2012 Sponsors

Structure is exclusively focused on energy and provides deep energy industry expertise and experience through specialized consulting and custom software services, including: Energy Trading and Risk Management, Smart Grid / Distribution Operations and Automation, SCADA and Energy Management Systems, and Competitive Energy Market Solutions.

Structure’s ETRM practice area provides consulting services including Dodd-Frank compliance, credit risk management, roadmap development, solution selection and solution implementation to reduce delivery risk, increase efficiency, and ensure success across all energy trading and risk management capabilities. Selected as Energy Risk Magazine’s “ETRM Software Advisory Firm of the Year 2012”, Structure is dedicated to being the premier ETRM service provider in North America.

GlobalView is the leading provider of innovative energy data management solutions that deliver real-time, deep historical and customer-proprietary energy market data. GlobalView’s award-winning MarketView solution allows you to access a comprehensive collection of global energy and commodity market data, including futures, energy exchanges, and broker data on your desktop, mobile device, or internal systems. GlobalView understands that your systems depend on reliable and accurate energy information to make critical decisions. From front to back office, our web-based data management solutions are designed to meet all of your firm’s needs for a completely integrated energy market analysis system.

Morningstar Commodity Data is a leading provider of data, analytics and research, providing its customers with data management solutions and actionable information in the energy, commodities and financial sectors. Morningstar’s clients are among the world's largest energy concerns, utilities, hedge funds, mutual funds, and banks.

Morningstar offers a world-class data warehouse which gathers and distributes data from over 200 different sources in the power, oil, gas, commodities, equities, futures and weather markets. Sources include all the major exchanges, the electricity system operators (ISOs), price providers, major commodity brokers, weather vendors, and other key data services.  In addition to gathering, processing, checking, and distributing more than 500 million data records every month, Morningstar provides data management tools that quickly store and serve up the data. Clients have access to high power research tools for analyzing, back-testing and forecasting the markets.

ZE PowerGroup® was established in May 1995 as a strategic consulting and software development firm to serve the emerging needs of energy markets in transition. The corporation operates as three specialized business units: Strategic Consulting, Product Development and Power Engineering. This segmentation allows us to combine our team’s vast and varied expertise with the best practices in information technology. With over thirteen years of experience, we are able to integrate the insight we’ve gained with a comprehensive understanding of the industry. This allows us to provide our clients with a solid, built-in knowledgebase that supports planning, energy trading, analytics, and risk control activities, to name a few. At ZE, we combine a perceptive and in-depth view of the market with the latest technological developments. Our software products are designed by experts to meet the specific challenges faced by energy industry participants.

Deloitte is the largest global professional services organization, focused on consulting and risk advisory services. Deloitte’s commodity transacting and risk management (CTRM) practice offers a broad suite of services, ranging from strategy, valuation, risk, technology, infrastructure, and organizational change to financial reporting, assurance, and accounting. We assist companies with large global transformations or with more focused point solutions.

Our technology teams offer a range of specialized services to help energy and commodity companies assess, design, and implement energy and commodity risk management solutions. In addition to providing deep specialization in commodity transacting through our CTRM practice in the U.S., we have access to experienced practitioners across the member firms of Deloitte, which operates around the world.

Our team is composed of specialists in business strategy, trading, commercial operations, risk management, asset optimization, deal valuation, portfolio management, energy accounting, logistics, settlements, and supporting technology strategy and solutions. Our CTRM services are integrated with our SAP, Oracle service offerings, as well as our Human Capital, Financial Advisory, and Tax practices to offer clients access to the depth and breadth of our experiences.

As used in this document, “Deloitte” means Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries and all other members of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, a UK private company limited by guarantee. It is composed of a network of member firms, each of which is a legally separate and independent entity. Please see www.deloitte.com/about for a detailed description of the legal structure of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited and its member firms. Please see www.deloitte.com/us/about for a detailed description of the legal structure of Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries. Certain services may not be available to attest clients under the rules and regulations of public accounting.

Platts, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), provides benchmark pricing, news, conferences and analysis that the energy, petrochemicals and metals markets rely upon to achieve transparency and efficiency. From 17 offices around the world, Platts serves customers from over 150 different countries. For over a century, Platts’ benchmark prices have served as an accepted standard to connect counter-parties and provide transparent, competitive transactions. Traders, risk managers, analysts, and industry leaders depend upon our total market fluency to make critical business decisions with greater speed and confidence.

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. 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.

INDRA is the premier Information Technology company in Spain and a leading IT multinational in Europe and Latin America. It is ranked as the second European company in its sector according to stock market capitalization, and it is one of the three Spanish companies with more investment in R&D. In 2007, revenues exceeded euro 2.167 M, of which a third came from the international market. The company employs more than 24.000 professionals and has clients in more than 90 countries.

Sirius Solutions, L.L.L.P. is an independent management consulting company providing services within Financial Advisory, Business Operations, Compliance & Controls, Legal & Economic Advisory and Technology sectors. Sirius client-base extends to over forty countries across a wide range of major industries, including construction, energy, financial services, health care, manufacturing, power & utilities, retail and transportation & logistics.

Within the CTRM sector, Sirius Solutions specialises in commodity and energy trading, risk management, operations, technology and business strategy. It is dedicated to providing  specialised “real-world” experience and expertise that creates measurable value to clients via proven methodologies and leadership.

Sirius partners with its clients to expose the values, expectations and needs of the business in order to achieve strategic and tactical objectives. Using highly collaborative and transparent methodologies it’s skilled and specialised team of experts work with clients in delivering core business enhancements via a number of key service offerings including:

• Business & Technology strategic advisory services
• Technology Services, including technical delivery, testing and technical quality assurance
• “Technology Optimisation” - leverage clients’ existing technology investment , increase ROI on existing technology
• Business process and technology transformation advisory services
• Project Delivery (C/ETRM implementation, C/ETRM upgrade)
• Outsourcing, including managed services

Sirius Solutions helps its customers achieve competitive advantage via the identification and implementation of core strategic initiatives, including the optimisation of TRM technology and business processes to meet the collective needs of stakeholders.

These Key offerings from Sirius Solutions deliver measurable value, developing long-term client relationships and earning “trusted advisor” status with its clients.