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Solutions

Our custom applications and integrations are geared towards large ROIs in short time frames. Our customer's problems demand innovative solutions delivered to quality standards of the best software organizations.
Our goal is "Business technology made easy."

Tick-by-Tick Commodity Market Data Distribution

 The challenge was to distribute real time, tick-by-tick, market data provided by commodity markets such as NYMEX and COMEX to real time risk management and trading platforms running on to wireless tablet PCs deployed on the trading floors of the exchanges.
The solution was to translate market data provided by commodity exchanges from ITC2.1 format to FIXML. Market data in the form of FIXML was published to a custom Risk Management and Trading Application running on wireless tablet PCs. We used an efficient event driven architecture provided by KnowNow to move the data over the wireless lan and over the internet to desktop clients.
Update times were identical to the big board on the trading floor of the NYMEX exchange.
For more information please read our whitepaper.

Electronic Whiteboard for Commodity Brokerage

 Brokers working in large groups across multiple offices were faced with being out of touch with current bids and offers in the market. The traditional solution was to use a wall board and a marker. Our solution built upon the KnowNow event router now enables brokers to view and post bids and offers to all other brokers, across all offices.
For more information please read our press release.

Sales analysis datamart

 Our custom datamart and computational system speeds calculation of critical information by two orders of magnitude. Payback on development was measured in weeks. Interim deliverables provided benefit in days.

Mass Market Retail Energy Customer Information System

 Energy deregulation programs are being tried through out the United States, Europe and other parts of the world. Deregulation has reached a point where individual residential and small to medium sized business may benefit. These customers must be solicited, fitted with the right plan, signed up, switched, supplied, billed, collected from and cared for. There are costs associated with servicing these customers. The opportunity lies in that the available margin for mass market energy accounts is often greater than that of larger commercial and industrial accounts.

Challenges:
  • Deliver new and competitive energy products to mass market retail customers through all possible sales channels in all available markets.
  • Integrate fragmented supply chain. Comply with state to state and utility to utility market rules.
  • Concurrently support multiple partner, customer, supplier, distributor operating models.
  • Build with minimal budget in the tightest labor market in history.
  • Processes must be efficient enough to create a profit within the available, but thin margins.
  • Complexities:
    • Non-uniform business rules;
    • No data interchange standards;
    • 250 large Investor Owned Utilities;
    • 7000 tax jurisdictions;
    • 8 taxes on a commercial account in NYC;
    • 24 x 7 customer service operations for internet based customers;
    • 7 billing scenarios;
    • 6 cancel re-bill scenarios;
    • 4 payment methods.

Solution:
Innovative design and a flexible platform based on enterprise technologies operating on a highly available server farm.
Solutions Index
  • NYMEX/COMEX Market Data Distribution
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  • Elextronic Whiteboard for Commodity Brokerage
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  • Analytical Datamart
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  • Mass Market Retail Energy Customer Information System
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