A well-known chain of gasoline service stations located across the Southern United States wanted to change CTRM platforms to address new business demands for performance, accessibility, and security. At Value Creed’s suggestion, the company decided to implement its new CTRM platform in the cloud rather than on-premises
Future-Proof Infrastructure
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Control Over Data
Quick Implementation
Our Advisory services not only will help you guide your operations but also help you achieve your vision by taking all stakeholders into consideration. Our highly experienced team has combined full lifecycle, functional and technical expertise to deliver frameworks and guidance around building reliable and scalable commodity trading businesses.
Bring your On-premise infrastructure to the cloud for greater speed, flexibility, and security. Maximize your operational advantages with our CTRM Cloud Infrastructure and enjoy cloud benefits—on-demand agility, flexibility with security, and cost savings.
Value Creed guided the client through the business case to implement a different CTRM application. The team further developed a roadmap design for the company to smoothly transition to the new application. The cloud design process provided an agile, holistic solution combining our CTRM Cloud Services and CTRM Cloud Infrastructure and Monitoring expertise. Our team created an infrastructure, established a secure VPN tunnel, and designed a custom virtual desktop for access to the cloud anytime, anywhere. We ensured consistent long-term success by installing our cloud CTRM security software and firewalls with multi-factor authentication.
Business Challenge A multi-state U.S. electric cooperative and its subsidiary required more powerful recording and calculation of the financial and physical risk associated with power
Security Challenge A coal producer operating in the United States and Australia needed a conduit for integrating on-premises CTRM, ERP, and risk interface infrastructure with
Error-free Reporting and On-demand Platform Support Expertise The energy and commodities arm of a large Diversified Trading firm sought robust support for its end-of-day processes
Customize & improve business processes with Value Creed’s Services
The company wanted to modernize its business processes with the goal to transition to a clean energy future. They also wanted to maintain sophisticated business processes across the organization, quickly and efficiently, for greater productivity and more efficiency. It sought to minimize the costs of maintaining the database and its infrastructure.
99% Pass Percentage of UAT Test Cases
60% Cost – Saving
Zero Error in Daily Valuation Runs
The implementation services offered by Value Creed will help you in designing and set up your system’s workflows according to your business operations. In addition, we execute a change management & training program to assist your team in effectively maintaining system configurations as well as test the newly implemented CTRM application in accordance with the key requirements.
By understanding the key requirements of the client, Value Creed developed tailored solutions to address all pain points. Additionally, the team developed custom configurations and set up a robust testing environment. Developing and implementing a comprehensive change management program and training enabled the company to not only reduce its infrastructure costs but also modernize its business processes.
Why Move to the Cloud? Modern CTRM database management demands flexibility in scaling, fast data processing, and cost efficiency. Cloud-native solutions can provide these benefits
Moving to the Cloud? SQL Advantages Timely data and flexible pay and scale on-demand databases are in demand to serve modern CTRM database management needs.
The Challenge A major refined fuel supplier needed a faster and efficient method for scheduling deliveries, removing them from the docket once deliveries were made,
Customize & improve business processes with Value Creed’s Implementation Services
A multi-state U.S. electric cooperative and its subsidiary required more powerful recording and calculation of the financial and physical risk associated with power positions.
The company wanted more complete accountability and implement their power book structure into their CTRM System to ensure accurate and up-to-date position reporting and profit/loss measurement.
Precise, real-time dashboards
Accurate reflection of inventory
Profit/loss position reports
Fully leveraged CTRM platform
Our team is made up of industry-leading CTRM experts who help you define risk policies to ensure compliant operations. We’re dedicated to CTRM technology and our risk management services enables you to tailor risk evaluation and measurement metrics using data from your CTRM Solution.
Our Advisory services not only will help you guide your operations but also help you achieve your vision by taking all stakeholders into consideration. Our highly experienced team has combined full lifecycle, functional and technical expertise to deliver frameworks and guidance around building reliable and scalable commodity trading businesses.
Value Creed reviewed the customer’s power structure, system, and position reporting workflow and recommended a platform that more closely matched its business structure and metrics. We then provided design advice, implemented, and configured the platform and aligned the firm’s power P&L and position reporting applications to input data to continuously update both electric and natural gas positions and inventories. Value Creed counseled the company on best practices for maintaining the platform, processes, and reporting structures
Performance Challenge A well-known chain of gasoline service stations located across the Southern United States wanted to change CTRM platforms to address new business demands
Security Challenge A coal producer operating in the United States and Australia needed a conduit for integrating on-premises CTRM, ERP, and risk interface infrastructure with
Error-free Reporting and On-demand Platform Support Expertise The energy and commodities arm of a large Diversified Trading firm sought robust support for its end-of-day processes
Customize & improve business processes with Value Creed’s Services
A coal producer operating in the United States and Australia needed a conduit for integrating on-premises CTRM, ERP, and risk interface infrastructure with cloud-based implementations. With application and data security of critical importance and because the project represented the firm’s first enterprise-level cloud implementation, the company sought outside assistance to augment its in-house resources.
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Implementation in
2 months
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Our Advisory services not only will help you guide your operations but also help you achieve your vision by taking all stakeholders into consideration. Our highly experienced team has combined full lifecycle, functional and technical expertise to deliver frameworks and guidance around building reliable and scalable commodity trading businesses.
Bring your On-premise infrastructure to the cloud for greater speed, flexibility, and security. Maximize your operational advantages with our CTRM Cloud Infrastructure and enjoy cloud benefits—on-demand agility, flexibility with security, and cost savings.
Value Creed’s business case analysis and roadmap design directed the company to install a new database server that matched the company’s cloud host better. We strictly adhered to the client’s security policies & solution delivery framework and conducted gap analysis, fully documenting and securing approval at every step throughout the process, including clarification of non-platform requirements. The Value Creed team implemented change management and took the time to train the client’s off-shore team on the cloud-based platform, troubleshoot, and performance tests while still delivering under budget and hitting the go-live target.
Performance Challenge A well-known chain of gasoline service stations located across the Southern United States wanted to change CTRM platforms to address new business demands
Performance Challenge A well-known chain of gasoline service stations located across the Southern United States was facing several security issues along with severe data corruption
Business Challenge A multi-state U.S. electric cooperative and its subsidiary required more powerful recording and calculation of the financial and physical risk associated with power
Customize & improve business processes with Value Creed’s Services
After a diversified energy company based in New York encountered multiple barriers and challenges in upgrading its CTRM system, it turned to Value Creed for support.
Through Value Creed’s development, QA process, and testing efforts, technical issues were quickly resolved, achieving:
Learn how Value Creed’s CTRM Testing Services and Expertise On Demand Solutions resulted in a complete CTRM upgrade and digital transformation.
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Capital Power is a power producer that develops, acquires, owns, and operates power generation facilities across North America. While they are well-established with effective business processes in place, they need to continually maximize efficiency to maintain their competitive edge. That means keeping complex system platforms, like their CTRM solution, current with the latest functionalities.
Manny Neupane, Director Applications & Business Intelligence, understood that an upgrade would extend the life of Capital Power’s CTRM platform. But in the past, consultants they’d contracted to support an upgrade did not understand the product well and seemed to be learning on the fly.
Successfully executed an agile CTRM platform upgrade using right-size expertise
Maximized business process efficiency with latest platform enhancements
Added 5-7 years to their CTRM solution and avoided costly future reimplementations
Aligned CTRM system with current goals and markets
Manny and his team wanted to maximize the value of Capital Power’s existing CTRM investment, while minimizing or avoiding the usual headaches of a large system upgrade. These included:
Capital Power needed to nimbly execute an upgrade by leveraging their in-house expertise and partnering with a firm capable of coming alongside their team to create a win-win to optimize investment while minimizing business disruption.
Value Creed offered a very agile delivery model, so Capital Power reached out to secure right-sized CTRM expertise and services. Working closely with Manny, Value Creed helped Capital Power achieve their goals by…
Customer-first service to bring your upgrades online quickly and seamlessly, with minimal disruption of your workflow. Dedication that outperforms vendors.
Functional and technical expertise enabling product enhancements to be leveraged by in-house staff instantly upon upgrade completion.
Exhaustive Q/A testing and in-depth cross training ensured user acceptance and project success.
Hear from Manish Neupane, Director of Applications with Capital
Power describe his journey to CTRM Upgrade success with Value Creed’s team.
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How To Proactively Overcome Reporting Integration Failure for CTRM Platforms You may be able to manage and maintain your CTRM infrastructure, application enhancements, and reporting
Dual Time Zone Monitoring: Problems Solved Overnight When your trading day ends, you need to recharge and prepare for another hectic session tomorrow. The last
Value Creed’s process eliminates the training period
We involve users from the beginning so they understand the software’s capabilities and interfaces. This compresses the learning curve and all but eliminates the weeks-long training period that is “par for the course” for vendors and our competitors.