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Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with more than 246,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world's most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$25.5 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2011.
Opportune LLP is an independent consultancy focused on the energy industry. We are led by seasoned professionals with senior executive experience in major energy and consulting firms. We serve clients throughout North America and Europe.
Using our extensive knowledge of all sectors of the energy industry, we work with clients to provide comprehensive solutions to their operational and financial challenges. Across energy segments, our practice areas include corporate finance, complex financial reporting, process and technology, strategy and organization, dispute resolution, enterprise risk, tax and outsourcing.
Founded in 1909, Platts is a leading global provider of energy, petrochemicals, metals and agriculture information and a premier source of benchmark prices for the physical and futures markets. Platts' news, pricing, analytics, commentary and conferences help customers make better-informed trading and business decisions and help the markets operate with greater transparency and efficiency. Customers in more than 150 countries benefit from Platts' coverage of the biofuels, carbon emissions, coal, electricity, oil, natural gas, metals, nuclear power, petrochemical, shipping and sugar markets. A division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), Platts is headquartered in New York with approximately 900 employees in more than 15 offices worldwide.
WSI Energy Listing
Whether your business is power or natural gas trading, wind farm forecasting or utilities, WSI has a weather solution that can be tailored to suit your needs. The meteorological data and forecasts supplied by WSI are highly accurate, timely, and user-friendly, and have been adopted by over 400 energy companies, banks, hedge funds and utilities worldwide.
We know the value of investing in cutting-edge infrastructure and employees, whose dedication to innovation is matched only by the passion they have for meteorology. This dedication has resulted in the creation of the world's more powerful forecast model and a suite of tools for those trading, hedging and managing risk in Energy commodities. We are WSI, The Professional Division of The Weather Company and The Innovation Engine of The Weather Channel.
Nexant, a spin-off from Bechtel and a premier global provider of clean energy solutions, is a leader in the renewable energy and energy efficiency markets. In renewable energy, Nexant has transacted over 30 billion kWhs with utilities, institutions, and Fortune 500 companies including Starbucks, Fedex, Lowes, Kohls and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. In energy efficiency, Nexant has transacted over 7 billion kWhs and has been the first to create and sell in every active state market including Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Illinois.
PwC US helps organizations and individuals create the value they're looking for. We're a member of the PwC network of firms in 158 countries with more than 180,000 people. We're committed to delivering quality in assurance, tax and advisory services. We understand our clients' industries and unique business challenges, and look across the entire organization - focusing on strategy, structure, people, process and technology - to help clients build their next competitive advantage. Visit us at www.pwc.com/US.
About RiskAdvisory and SAS
Capture, analyze and simulate energy risk exposures
RiskAdvisory, a division of SAS, provides the next generation of commodity trading and risk management software solutions through Enterprise Commodity Risk Aggregation and Analytics (ECRAA). Its SAS BookRunner suite helps firms mitigate risk and optimize business value in volatile markets, and to streamline Dodd-Frank compliance. RiskAdvisory blends market-leading CTRM solutions with the integrated data framework and superior business analytics for which SAS is known. Learn more at www.RiskAdvisory.com.
Sapient Global Markets, a division of Sapient, is a leading provider of business and technology services to the capital and commodity markets. We are a trusted partner to investment banks, regulators, governments, energy and commodities firms, exchanges and investment managers and uniquely understand their entire environment. We can support their needs from strategy through to requirements analysis, implementation and assurance and have executed in all major technology environments and across all asset classes. Our unique model for delivery is based on proven experience, making us the go-to-partner for firms looking to manage complexity and achieve organizational goals in the face of changing market requirements.
Our clients in the commodity and energy sector are focused on growing demand, increased competition, regulatory change and price volatility. We work with market leading utilities, integrated oil and gas companies, and the commodity trading desks at investment banks, hedge funds and exchanges to recognize and react to changing market conditions, facilitate regulatory compliance and take advantage of new and existing markets to grow revenue.
For more information, please visit www.sapientglobalmarkets.com.
About SunGard's Solutions for Energy & Commodities
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, SunGard's energy and commodities solutions help customers achieve transparency and regulatory compliance, address end-to-end transaction and operational lifecycles, and meet time-to-market needs with flexible deployment options.
For more information, visit www.sungard.com/energyandcommodities.
About SunGard's Aligne
SunGard's Aligne is a multi-commodity software solution suite that helps energy companies more efficiently and profitably trade and market energy, process transactions, manage risk, and optimize operational and financial decisions. Leveraging a service-oriented architecture, Aligne is a configurable, modular and scalable solution. It integrates trading, risk and control, credit, scheduling, fuels procurement, emissions compliance, back-office and finance for straight-through processing of commodity transactions.
For more information, visit www.sungard.com/energy.
About SunGard Global Services
SunGard Global Services helps financial services and energy companies solve business problems by managing their complex technology and operational needs. Focused on large scale data and process management, custom application development and systems integration; we combine business and technology consulting and managed services to deliver innovative custom solutions. We help our customers capitalize on and manage the consequences of business, technology and regulatory change.
For more information, visit us at www.sungard.com/globalservices/learnmore
Allegro Development Corporation
Allegro is a global leader in energy trading & risk management solutions for power and gas utilities, refiners, producers, traders, and commodity consumers. With more than 28 years of deep industry expertise, Allegro's enterprise platform drives profitability and efficiency across front, middle, and back offices, while managing the complex logistics associated with physical commodities. Allegro provides customers with agile solutions to manage risk across natural gas, power, coal, crude oil, petroleum products, emissions, and other commodity markets, allowing decision makers to hedge and execute with confidence. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Allegro has offices in Calgary, Houston, London, Singapore, Sydney and Zurich, along with a global network of partners.
Ascend Analytics is a leading software solutions and services firm that has grown steadily for the past decade. We work with many of the world's leading energy companies to achieve efficient processes and superior decision analysis. Our clients are provided with software solutions that reliably capture the factors that impact their business operations and financial performance. Ascend Analytics provides a modular analytical platform to manage decision analysis from the next day to the next thirty years.
Digiterre specialises in building custom software exclusively for the energy, commodity and financial trading sectors. Clients include some of the largest energy and commodity traders across Europe.
We work in small teams of highly experienced software engineers, using an agile approach and industry best practices in component-based design. We deliver real value quickly, focusing on outcomes that truly meet your needs.
And we only do the tough stuff: high-risk and high-profile projects with complex requirements and tight timescales.
Enite is a management consulting firm providing operational and strategic advisory services to companies in the energy, utility, and manufacturing industries. Our consultants offer experience, dedication, advocacy, and confidentiality for the emerging challenges and opportunities facing our clients, including evolving market dynamics, regulatory changes and a constantly changing competitive landscape. We deliver a structured approach of identifying and quantifying issues, while ensuring that the key operational levers of an organization are considered: Organization, Process and Technology. Our consultants provide insight into organizational challenges and partner with our clients to formulate and implement sustainable solutions.
Enuit, LLC offers its first-class, low-cost, fully loaded, multi-commodity, enterprise-wide E/CTRM solution, called Entrade. 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. Entrade supports many different commodity-trading business needs for Natural Gas, Electricity, Crude Oil, Coal, as well as other non-energy-related commodities. Further, Entrade has special programs and technology to support the emerging electricity and natural gas retail markets.
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GlobalView's MarketView solution aggregates mission-critical real-time, historical, and internal proprietary energy market data into a single platform for use on an enterprise-wide basis. GlobalView provides both front and back office solutions and offers one of the only SaaS-based solutions in the market, delivering unprecedented levels of portability and accessibility to customers working in the office, at home, or on the road. GlobalView's flexible and reliable data delivery solutions, including direct interfaces with many third party ETRM Solutions, provide easy access to GlobalView's extensive collection of data sources including exchange traded instruments, OTC derivatives, market assessments, price corrections, statistics, currencies, news, reports and more. With offices in Chicago, Houston, London, Singapore, Calgary, and Mexico City, GlobalView provides prompt and comprehensive support to customers around the world.
Triple Point Technology® is the leading global provider of on-premise and in-cloud Commodity Management software that delivers advanced analytics to optimize end-to-end commodity and energy value chains. Triple Point's Commodity XLTM is the only Commodity Management solution that works across multiple commodities in real-time from the front- through the back-office. The solution reduces risk and maximizes profitability by providing an enterprise-wide view of physical and financial commodity trading, delivering advanced business intelligence, and simplifying compliance. Leading global companies including Valero, SK Energy, CITGO, UBS, Petrobras, ConocoPhillips, and Saras Oil count on Commodity XL every day to navigate today's volatile and complex business environment.
ZE PowerGroup Inc. (ZE) is a software development and consulting firm with head offices in Vancouver, BC, Canada. ZE is the developer of the ZEMA Suite, an end-to-end software solution designed for collecting data, performing complex analysis and integrating with downstream systems for energy, commodities, industrial and financial markets. The ZEMA Suite is globally recognized as a leader in data management systems and has been named Data Management House of the Year for the past four years by Energy Risk Magazine.
Lacima, with its 2013 first place rankings for risk metrics, modelling, market risk: power and market risk: gas in the annual Energy Risk Software Rankings, is a specialist provider of software and advisory services dedicated to valuation, optimisation and risk management for global energy markets. We help you to maximise your profit potential and make more informed decisions by providing tools that yield more accurate valuations, hedging and risk exposure analysis for portfolios of financial contracts and physical assets.
Clients of our software and services include structuring, valuation and risk teams in vertically integrated energy companies, energy retailers, financial institutions and large energy consumers in Europe, North America and Australasia.
Our software solutions have been developed and implemented by peer-recognised experts in energy analytics, offering an unparalleled level of expertise and personalised support.
For further information, visit www.lacimagroup.com or email info@lacimagroup.com
OpenLink provides a variety of commodity trading and risk management solutions for large to small global market participants across a wide-spectrum of asset classes. The company's solutions support the sophisticated needs of organizations that deal with cross-asset trading, complex derivatives, and portfolio management of assets or structured positions. All solutions support the basics of trading, financial risk management, physical logistics, operations including optimizations, and accounting.
OpenLink can tailor solutions for companies that need to manage physical assets with a requirement for time-series data, forecasting and optimization. Our solutions provide real-time, straight-through-processing (STP) software environments that support crude, power, natural gas, natural gas liquids, metals, coal, weather derivatives, emissions, bandwidth, soft commodities, foreign exchange, and a variety of other markets.
Other supported solutions provide companies the ability to trade physical energy and commodity products, vanilla OTC products, physical and financial options and swaptions, complex products, exchange traded products, physical and financial options, physical asset classes, foreign exchange and swaps, and fixed income over-the-counter options.
Headquartered on Long Island, New York and with offices in New York City, Houston, Dallas, Tulsa, London, Berlin, Vienna, São Paulo, Sydney, Singapore, Moscow, Toronto, and Dubai, OpenLink has more than 1,250 employees worldwide.
OpenLink has received numerous industry awards and recognition, including citations as the industry leader by Gartner and ranked First-in-Class by Energy Risk magazine for energy trading and risk management (ETRM) systems.
Pioneer Solutions LLC is a global software provider of next generation Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) Environmental Management Information Systems (EMIS) & Enterprise Compliance Solutions. Pioneer's comprehensive suite of products are designed specifically for utility and energy companies and offer a single seamlessly integrated platform that can handle all commodity types, risk exposures and compliance needs.
Offering the latest in business processing capability, Pioneer's products offer the user a configurable environment that allows for customizable templates for workflow and user-defined custom formula entry. Serving some of the largest utilities and energy companies across the globe, Pioneer's flexible solutions are designed for rapid deployment and easily adapt to clients' unique business processes, model complex trading scenarios and automate business processes.
