SAS^® Risk Solutions for the Energy Industry

The modern marketplace has eclipsed traditional risk measures. Regulatory changes and global competition are driving new markets and trading partners, generating new management requirements. As the size and complexity of assets have increased exponentially, executives like you are being exposed to risks you may not be accustomed to managing. More and more, you're challenged to understand the risks and rewards associated with the capital under your control in order to increase shareholder value.

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To take advantage of the enormous opportunities presented by global markets, you need to take a different approach to risk management. Whether your business is power, coal, gas, oil, transportation, emission, weather or bandwidth, you need to transition from a risk environment that is focused at the business unit level – to one that's focused enterprisewide. It's critical you understand every step in the risk process and examine how various risks affect the balance sheet. You need to allocate your capital across a very wide spectrum of investment opportunities in order to optimize your risk/return ratio.

Together with RiskAdvisory, a division of SAS, SAS offers comprehensive risk management software solutions that are reliable and easy to understand, giving you the ability to achieve industry best practices with respect to deal capture, quantification and reporting of energy risk. SAS Risk Solutions for Energy give oil and gas companies, energy hedge funds, financial institutions, energy marketers and utility companies a holistic view of data management, risk analysis and risk reporting so you can achieve comprehensive risk management throughout your enterprise.

Reacting to a changing marketplace
SAS' powerful risk management solutions enable you to compete successfully in today's volatile energy markets. With SAS Risk Solutions for Energy, you can:

Quickly react to changes in your risk profile that present challenges or opportunities. Accurately asses the risk and rewards associated with valuing an asset. Easily calculate and evaluate potential volumetric risks. View your risk and reward curves for the entire length of your structured contracts. Quickly view associated credit exposures. Engage in timely risk management for new opportunities such as weather and emissions. Stop avoiding certain instrument types because the risks are difficult to measure. Smoothly introduce solutions to handle these issues without unexpected implementation and support problems. Perform scenario analysis quickly across multiple portfolios.

A consistent, coherent approach to enterprisewide risk management
No other solutions on the market offer the breadth and depth that SAS offers. SAS Risk Solutions for Energy give you the power to:

• Bring all your data together into one location where you can apply a full range of risk management techniques and create measures that represent your proprietary market knowledge.
• Apply your modeling insights to data for more accurate risk measurement using unrivaled statistical modeling capabilities for robust econometric and time series analysis.
• Compute at-risk measures that enable you to make the decisions that increase shareholder value.
• Perform analyses within a specific time frame and deliver results in an easy-to-use manner.
• Evaluate your assets and understand contributions on a risk-adjusted basis.
• Allow risk managers, senior managers and analysts to access and communicate risk measures across the enterprise, fueling better decision making so that everyone can retain a strategic vision without losing sight of the granular details.