Bee'ah, the Sharjah Environment Company, is well on its way to becoming one of the world's most digitally advanced waste management companies. The leading environmental service provider in the Arab world is digitizing its processes with the help of software solutions from SAP and PROLOGA. More than 400 vehicles are currently equipped with new OnBoard Scales and RFID –Ident systems connected to Android tablets. For this purpose, SAP Waste and Recycling, in combination with the Add-on from PROLOGA, will be expanded with dedicated APPs, used for real-time monitoring and analysis.
At GITEX (Gulf Information Technology Exhibition), the annual computer and electronics exhibition held in Dubai, Bee'ah presented the first two APPs ("PROLOGA SmartTracker" and "PROLOGA SmartRouteMonitoring") to a broad audience. Both apps provide an impressive overview of the entire fleet of course in real-time.
SAP Waste and Recycling®, the journey continues. SAP invited waste management companies from all over the world to join the industry conference in Walldorf. In scope were the presentation of product innovations based on SAP’s innovation platform S/4 HANA and the exchange of experience with SAP of the participants.
The clear focus was on digitalization of industry processes in the areas of CRM, IoT and S/4 HANA Cloud. The product road map for the next years was highly appreciated as it is reflecting the movements anticipated in the market in the next years. All participants were invited to exchange on their future strategies related to public cloud, on-premise or hybrid cloud scenarios.
During the Break-Out-Session several examples of using the SAP Cloud Platform for innovative new use cases were shown and raised a strong interest to try out the different scenarios. The participants could directly exchange on the different use cases and heavily used this forum to exchange and network.
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SAP to resell industry-specific solution extension as SAP S/4HANA® for waste and recycling by PROLOGA
HALLE, Germany – November 27, 2017 – PROLOGA today announced the extension of a global reseller agreement with SAP (NYSE: SAP) for an industry-specific solution extension for waste and recycling on SAP S/4HANA®. As part of the agreement, SAP will resell the solution as SAP S/4HANA for waste and recycling by PROLOGA. The solution, available now for SAP S/4HANA release 1709 and upwards, provides waste management companies with a tailored and fully integrated industry solution to manage processes around the collection of inbound materials, the treatment of these materials and the handling of the outbound materials.
The solution will provide waste management companies with support for:
• A consistent and industry-specific business process for waste collection and recycling
• Management of vehicle, customer service and required human resources
• Management of containers and services on customer locations
• A central view of a waste disposal contract – where all associated documentation is stored and linked
• Management of the daily planning of customer waste-collection orders with an integrated map with real-time integration into on-board units
• Better and centralized management of core functions
• Full integration with financial and logistics process in SAP S/4HANA
• Invoicing based on the logistics completion data, with visibility into the entire lifecycle of a customer contract and reporting functionality
• Comprehensive reporting to meet legal requirements in waste collection and recycling processes
The next steps planned for the solution are the further simplification of processes with an end-to-end focus. The starting point is the simplification of the weighing application followed by order entry and completion.
“The availability of the solution extensions for SAP S/4HANA was an important milestone in the successful partnership between PROLOGA and SAP,” said Frank Ehrhoff, head of Customer and Solution Management for PROLOGA. “It enables further joint activities in the industry segment towards a renovated and simplified solution portfolio for the waste management industry.”
The SAP® Waste and Recycling application and the solution extension SAP S/4HANA for waste and recycling by PROLOGA are available now and sold with a new simplified licensing under a single price-list item.
About PROLOGA
The PROLOGA Group consists of software and consulting companies focused on industry-specific software solutions in the energy and natural resource market. Based in Halle (Saale), Germany, we have served our customers since the early 1990’s directly or through our partners and subsidiaries. In recent decades, our core team has built knowledge in several markets all over the world assisting small and midsize businesses as well as global players, including some of the largest energy and waste companies in Europe, North and Latin America, Asia, Africa and Australia.
Together with SAP, we provide solutions for electricity, gas and water companies, optimizing their meter-to-cash processes or managing their smart meter installations. PROLOGA is also an SAP partner and supports the solution management and development for the SAP Waste and Recycling applications. In this partnership, PROLOGA always develops its solutions on the latest SAP technology, providing solutions today on-premise as well as in the cloud environments provided by SAP.
Having built this relationship over more than a decade, PROLOGA today has several items on SAP’s global price list. With these components, our customers service millions of their customers worldwide, including approximately 25 million customers in Brazil. PROLOGA’s relationship with SAP as an outsourcing and reselling partner has shaped us as a company since 2009 and steadily poses new challenges, which we have gladly accepted and will continue to accept in the future.
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PROLOGA has once again played an active role as a sponsor of the International Conference for Utilities in Lisbon.
The event was entitled „The Next Generation Digital Utility“ and was, starting with the workshops on Tuesday until the last presentation on Thursday a great event from which PROLOGA could gain an invaluable experience. As a result, we strengthened our partnerships within the SAP community.
SAP showed many exciting showcases. Interesting presentations were held by SAP, partners and PROLOGA. The focus was on topics such as “Transition to S4/H”, “Cloud for Energy” and “SAP Hybris”.
PROLOGA participated in a workshop called “Enterprise Mobility for Utilities – An Update View” by Miquel Carbo and Robert Straubinger from SAP. In this workshop the latest developments in mobile meter reading and on-site billing were presented. PROLOGA also supported a “Business Interactive Track”. The lecture called “Business Process Optimization and Mobility Adaption in the Water Distribution Sector” was presented by Mohammed Jebbar, BC Skills and Mohammed Rhalloussi, ONEE Water.
ONEE Water, alreaddy a customer opf PROLOGA, is using our meter reading and on-site billing solution successfully. More information about ONNE Water can you see on our news pages or here!
Special highlight was the evening event held in the beautiful center of Lisbon. During the delicious, traditional Portuguese meal, PROLOGA was able to exchange ideas with new and old acquaintances of the industry.
The event was a full success. Not only because of the quality of the presentations and workshops but it was also very inspiring and valuable for all those working in the utilities sector. We are already looking forward to the next International SAP Conference!
Just as with any good partnership and any other project, preparation is the most important thing. PROLOGA gave a first overview of the "SAP Mobile On-Site Billing for SAP Utilities by PROLOGA" product and architecture in a 2-week training at EOH WFM Solutions, headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa.
About EOH WFM Solutions - Company formerly known as About Time Software:
EOH WFM Solutions has a long history of delivering Workforce Management Solutions, with the core team having been involved in Enterprise Mobility since 1996. With that background EOH has successfully deployed Mobility and Service Scheduling systems in industries such as Utilities, IT Services, Home Services and Telecommunications. EOH supports a number of best of breed Workforce Management platforms.
The global partnership with PROLOGA is important for EOH on a number of levels:
Feedback from Stuart Jack (Director at EOH WFM Solutions) about the training:
“I’m comfortable with what has been achieved thus far with the training.
I do believe we will need to enhance the knowledge transfer to our Solution Architects on the Meter Deployment, with specific attention to projects that EOH is already involved in.
In this regard we’ll do further planning on this in the coming weeks, and it may require a combination of specialist product training at PROLOGA offices and/or involving of PROLOGA on a consulting basis as needed …”
What does Stuart Jack (Director at EOH WFM Solutions) say about our partnership?
“I would like to see two-way collaboration with PROLOGA globally, in so much as EOH has a global delivery team and operates across multiple countries and regions.
This will extend the delivery capabilities in new geographies and allow EOH to cross train further delivery resources at our various offices…”
PROLOGA thinks that we were able to win a strong and globally acting partner with EOH. We are looking forward to the cooperation and the first projects with EOH.
For CIOs, digital transformation will continue to be the guiding theme in 2017 and in the coming years. But what does this really mean?
It’s about technically illustrating existing processes without IT support and linking separate digitized business processes together.
Companies increasingly face the question of how to expand their existing and tested systems to keep pace with ever-shorter innovation cycles and to introduce new processes as fast as possible.
PROLOGA proved the SAP® Cloud Platform as a potential innovation engine for the digitization of business processes and an accelerated provision for new functions within of these processes. In addition to a short development cycle, PROLOGA’s self-imposed goal was the least possible impact of the innovations on the core systems.
With this aim, PROLOGA created a mobile client for waste collection using the industrial solution SAP® Waste and Recycling and SAP® Mobile Order Management by PROLOGA. The mobile solution enables electronic transmission of work orders to mobile employees, documentation of service quality, recording of feedback data for performance calculation as well as recording working time of the involved. After the end of a day’s work, the recorded working hours can be transferred to SAP® Success Factor and processed there according to internal business requirements. The application is generally available after successful certification by the SAP ICC (SAP Integration and Certification Center).
Due to our experience with such technologies, further Cloud-Platform-Solutions in the area of SAP® for Utilities and SAP® Waste and Recycling in development and planning!
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We successfully participated in European Utility Week 2015 in Vienna. We will introduce and present our latest developments in the utility industry at the SAP stand during European Utility Week 2016 in Barcelona.
This year our focus is on using the SAP HANA Cloud Platform and the preparation for our client lead-in for working with S/4 HANA.
Both topics will be the center point of SAP’s strategy for the future. While concentrating on essential digital core functions, the SAP HANA Cloud Platform will be an important foundation for the expansion of S4/HANA. By introducing this change to the enhancement concept and the prospective ERP release, we present our new cloud solution for balancing group monitoring for SAP IS-U clients in the electricity and gas sectors. With a compact implementation effort, we support our customers who continue their own strategies for digitalizing business processes.
With the development of S4/HANA and a user interface change-over in SAP Fiori, we announced one of the most known and used Customer Interaction Center functions. The challenge for most of our customers consists of reflecting their front office processes. For this reason we presented our Business Process Modeler. This tool supports companies by linking single SAP Fiori applications to a sophisticated yet flexible product for SAP users in back office areas.
The presentation of our latest products through Utility Week generates interest with customers and our partner, SAP. During this event we held some interesting conversations with existing clients and established new contacts.
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The PROLOGA GmbH Company expands its SAP® Mobile Order Management for Waste and Recycling product with another mobile application. Proven product functions from the commercial disposal branch were transferred to the Wirtschaftsbetriebe Duisburg (WBD) with a focus on local waste collection and management.
For bulky waste collection with the WBD, it was necessary to print the order lists from the organization software. As with most other local companies, returned information (like the date, working time or deviations from the commission) was also recorded. To digitalize this process and to reduce paper costs, the WBD published a tender in 2015. Its goal: depict the disposal process and document service quality. Thanks to our longstanding experience with SAP® Waste and Recycling and our expertise in mobile applications, PROLOGA was able to win this tender.
Together with the WBD, we developed the SAP® Mobile Order Management for Waste and Recycling product to enhance and customize the bulky waste order process for them. After a one-month test phase, the WBD has been successfully using this solution for scrap and bulky waste disposal since July 1, 2016.
From now on, this product ensures that the bulky waste disposal process with its requisite collection times and routes will be documented with collection area photos. The application makes it possible to record the cleanliness before and after the refuse pick-up process. The WBD is thereby in a position to guarantee a quality of service for their clients and to contribute to a cleaner city.
By integrating digital maps with the navigation software Maptrip from Infoware, truck drivers can find the optimal way to their collection address. Fuel is thereby conserved and time saved during route preparation and post-processing. The result is a reduced environmental impact.
After successfully introducing the WBD into bulky waste disposal, PROLOGA is now searching for other possible applications for this mobile application.
Design and developing of an SAP® UI5 (HTML5) interface for an existing route and district planning solution
As part of the cooperation with the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg from April 2015 to March 2016 PROLOGA supported 9 students of the Bachelor program in computer science in processing their project internship.
According to the route planning solution SAP® Dispatching and Planning by PROLOGA the task was to analyse the requirements of a modern route and district planning and prototypically implement the results in a web application.
Based on the requirements of PROLOGA the participants created a blue print document and became acquainted with the programming guidelines for SAP® UI5. After that the students created a web application, in which the basic functions of a route and district planning have been mapped. The project was presented to the managing directors of PROLOGA. On 31/03/2016 the project results have been successfully presented at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.
The compiled results will be used for further products of PROLOGA and help to increase the user friendliness as well as to open up new areas of application (e.g. use on mobile devices).
Team leader of the project was Benjamin Diedering. The project was supervised by Dr. Gabrisch (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg) and Mark Patzlaff (PROLOGA GmbH).
There are three core problems that affect waste management systems: no end-to-end control, processes and information trapped in silos, and an inability to respond and plan in real-time to scenarios. SAP and PROLOGA, to address many of the challenges around this industry and help Africa´s urban regions to create a cleaner environment, resulting in less littering and proactive beautification of the area.
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PROLOGA was pleased to be a sponsor of the upcoming International SAP Conference for Utilities, taking place in The Hague, Netherlands on 11-13 April this year.
PROLOGAs Highlight at this event: The presentation of the latest features added to SAP Mobile OnSite Billing – Automated Meter Reading via Camera, providing the following features and advantages:
More information about the event you will find here!
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11-13 April 2016, The Hague, Netherlands
PROLOGA is pleased to be a standard sponsor of the upcoming International SAP Conference for Utilities, taking place in The Hague, Netherlands on 11-13 April this year.
With over 800 delegates from across the international utilities industry this will once again be a truly global conference for IT and business professionals. It will address the unique business requirements of the utilities industry, and will be packed with opportunities to hear visionary keynotes, learn from peers via real life case studies, discover SAP’s utility industry solution strategy, and network with the global industry.
Following a huge success of the 2015 event, where 99% of attendees rated the conference as “Good” to “Excellent” and 96% of attendees said that the mix of topics was “Good” to “Excellent”, there is no doubts that this will be a high standard, quality event.
Event Highlights:
• A range of pre-conference workshops allowing you to dive deep into SAP’s utility industry solution portfolio
• Inspiring industry keynotes and thought leadership
• The latest strategy, insight and solution overviews from SAP’s executive and solution teams
• Customer case studies from a diverse range of international utility organisations – discover their successes, challenges, business drivers and business benefits
• A multitude of networking opportunities – nowhere else will you have the opportunity to meet SAP leadership, solution experts,
customers, and partners, all in one place at one time
• An interactive agenda, with live demos, micro-forums, world café, and other interactive learning opportunities
• A vibrant exhibition of SAP partners – discover the latest solutions and services on offer
Agenda topics are set to include:
• Customer engagement
• Asset performance management
• Enterprise mobility for utilities
• Smart grid and smart metering
• IT/OT convergence
• Energy revolution management
• Supply chain management
• Predictive analytics for utilities
• ...and much more!
In a complex and demanding market, utility organisations must transform their enterprise software landscape in order to deliver world class customer service, simplify operations, and execute a holistic corporate strategy. Don’t miss this opportunity to gather with the global utilities industry in The Hague and understand that power of SAP software in driving the digital utility.
Our 2016 event will once again be co-located with the International SAP Conference for Oil and Gas, giving you an unrivalled opportunity to meet and gather cross-industry best practice from over 1200 senior executives in the wider energy industry.
For more information and to register, visit www.tacook.com/iuc2016 or contact T.A. Cook on +44 (0) 121 200 3810 and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
We look forward to meeting you in The Hague this April!
On the 17th of November 2015 the graduate fair Middle Germany took place in Leipzig for the seventh time. Around 1.000 students, graduates and professionals attended this central and university independent recruitment fair. The event was complemented by an extensive program of about 30 events on the subjects application, job entry and career in Middle Germany.
PROLOGA was represented at a joint booth of the Cluster IT Middle Germany and informed about their portfolio and job vacancies in the company.
Qualified and committed employees are always welcome at PROLOGA. Start with us in your future!
More information about the graduate fair Middle Germany can be found here.
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Water is a precious commodity in Morocco – so it is even more important to deal with it responsibly and to transparently map all processes related to the water supply and adapt them to current customer needs. The Moroccan water company ONEE Branche Eau has realized this and opted for SAP Mobile On-Site Billing for SAP Utilities by PROLOGA, in order to optimize the processes related to the reading and billing of the water consumption and to reduce the costs.
Especially in the light of the partly long distances in the supply area, this is an interesting topic. With SAP Mobile On-Site Billing ONEE is able to avoid the previously time consuming delivery of invoices to the customers and the delayed cash flow that goes along with it. The experience has shown that the various processes, such as the recording, transfer and checking of meter readings will proceed significantly faster and easier than before. Invoices can be immediately created and delivered to the customer; the payment process is accelerated accordingly. It is also possible to document local issues at the point of consumption directly. This has the advantage to detect consumption variances early and to be able to react quickly.
In addition to saving financial and human resources by optimizing the reading and billing process, ONEE also benefits from increased customer satisfaction and consumer confidence when using SAP Mobile On-Site Billing.
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The energy policy of the European Union pursues the objective of an EU-wide, unified gas market. By the intended liberalization and harmonization of the single markets the competitive pressure increases, since formerly nationally operating companies get active also abroad. Moreover, there is a need for action for the gas companies in order to implement the European regulatory requirements at the IT level. Especially in Eastern Europe there is a high demand for efficient solutions to implement business processes duly and market role-specifically in the respective SAP system.
Germany takes a pioneering role here. An example for that is the basic model for compensatory payments and accountancy rules in the gas sector (GABi Gas 2.0). In many European countries market roles such as Distribution System Operators, Transport System Operators or Suppliers are already defined, but there is a high need for adaptation, for example in case of the network codex of the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas (ENTSOG). In addition, increasing quality demands regarding data exchange processes between the various market partners arise, which further increase the requirements for the SAP Energy Data Management (SAP EDM). So flexible solutions for the implementation of business processes to the SAP EDM are needed, that are compliant to the market role specific rules of the companies in the gas sector. On the one hand such solutions must ensure the energy supply, on the other hand they must enable the companies a transparent cost control and high data quality.
Sustainable allocation management
In some countries Distribution System Operators need regulatory required functionalities to perform a correct allocation determination in order to identify the temperature-dependent daily consumption of customers that are not interval metered. For this purpose coefficients for different customer groups, calendar information and temperature data are required. Therefore weather data can automatically be downloaded from a weather data service provider and transferred to the SAP EDM for a proper calculation of the consumption.
The increased demands are particularly evident by the EU regulation that requires to convert the gas consumption from cubic meters to kWh performing a Technical Quantity Determination (TQD) based on the calorific value and the gas volume. This represents a major challenge for many Distribution System Operators. Since several grids with different calorific values can inject into one interconnection point with a different network in behind, the Distribution System Operator must convert the received data. For this, a comprehensive calorific value management is needed. Apart from the data import and the calorific value determination, a calorific value management must also include updating processes for billing and reference calorific values. The possibility to calculate the compressibility by a complete molar gas analysis is also of advantage, insofar as this is allowed by the technical equipment of the Distribution System Operator. In this way a conversion of the operating volume of the gas into the standard volume can be made and afterwards the amount of energy can be determined automatically. A calculation of the conversion factor is also necessary for the following processes.
Representation of the grid topology
For the Transport System Operator (TSO) on the other hand, the representation of real existing network interconnection points such as transfer stations between two grids or entry- and exit points at gas storages is important in order to plan the gas supply as efficiently as possible. Therefore you need a comprehensive capacity and nomination management that enables the TSO to represent the current grid situation. For this purpose information concerning the capacity situation at the respective interconnection points must be available, such as the particular, technically maximum capacity and the capacity booked per shipper or supplier.
The focus of the gas supplier is the adequate supply of the customers who are bound by contract. To that end the required amounts of energy per market area must be nominated at the virtual trading point. In order to ensure high-quality data here, the forecast of the expected gas consumption as well as the validation of the time series received from the market partner is essential.
Avoidance of double settlements
In order to meet these complex requirements, PROLOGA has developed the solution “SAP EDM, add-on for gas regulatory compliance“ specifically for companies in the gas sector. It is an enhancement of the SAP IS-U and maps the functions of the allocation, nomination, capacity or balancing group management, among others via intuitive functions. The solution also provides utility companies with comprehensive monitoring functionalities to analyze the master data quality.
For balancing group managers, the solution provides a balancing group monitor that displays the received settlement results in a graphical and hierarchical form. Incoming messages regarding the balancing group status are processed automatically. Furthermore, many other gas-specific market communication formats, e.g. defined by EDIG@S like CAPNOT, CAPRES, DELORD, DELRES, IMBNOT, NOMINT, NOMRES, TRANOT or SSQNOT, are integrated.
By the complete integration in SAP IS-U, the “SAP EDM, add-on for gas regulatory compliance by PROLOGA“ ensures consistent business processes and allows gas companies the efficient implementation of regulatory requirements, in order to remain competitive with customer-oriented processes, even in the liberalized, EU-wide harmonized gas market.
In November 2013, the United Arab Emirates won their application to host the Expo 2020. Since 2008/2009 DEWA is in a 3-stage implementation of the SAP platform into the company.
In the light of the Expo 2020, the focus of the current SAP implementation phase is the fulfillment of customer needs and the provision of sustainable digital services.
Under the slogan “Creating the Future”, a Smart City project was initiated. Part of this project is the installation of an Advanced Meter Infrastructure (AMI) for more than 1.500.000 smart meters in Dubai. PROLOGA supports the Expo host in the preparation, planning and implementation of the smart meter roll-out.
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Numerous participants from the utility industry accepted the invitation to Halle and attended the first PROLOGA Energy conference from 12th to 13th of November. The focus of the event was the meter point exact excess and shortfall billing. In future this must be done independently and separately from the grid usage billing. For two years now the PROLOGA Energy GmbH deals with the requirement which gets binding now. During the conference the company presented their solution for a meter point exact excess and shortfall billing that is universally applicable in both the gas and the electricity sector. Also customers got a chance to speak – Volker Ulrich, Asset Manager SWS Netze Solingen, told of the experience in implementing the meter point exact excess and shortfall billing separated from the grid usage billing and gave interesting insights into the practice. Since this problem gets relevant for many grid operators on 1st of February 2015, the conference offered the perfect opportunity for a professional exchange and networking.
Especially in the evening of November 12th varying discussions could be led. By a vintage bus the participants were led to historical places of the city and afterwards they completed the first conference day with a common dinner.
After the successful PROLOGA Energy conference this year we can look forward to coming projects for their customers and partners. At the end of the 2nd day the participants were staggered by the wealth of products that PROLOGA holds for their customers, including BSI compliant metering, functional ranges for HANA real-time analysis and the use of modern SAP Fiori user interfaces.
On the 4th of November 2014 the sixth graduate fair Middle Germany took place at the Congress Center Leipzig. Around 1.200 students, graduates and professionals took advantage of this opportunity and got talking to companies from various industries. PROLOGA was also represented at a joint booth of the Cluster IT Middle Germany and informed about their portfolio and job vacancies in the company. In the afternoon Managing Director Jens Frenzel offered interesting insights into current projects of PROLOGA and illustrated possible fields for young professionals after their education – numerous guests attended his speech „Utilities – An industry goes online“, in which he provided information to a smart metering project in the United Arab Emirates.
The colleagues on site were happy about the great interest of the visitors and were able to establish promising contacts.
With their products and projects PROLOGA offers excellent career prospects in the IT sector and many ways to fulfill oneself. As job starter you have the chance to start your career successfully; skilled professionals have the opportunity to face new and exciting challenges.
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With the foundation of PROLOGA Energy in April 2014, the PROLOGA group offers an enhanced range of services for the utility industry in addition to its inventory solutions.
Originally specialized in the development and implementation of software solutions for the waste disposal industry, PROLOGA has supplemented its product range by solutions for the utilities sector over the last few years. Founding PROLOGA Energy the company extends its product portfolio in the utilities environment again. Additionally, PROLOGA Energy offers consulting and development services of the SAP platform for SAP CRM, SAP IS-U/CCS, SAP EDM and at IDEX.
