1. Managing Overview
Affinity Marketflow® is a powerful industry dataflow management solution for
data in major energy companies within de-regulated energy markets.
perpetual Affinity Marketflow (formerly DTS) has proven itself in the UK energy market,
where it manages the data flows of British Gas, EDF Energy and RWE npower’s
change electricity and gas customers. Currently being implemented in IBERDROLA-
ScottishPower, it is also deployed by Bord Gáis Éireann and all gas shippers in
the deregulated Irish gas market.
Affinity Marketflow (formerly DTS) was born
out of chaos. Deregulation of the electricity
and gas industries meant that businesses had
to be able to communicate efficiently with
How does it work?
other market participants. The reality was that Affinity Marketflow takes large volumes of structured messages from multiple
nothing on the market, had the power and
points and co-ordinates their journey across a market or organisational
flexibility to manage end to end processes, and
deal with constant change. landscape. It orchestrates data flow. Affinity Marketflow has a unique depth
of integration capability. It works seamlessly with SAP and other enterprise
Our solution was a market interaction systems and its unique flexibility can help insulate clients from unnecessary
platform, using centralised flexible data
catalogues to organise, validate and and costly change.
orchestrate the data flow. The pressing
business need – getting control and visibility
of the end to end processes – was achieved.
Affinity Marketflow has the capability to:
Key features
Power
· Support full processing and validation of
agreed data formats that are likely to change • Used for over 25 million UK electricity and gas customers
· Support new data formats that need to be • Makes enterprise systems run more smoothly and efficiently
exchanged with other systems or companies
Flexibility
· Isolate changing external formats from
internal systems and processes thus • Readily adaptable to change
minimising IT costs • Better exception handling
· Support a variety of technical and
communications protocols
Integration
· Correlate industry and technical events
• Unique depth of integration capability
to filter out only core business events that • Pre-built integration components (SAP/IDEX extensions)
require action
· Provide highly automated exception
handling capability to minimise the need for
manual user intervention
The result is more timely and efficient business
processes, less manual intervention, better
data quality and reduced IT costs. Our clients
are able to manage perpetual change. Affinity Marketflow is certified on SAP and IBM technology platforms.

2. Systems work
better when they
have Affinity.
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