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Focus on Apps
With apps that cover Eka’s four primary markets - agriculture, metals and mining, energy and manufacturing - users of the Digital CM platform can
quickly deploy functionality that addresses common functional needs (such as risk metrics and position management), integrate market feeds
(including prices and weather data), and address more advanced capabilities such as margin analysis, inventory analytics, supply chain analytics,
vessel management, asset optimization and more.
Viewing the breadth of capabilities by market segment, many of the apps apply specifically to commodity management capabilities for ags (such as
crop disease identification) and manufacturers (raw materials procurement), while others apply to specific energy commodities/markets, such as
power (transmission and power ops) or natural gas (complex pricing, physical options). Leveraging the Digital CM Platform, customers can configure
their solution with the specific capabilities they require, and address many of the unique challenges that are associated with the markets in which
they operate and the commodities they produce, trade or consume.
Currently the company offers rapidly deployable capabilities that cover functionality within the following broad categories for each of those markets:
Position and P&L
Finance
• Pre-trade Analysis
• Position
• Cash Flow
• Raw Material Margin
• MTM
• Reconciliation
• Procurement
• P&L Explained
• Trade Finance
• Quality Arbitrage
• Freight Exposure
• Invoice Ageing
• Basis Analysis
Risk
Others
• Power Spread Analysis
• VAR
• Compliance
• Settlement Netting
• Emissions Hedging
• Crop Input Optimization
Supply Chain & Operations
• Credit Risk
• Reporting & Analytics
• Logistics Operations Analysis
• Risk Limits
• Supplier Connect
• Supply Demand Analysis
• Risk & Monitoring
• Customer Connect
• Inventory
Trading
• Vessel Opportunity
Within specific industry segments, additional speciality applications are also available, including:
• Traceability
Agriculture
• Farmer Connect
• Disease Identification
• Disease Prediction
• Weather Advisory
• Yield Forecast
Energy
• Crop Input Optimization
• Physical Trades
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Settlements
Derivative Trades
Position
MTM
Outlook and Analysis
By breaking apart the complex architectures usually associated with commodity trading applications into discreet functional apps, Eka Digital CM
platform facilitates what ComTech has noted as the “disaggregation” of traditional CTRM/CM architectures. This new deployment model, leveraging
the latest cloud technologies, allows many of the advanced analytics and optimization capabilities that vendors have built into large monolithic
CTRM/CM solutions to be decoupled from “traditional” transaction management functions (i.e. deal capture, scheduling and position management).
This disaggregated approach allows users to add additional capabilities to their CTRM/CM infrastructure (or update existing capabilities) without the
need to replace or customize their existing solutions. Additionally, by unbundling these capabilities that were once only available in broad, complex
and expensive systems, customers can “right size” their solutions and IT investments by selecting and deploying only those capabilities that are most
important to their business at that time, yet add additional capabilities as the business grows and their needs change – lowering their total cost of
ownership and improving technical agility.
For customers that have extensive investments in existing ETRM/CTRM/CM solutions, Eka’s Digital CM can leverage those existing solutions and add
significant new capabilities to improve commercial or operational performance. With Eka’s existing pool of pre-built interfaces to both Eka and third-
party systems, along with a rich set of interface development tools provided with the solution, customers can quickly leverage data and information
from across their organization, including those ETRM/CTRM/CM solutions (regardless of vendor), internal data sources (other systems or even
spreadsheets), and external sources such as price feeds.
Given the extensive library of capabilities offered within the Eka App Store, we believe Eka is well positioned to address the needs of a broad set of
market participants while providing a unique platform that ensure their customers can react quickly to changing commercial strategies, market
conditions and regulations.
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July 2019
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