Forward Curve Management

ZEMA's Forward Curve Management Capabilities helps to reduce labor intensive and time consuming routines into minutes through ZEMA's automation and work flow processes. This provides the ability to streamline the client's end-of-day processes and reduce errors.

ZEMA's data management capabilities are used to automate, schedule and centralize broker quotes, client generated forward curves and other market information. For custom curves, clients can use either their own forward curve generators or the forward curve features provided by ZEMA.

Feed into Energy Trading Risk Management (ETRM) Systems

The application enables the ability to make key business decisions and to feed data hungry ETRM and Business Intelligence Tools.

The timeliness of data capture through ZEMA is unmatched providing clients with absolute control of download times and frequencies through automated scheduling or on-demand.

Some of the core features include:

Name, unit and currency mapping
Strip Disaggregation and Aggregation
Create Derivative Curves
View multiple providers concurrently
Provider Prioritization and/or Weighting
Seasonality Analysis
Promptness Analysis
Trade Month Averages
Calculate Basis Curves or “All-In” Prices
Curve Interpolation
Curve Extension
Quote Weighting Factors
Internal Curve Validation
Historical and Current Curve Comparisons
Cash/Settled Market Comparisons
Apply Shapes to Curve Strips
Currency and Unit Conversions
Term Based Statistical Analysis
Case Statements, Formulas and Visual Alerts
Unlimited Custom Analysis

Using ZEMA's web based analytical interface, clients can visualize multiple curves, create basis or “all-in” prices, view historical curves, create alerts and validation rules.

ZEMA's open architecture, web services and post query processes simplify the integration with downstream risk and trade systems making the flow of broker data from source providers to your ETRM systems seamless.

ZEMA's data mapping provides the ability to rename and normalize locations and to specify units or currency for feeding those systems in the structure, style and format they need.

Read our Case Study: Forward Curve Management System

Inclusion as a data vendor is not an endorsement of our products. ZE PowerGroup is a data aggregator on behalf of clients who have appropriate subscriptions and rights to vendor information.

The ZEMA suite is an industry leading, data management and analysis software system for energy market competitors. The ZEMA suite offers a comprehensive solution for data acquisition, database integration, and data warehousing, as well as powerful analytics capabilities. The sophisticated suite of applications provides the ability to perform hundreds of predefined calculations, such as forwards curves, volatility and transaction trends, using an extensive collection of relevant market data and time-series data in order to support gas, power and crude oil trading activities. Utilizing data and analysis on underlying energy commodities such as natural gas, coal, crude oil, and emissions, ZEMA provides users with the power to make timely, bottom line energy trading decisions.