December 6, 2006Retail Market Subcommittee Meeting

PR50121_07 Retail Business Processes (RBP)

Project Update

A Sub-project of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Initiative

Background

Objectives• Goal is to replace current SeeBeyond Retail Components with TIBCO EAI

components to deliver a technology and framework improved scalability, reliability, stability & maintainability. RBP is one of 8 SOA Subprojects to replace SeeBeyond.

Drivers• Minimize or reduce operating failures produced from current SeeBeyond

Application and Architecture.• Reduce maintenance costs associated with up-keep of SeeBeyond Application

and Architecture.

Dependencies• PR50025 – Enhance ESIID Look Up on TML GUI has cross-impact with Retail TML

Functions • PR50121_08 EndPoint Services has dependency with RBP as built on same

framework and need schedule to stay in synch.• PR50059 Siebel Transition to ODS has dependency on RBP DDLs • PR50060 EIF Transition to ODS has dependency on RBP DDLs

PR50121_07 RBP PPL Source: ERCOT Priority: 1.0 Rank: .08 Budget: $1-3M Program Area: RO

Project Status

Project Status – Currently on target for Schedule, Scope, and budget

Project Phases•Initiation – Completed 08/01/2005•Planning – Complete 05/08/2006•Execution

•Go-Live – 12/10/2006 weekend•Stabilization effort – 02/09/2007

•Closing – Target to complete February 2007

Recent Activities As of 11/29/2006•Core UAT Completed •Submit Final Market Notice •Completed Initial Technical Walk-thru

Next Steps•Continue Delta Siebel Data Conversion every weekend until Complete•Continue Delta EIF Data Conversion every weekend until complete•Continue Performance Load Testing•Final Technical Walk-thru 12/1/2006

PR50121_07 RBP PPL Source: ERCOT Priority: 1.0 Rank: .08 Budget: $1-3M Program Area: RO

Milestones

PR50121_07 RBP PPL Source: ERCOT Priority: 1.0 Rank: .08 Budget: $1-3M Program Area: RO

Requirements (pens down) – Completed April 12, 2006

Design (internal document) – Completed July 14, 2006

Build – Completed July 28, 2006 for Core Components

Internal Testing – Target Completion Date of December 1, 2006

Internal Training – Target completion of December 12/1/2006 (updated)

Production (Go live) – Weekend December 10, 2006 **Code Migration, Data Conversion, and Production Verification

Testing Status

PR50121_07 RBP PPL Source: ERCOT Priority: 1.0 Rank: .08 Budget: $1-3M Program Area: RO

Testing Schedule

• Transaction Processing: Starts 08/28 - 100% complete (approx. 600 scripts)

• Retail TML: Starts 10/02 - 100% (approx. 50 scripts)

• Reprocessing: Starts 10/02 - 75% (approx. 70 scripts)

• ETS Testing: Starts 10/02 - 83% (approx. 60 scripts)

• Load/Performance Testing: (Rescheduled) Starts 11/22 - 90%

• Monitoring Testing: Starts 11/13 – 90%

Defect Status (182 total to date as of 11/29/2006)

• Code – 89 Only 74 of those have been TIBCO

• Configuration – 25

• Environment – 42

• Invalid – 24

• Unknown (Under Review) – 2

Implementation Weekend RMS approval for SLA exception Migration Weekend

DATE AFFECTED:  7:00 AM Friday, December 8, 2006 to 11:30 PM Sunday, December 10, 2006

Additional Information:

All transactions received by ERCOT will be held at NAESB.  Market Participants are encouraged to limit transaction submission during this timeframe to normal transaction processing volumes.  (ie. no annual validation).

  *** NAESB will be offline from 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM Saturday, December 9, 2006 for a server reboot.  Transactions WILL NOT be accepted by ERCOT while NAESB is offline.  Market Participants should not submit transactions during this time. ***

•  867 Transactions will NOT be forwarded during the outage weekend.

997 Functional Acknowledgements will NOT be sent during the outage weekend.

Cancel/Notification batch process may run after 6AM on Monday, 12/11/2006. (if rollback)

PR50121_07 RBP PPL Source: ERCOT Priority: 1.0 Rank: .08 Budget: $1-3M Program Area: RO

Implementation Continued

MarkeTrak will not be available during the outage weekend.

Retail Components of TML and API will NOT be available including:

o Report Explorer / Search Reports (Includes statements and extracts)

o Find ESI ID

o Find Transaction

o Submit Transactions

o USA Functionalities

EXTRACTS Siebel Service Order Extract will not run during the migration.  Full extract received on

Tuesday, 12/12/2006 will contain all Siebel Service Order history, including data from Friday thru Monday.

Data Conversion Load Mitigation:

• Reduce the outage to the Market by ERCOT Go-Live with 3-6 months of 2006 descending transactional data (previously stored in Seebeyond TCH Database)

• Phase in remaining years on following weekends. ETC by late December 2006 / January 2007

• Retail TML and API Find Transaction will be limited to Data Conversion Load

Implementation Status Communication

Migration Checkpoint Emails:

Friday 12/8/2006 - Notification all transactions have cleared

Saturday 12/9/2006 at approximately 8:00 PM – Migration Status email

Sunday 12/10/2006 4:00 PM – Go/No Go Decision **Conference Bridge** o Conference DN:     3822 (outside ERCOT dial 512-248-3822) o Conference Password:  1307

Sunday 12/10/2006 – Notice that migration Rolled Back or Completed

Questions / Contact

Adam D. MartinezMgr, Market Operations Divisional Projects Organization

ERCOT(512) 248-3883

amartinez@ercot.com

Hope ParrishPM, Market Operations Divisional Projects Organization

ERCOT(512) 248-6522

hparrish@ercot.com