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PCI Settlement AnalyzerSettlements Analyzer maximizes your Back Office’s ability to aggregate and visualize massive amounts of settlement data to monitor settlement trends and create a dynamic feedback loop to your Front Office. Settlement Analyzer helps make frictionless strategic corrections easier by giving you the ability to:

• Validate all charge codes for any market — including the most complex ones

• Identify settlement discrepancies

• Compare charge codes and billing determinant trends across statements at any granularity

PCI Position Analyzer Position Analyzer is a family of customizable BI applications that consolidates your portfolio position information from multiple data sources such as PCI GenTrader® output, deals, bid evaluator results, energy accounting systems or other proprietary data sources. The concept of a “position” varies greatly in the industry as traders and resource managers define their position differently. PCI Position Analyzer has a modular design that can be configured to meet your specific reporting and analysis needs.

Business Intelligence Solutions

Mobile BI More than ever, managers and other executives want answers on-the-fly using applications optimized for mobile devices. The development of these applications and their use are exploding due to the need to make optimized decisions anytime, anywhere.

Although the concept of mobile computing has been prevalent for over a decade, the use of Mobile BI has gathered momentum and begun to grow only very recently. This change has been partly encouraged by our move from the wired to wireless world with the advantage of smartphones which has led to a new era of mobile computing, especially in the field of BI.

PCI can provide mobile versions of our Analyzers and custom BI solutions that are optimized for iOS and Android-based tablets and smart phones.

In Focus.

What is Business Intelligence and Why Do I Need It? Business Intelligence (BI) software transforms raw data into meaningful and useful information for business purposes. BI tools easily handle large amounts of information and help companies improve decision making, cut costs and identify new business opportunities.

BI typically involves generating reports, graphs and charts from large databases. However, the PCI BI solution goes beyond mere reporting and delivers an analytical tool set that is more about “Business Discovery” than simply reporting.

Business Intelligence Solutions

The Foundation: PCI’s Data WarehouseThe PCI Data Warehouse is the primary data source for the PCI suite of Analyzers. It is designed exclusively for energy companies to manage, analyze and report on generation, transmission and demand-side data from PCI and your in-house data sources.

Business Discovery Individually or collaboratively, you can pursue your own path to insight, make discoveries collaboratively and arrive at a whole new level of decision-making.

PCI’s Data Warehouse streamlines and speeds data mining, analysis and reporting by orders of magnitude since different information sets — from different systems — are stored together in a common model with similar dimensions and attributes. This feature ensures faster, easier access to all of the information users need. PCI’s Data Warehouse encompasses:

• All Position Types

• Front and Back Office

• Historical and Forecast

• Self-Service BI/Ad-Hoc Reporting

PCI’s BI Analyzer SuitePCI Profit & Loss (P&L) Analyzer

PCI P&L Analyzer is often described as “Settlements for the Front Office” since it provides a unique feedback loop for traders to better understand the Settlement impact of their bids, offers and trades. It combines settlements data with unit cost calculations to quickly assess portfolio profitability in the Day-Ahead and Real-Time markets. Although the business rules, charge codes and cost calculations vary between ISO markets, the format and function of P&L Analyzer remains consistent across all ISO’s which makes it ideal for multi-market participants.

PCI Analyzers Allow You To: • Visualize market and operational trends

• Compare important data attributes such as energy prices, volumes, fuel burns and profits across positions and through time

• Expedite your analysis by quickly slicing and dicing large volumes of data, drilling from annual portfolio summaries into monthly, daily, hourly and even sub-hourly details for specific positions

• Monitor Key Performance Indexes (KPIs)

PCI Analyzers promote collaborative business discovery within your enterprise resulting in competitive market advantage and greater profitability. PCI’s Analyzer suite is growing and evolving as new business needs are identified in the dynamic world of energy trading and marketing.

P&L Leakage Decreasing Real-Time P&L relative to Day-Ahead P&L

By drilling into yearly and down to sub-hourly time intervals across positions, users gain tremendous insight into performance trends for positions that include:

• Units

• Loads

• Virtuals

• Trades

• FTRs/TCRs/CRRs

Since all of the relevant data is automatically consolidated in one place for both DA and RT markets, your staff can easily visualize and assess any “P&L Leakage” which occurs when Real Time P&L drops relative to Day Ahead P&L.

PCI Price AnalyzerPrice Analyzer is designed to help the trader visualize and analyze nodal pricing trends in order to more effectively develop bidding strategies for:

• Generators

• Loads

• Virtual Bids and Offers

• FTR Positions

Price Analyzer highlights the spread between Day-Ahead versus Real-Time nodal prices and provides a way for the trader to test the “what if” profitability of virtual bids and offers in a historical pricing context.

In addition to the spread trends between DA and RT prices at a specific node, Price Analyzer shows the price deltas between different nodes, making it a very useful tool for analyzing congestion positions.

Price Analyzer can provide valuable insights into LMP forecasting by displaying trends and correlations between multiple price curves.

Business Discovery Business Discovery puts the user in control and is a whole new way of doing business. Unlike traditional BI, where just a few people are involved in creating insight, Business Discovery enables everyone to be involved. It’s about workgroups, departments and entire business units having access to the data they need to make better decisions. With PCI BI tools, businesses can increase their ability to make insightful decisions, enabling every business user to do their job smarter and faster than ever. This enables all users to create tailored insights that meet their unique business needs and timelines.

PCI’s BI capabilities include a suite of applications called “Analyzers” that have been developed for ISO Market Participants to speed up their ability to derive strategic and operational insights in order to make better decisions.