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9. 4. 2026 | Čas čtení: 3 min.
Unicorn Universe: A Platform for Building and Operating Complex Digital Ecosystems
At its core, Unicorn Universe is a platform for building, integrating, and operating complex digital ecosystems. Its approach is based on the concept of a Digital Twin of an Organization — a digital representation of how an organization operates, bringing together its processes, people, data, and technology. Rather than treating individual applications and processes as isolated components, Unicorn Universe provides a common foundation for connecting them and creating a consistent digital environment.
This enables organizations to:
- Model and manage business processes across different areas of the organization.
- Connect and contextualize data from multiple systems and sources.
- Orchestrate systems and workflows, allowing processes to operate across organizational and technological boundaries.
- Support decision-making by bringing relevant information, processes, and operational context together.
The platform is designed with a modular architecture that allows solutions to evolve as business requirements change. Its cloud-ready and enterprise-oriented foundation supports scalability, interoperability, security, and the integration of different technologies and data sources. This approach also enables the creation of industry-specific solutions, that utilise a common technological foundation while addressing the specific operational, regulatory, and market requirements of their respective industries.
Building the Digital Foundation for a More Complex Energy Industry
Unicorn Universe has been recognized in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Twin of an Organization Platforms*. The recognition highlights Unicorn Universe as a platform designed to connect people, processes, data, and technology and provide organizations with a unified digital foundation for managing complex operations.
For the energy sector, this approach is particularly relevant. Energy companies are navigating increasingly interconnected markets, growing renewable generation, decentralized assets, evolving regulatory requirements, and rising demands for secure and efficient data exchange. Unicorn Universe provides the technological foundation for a portfolio of energy solutions, including Damas, Griffin, Certigy, and Enelane, helping organizations address these challenges through connected and adaptable digital solutions.
“Being recognized by Gartner is an important milestone for Unicorn Universe and a strong validation of our approach to building enterprise software. It demonstrates the potential of a unified digital platform to help organizations connect their processes, data, and technology and continuously adapt to changing business requirements. In the energy sector, where complexity and the pace of change are particularly high, this foundation enables us to develop specialized solutions while maintaining a consistent technological backbone.”
— Jan Konrad, CCO, Unicorn Systems
Products Built on Unicorn Universe
Few industries are undergoing as profound a transformation as energy. For grid operators, this means managing a system with more variable generation and increasingly distributed assets. For utilities and energy companies, it means adapting their portfolios and operations to more dynamic markets. For traders and flexibility providers, it means responding to shorter timeframes, more volatile conditions, and the growing importance of flexibility. Across the sector, these developments also create a growing need for reliable interoperability and secure data exchange.
Unicorn Universe provides a digital foundation for addressing these challenges across the energy value chain. Its capabilities support areas including:
- Grid operations and the management of increasingly complex energy systems.
- Integration of renewable energy and decentralized generation.
- Flexibility and asset optimization across distributed energy resources.
- Energy trading and market operations in increasingly dynamic and interconnected markets.
- Market communication and secure data exchange between systems and market participants.
- Interoperability across the diverse technological ecosystem of the energy sector.
“The advantage of Unicorn Universe is that it allows us to combine a common technological foundation with highly specialized energy applications. We can build solutions for very different parts of the energy value chain while maintaining the same principles of integration, scalability, and interoperability. This allows us to respond to new market requirements faster and continuously evolve our products as the energy landscape changes.”
— Daniel Ševčík, General Manager, Unicorn Market Systems & Unicorn Grid Systems
Enabling the Energy Sector to Navigate Increasing Complexity
Managing Energy Markets
Damas is designed for managing complex energy market processes and operations. It provides the digital foundation for coordinating market-related activities in an environment where energy companies need to work across multiple markets, counterparties, processes, and data sources.
By building on Unicorn Universe, Damas can connect market processes with the underlying data and systems they depend on, providing an adaptable foundation for operating in increasingly interconnected and evolving energy markets.
Powering Grid Operation
Griffin focuses on grid operation and the management of complex energy system processes. As power systems incorporate increasing amounts of variable renewable generation and distributed assets, grid operators need to coordinate more information and operational processes while maintaining system security and reliability.
Built on Unicorn Universe, Griffin provides a digital foundation for integrating operational processes and data and supporting the evolving requirements of modern electricity grids.
Green Energy Certificates
Certigy addresses the management of renewable energy certificates and guarantees of origin, supporting organizations in documenting and managing the renewable origin of electricity.
As demand for renewable energy grows and market participants increasingly need to demonstrate the origin and attributes of the energy they consume or supply, reliable certificate management and data processing become an important part of the energy ecosystem. Unicorn Universe provides Certigy with the underlying capabilities for managing these processes and integrating the relevant data and market interfaces.
Secure Energy Data Exchange
Enelane focuses on secure and efficient data exchange across the energy ecosystem. Modern energy markets depend on the ability of market participants, utilities, grid operators, and other organizations to exchange large volumes of operational and market data between different systems.
Enelane builds on Unicorn Universe to facilitate this interoperability and provide a secure digital foundation for exchanging energy-related data across organizational and technological boundaries. This helps address one of the fundamental requirements of an increasingly interconnected energy system: ensuring that the right data reaches the right participant, system, or process reliably and efficiently.
Building the Future of Energy on a Trusted Digital Foundation
The transformation of the energy sector requires more than individual software applications. As energy systems become increasingly decentralized, interconnected, and data-driven, organizations need digital ecosystems that can connect their operations, adapt to change, and support collaboration across organizational and technological boundaries.
For the energy sector, the value of Unicorn Universe lies in its ability to bring specialized solutions together through a common digital foundation. From grid operations and renewable energy to energy markets, trading, flexibility, green energy certificates, and secure data exchange, it enables energy companies to build connected, scalable, and adaptable digital capabilities for a rapidly changing industry. Its recognition in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Twin of an Organization Platforms* marks an important milestone for Unicorn Universe and reinforces our vision of building a digital foundation that helps energy companies continuously evolve and respond to what comes next.
“Our long-term vision is to create a digital foundation that allows organizations to continuously evolve their operations rather than repeatedly replace their technology. In energy, this means enabling companies to connect the different parts of their ecosystem and build new capabilities as the market evolves. Unicorn Universe gives us the foundation to pursue that vision at scale.”
— Jan Konrad, CCO, Unicorn Systems
