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About Openlink
Openlink is for companies who engage across multiple commodities markets on a global scale, with sophisticated needs around risk and physical logistics. The front-to-back solution supports all commodity asset classes with advanced risk management, extensive workflow automation, and customization capabilities. With comprehensive coverage spanning across commodities and value chain segments, Openlink scales with your growing business.
Why Openlink
Openlink delivers unparalleled comprehensive capabilities in risk management, high-performance operations, and real-time streaming data. By having a complete view of your portfolio and sophisticated risk analysis tools, you can unlock opportunities to thrive across commodities markets. Many of the world’s largest and most sophisticated commodity-intensive corporations rely on Openlink.
Leading-edge performance
Sophisticated risk management
Streamlined business processes
Visibility into your business
Multi-commodity trading
Workflow automation
Key features
Unified solution
Consolidate multiple commodity business lines.
Enforce risk analytic consistency across the enterprise.
Connect to market data providers and exchanges.
Advanced analytics
Explore what-if scenarios using potential market conditions.
Simplify calculations with an extensive pricing model library.
Optimize trading strategies with real-time P&L visibility.
Built for scale
Automate workflows to improve business efficiencies.
Apply business checks and logic to reduce operational risk.
Configure screens and desktops to fit user’s preferences.
Superior performance
Stream your real-time data with Apache Kafka.
Leverage a scalable data grid for high transaction volumes.
Improve decision making with real-time risk analytics.
Enhance your solution with value-added modules
Openlink is a multi-commodity, multi-currency, highly scalable, and extensible CTRM solution. It’s built on proven technology and robust architecture with the following key capabilities:
ION Cloud
Lower your total cost of ownership and modernize your technology to optimize your operations and empower your business. Secure your data with ION’s multi-layered, trusted security stack.
Reconciliation, invoicing, and document management
Facilitate P&L reconciliation, invoicing, and book closure (end-of-day, month-end, and year-end closure). Manage all back office and logistics document generation and tracking.
Scheduling and logistics
Easily plan and replan asset allocations and movements for any mode of transportation, including truck, rail, pipeline, vessel, and grid. Manage inventory and asset underutilization.
Sophisticated credit and risk management
Build hedging strategies and manage risks with real-time mark-to-market, Greeks, VaR, and credit exposure monitoring.
Trading and analytics
Streamline trade capture with direct integration to major exchanges. Retrieve existing trades, run reports, and calculate impromptu or on-the-fly simulations and stress testing scenarios.