of new products.
Costs allocation
  • import of e-invoices for distribution,
  • allocation of costs for distribution services,
  • allocation of costs for energy supply,
  • allocation of costs into costs centres.
Billing
  • billing for energy supply,
  • billing for distribution services,
  • invoice for the sale of energy,
  • billing for services, connected with energy supply,
  • sending e-invoices,
  • export of receivable invoices to accounting and banking systems,
  • administration of invoices – paid, unpaid, overpayments, underpayments,
  • generation of reminders.
Finance
  • automated import of exchange rate,
  • import of statements from bank accounts,
  • automatic matching of payments,
  • monitoring financial discipline of the subjects,
  • import of payments from MultiCash electronic banking system.
Complaints
  • complex support for complaint settlement,
  • evidence of complaints.
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XMtrade® characteristics
 


Comprehensiveness

Comprehensive support of trading and management of all types of energy.


Compatibility

Full compatibility with Slovak, Czech and EU legislation. Continuous update according to varying legislation. Support of ETSO standards for electronic data exchange.


Design adaptability

Modeling of trading and business processes and parameters according to customer’s needs. Scalability of commodity portfolio. Configurable templates, distribution rates, management of users.


Modularity

Selection of system modules according to implementation character.


Universality

Allows continuously extend the data structures and update application functions according to customers requirements.


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System characteristics
 


Independence of application layers

At the level of basic tools (database, office programs) uses generally widespread tools by world’s top software manufacturers/producers (Oracle, Microsoft).


Integrated database

All information is stored in the central database. Using of standard RDBMS (Oracle) ensures safety of user's data, brings strong tools for protecting, archiving and system integration with other applications.


Security

Support of emerging security standards, electronic signature and cryptography. Managed and controlled access to functions and data.


Openness

Easy integration with surrounding systems and automated data exchange support.


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Operating conditions
 


DB Server:

  • OS Windows Server 2003
  • Oracle 10g
  • 2x CPU 3 GHz
  • RAM 4 GB
  • HDD at least 20 GB
Client:
  • OS Windows XP
  • Microsoft .NET 1.1 and 3.5
  • Oracle 9i
  • Microsoft Office 2003
  • CPU 3 GHz
  • RAM 1 GB
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