The information management business is worth over $100 billion USD, and based on 2010 data the number was set to grow at nearly 10% a year (Economist). Clearly, data is one of the most important assets of today’s organizations. Companies rely on data to make crucial business decisions, and consistently face the issue of data […]
Imagine you’re a trader working on a number of different analyses of the energy market every day. Part of your analyses involves the creation of forward curves, before pushing them onto a database and using them in a downstream system. A lot of the job involves copying and pasting content from one spreadsheet to another – […]
NYMEX crude financial contracts for the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) exceeded the Intercontinental Exchange’s (ICE) Brent Crude for the first time in three years on Friday by 3 cents. At the time of writing, WTI was reasserting its benchmark dominance as the spread between it and Brent disappeared. Limited pipeline access has been the main […]
We often see some of the brightest minds in companies spending thousands of valuable hours manually collecting and validating data. This is time that could be better spent analyzing it, so companies can focus on the making those all important business decisions. However simplifying the complexity of the data management process is not so easy. In […]
Collecting data is the first step towards finding meaningful correlations among the immense wealth of market information that’s out there right now. However the process of tracking down such information and trying to make sense of it all can often be overwhelming. As any good market trader, business analyst or risk manager knows; as […]
Data is the lifeblood of our industry. Without it, there isn’t much a trader or analyst can do. At ZE, we work with clients and data vendors each and every day. For us it’s easy to see that there’s a need for entitlements among large enterprise organizations. The Data “Consumer” You’re a large multinational corporation […]
Last week I published two articles on a recent presentation on the ERCOT market, which was held by a few of our analysts at ZE. Thus far, I have provided an overview of the market, as well as an analysis of congestion revenue rights. For my third and final installment of this series, I will […]
ZE held its second User Forum and Conference in Vancouver, BC, in October. The event brought together industry and information technology experts to discuss issues involving Enterprise Data Management (EDM) in connection with risk management in energy and commodities trading. EDM and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) conference addressed various angles of the issue. Different participants and […]
As regulators around the world debate systemic risk – focusing on the risk/reward proposition of market activity on the economic system – enterprises are increasingly focusing on managing enterprise risk and satisfying shareholder concerns that their investments are safe. Modern enterprises have evolved into complex systems of smaller, separate corporations and/or business units located in […]
ZE PowerGroup Inc.® (ZE) is proud to announce it was able to meet its Calendar 2010 corporate objective of doubling its client base for the ZEMATM Suite. ZEMA is ZE’s flagship software for Enterprise Data Management. The new ZEMA users came from a diverse range of organizations including utilities, oil and gas companies, commodity traders, […]