Presentation by Axpo Trading on November 24, 2016 in Zurich

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Axpo Trading and EBX5
Master Data Management in the Energy Sector
T. Gruenhagen, R. Cupples

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Axpo at a Glance
• Energy production, distribution, sales and trading
• 100% owned by the cantons of Northeastern Switzerland
• About 4500 employees in more than 30 European countries
• Largest producer of renewable energies in Switzerland
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Axpo Group Structure
Merchant
Trading
Origination
Western Europe
Nordic
U.S.
Trading & Sales
Axpo
Holding
Avectris Services
Core Market
Trading
Origination
Eastern Europe
Italy
Iberia
CKW
Axpo
Power
Renewable
Energy
Hydro
Grids
Nuclear
Energy
Grids

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Axpo Trading
NORDIC
SWITZERLAND
IBERIA
ITALY
• Trading all kinds of energy
commodities (physically and
financial products)
• Active in most countries in
Europe
• Runs it’s own IT department
to support trading specific
requirements
• Top 1 trading company for
Power (‘Energy Risk’)

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The Master Data Challenge
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Master Data at Axpo Trading
• Independent acting company units led to decentralized master data
maintenance with lots of redundancy
• Energy market is fast growing and was changing a lot over the past years.
This led to lack of technical process support
• à introduction of a centralized master data management is needed
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Why EBX5?
Following features were main drivers to decide for EBX5:
• Automatic GUI based on data model
• Version branching and merging
• Flexible and easy to configure workflows that interacts with version branching
• Extensibility on various levels (e.g. GUI, constraints, workflow tasks)
• Good training offers and excellent documentation
• Swiss based sales and technical support
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Master Data move to EBX5
• Phase 1:
Trading Books, Mandates and Risk Reports Configuration
• Phase 2:
Counterparties, Clients and Contracts
• Phase 3:
Market Data Catalogue and Licenses
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Move to EBX5 - Phase 1
Biggest challenges in phase 1:
• Maintenance of complex hierarchies
à very good support by EBX5 standard functionality
• Text document oriented data (templates)
à needs some clever data modelling and GUI extension
• Export to core trading systems and other consumers
à needs programing of interface and new workflow tasks
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Export to core trading systems
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EBX5
MessageQueue
Other Consumer
Trading System
Trading System
Data
storage
API
Data
Analyser
Axpo Trading
Connectivity
Message
Writer
Workflow
Publisher
Task
Data
Model
API
API
API
Message
Reader
Data
Updater
Message
Reader
Data
Updater
Message
Reader
Data
Updater

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EBX5 – Summery of Pros and Cons
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• Fast installation
• Flexible and easy data modelling and
GUI setup
• Developer training enabled us to do
most development by ourselves
• Workflows and branching capabilities
leads to powerful process control
• Extensibility allows us to solve even
complex requirements
• Data connectivity needs quite some
development
• Automated deployment of data
structures not supported without
additional development effort

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Many thanks for your attention
Axpo Trading AG | Parkstrasse 23 | 5401 Baden