Research and Markets: Insiders’ Guide to Purchasing Energy News and Data

Staged and erroneous energy transactions used to manipulate pricing indices have put pricing publications and electronic information services under increased scrutiny. With corporate reputations and millions of dollars at risk, firms must gain a better understanding of these real-time energy products prior to their purchase.

In most instances, real-time services are not purchased wisely or utilized to their fullest potential. This limits their value, raises questions about their effectiveness and hinders corporate performance. The study provides firms currently using, or looking to purchase such systems, ways to:

- Maximize their real-time information system investment by better understanding their needs. Case studies are provided to help identify the needs of various sized companies

- Avoid common mistakes made when purchasing systems such as over-buying, paying too much or buying the wrong type of services

- Obtain a better understanding of real-time services and how to use these services most effectively

- Successfully evaluate and navigate through the thicket of information providers, distributors, and vendors and know whom to contact for what specific service

- Learn how to interact with system representatives and demand better performance from them. Includes questions to ask prospective vendors, how to evaluate them and negotiate for the best deal possible

- Identify future real-time information service trends

Insiders' Guide to Purchasing Energy News and Data is designed to enhance your organization's use of real-time information. By implementing the study's recommendations, firms will augment their analytical capabilities, operate more efficiently and increase their competitiveness and profitability.

Topics covered include:

- Defining real-time information services
- Information publishers - what they produce
- Information distributors and techniques utilized
- Presenting information - display vendors
- Selling and support of real-time services Introduction
- Real-time news pages
- Real-time price pages
- Real-time intraday deals & indications Introduction
- Real-time futures pages
- Real-time charting packages
- Locating pages - a guide to page directories Introduction
- Effective use of screen desktop space
- Database storage of news & prices
- Understanding content and building Relationships
- Case studies to optimize usage
- Case Study 1: GasCo, a large energy company
- Case Study 2: SXR, a medium-size power trading company
- What to expect in the future

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c22090

Laura Wood
Senior Manager
Research and Markets
press@researchandmarkets.com
Fax: +353 1 4100 980