History & Overview
Xtensible Solutions first opened its doors in 1998 as a standards-based consulting company for the utility industry. Since the company’s early days, when three friends hunched over a wobbly table in an unfinished basement to finalize Xtensible’s original MDi framework, Xtensible has enjoyed a culture that values leadership, innovation, and community. These factors brought Xtensible its early success in the United States utility industry, and soon the small consulting company was making big waves. In 2004, California ISO engaged Xtensible to develop business rules, services, and payload definitions for a market redesign project using the MDi Framework, Xtensible’s original solution for generation of CIM-based messages and services for integrating systems based on service-oriented architectures (SOAs). Xtensible expanded its customer base from national to international in 2005 with the addition of clients EDF in France, Scottish Power in the UK, and Eskom in South Africa.
As the company grew, Xtensible drew from its industry experience and deep knowledge of standards to expand the original MDi workbench to meet new utility needs. In 2007, Xtensible announced its MD3i framework, significantly expanding the company’s methodology and tools to support a complete design-time environment, including creation and management of enterprise semantic models (ESMs) for system integration based on multiple industry standards with private extensions.
2011 marked another big year for Xtensible, as the company announced the second generation MD3i Solution Portfolio with new business models, an expanded design studio, and runtime accelerators. The MD3i Solution suite promises a better, faster, and cheaper standards-based systems integration than competing solutions, and it has met much excitement in the utility industry.
While Xtensible continues to grow, the heart of the company remains a close-knit circle of experienced professionals who are passionate about their work. Xtensible’s leaders are experts at channeling this energy toward a shared vision of fully integrated solutions while encouraging the relationships and unique culture that the company has enjoyed since its inception. It is this environment, combined with passion for the industry and innovative solutions, that makes Xtensible a unique and instrumental ally in the utility industry.
