SAS BookRunner Helps Energy Companies Measure and Manage Commodity Risk

Originally published October 30, 2009

It’s more important than ever for energy professionals to analyze credit risks and market exposures quickly, efficiently and at a detailed level. SAS, the leader in business analytics, in conjunction with its RiskAdvisory division, offers the energy industry a way to effectively measure and manage risk: SAS BookRunner, a complete end-to-end energy trading and risk management (ETRM) software package that enables energy traders, risk managers and executives to enhance their decision-making abilities through world-class analytics, real-time deal capture and transaction management tools. The latest release of this software, SAS BookRunner v12, is available now.

SAS BookRunner leverages three decades of SAS service-oriented architecture development to provide optimized analytical functions from deal capture and transaction management to risk analytics and compliance reporting. The latest version of the software offers modules for commodity capture, an analytics workbench and advanced analytics that can be accessed through a single, Flex GUI-based user interface in any Web browser. Developed on the SAS 9.2 platform, SAS BookRunner quickly integrates data from any number of sources, and its analytics and simulation capabilities are second to none.

“SAS BookRunner v12 represents a new paradigm in energy trading and risk management,” said Karen Joslyn, General Manager of RiskAdvisory. “SAS BookRunner v12’s inclusion of business analytics, predictive models, risk dashboards and data integration capabilities gives customers an ability to perform real-time scenario analysis and measure portfolio-wide exposures that is unprecedented among ETRM vendors. And, its modular approach creates the flexibility to integrate our solutions into any environment.”

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