Analytics Software

Ventyx is a leading business solutions provider, delivering asset management, mobile workforce management, customer care, energy trading and risk management, energy operations, and energy analytics solutions to more than 900 energy, utility and communications customers, as well as to asset-intensive customers in selected commercial markets. With approximately 1,200 employees in more than 20 locations worldwide, Ventyx delivers best-of-breed business solutions that maximize operational and financial performance, backed by the industry’s deepest available industry-specific domain expertise.

Monaco®, Ventyx’s front-, middle-, and back-office ETRM solution, models an organization’s physical and financial rights and obligations across multiple commodities, capturing load obligations (including uncertainty), generation forecasts (long and short term), bilateral agreements, transmission, storage, and more.

In addition, Monaco provides true straight through processing, real-time credit and trading limits monitoring, state of-the-art risk analytics using Risk Drill, convergence of mark-to-market projections to actual results, and advanced valuation algorithms, including Monte Carlo and custom proprietary algorithms. Developed by energy traders and risk managers, Monaco can be deployed as a standalone application or integrated with several other Ventyx products, including SENDOUT® (storage optimization), PROMOD IV® (generation forecasting), RetailOffice ® (load forecasting), and MarketManager® (market communications) to provide risk managers and traders with the most accurate and up-to-date information. Companies that invest in developing a consolidated view of their business risks will realize improved profitability resulting from improved management of risks.

SunGard Energy Systems is a provider of integrated solutions that enable energy companies to more efficiently and profitably trade and market energy, process transactions, manage risk, and optimize operational and financial decisions.

Palisade Corporation is the maker of the market leading risk and decision analysis software @RISK and the DecisionTools® Suite. Virtually all Palisade software adds in to Microsoft Excel, ensuring flexibility, ease-of-use, and broad appeal across a wide range of industry sectors. Its flagship product, @RISK, debuted in 1987 and performs risk analysis using Monte Carlo simulation. With an estimated 150,000 users, Palisade software can be found in more than 100 countries and has been translated into five languages.

Headquartered in Ithaca, New York, Palisade also maintains offices in London, England, and Sydney, Australia.

Logical Information Machines (LIM) is the preferred choice for financial and energy investors, provides historical as well as real-time tick, intra-day and daily data.

LCG Consulting is a pioneer in modeling the competitive energy market. LCG Consulting offers a full range of consulting services for the electric and gas industries

Off-the-shelf pricing, valuation and risk management application for energy and commodities

Risk management is one of the most complex areas of an energy organisation’s business processes and requires sharp focus from both business and IT perspectives. There is a large disparity between the capabilities of spreadsheet based tools and risk modules of general ETRM systems, to that of an “all encompassing” fully integrated risk analytics application.

Lacima’s dedicated risk management application – “Lacima riskAnalytics,” is specifically designed for energy market participants to address complex multi commodity portfolio risk modeling, valuation, and optimization, while providing full controls to meet risk reporting regulatory compliance.

With Lacima riskAnalytics, you can achieve a consolidated view of risk metrics for complex contracts and physical assets, across multiple commodities, regions, without the cost of having to replace your existing deal capture, data management and back office systems.

All aspects of Lacima riskAnalytics are designed around the modeling frameworks, numerical techniques, models, algorithms, and other applied research developed by Lacima's principals, Dr Les Clewlow and Dr Chris Strickland, who are recognised by Energy Risk magazine's Hall of Fame, an appointment which recognizes the top 50 energy professionals in the world – the pioneers for the market.

Business benefits at a glance

• Utilise single, multi-factor and hybrid stochastic models developed by industry leading research for greater integrity of risk metrics
• Achieve a consolidated view of risk metrics across multiple commodities / subsidiaries / regions
• Value portfolios of swing, storage, generation assets and gas networks at once
• Incorporate the flexibility of physical assets into valuations and risk reports
• Assess the impact of proposed new contracts on portfolio revenues and costs
• Detect risk issues early and adjust positions without incurring undue cost
• Comply with regulatory requirements for risk reporting
• No need for costly replacements of existing systems


Technology benefits at a glance

• Flexible deployment and quick implementation
• Effective and optional integration with ETRM, market data systems and data warehouses
• Full access control and audit ability for regulatory compliance
• Fast processing of numerically intensive calculations
• Scalable from single-user systems to multi-user server “farms”
• Implements complex analytical tools out-of-the box
• Plug-in system allows ease of customer-specific extensions

About Lacima Group

Lacima Group is a specialist provider of energy and commodity pricing, valuation and risk management software and advisory services. Based on its internationally acclaimed research in energy risk modeling, Lacima offers integrated risk management applications to address valuation, market and credit risk or the flexibility of stand-alone solutions for swing and storage.

Lacima’s solutions help energy producers, retailers, distributors, large consumers and financial institutions to value and manage risk associated with complex derivative contracts and physical assets across multiple commodities and regions in a cost-effective manner.

For more information, call +1 (832) 431 3018 in North America, +44 (0) 20 7036 0360 in Europe or visit: www.lacimagroup.com.

FAME is a leading supplier to the energy markets of quality-checked, fully managed feeds of energy market data from over 75 sources, purpose-built energy market analysis systems, complete data management solutions for energy trading and enterprise information integration solutions and data management outsourcing.

We are a unique products and services company, that offers smart solutions in the Energy Trading
and Risk Management space. This venture is motivated by our professional judgement as industry
insiders, that some very key business areas in the Energy Trading domain suffer from a critical lack
of structured attention by mainstream IT vendors.

Energy Markets today offer great opportunities that inevitably lead to equally large exposure to market,
model, credit and operational risks. Right decisions at the right time are the key differentiators in this
market. Furthermore, with increased regulatory pressures and heightened scrutiny from auditors, there
needs to be a paradigm shift in the way IT and Business come together to face these challenges.

The industry is crying out for Decision Support Systems that are intelligent, robust and offer measurable
returns on investment.

We at e·Opt aim to deliver such solutions...... to complex problems in Pricing, Hedging, Risk Control and
Forecasting. We help companies with tools to achieve technical and operational excellence.