Issue
The client is one of North America's largest power producers, in the middle of a merger with another large producer.
The acquired company's ETRM (Endur) had to be folded into the client's own platform (Zainet/Aligne) on a compressed schedule:
- All risk-management reporting had to be re-engineered for the acquired company's data and book structure.
- A project of this magnitude normally takes 6-12 months, yet had to finish in 3 to beat the year-end deadline.
- Any slip would disrupt the newly merged company's ability to conduct business.
Solution
MidDel led the functional and technical work to fold the acquired company's Endur data into the client's Zainet/Aligne platform:
- Converted risk and trade data from Endur, mapping the acquired company's structure into the client's data and book structure.
- Re-engineered all key risk reports so the acquired portfolio's values landed correctly.
- Completed QA and testing to ensure a clean cutover to production.
Result
A conversion that typically takes 6-12 months was delivered in 3 - absorbing a week-long shutdown from a hurricane and still hitting the year-end deadline.
The newly merged company went live with virtually no complications and conducted business with no disruption - meeting a deadline the team had been told was impossible.
"I just told my supervisor that I do not know what we would do if it weren't for MidDel. Thank God they are here!"
Head of Strategic Initiatives & Risk Management
Wholesale and Retail Electricity Generation and Distribution Company
Key Takeaways
- Merger-integration timelines are set by conversion risk, not calendar math. Disciplined data-conversion QA and re-engineered risk reporting are what compressed a migration of Endur into Zainet/Aligne — normally a 6–12 month effort — into 3 months; the testing rigor, not the hours worked, is what protects the go-live.
- Plan an integration to survive disruption, not just to hit a date. Because the conversion rested on tested data structures and re-engineered reports, the team absorbed a week-long Hurricane Sandy shutdown and still went live cleanly with no business disruption — resilience is a design choice, not luck.
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