If you or your company is interested in understanding the European Energy Trading and Risk Management Software landscape then this package of proprietary UtiliPoint Europe reports will provide you with much of the information that you require.

The package includes the following reports:

• Benchmarking of European ETRM Software Markets;
• European Markets for ETRM Software – Market Sizing and Analysis;
• European ETRM Integration Survey Results; and,
• ETRM Software implementation projects – Snapshot survey results.

The combination of these UtiliPoint Europe Research reports will enable you to understand the ETRM software landscape in Europe including:

• Who are the leading products and vendors;
• What the total size of the market for ETRM software in Europe is and how it is evolving;
• How European firms procure ETRM software;
• What peripheral applications to ETRM European firms use and how well integrated their solution suites are; and,
• User experiences with ETRM implementation projects

This CommodityPoint study provides the latest analysis of the trends impacting the market for ETRM software in North America, and provides a quantitative analysis of the size of that market. Included in this report (a follow-on to UtiliPoint's 2006 North American ETRM Market Sizing and Analysis report) is an expanded examination of market forces and trends impacting market players and the providers of ETRM solutions and services. This analysis and report is backed by UtiliPoint's proprietary research and models, and provides a five year overview of the market from 2006 through 2010 covering the four primary drivers of revenues -new license sales, incremental license sales (or sales to existing customers), associated support and maintenance, and services associated with implementation of new ETRM systems. Additionally the report provides a detailed examination of the current market size, including market size by commodity and industry segment.

CommodityPoint believes this 36 page report to be the most comprehensive examination of the North American market for ETRM products available, and is critical information for investors, software firms, consulting organizations and others to support investment decisions and guide the allocation of resources (both capital and human).

This study was sponsored by The Structure Group and RiskAdvisory (A Division of SAS).

Over the last 2-3 years, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) in the natural resources and energy sector have exploded in popularity with investors. ETF’s have actually been available to investors in the US since 1993 and in Europe from 1999. An ETF is simply a pool fund invested with a stated investment objective, for example, a tracker fund for the energy sector or geographical area. Shares owned in this fund by investors are in turn traded on an exchange. ETFs and similar exchange traded instruments allow investors of any type unprecedented access to energy, natural resource and commodity markets.

Against this background, UtiliPoint decided to undertake a snapshot survey to take a pulse check on who utilizes ETFs, why and how in the energy industry. The results of our survey will provide you with an understanding of how ETFs and similar instruments are used and why. The actual polling was performed during late January and early February 2008 and we received a total of 76 responses.