In the past trading houses had only two options: spreadsheets or big-budget custom software development programs. Now SaaS-delivered solutions combined with Cloud Computing offer a real, cost-effective alternative. With the global economy, regulatory environment and credit shrinkage increasingly mandating formalized systems for even small trading companies, SaaS offers fast-start, turnkey solutions without up-front investment or resource demands.
Steve Hughes
President & CEO
Aspect Enterprise Solutions
Cloud-based applications — aka Software as a Service (SaaS) — have seen steady growth over the past few years and will continue to grow.
Gartner, Inc., Cloud Computing: The Next Generation of Outsourcing, Ben Pring, November 1, 2010

According to Technology Research Analyst Firm Gartner…

We are in the midst of a fundamental shift, as more enterprises start to use services enabled by cloud technologies. This will heavily impact IT services providers, who must now consider strategies for coping with profound changes in the marketplace or risk being left behind.
Cloud Computing:
The Next Generation Of Outsourcing
Ben Pring, November 1, 2010
According to Technology Research Analyst Firm Gartner…
Increasingly, hosted or SaaS-based solutions are gaining favor among end users as a means of reducing capital costs, deployment times and support overheads. While traditionally these solutions were preferred options for smaller end users or end users with limited functional requirements, as the functional capabilities of SaaS - or application service provider (ASP)-based deployments grow, the appeal to larger organizations will widen.
Magic Quadrant For Energy Trading And Risk Management Platforms
Keith Harrison and
David Furlonger
March 18, 2011
AspectCTRM was installed and working for us so fast – quickly enabling us to get a real-time understanding of profit and loss, exposures, price movements in the markets and how we can better manage risk.
Peter Malcom King
Business Development & Strategy Manager
Linetrale Oil Supply & Trading Company, Nigeria

Discover How Cloud Computing Applications Dramatically
Reduce The Price Of Business Planning Software
For Metals And Steel Market Participants


 

 

 

 
  • Discover how to gain access to powerful planning tools that were once the domain of only the largest industry companies.
  • Learn how tools developed to help you avert risk are now affordable, available and necessary in today’s modern global metals markets.
  • Overcome challenges that include high price volatility, tight margins to difficulty obtaining credit.

This white paper aims to show the changes in metals trading markets and the impact Cloud Computing is making through business planning tools that are now available and affordable to companies of all sizes. The global metals and steel markets show no sign of price volatility reducing,
with prices and spreads continuing to move in unpredictable directions and
sometimes shocking jumps. As the sentiment in different sectors and geographies varies, traders are struggling to maintain predictable margins, there are inevitably some winners and some losers. So the question now is, how to be a winner and remain in that winning group despite potentially violent price fluctuations.

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