THE COMMODITY LANDSCAPE has changed. Increased competition, a revised regulatory framework, pricing transparency, slower Chinese growth, a globalised market place, alongside investments in renewables, oil and gas shale and LNG, have all contributed to market complexity. But there’s a new dynamic force that is prevalent and accelerating at a pace we have never seen before […]

THE ROUND-THE-CLOCK, PROCESS intensive and critical use of commodity data for analysis and decision support in trading, risk, and market operations requires quality, trusted data to help drive business advantage, implement new strategies and improve operational results. Paradoxically, there’s a level of reluctance or inertia in some organisations towards resourcing and financing this important asset […]

The financial, operational and strategic importance of forward curves underlines that organisations need to ensure that transparent and robust curve management and construction methodologies are in place. These need to be allied with well defined quality assurance practices, stewardship and the business investment necessary to maintain these data assets … while ensuring regulatory and international […]

Commodity Data Management: Today’s commodity trading organizations are overwhelmed and under increasing pressure to process, understand and act upon a deluge of external and internal information flows that provide the life-blood of the company’s success or failure. Competitive pressures, increased regulatory compliance, tighter profit margins, and heightened market and credit risk have further compounded the […]

I first met Richard Quigley, CEO of Datagenic a few months back at the Essen E‐World Conference and Tradeshow. He was very keen to catch my attention and talked with passion about his business and products. Recently, I caught up with Richard again by phone to discuss with him data management and associated issues around […]

Everybody thinks they know what data is, but it seems that few really understand and appreciate the value of data to a business, writes Jeremy Wilcox. SOMEONE WHO WANTS to correct ‘data dyslexia’ is DataGenic’s Managing Director, Richard Quigley who terms data, “The lifeblood of a company and its most valuable strategic asset,” yet concedes, […]

Data management is not a business luxury in a recession Markets thrive on uncertainty, as uncertainty brings risks and risks provide rewards. Well, this used to be the case, but for most of this decade trading and risk management has been arguably more conservative with the notable exception of the investment banks and funds. The […]

IN ITS 2007 Strategic Energy Review the European Commission called for infrastructure unbundling to make data more available. Brussels believes that data transparency is central to efficient and effective market competition, and while this view is shared by the more progressive free market economies (such as the UK) there remains a general reluctance across Europe […]

Meter Data Management (MDM) is taking a more active and prevalent role in today’s IT system infrastructure. Organisations are no longer cocooned in the notion that an add-on database from a Customer Information System (CIS) or Automotive Meter Reading (AMR) vendor will adequately address the complexity and scalability needs. The MDM system that is now […]