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Your partner for smart energy data management

Process Vision Oy | www.processvision.fi


The energy sector is a continuously changing world where the importance of energy data management grows daily. Energy companies are forced to reconsider their data management strategies because of a broad set of factors including new regulatory requirements, energy efficiency and savings targets, sharpening competition, market consolidation, and requirements for operational efficiency. Companies that are able to meet these challenges gain immediate competitive advantage. The key to turning challenges into business benefits is Smart Energy Data Management.


“Smart Energy Data Management solutions will turn challenges into benefits for all players in the energy sector”

Process Vision offers a far-reaching partnership for solving these challenges. Our long experience in energy data management and our advanced energy information solutions create a firm foundation for broad co-operation. Process Vision's GENERIS business applications provide a comprehensive and proven solution for the implementation of Smart Energy Data Management in daily opera­tions. The GENERIS quality control system ensures that energy data, your key business asset, meets quality and time requirements. Using GENERIS tools you can monitor key perfor­mance indicators of your business partners. High level system automation and inno­vative tools for busi­ness process management free up resources from routine operations for a focus on success­ful core energy business strategies. A highly scalable and modular solution architecture makes is possible to extend the system as your business grows, providing optimal TCO in all scenarios. A comprehensive set of platform services and versatile reporting tools enable the rapid and cost-effi­cient implementation of new value added services.

Versatile solutions

Process Vision's solutions meet the demands of both energy and emissions markets. Our solutions cover all commodities including electricity, gas, district heating and district cooling. Thanks to our goal-oriented product development, wide system expertise, and expert personnel, we can provide versatile, efficient solutions for the energy information management needs of any business - distribution network, sales, production, energy data and balance management, trading, transmission system operation, and energy exchange.

Our product portfolio provides a full range of versatile solutions. The GENERIS business application suite covers large-scale smart meter data and energy data management, meter asset manage­ment, balance settlement and management, contract and portfolio management, trade and risk management, billing data generation and management, national balance settlement, and energy marketplace and energy exchange systems. All our solutions integrate easily with other systems and other market parties.

Benefits from smart metering

In recent years Process Vision has delivered numerous solutions for smart metering. In Sweden the company has a 25% share of the market for smart meter data management - a mark of the responsiveness of the GENERIS system towards new market developments and the sys­tem's scala­bi­lity for demanding deployments. Our customers can benefit from Process Vision's expertise and proven solutions from the very start of their smart metering deployment.

Scalability for every business's needs

The performance and scalability of the GENERIS system platform are in a class of their own. GENER­IS-based system solutions are the best choice for even the most demanding large scale applica­tions with many millions of metering points.

Market leading technology for mission critical solutions

As the market leader in TSO-level national balance settlement systems and energy exchange market­place systems in Scandinavia, Process Vision is the vendor of choice also for business-critical operations.

Complete service and acknowledged energy business expertise

Process Vision's customer services rise to the challenges of today's energy market. We serve our cus­to­m­ers from their business needs analysis through deployment to system support services. We handle all phases of energy information system projects - specification, delivery, and system integra­tion - and we can assume overall responsibility for system projects with the help of our expand­ing partner network.

Process Vision's strong and deep knowledge of energy markets comes from over 15 years of solid com­mitment to the energy business. We have been awarded con­sulting projects ranging from straightforward energy company requirements studies all the way to the complete specification of an entirely new regional energy market.

Excellence in energy information management

Process Vision's wide expertise with meter data and energy data management extends to com­plex contract and portfolio management and even to billing and end-customer online services. Our special competences also include data validation and B2B market communication between different market parties, for which we have also been awarded the respected EDNA Certificate, among the first European IT supplier recipients.

Qualified enthusiastic personnel guarantee high quality

Our personnel are focused on information system expertise in the energy sector. Our systematically-implemented, goal-oriented programs for professional development have also given us comprehensive technology knowledge certified by Oracle and Microsoft. These certifi­cations in combination with our internal quality program and highly developed processes for software development guarantee that our energy information systems meet the quality goals of all parties.

Our certified project management team is responsible for ensuring that all IT projects finish on time and in budget. The IPMA certificate granted us by the International Project Man­agement Association guarantees that reports required for IT projects are available and that system delivery is carefully coordinated.

Process Vision Oy – your partner for smart energy data management

Process Vision Oy has supplied solutions and services to the energy sector for more than 15 years. A continuously growing and profitable business has enabled steady growth of the com­pany. Today our staff of over 120 IT experts, all focused exclusively on the energy business, serve our customers in all the Nor­dic countries and also in Central Europe via a well established part­ner network. With a track record of hundreds of customers and system deliveries - including several already for smart metering - Process Vision is recognized in nine countries as a trusted partner in delivering regulatory compliance and permanent competitive advan­­tage, for today and for the future.

GENERIS™ is the trademark for Process Vision's Energy Information System.