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Traditional ETRM/CTRM systems are no longer sufficient if energy sector participants want to effectively assess, manage and simulate risk across the entire business. An interview with Dr. Wolfgang Ferse.

Natural gas market participants have had to deal with tremendous challenges that will transform the natural gas market during this decade.

OpenLink enjoys healthy double-digit growth, despite the downturn in the economy, thanks to a diversification of clients, asset classes and geographies.

The New Systems Imperative: Addressing Hidden Logistics Risks and Operational Inefficiencies.

Creating one truly integrated solution was OpenLink's guiding principle when we began in 1992, and it continues to be so.

Optimisation techniques have achieved widespread acceptance amongst European gas market participants in recent years, but, if optimisation is not truly integrated with energy trading risk management (ETRM), then its usefulness can be undercut. How will the new integrated solution created by OpenLink and its IRM subsidiary help traders navigate market complexity, make more informed decisions and assist with optimal portfolio construction?

Thanks to a labyrinthine market structure with varying conventions and information protocols, successfully navigating the North American power market is an arduous task. What are the challenges created by this complexity and how might the new joint venture between OpenLink and MCG Energy Solutions empower market participants through its integrated approach to trading, risk management and logistics?

OpenLink examines how building a more compelling trading solution can help avoid some common pitfalls that trouble competitor solutions. And how incorporating a truly integrated trading, risk and operations solution whose functionality all flows from the same common architecture creates an environment that stands out from the crowd.

Ken Knowles of OpenLink explains how a unified future may be the best thing for better credit and operational risk management.

Rampant volatility, illiquidity, dramatically shifting relationships between physical products and financial instruments and the scarcity of credit are stressing energy and commodity markets like never before.

Volatility and correlation have reached unprecedented levels, and liquidity and counterparty credit risk have skyrocketed. Now, more than ever, traders and risk managers need answers they can trust "An integrated trading, risk and operations system is vital in this kind of market environment," says Ken Knowles, executive vice president of financial and risk solutions at leading vendor, OpenLink.

Running multiple risk management systems has become the Holy Grail for banks and financial institutions with increased costs and a single platform for all asset classes. Phil Wang, vice president, product management at OpenLink, explains that banks that continue to ignore the need to streamline do so at their peril.

OpenLink’s Dr. Wolfgang Ferse and Dr. Irina Reitgruber discuss increased market volatility, globalisation, links between financial and physical assets,  commodity dependencies, more sophisticated competition, and trading complexities that require a commodity optimisation solution.

As the physical and financial sides of energy trading become intertwined, technologies must keep up with business drivers. Dr. Wolfgang Ferse, Executive Vice President, Commodities & Energy Solutions at OpenLink considers the impact these changes are having on the financial institutions and energy companies, and, in particular, on their IT systems.

OpenLink's Philippe Barjon and Stefan Hoferichter take an in-depth look at pMotion Scheduling and Logistics System and ESS, OpenLink's European Scheduling System.

OpenLink discusses the recent evolution of risk in energy markets and focuses on how these markets have evolved to such levels of sophistication that many of the legacy risk management systems are no longer sufficient.

Structured Credit Investor looks at OpenLink's cross-asset trading, risk and operations processing management software solution Findur.

Coleman Fung, Founder and Executive Chairman of the Board at OpenLink discusses how Making the Right Decision, Building the Right Team and Running the Project Right will help you manage and overcome many issues in your next ETRM project.

Europe's gas balancing regimes involve moving gas on and off a balancing zone. Larry Hickey, a senior energy analyst at OpenLink and Russ Hecker, an energy solutions development manager at OpenLink examine the differences in Europe's balancing zone in a systematic way.

Matt Frye, managing director at OpenLink's Houston division discusses OpenLink’s new software module, cMotion, a comprehensive logistics solution for crude oil, refined products, coal, LNG, and soft commodities. cMotion complements OpenLink’s existing logistics applications: gMotion for natural gas, and pMotion for electric power.

Founder and CEO of OpenLink, Coleman Fung, discusses how ongoing enhancements made to OpenLink's suite of products helps clients to always stay ahead of the game. Read further and discover the latest innovations for the future.

The complex nature of European gas pipelines means shippers endure a minefield of daily compromises and hidden costs. Laurence Hickey, senior energy analyst at OpenLink, considers whether the current situation should be viewed as a business hurdle or a great opportunity.

OpenLink’s Producers Services Module can provide today’s producer of natural gas and crude oil with functionality that directly addresses their data management, scheduling, and reporting requirements says Matthew Frye, managing director of OpenLink’s Houston division.

As seen in Energy Risk Magazine's May issue: Energy Risk magazine recently announced OpenLink as this year's 'Software House of the Year'. Click here for the complete article where Coleman Fung, OpenLink's founder and CEO discusses OpenLink's new products, existing product enhancements and future plans.

Matt Frye, managing director at OpenLink's Houston division discusses how OpenLink has taken the lead in a constantly changing and evolving energy market in providing a seamless method for bridging the gaps with its Power Market Gateway (PMG). The bi-directional connectivity of the PMG makes energy scheduling more organized, more powerful, and therefore more profitable. PMG was created in conjunction and with the needs of Strategic Energy in mind, and built to address specific concerns for their supply operation.