The energy industry faces many challenges, affected by the ever-increasing need to digitize the sector. A number of legal changes related to the establishment of the Central System for Information of the Energy Market (CSIRE) means that customer service and metering data management systems will face a dynamic and complex development. AUMS Market Connector is the answer to the changing market needs.

AUMS Market Connector (AUMS MC) is a solution that enables integration of the energy market players' domain systems with CSIRE in order to automate their business processes. The Asseco's solution will ensure bi-directional communication with CSIRE, which is being implemented by Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne (PSE).

As a long-time partner of the energy sector, we are aware of the challenges it faces with the launch of CSIRE. The enormous scope of data exchange and a relatively short period which the legislator has provided for adjusting the systems made us decide to build a solution which will ensure the security of business continuity for our customers. The new product, AUMS Market Connector, will serve as the central point of data exchange with CSIRE, while ensuring high standards of security and reliability as well as full control and monitoring of the processes performed, emphasizes Mariusz Zieliński, Project Area Manager at Asseco Poland.

The Asseco's solution is designed taking into account the needs of the energy market players that will be obliged to communicate with CSIRE, i.e. sellers, entities responsible for balancing and energy distribution companies. Additionally, in order to meet the needs of utilities trading companies, it will ensure the automation of data exchange with a natural gas distribution operator in compliance with the EDIFACT standard.

AUMS MC provides a window to the world for energy trading and distribution companies. The system will provide a single point of secure communication with the market, significantly reducing the resources needed to support massive data exchange processes. Thanks to its open API, the system will enable our clients to incorporate new solutions from various vendors into these processes while maintaining full control over their execution from a single administrator's desktop, adds Mariusz Zieliński.

The system is available in 2 basic variants, both on premise and SaaS models:

• AUMS Market Connector Seller
• AUMS Market Connector Distributor

For more about the solution, please see: https://aums.asseco.com/pl/produkty/aums-market-connector/

Asseco Poland was ranked 3rd in Polityka Insight's #NationalChampions ranking. The criteria that were taken into account in preparing the list were the company size and employment, but also impact on the economy, importance of the company in the industry, innovation and success in foreign markets.

Human capital, i.e.: the skills, knowledge and experience of employees, as well as the ability to improve competence in the organization, was also an important factor in the selection of companies. PKN Orlen topped the list, followed by KGHM. Also in the Top Ten are: Boryszew, Grupa Lotos, PGNIG or Polpharma. The ranking is based on the proprietary National Champions index, created by Polityka Insight.

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Asseco won recognition from readers of the BrandsIT portal in the BITy2021 poll and took first place in the category of "Solutions for the Corporate Market". The company was awarded the Quality Certificate which confirms its market position and commitment to the development of the IT market. For 30 years, Asseco has been creating technologically advanced software for companies in key sectors of the economy. It is present in 60 countries worldwide and employs approximately 29 thousand people.

Asseco Cloud, a company belonging to Asseco Poland, which supports companies and institutions in designing, implementing and operating cloud solutions, will have its headquarters in Szczecin. It wants to support the city in the development of modern IT services and will create new jobs. The company, established in September this year, is currently building its structures and will recruit IT specialists from Szczecin and the West Pomeranian Voivodeship.

Asseco Cloud is the Asseco Group's entity that focuses on strategic resources and competencies in the area of cloud computing. It uses its own resources, data centers and IT infrastructure in order to provide customers with optimum cloud services. It offers its proprietary solutions as well as those of leading cloud providers. It ensures full support from design to implementation, and delivers expert knowledge.

Asseco has long been associated with Szczecin. It is here that we have located our important business division, Certum, a part of Asseco Data Systems responsible for electronic signatures and SSL certificates and a leader in trust services in Poland. One of our data centers is also located in this city. By locating the new Asseco Cloud in Szczecin, we wish to develop a broad cooperation with the City, support the region and local business in the development of modern IT services and contribute to improving the attractiveness of Szczecin and Western Pomerania for employees, investors, entrepreneurs and students - says Andrzej Dopierała, Vice President of the Management Board of Asseco Poland, Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Asseco Cloud.

I am glad that a giant in the IT industry, which Asseco undoubtedly is, is opening its next company in Szczecin. This is a good place to live, work and for self-fulfillment. I am sure that this will also be another chapter of cooperation between Asseco and the City. I am looking forward to many fruitful projects, further development and see you in Szczecin - says Piotr Krzystek, Mayor of Szczecin

The value of the global cloud market will grow to $937 billion by 2027. The share of global IT spending on cloud computing will also increase. Public cloud spending will grow to about $304.9 billion, at a rate of 18%.

Asseco Cloud is our response to the enormous economic demand for cloud services. Already today, companies allocate 1/3 of their IT investments to cloud computing. Having potential in the form of our own data centers, IT infrastructure and high-end competence, we wish to serve clients from the Polish and, in a longer perspective, also from the European market. To do so, we will need high-class IT specialists whom we want to recruit locally. Currently, Asseco Cloud employs more than 40 people in Szczecin; ultimately, we are planning to increase our team to 100 people - says Lech Szczuka, President of the Management Board of Asseco Cloud.

Fore more information about Asseco Cloud, please see https://www.asseco.cloud/.

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Asseco is the largest IT company in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe. For 30 years it has been creating technologically advanced software for companies in key sectors of the economy. The company is present in 60 countries worldwide and employs over 29 thousand people. It has been expanding both organically and through acquisitions. Asseco companies are listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE), NASDAQ and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.

Asseco Cloud is an IT company of the Asseco Group, specializing in the design, supply, implementation and maintenance of cloud solutions. It executes implementations based on its proprietary solutions and those of leading cloud providers, while offering full support from design to implementation and providing expert knowledge. The company's offer includes services based on a private cloud, preferred by customers from the public or regulated sectors, and solutions in the multi-cloud model, based on the public cloud of global providers.

Gabriela Żukowicz, the Vice President of the Management Board of Asseco Poland, was ranked 5th in the ranking of "100 Women in Business" in the category of companies with sales exceeding PLN 50 million. The ranking was prepared by the "Puls Biznesu" daily. It is a list of 100 most enterprising women in Poland. Its role is, among others, to appreciate the growing importance of women in business management and their impact on the economy.

I prefer partner management based on cooperation. Such a style of management and understanding of business is close to the founder of Asseco; he cooperates on such principles, naturally promotes such a model and expects similar mechanisms of operation from his managerial colleagues, said Gabriela Żukowicz. It is worth emphasizing that Asseco, being a company based on the federative model, has partnership written all over it. Such a partnership model is also applied in our cooperation with other companies within the Group. When a new company joins the Asseco Group, we always respect its principles and organizational culture, she added.

Asseco is the leader of digitization in Poland* and the largest IT company in the region of Central and Eastern Europe. For 30 years it has been creating technologically advanced software for companies in key sectors of the economy. The company is present in 60 countries worldwide and employs approx. 29 thousand people. It has been growing both organically and through acquisitions, of which it has made over 110 since 2004. Asseco companies are listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE), NASDAQ and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
*according to Computerworld TOP200 report for 2020

Bank Pekao S.A., supported by the Asseco Poland team, has successfully completed the fastest integration of universal commercial banks on the Polish market. The institution needed just 10 months to prepare for the transfer of customer data from the former Idea Bank S.A. to Bank Pekao’s operating systems, which was completed during the migration weekend on November 19-22. Since then, Idea Bank clients have been able to benefit from Pekao's full infrastructure and offer. Asseco's role was to create tools automating the migration and data transformation, integrated with a proprietary application supporting the coordination of migration team works and consolidated reporting on the progress, completeness and quality of the migration.

This was the first bank integration conducted from start to finish during the pandemic, which required developing a hybrid approach to the implementation of work. Teams involved in the project worked remotely and were dispersed throughout Poland. Preparations for data migration, within the scope of Asseco's responsibility, lasted 7 months. Considering the scope of the Idea Bank's migrated IT architecture, encompassing nearly 200 IT systems, and the team's ambition to automate the process as much as possible, the project schedule was extremely challenging. Moreover, the integration was an unusual undertaking due to the logistics of the migration weekend itself. During this 26-hour period, over 400 people flawlessly completed several thousand tasks precisely arranged in one correct sequence.

Since the migration weekend we have been fully operating as one bank, and the clients of the former Idea Bank fully benefit from Pekao's infrastructure and systems. This was the last stage of the merger process. 220 thousand corporate clients and about 50 thousand individual clients of the former Idea Bank have gained access to products and services, including those that had not been available in the former Idea. We appreciate our cooperation with Asseco whose support, despite the challenges posed by the pandemic and remote work mode, helped us achieve the fastest integration of financial institutions on the Polish banking sector. The integration was a success," said Jacek Trzynski, Integration Project Leader, Bank Pekao.

In order to successfully implement such a complex project, Asseco has developed dedicated tools - Asseco Migration Platform (AMP). AMP consists of three integrated applications. A parameterized migration engine responsible for online data transformation. A reconciliation engine responsible for the execution of control procedures at each stage of migration, from extraction from the source systems to loading into the target systems. The third component of AMP is a migration console, which is a graphical interface for the engine operator and migration participants. The scope of functionality of the console includes the coordination of tasks of migration participants and ongoing reporting on the progress of work or the completeness and quality of data migration. Moreover, the console structured the decision-making processes of the merger business leaders during the migration weekend.

The tools built made the migration process effective and transparent. We wanted them to be not only efficient but also user-friendly for the end users. Consequently, all the solutions used during the migration period successfully supported the team in monitoring the progress and quality of migration and automated the performed tasks, thereby reducing the operational risk," said Anna Stepanów, Manager, Asseco Business Consulting Team, Asseco Poland.

From the beginning we knew that the foundation for the success of this project had to be an exceptional team. We were aware that the challenges we would face would require exceptional commitment and unconventional solutions. We managed to build a team of enthusiasts, integrating specialists from several departments of Asseco, for whom overcoming the so-called "extra mile" became something absolutely natural. Thanks to them, we can all be proud that we took part in the fastest, first remotely implemented and most automated bank integration in Poland,” added Grzegorz Paskudzki, Team Leader Asseco Business Consulting, Asseco Poland.

Merging two organizations is an operation that requires care and the involvement of many teams. In technical, IT, and communication terms, everything must be carried out at the highest level so that the customers experience inconvenience as little as possible. Over six months of intensive work of the entire team and supporting the process with Asseco's tools helped minimize the unavailability of mobile and Internet banking.