Our Solutions

Integrated, extensible and adaptable, our solutions can cover the entire Energy and Commodity Value Chain. Whether your role is focused on a particular segment or your concern is cross-asset ETRM, CTRM or total margin management, OpenLink can help you perform your job better.

Now including the Solarc Solution Suite.

Our SmartETRM/CTRM concept seamlessly integrates leading edge products into one solution suite to provide optimal functional and decision support to the business along the entire Energy and Commodity Value Chain. OpenLink offers the following solutions:

Trading, Risk Management, Back Office and Accounting

OpenLink’s SmartETRM/CTRM includes three fully integrated solutions. Our flagship ETRM/CTRM and Value Chain Management Solution (Endur), offers complete front to back office functionality across physical and financial markets. For users with more focused needs, we offer two specialized solutions that are integrated into our flagship system:

  • Our CTRM solution for Agricultural Products, CPG, Food and Beverage and Manufacturing (dbc SMARTsoft)
  • Our ETRM and Sales Solution for physical asset-oriented Utilities and Energy Companies (IRM TRADE EXPRESS)

Scheduling/Logistics and Transportation

OpenLink’s ETRM/CTRM solutions provide integrated scheduling and transportation solutions that allow for seamless management of physical products. Our specialized, fully integrated, solutions are:

  • Scheduling for the North American Power Market (pMotion)
  • Scheduling for the European Power Market (ESS)
  • Integrated scheduling for the international Gas Market (gMotion)
  • Multi-modal scheduling and shipment for liquid and bulk commodities (cMotion)
  • Power scheduling for the European Power Market (powerOperation)
  • Gas scheduling for the European Power Market (gasOperation)

Energy Sales

OpenLink’s SmartETRM/CTRM solution (IRM Sales) provides optimal support across the entire sales and market procurement business, as well as multi-commodity pricing and sales offer management.

Energy Scenario Management

This fully integrated Energy Scenario Management module (includes Endur and IRM Time Series Management) provides critical decision support to planners, traders, risk managers and schedulers, helping them to make optimal use of the available resources and choices across multiple commodities and geographies. The powerful array of analytical tools included will help you evaluate a wide variety of scenarios and different assumptions about future market developments.

Production and Processing

OpenLink’s SmartETRM/CTRM includes Producer and Processing Modules that are fully integrated into our solution. In production, Producer Services helps you manage across the value chain, from ownership and volume changes to calculation of the marketable wellhead volumes, as well as the custody transfer point for sales. For gas market participants, the Midstream Processing solution supports all of your complex needs, from evaluation of processing options, to redirection of volumes and management of planned and actual plant volumes.

Asset and Resource Management

OpenLink’s SmartETRM/CTRM includes three fully integrated Asset and Resource Management solutions:

  • Sophisticated data management (IRM Time Series Management) for independent time series including forecasts, loads and prices, alongside powerful visualization and manipulation functionality.
  • Powerful decision support tools (IRM Optimization) for traders, planners and schedulers involved with complex physical portfolios.
  • Multi-purpose forecasting and planning system (IRM Forecast) for everything from load consumption to market pricing and even reservoir water levels.

Market Connectivity

We recognize that to reap the full benefit of our solutions’ sophisticated functionality around ETRM, CTRM and total margin management, connectivity is critical. OpenLink provides the powerful interface framework Connex to facilitate the development of connectivity solutions using standard protocols and methods (MQ, JMS, Web Services, and FIX). We are committed to openness, so our clients have access to this development framework via our Connex API - enabling them to develop custom solutions inhouse.