An Approach for a Cloud-based Contribution Margin Dashboard in the Field of Electricity Trading

From our ongoing project, we present the collected requirements and business drivers from the energy industry imposed upon analytical information systems, specifically in the case of a contribution margin control as part of electricity trading. As a solution, we introduce our architecture for business intelligence in the cloud and apply these in the afore mentioned use case in the form of a research prototype. We provide the current implementation status at an early stage, on one hand to increase the transparency of the still young field of business intelligence in the cloud, and on the other hand to demonstrate the development potential of the technology for the energy sector.