What is ZEMA used for?
Software with unlimited possibilities
Organizations are faced with increasing pressure to process, understand and act upon the torrent of internal and external data sets available in the market. Given the volume, variety, complexity and timeliness of the information out there, manual data collection or ad hoc automated processes are significantly insufficient and put your business at high risk of cost, delay, errors and resource dependency. In order to facilitate timely and accurate information flow for you and your systems, you need a robust, proven scheduling tool to automate the tasks. The ZEMA Suite has an unmatched data capture engine, Data Manager that schedules, imports and centralizes data sources from across the globe. Whatever the commodity, region or source of data, the ZEMA Suite will give your organization control of business critical information. ZEMA will create a robust historical populated and continuously self populated real-time data fortress that contains both external and internal data points.
Data Warehousing and Centralized Storage
ZEMA’s back-end database stores any form of time series and non-time series data. Our clients leverage the database for raw data extraction, integrating with third party tools and building custom applications. ZEMA has the ability to collect data at any frequency, from most electronic sources and of any structure or commodity. ZEMA is often used as the "Single Repository", "System of Record", "the Truth", or "Golden Copy".
Entitlements Management
The ZEMA Admin Console is a strong security layer that allows clients to manage their third party data licenses for reporting and auditing usage patterns. Each distinct data report can be associated with each of your users and tracks when data has been used, and through which products.
Connecting to Internal Databases
With ZEMA’s Client Connect, you can make client tables and views in corporate databases available to the entire suite of ZEMA products. Clients are able to view consumption, billing, forecast and internally generated curves and compare them to market datasets.
Uploading of Internally Created Datasets
With its scheduling and data capture engine, ZEMA’s Data Manager can collect and store data from your spreadsheets and text files. Instead of storing daily files in network drives, ZEMA stores them in database tables in a logical and structured fashion.
High level analytics and market intelligence
Analysts, traders, quantitative analysts, researchers and the like can perform powerful analysis with ZEMA. Its analytical capabilities are extensive and there is very little that the application can’t do. View your results in graphs and tables or export them to Excel for more analysis.
Spreadsheet automation
You can easily embed dynamic data in your spreadsheets. This means your data is automatically updated without performing error-prone manual cut and paste routines. ZEMA’s Data Direct Excel add-in allows you to define refresh rates, use dynamic date ranges and preserve cell formats. Your spreadsheet analysis will be up to date with the most recent results for your models, forecasts, graphs or pivot tables.
Collection and creation of derivative forward curves
ZEMA provides its users very advanced forward curve functionality starting with the collection of data from global exchanges and brokers. Once data is stored, collected and normalized, the ZEMA’s forward curve functionality can be used to view and create raw or complex derivative curves.
Intra/End of Day process automation
ZEMA provides you with advanced forward curve functionality beginning with collection of data from global exchanges and brokers. After data is stored, collected and normalized, ZEMA’s forward curve functionality can be used to view and create raw or complex derivative curves.
Collection of consumption, billing, settlement and metering data
ZEMA is efficient at collecting client specific datasets whether they are collected from a behind certificate web site, counterparty emails, utility web sites, physical meters, operational onsite systems or otherwise. ZEMA’s on premise model protects corporate confidential information, making ZEMA a highly effective client data collection engine that operates within a corporate firewall.
Dashboard
ZEMA Dashboard is designed for creating customizable and user-friendly dashboards. With simple drag and drop functionality, you can create interactive display with content from RSS feeds, ZEMA saved queries, database objects, images, media files, Excel files and widgets from third parties.
Data cataloguing and metadata management
ZEMA features a powerful metadata layer that sits between data and the ZEMA Suite applications. The metadata layer is used to describe the unique observations, attributes and characteristics of tables and views that are created by an organization. You can easily search and filter using keywords and wild cards to find the data you need.
Custom application development
With ZEMA’s open architecture database and flexible service layers, clients are able to quickly build their own tools. The Suite is flexible and adaptable to your business needs. As you become familiar with ZEMA, you will find more and more uses for it in your organization.
