InfoPro: Power trading

Software product "INFOPRO: Power trading" — automated information system intended for data collection from the OREM infrastructure organizations and partners, planning of generation and electricity consumption, formation of the price request, display of financial calculations and the analysis of results of biddings.

Purpose of a product

The software product allows to increase efficiency in wholesale market of the electric power and power of Russia (OREM) due to high-quality formation of requests, efficiency of providing and information analysis about results of biddings and automation of tasks of the power trader.

The software product is intended for participants of OREM – suppliers of electrical energy and power, power supply companies.

2012: Specific Features. Architecture. Functionality

(Data are relevant for March, 2012)

Key advantages

High integration scale in business production processes * with INFOPRO: Planning of the modes o regarding optimal loading of the equipment o regarding calculation of the technical and economic indicators (TEI)

• with INFOPRO: Management of a MRO

o regarding data on an equipment operating time

• with INFOPRO: Ecology

o regarding calculation of penalties for fuel incomplete burning/overburning also it is sold

• with INFOPRO: Settlings with consumers

o regarding forecasting of a power consumption

Low total cost of ownership software product

• guaranty period of support – up to 12 months
• flexible price policy of manufacturing company
• possibility of lease of the software product
• Applied characteristics

Scalability

• increase in number of users of a system and/or change of an organization structure of the enterprise does not influence system performance

Documentation

• existence of a complete set of documentation on the software product, support of current status of documentation

Integration Integration with external systems:

• ERP systems (Microsoft, Oracle, SAP)
• INFOPRO: Settlings with consumers
• INFOPRO: Calculation of TEI
• INFOPRO: Maintenance and repair
• INFOPRO: Ecology

Modularity

• possibility of the choice of structure of the software product, priority of implementation of modules, possibility of substitution of the module a component substitute, with the subsequent integration in the software product

Reliability

• data protection from unauthorized access at storage and transfer. All change history of data remains in a system and can be used further for the analysis

Visualization

• the software product has big tool kit of data visualization and information (tables, diagrams, charts, etc.), instruments of reporting of any type and structure. The software package has a possibility of import of the reporting to Microsoft Excel

Configurability

• the software product contains a large number of standard reports and has a possibility of independent setup reports of any complexity
• possibility of independent setup of algorithms of planning

Convenience of using

• the interface of the software product allows the user to perform a maximum of functions at the minimum quantity of actions, all information on one object or necessary for accomplishment of one transaction is concentrated in one screen form

Architecture and structure

• Module "Data collection"
• Module "Requests"
• Module "Analysis"
• Module "Finance"
• Module "Planning"
• Module "Scheduling"

Functionality

Data collection

• loading of initial data from different sources

o Website of automatic telephone exchange o Website of BR o Technology websites of SO o Website of the Arena Exchange o E-mail o Electronic media

• verification of initial data
• storage of initial data about work for OREM

Planning of the modes

• maintaining the normative reference information on structure and power characteristics of the equipment of the station
• calculation of the planned cost efficiency for a certain day at different operation parameters of the station
• choice of the optimal mode of loading of the equipment
• display of the actual schedule of execution of loading with detailing on the block, GTP and the station in general
• possibility of submission of the trade request on the basis of data on loadings of the equipment of the INFOPRO software product: Planning of the modes

Planning of a power consumption

• the operational daily hourly planning of consumption used at submission of price requests for the market for the day ahead
• formation of the notification to the system operator about formation of hourly planned consumption

o a possibility of planning of a power consumption in the INFOPRO software product: Settlings with consumers

Finance

• database maintenance of agreements
• forecast of the hourly prices
• calculation of the scheme of payments on OREM
• calculation of forecast agreement obligations of purchase and sale
• calculation of cost efficiency of submission of requests

Formation and submission of requests

• automatic formation of requests for the market for the day ahead
• verification of requests
• control of the status of the sent requests
• formation and sending notifications on planned hourly consumption for the website of the system operator

Reporting and analysis

• the analysis of the actual financial results of activity of the company on OREM
• operational representation of the aggregated and detailed these results of activity of the generation company to users of a software package and to company management in tabular and graphical representation
• efficiency evaluation of broadcast of the prices of wholesale market of retail market

Specifications

Technology platform - Microsoft. net Framework.

The main DBMS – Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server. With a possibility of use of less large-scale DBMS – MS Access, Firebird, MySQL (ANSI SQL - compatible servers with access through ODBC).

Target client OS – Microsoft Windows XP above.

Target server OS – Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 above.

Support Internet browsers – Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera, Firefox.

Technical requirements Server: Pentium of 4 1.8 GHz or above 2 GB of OZU or above 250 Of GB Hard drive or more Client: Pentium of 4 1.8 GHz or above 1 GB of OZU for Windows XP or 1.5 for Windows Vista/7 or above 80 Of GB Hard drive The monitor with the supported resolution not less than 800*600 Not high requirements to communication channels.

Design methodology When developing the software product Scrum Agile-methodology was applied, at design the methodology of object design of UML was used.

Implementation methodology

Analysis At the Analysis stage during the project the analysis of business processes and requirements of the Customer is carried out. The main result (product) of this stage are the Technical Specifications (TS).

Design At a stage of Design the Conceptual Design of the solution is developed and submitted for approval to the Customer, the software product is shown, the offer on implementation, including the budget on continuation of works and the project schedule prepares. These documents will be approved and affirm the client before the following stage Development and Testing.

Development and Testing At a stage of Development and Testing creation and testing of modifications of a system is performed. If the general time for development exceeds 3 weeks, this work is separated into separate blocks ("Assemblies"), each of which demands 2 – 3 weeks on development. In process of release of each block, it is given to testing to the client. At a stage of development and testing the working environment is established on customer premise.

Implementation At this stage a system completely is implemented at the enterprise of the Customer, and all user trainings are provided in full.