AED-SICAD Customer Testimonials VSE / RWE – Kosice, Slovak Republic

Východoslovenská energetika Holding a.s. (VSE Group) is one of the major electricity companies in the Slovak Republic. A 49% subsidiary of German energy giant RWE, they supply 600 000 service points in the 16 222 km2 distribution area with electricity. They implemented a highly integrated GIS based on the Esri platform and the vertical solution UT for ArcGIS from AED-SICAD in record time. VSE deﬁ ned the GIS (UT for ArcGIS) as the central entry platform for asset data documentation. The UT Integrator then passes selected data on to other critical IT systems, such as e.g. SAP.

What is the beneﬁ t?

• GIS is central data entry platform, one leading system What is integrated? • Data are captured only once and then propagated to downstream IT systems • GIS (UT for ArcGIS) and SAP/ • All data are synchronized PM, SAP IS-U and SAP FI-AA • Very eﬃ cient, lean workﬂ ows • GIS and SCADA • Excellent data quality • GIS and network calculation • Load data available for network calculation (SINCAL) • GIS and Maximo • GIS and transformer manage- ment system (ETRA)

Recognition and Awards:

• SAP Quality Award Silver Winner 2010 Central and AED-SICAD Modules in Operation Eastern Europe • UT Editor • Award by Slovakian network • UT Integrator regulatory authority for best • UT Server & Web Client operational eﬃ ciency (all based on the Esri ArcGIS platform)

Data Situation: Due to the foresight in the project planning, they is the integration with the by far highest amount had designed the migration process already with of traﬃ c. From a technological point of view, the the latter system integration in mind: Thus al- integration has been done with UT for ArcGIS ready when loading the data, the corresponding Integrator including some custom web services SAP unique functional location ID was attached and components for addressing VSE Group automatically to each new GIS object. speciﬁ cs.

Integration with SAP: Integration with SCADA: SAP is a critical IT system at VSE Group, and An important project step was already early on thus the SAP integration has been done to the integration with SCADA. Here, the GIS is three main modules: The interaction with SAP/ also the master, and the SCADA receives initial PM synchronizes the data for all relevant MV data from the GIS and then daily incremental up- assets between SAP/PM and UT for ArcGIS. dates of the network topology and relevant tech- This way, SAP/PM was relieved of managing nical attributes. Asset maintenance processes the technical data and concentrates just on at VSE Group are driven by the HIFFI (Maximo) the organizational data that is available in both system. Therefore, it was critical to integrate this systems. system also with GIS for MV, which was done also via the UT Integrator. This lead to a seam- The integration to SAP FI-AA was important to less synchronous online integration from GIS to mirror the SAP asset accounting number for rele- SAP/PM, ETRA and HIFFI on the data and pro- vant assets (currently MV lines and substations cess level. with related assets like transformers) to the GIS system. This allows VSE Group to calculate the Integration with Network: network value for the VSE Group balance in a Also for network calculation, the GIS is the mas- much easier way and facilitates also the exten- ter. VSE Group is using the Siemens tool “PSS sive reports to the Slovak Regulatory Authority. SINCAL” for network calculation. All relevant HV, MV and LV data to be calculated are selec- The integration to SAP IS-U which enabled the ted in UT for ArcGIS via network tracing and are spatial identiﬁ cation of customers and also the then exported to the network calculation packa- reﬂ ection of the individual load data in the GIS ge SINCAL.

AED-SICAD is SAP Business Partner (Silver Status). The UT Integrator from the UT for ArcGIS Product Suite has been certiﬁ ed by the SAP Integration Center.

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