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

Our Data Providers & Trusted Partners

Aspect Enterprise Solutions partners with the key energy and commodity market news and pricing indices in every region of the world. AspectDSC subscribers rely on these industry benchmarks to make minute-by-minute financial decisions.

CME Group

CME Group serves the risk management needs of customers around the globe and delivers CBOT and NYMEX prices through AspectDSC. We provide the widest range of benchmark futures and options products available on any exchange, covering all major asset classes, including interest rates, equities, FX, commodities, and alternative investments such as weather and real estate.

ICE

The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) operates the leading market for trading Brent crude futures— the key benchmark for pricing crude oil produced and consumed outside of the United States— as well as a range of refined oil products. ICE also operates the primary market for trading cleared OTC Henry Hub contracts - the most actively traded natural gas hub in North America.

 

Argus is a leading provider of data on prices and fundamentals, news, analysis, consultancy services and conferences for the global crude, oil products, natural gas, electricity, coal, emissions, bioenergy, fertilizer, petrochemical and transportation industries. Data provided by Argus are widely used for indexation of physical trade. Companies, governments and international agencies also use Argus information for analysis and planning purposes.

Bursa Malaysia

Bursa Malaysia is one of Asia’s largest exchanges and located right at the center of the world’s biggest biofuels market. Palm oil has strong connections with the production of biodiesel, the market for which is expected to soar and approach $13Bn by 2014. AspectDSC features its Crude Palm Oil Futures contract (FUPO). FUPO is a USD denominated palm oil futures contract which compliments the existing MYR denominated FCPO. It is a cash settled contract which does not involve physical delivery of the underlying Crude Palm Oil (CPO).

Dubai Mercantile Exchange Limited (DME)

The Dubai Mercantile Exchange Limited (DME), a joint venture between Tatweer, a member of Dubai Holding, the New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. (NYMEX) and the Oman Investment Fund (OIF) is the premier international energy futures and comodities exchange in the Middle East, uniquely positioned to provide price transparency and market liquidity for crude oil from the world’s foremost oil producing and exporting region.

London Metal Exchange

The London Metal Exchange is the world’s premier non-ferrous metals market. It offers futures and options contracts for aluminium, copper, nickel, tin, zinc, lead, aluminium alloy and a regional North American aluminum alloy contract. It also delivers futures contracts for plastics and steel.

Platts

Platts, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., is the world’s largest and most trusted provider of energy information and marketing services for the oil, electricity, natural gas, petrochemical, coal, nuclear power, shipping, metals and bandwidth industries. Platts products range from real-time and Internet-based services to newsletters, market reports, databases, electronic directories, magazines, conferences, research services, geospatial tools and consulting. Every day, global energy markets base more than $10 billion of trading activity and term contract sales on Platts price assessments.

Dow

Dow Jones Newswires’ award-winning content includes economic, financial and market-moving political news from around the world. It is the world’s leading independent, real-time financial news provider, delivering more than 8,000 news items a day to more than 330,000 financial professionals in 66 countries.

BBC

BBC Monitoring supplies news, information and comment gathered from the mass media around the world. Linguists and journalists operate around the clock to monitor more than 3,000 radio, TV, press, Internet and news agency sources, translating into English from up to 100 languages.

FMC produces independent, neutral and accurate forward market curve data for the oil industry. It currently provides valuable price discovery for the most liquid benchmark crude oil and product grades traded in the Asian oil market. FMC was set up by all of the leading oil brokerage houses covering the Asian oil market from Singapore, Tokyo and London , whose combined curve data is the most robust mark-to-market standard available to the industry.

OPIS

Since 1977, OPIS has been the source for U.S. wholesale petroleum prices and news. OPIS spot, wholesale and retail coverage is distributed via newsletters, Internet, email and handheld wireless services. OPIS’ more than 40 editors and pricing experts track more than 70,000 rack prices for heating oil, gasoline, diesel and kerosene, and thousands of contract prices for jet fuel, LP-gas, residual fuel, and ethanol. More than 85,000 retail gasoline prices are also tracked daily. OPIS clients include the top oil companies, thousands of distributors, traders, government and commercial buyers of petroleum products in North America.

Kortes

Leading Russian information company, active in monitoring, research and analysis of Russian domestic markets for crude, petroleum and petrochemical products, as well as in price monitoring (crude, petroleum and petrochemical products, processing costs); production and market statistics; market research of regional commodity markets, monoproduct markets; market situation reviews, oil companies, refiners and petrochemical producers profiles; references and dictionaries on the oil business.

Forex

Select panels of live currency and precious metals pricing from FOREX. Symbols Include: GBP/USD Spot, USD/CAD Spot, GBP/CHF Spot, AUD/JPY Spot, CHF/JPYSpot, EUR/AUD Spot EUR/CHF Spot, EUR/GBP Spot, EUR/JPY Spot, EUR/RUB Spot, EUR/USD Spot, GBP/JPY Spot, USD/AUD Spot, USD/CHF Spot, USD/JPY Spot, USD/RUB Spot, Gold Spot, Silver Spot, Platinum Spot, Palladium Spot.

Since 2001, Marine Bunker Exchange (MABUX) has been a leading provider of tailor-made information and data for the marine bunker industry worldwide as a one-stop source. It provides oil futures and spot bunker price information for operators, buyers, suppliers, brokers and traders, daily and weekly market analysis. MABUX data for the Spot Bunker Market covers over 350 ports with indications daily updated as well as intraday future-based prices for a number of well selected ports. In addition, MABUX holds a comprehensive directory featuring suppliers, traders and brokers worldwide. MABUX reports all prices close to the actual market price by checking and inserting every single price manually before publishing to ensure accuracy.

Bright Idea

  • Get your AspectDSC in English, Russian or Chinese.
  • Our multi-language portal serves our global traders in local languages.
  • Also put your company logo and branding on your portal.

Bright Idea

Try AspectDSC Mobile For Desktop

 AspectDSC Brent Mobile Data

Display a simple screen with live prices that tick on your desktop. This is great for when you’re in remote places with slow Internet access or you just need the minimum data sets. There’s no extra fee, it’s part of your subscription.

We needed a market information system that offered access to Platts real-time news and prices. AspectDSC provides us with a cost-effective and user friendly solution, at a fraction of the cost of other systems.
Group Vice President
Addax & Oryx
The Decision Support Center from AspectDSC is the perfect solution for our steel trading business. It delivers the real-time metals prices and news sources we need, along with powerful charting tools, all via the Internet. So I can access it anywhere, including on my mobile telephone.
Tolga Teskin
Chief Executive Officer
Safir Metal Ltd.
Instanbul, Turkey

Bright Idea

  • Instant online deployment. No installation.
  • Easy-to-use & configure. Designed by energy pros.
  • Highly scalable, supporting thousands of subscribers 24/7, including top energy companies in 90 countries.
  • No maintenance, software or hardware costs.
  • No training costs.
  • Free, no-interruption upgrades while you work.
  • Free support.
  • No firewall hassles.
  • Secure, sophisticated & customizable.
  • Multi-language: English, Russian & Chinese