RX SDM Foundation
Clean data. Confident operations.
SDM Foundation provides energy retailers and embedded networks with a single, governed source of truth for standing data – eliminating errors, delays, and rework that slow down your market operations.
Standing data underpins everything in energy retail – from customer enrolments and billing accuracy to market transactions and regulatory compliance. Yet for most retailers, it’s fragmented across systems, maintained manually, and riddled with inconsistencies that quietly cost time and money every day.
Brave RX SDM Foundation is the foundational data management layer that energy retailers need to operate with confidence. It centralises, validates, and governs your standing data – ensuring every part of your business works from accurate, up-to-date information from day one.
HOW RX SDM Foundation Works
Brave RX SDM Foundation is designed to be implemented fast - with a structured implementation process that minimises disruption and builds confidence from day one. Once live, it runs continuously - validating incoming data, tracking changes, surfacing exceptions, and keeping your standing data aligned with the market.
1. Onboarding and Data Assessment
Brave works with your team to understand your current standing data landscape – systems, data sources, known pain points, and integration requirements.
2. Data ingestion and Migration
Your existing standing data is loaded, cleansed, and structured within the SDM Foundation repository, with validation rules applied immediately.
3. Integration and Configuration
SDM Foundation is connected to your billing, market, and operational systems. Business rules and validation logic are configured to match your operational requirements.
4. Go-live and Ongoing Operations
Your team gains access to the standing data repository, exception management tools, and health dashboards. Brave provides ongoing support as your data and business evolve.
Benefits
Eliminate costly data errors
Catch and correct standing data issues before they flow downstream into billing, transactions, and customer records.
Accelerate market operations
Reduce the manual effort and back-and-forth that slows down enrolments, transfers, and market notifications.
Govern data with confidence
Establish consistent data standards, validation rules, and audit trails across your entire standing data set.
Connect your systems
SDM Foundation integrates with your existing retail systems, acting as the trusted data hub that keeps everything in sync.
Stay compliant
Maintain standing data in line with AEMO requirements and market rules – reducing compliance risk and audit exposure.
Scale without the complexity
Built for growth. Whether you’re onboarding new sites, entering new networks, or expanding your portfolio, SDM Foundation scales with you.
Features
Standing Data Repository
A centralised store for all your core standing data – NMIs, meters, sites, tariffs, and customer associations – structured to market standards.
Data validation engine
Automated validation rules check standing data against AEMO formats and business logic, surfacing errors before they cause downstream problems.
Change tracking & audit trail
Every update is logged, providing a complete history for compliance and dispute resolution.
Market data alignment.
Standing data is continuously reconciled against market data sources, ensuring your records stay in sync.
Exception management
Identified data issues are surfaced in a structured exception queue, allowing your operations team to review, investigate, and resolve discrepancies efficiently.
Integration framework
Pre-built connectors and a flexible API layer allow SDM Foundation to integrate with your billing platform, CRM, and market systems – eliminating manual data re-entry.
Configurable business rules
Define and enforce your own data standards on top of market requirements, tailoring validation to your operational and product configuration.
Reporting and data health dashboards
At-a-glance visibility of your standing data health – outstanding exceptions, validation pass rates, recent changes, and data coverage metrics.
Downloads
Brave SDM Foundation information sheet
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