TRM Directory

Abacus Solutions Inc is the developer of SATURN, an integrated enterprise-wise ETRM system (front, mid, back office) with decision support capabilities and additional unique tools that offer solutions to key business functions. SATURN includes 12 applications that offer solutions to key business functions: Market Simulation, Generation Optimization, Parameterization, Load Analysis, Trade Capture, Trade Valuation, Credit Management, Financial Analysis, Business Intelligence, ISO Integration, Risk Management, and Portfolio Management. A combination of eight features differentiates SATURN from the crowded field of legacy ETRM systems: Advanced Analytics, Unparalleled Performance, Modular Architecture, Seamless Integration, Data Acquisition, Intuitive Interface, Enterprise Services, and Enterprise Mobility. SATURN facilitates improved decisions and helps analyze corporate and functional risks, revenues, costs, and profits for a portfolio of plants, trades, and other assets. Using modern technology, SATURN helps users realise significant benefits and gain unique and sustainable competitive advantages.

cKlear is an IT products and services company specialising in trading system software and risk management software systems and services.

Contigo is a leading provider of trading and logistics software products for the energy industry. The company has developed the innovative and flexible enTrader Suite of products that deliver significant business benefit and sustained value to its customers.

Our enTrader product, launched in 2009, is quickly becoming the market leader in addressing both energy retail portfolio management and fuel logistics supply chain management, as well as establishing itself as a serious contender in the Energy/Commodity Trading Risk Management (ETRM/CTRM) space.

Implemented on site, or accessed through a Software as a Service (SaaS) “cloud” model, enTrader’s rich Web Browser interface can be quickly mastered by users who want to combine a powerful trading application with ease of use, rich reporting and an extensible architecture.

Contigo’s success and growth over the last 5 years has been recognised by our inclusion in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50, a highly regarded index of the UK’s fastest growing technology companies.

Trading complex energy commodities such as electric power can be a challenging process.  Power markets trading at half-hourly (or even in 15 minute blocks) have become increasingly difficult to manage. This combined with intricate trading and payment schedules, add to the overall market complexity.  enTrader was designed  from the ground up to meet the specific challenges of such complex energy markets, allowing a consistent approach to trading any energy commodity.

Sophisticated user configurable multi-commodity, book and market portfolio risk and exposure analysis is provided out of the box with enTrader’s position analysis capability.  Secure and controlled access to Enterprise Class, real-time, ‘splice-and-dice’ analysis and reporting of the trade, risk, portfolio and settlement information can be easily performed.

Within the enTrader suite, enVoy provides fast, responsive and reliable intra-industry data flow management, with minimal operational intervention. Our latest product, enPrice, is a comprehensive costing and pricing engine designed for the electricity, gas and dual fuel retail markets.

Contigo utilises agile delivery methods and state of the art technologies to deliver and implement solutions both rapidly and cost effectively ensuring the earliest and greatest ROI is achieved for each customer.

enTrader’s interoperability is a key feature in reducing implementation times. The Application Programming interface (API) and integrated reporting capabilities ensure that project implementations deliver real benefits to customers quickly.

UK-based Contigo has a proven delivery track record with major blue chip clients such as Shell, E.ON, RWE npower, SSE, Centrica, First Utility, DRAX and more.

Customer implementation case studies and product detail are available at www.contigoenergy.com.

To speak with one of our energy trading experts, call +44 (0) 8458 38 68 48

Enterprise Solution

Enuit, LLC offers its first-class, low-cost, fully loaded, multi-commodity, enterprise-wide E/CTRM solution, called Enstep. This flagship product provides its application users with all expected E/CTRM functions and capabilities, including: Trade and Confirm Management, Mark-to-market Valuation, Logistics and Scheduling, Natural Gas Producer Services, Natural Gas Processing, Contract Management, Gas Marketing, Hedge Accounting, Credit and Risk Management, Trade Limit Management, Inventory Management, Production Accounting, and much more.

Bolt-on Functions

Enuit’s Enstep application can “bolt-on” to any other E/CTRM product to extend the benefits of investments already made in those products. Once “bolted” on, Enstep can fill in gaps of functions and capabilities missing in other E/CTRM products. For instance, suppose the Natural Gas scheduling capabilities of an E/CTRM product are weak or non-existent. Enstep can be bolted on to this other product to provide the vital, missing functionality. The same type of strategy can be deployed to provide application support for any such functional area while keeping the remaining functional aspect of the E/CTRM product intact. Here is how it works. Enstep is built around a trade management tool, called Deal Type Designer, which can be configured to store any contract, or deal, imaginable within a few hours. A deal type’s configuration will include invoice management instructions, valuation methodology, physical scheduling parameters, hedge accounting treatment, settlement logic, and many other things. The configuration also includes an import format indicating how deal data from another system should be interpreted and imported. All deals stored in off-system databases, such as spreadsheets, can be imported and stored within Enstep, too, as Enstep also provides a stand-alone deal blotter capability. Then, any of Enstep’s native capabilities may be used to perform whatever function may be required without having to replace all existing, useful functions provided by another vendor. Therefore, the benefits of an past E/CTRM investments are extended using Enuit’s Enstep technology.

Data Warehousing Software

Enstep can also be used to “glue” together sources of data throughout an organization. Since any one system rarely, if ever, provides 100% of an organization’s overall information processing needs, organizations must cope each day with pieces of data residing in many different data repositories, limiting an organization’s ability to generate useful, timely information. Even the best of E/CTRM systems are somewhat limited in the scope of information they can provide because of their focus on managing data used in an organization’s commodity trading activities. And, each organization’s manner of doing business can be unique in some ways, from one organization to another. Enstep can be easily configured to reach into many sources of data simultaneously to generate reportable information. Such capability was once considered possible only after a massive investment in data warehousing projects and system interfaces. Now, Enstep makes it easy. With a little instruction, even non-technical resources of an organization can create forms and reports, without any technical knowledge of programming languages, to address their own individual information needs quickly. Enstep becomes the “glue” binding together data scattered about an organization’s information infrastructure without data warehouses and interfaces.

iRely is a leading provider of intuitive, innovate, and affordable software solutions for commodity traders.

These enterprise class solutions are designed to give traders the tools they need in real-time to glean more insight and apply creative methods to reduce risk, increase revenues, and realize efficiencies.

Intrinsic to iRely is the flexibility the market demands: multi-lingual, multi-currency, multi-commodity, and multi-company.

If that were not enough, iRely employs flexible technology to allow traders to leverage the latest technology tools that best suit the needs of their organization.

For decision makers, iRely offers iGuide: Dashboard Evolved, a ground-breaking dashboard and reporting tool.

With trend analysis, drag and drop pivot charts, and a WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) report designer, traders are no longer limited to the reporting capabilities and analysis tools of their software, but to the extent of their imagination.

iRely’s user-friendly, customer-centric model ensures that its customers spend more time doing business and less time training and requiring support.

LIM, a Morningstar Company, provides superior quality market data and analytical products for energy data management systems, financial and agricultural data management, historical analysis, trading, risk management and forecasting. Founded in 1988, and now a subsidiary of the investment research powerhouse, Morningstar, Inc., Logical Information Machines, Inc. (LIM) is the global leader in providing software to perform sophisticated historical equity, bond and commodity research.

LIM enables you to access, manage and analyze the energy data you need to make intelligent energy investment decisions. Nine of the top ten gas and power marketers in the U.S. use LIM for their data needs. The Market Information Machine (MIM) gathers and distributes data from over 350 different sources in the power, oil, gas and weather markets, including:

* All the major global energy exchanges such as CME, EEX, APX and ICE.
* Electricity system operators (ISOs)
* Price-providing services such as Platts, Argus and OPIS
* Major commodity brokers such as Amerex, ICAP and Prebon
* Key data from organizations such as the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

LIM provides unparalleled access to the breadth and volume of energy market data. Data is centrally organized and categorized in structured hierarchies with flexibility to add/remove vendor groups, making MIM's environment easy to operate in, while patented database technology ensures that you do not ever have to wait for MIM. Operators monitor the data warehouse 24/7/365 to address your immediate concerns.

LIM offers financial, agricultural and energy prices in an onsite or hosted data management solution. LIM's data management tools provide endless variations of data intelligence, from correction notifications to advanced data filtering and calculations, to clients on demand. The LIM data cleaning layer has the ability to send suspect data notifications to both clients and vendors the moment inconsistencies are located. We supply data from the most reliable, reputable sources

SunGard’s energy and commodities solutions help energy companies, corporate hedgers, hedge funds and financial services firms to compete efficiently in global energy and commodities markets by streamlining and integrating the trading, risk management and operations of physical commodities and their associated financial instruments. Through real-time data, connectivity and analysis, the solutions help customers achieve transparency and regulatory compliance in fast-moving energy and commodity markets. SunGard’s energy and commodities solutions address end-to-end transaction and operational lifecycles with flexible deployment options to meet time-to-market needs.