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.

Allegro Developement, with its latest product, Allegro 8, provides its customers with applications that streamline their operations, enable them to assess and reduce risk, and deliver a rapid return on software investment.

To prosper in today‘s increasingly complex marketplace, physical trading companies and financial institutions rely on specialist solutions and sophisticated analysis to maintain a competitive edge in the global commodity markets. The latest generation of Brady‘s market leading solutions provides integrated trading, risk and settlement systems. With comprehensive audit, compliance and regulatory functions, businesses can now combine sophisticated management techniques with highly efficient throughput to drive down costs. The straight-through processing capability of an open service oriented  architecture which facilitates ease of integration into the clients environment, thus enabling an enterprise to quickly achieve a lower cost per trade and provides a proven foundation for effective risk management and a streamlined, efficient business process.

 Brady is a well funded public company, backed by leading institutional investors. With 25 years’ experience of developing leading technology, Brady is now used by over 150 companies on 5 continents, including some of the largest trading companies, financial institutions, producers, mining corporations, energy generators and hedge funds in the world. By working closely with our clients in the metals & minerals, energy & softs markets we continue to lead the way in trade capture and risk management, increasing productivity and operational & regulatory efficiencies in a changing landscape.

The global commodities markets are becoming more volatile and complicated; growing regulatory, legal and corporate governance requirements are adding even more pressure. Brady‘s transaction and risk management applications are designed to help our clients manage all their commodity transactions in a single integrated solution – including pre-deal analysis, trade capture, foreign exchange, market and credit risk, logistics, cash management, physical operations, back office financials, settlement, freight, regulatory reporting  and more.

A fundamental market driver in recent times has been the significant increase in electronic trading - across all asset classes. Increased market volumes, volatile markets and continuing pressure on market-makers to offer complete & competitive services to clients have seen a dramatic increase in the availability of both order- and execution-management systems across the industry.

Brady’s Trading and Risk Management solutions are designed to offer highly efficient and optimised system and trade processing and risk reporting: from the on-boarding of new clients; through exchange connectivity for transaction processing and post-execution processes such as confirmations and client statements; to advanced real-time risk analysis and monitors across exchange-traded and OTC contracts.

Technical innovation is very much at the fore-front of Brady’s latest generation of solution offerings, utilising the very latest Microsoft standards, such as Silverlight and C#, and service-based architectures to offer new levels of scalability and performance to its solutions in order to enhance the user experience and increase data performance

Brady is a proven market leader and provides solutions for all sizes of operation. Whether the requirement is for hundreds of users across the entire process – from point of production to end-user – or for just a few users who are targeting one aspect of the supply chain, we have a solution. Brady's products can be fully integrated with 3rd party systems and applications, whether internal or external.

The goals are the same for everyone – to be competitive, profitable, fast, manage risk, streamline operations, and meet regulatory requirements.

For further information visit: www.bradyplc.com

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

Data Management Solutions-GasPro
For the past 15 years Data Management Solutions (DMS) has been a leading provider of gas consulting and integrated management systems for trading, transmission, risk and management specifically designed for Utilities-LDCs, Industrial and Marketing firms in North America. DMS’ web based software, GasPro, offers a single point of entry and seamless functionality across the front, middle and back offices ensuring data accuracy and creating significant operational efficiencies. GasPro is a mature solution, designed from the ground up to be a specialized gas-only application, one that is not burdened with non-gas functionality and unnecessary add-on modules that don’t provide any real or significant value to companies transacting in the natural gas markets.

GasPro offers continual compliance capabilities with FERC, FAS, Sarbanes Oxley and GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles). Special emphasis on FAS 133 derivative instruments and hedging activities and FAS 157 fair market value measurements are an integral facet of the system. Trading effectiveness is heightened through real-time downloads of ICE and daily Platts interfacing. The all inclusive system also accounts for scheduling, nomination, transportation invoices, imbalances, gas storage, fuel usage and volume allocations. DMS clients represent some of the nation’s most strategic organizations in the marketplace.

Eka is a leading provider of commodity trade and risk management software. Global players in the Agriculture and Metals commodity markets have deployed our solution for managing their physical trading, position, PnL, risk, logistics and finance operations.

At Entrion, we deliver energy risk management solutions to help you manage uncertainty. Our solutions include ProFin Risk™, a market risk management software solution, and risk management & analytical business consulting services.

ProFin Risk™ is an easy to use and low cost, multi-commodity Value at Risk (VaR) solution managing risk in a controlled environment. The solution provides functionality for mark-to-market, near real time VaR, auditing and back testing while minimizing the resources needed for implementation and operation via its user friendly web based design.

Our business consulting services include ETRM system integration & operations solutions for compliance and process automation. We also deliver analytical services to value and optimize assets & complex transactions.

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.

Navita Systems A/S provides the POMAX application which supports commodity trading & risk management along with logistics support for power and natural gas. Navita is based in Norway with offices in Europe and North America.

SolArc is a software technology firm offering today's most sophisticated supply and trade management solutions for global energy companies.