The Pomax roadmap
to a somewhat better and brighter future.
Together with Academia, Navita is investing great efforts in exploring new form factors and new interaction paradigms.
"Traders need significant screen real estate to make accurate, profit-generating decisions in a timely manner and traders love gadgets."
How Pomax inspires healthy growth
When you invest in an ETRM system, you invest in a system for 5-10 years. In this time period, you will expect the system to grow with you, your new business requirements, and market changes.
You, and your CTO or CIO, will also expect the system to align well with mega trends in the IT landscape. Failure to provide such growth capability and such alignment with mega trends might result in massive business disruption, high maintenance costs of an obsolete platform, and significant foregone profit. We could have chosen to give you comfort by presenting our road map for the next 9 months. We believe this is not really what you want and need, and that your concern should be about the next 3-5 years. Here is where Navita intends to take Pomax on a 3-5 year time scale:
TAKING THE WORKFLOW ISSUE TO THE TOP
Workflow has been high on the agenda of any risk manager, back office manager, or CIO’s for some years. Four agendas has been the drivers: regulatory compliance, back-office automation, straight-through processing, and business process redesign. Most system vendors in ECTRM space, Navita included, claim to have some form of workflow in their offering. Fact is, workflow comes into two flavors: proprietary, script-based, high-maintenance solutions, and generic technologies from the mage-vendors like Microsoft and Oracle. Navita has chosen to build its solution on top of Microsoft’s generic Workflow Foundation, and expect to offer this as part of our GA release in March 2011. For more information about Microsoft Workflow Foundation, see msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa663328.aspx.
IN SCALE UP, THE SKY IS THE LIMIT
This is a short story: Navita delivers and will continue to deliver scale-up through tapping into technological advances in the IT industry. We are currently evaluating and deploying for existing clients, amongst other technologies, 64 bit, Oracle RAC, and many-core solutions. Our technical experts would be happy to help you get the most out of your Pomax solution through scale-up opportunities.
SCALE OUT. NEW ROADS TO BE OPENED MARCH 2011
Growth is good but growth can be grueling. With more and more demanding transaction volumes, reporting requirements, and organizational set-ups come a need to provide truly scalable performance in the form of scale-out capabilities. We are therefore evaluating various alternative server architectures that will allow us to offer such capabilities, including Microsoft AppFabric, currently in beta. Preliminary benchmarking results are promising, and we expect GA release in March 2011 to be based on and provide support for AppFabric. For more information about AppFabric, see msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/ee695849.aspx.
BAD NEWS AND BAD NEWS IN POWER
For those trading in the power markets, we have two pieces of bad news for you: One, to perform as a significant player, you will need an ECTRM system with sub-hourly resolution and chances are that your existing ECTRM system will today not support such resolution. Two, to the extent that it supports sub-hourly resolution, performance will with high likelihood be poor, especially if you are a large player. Navita has a long history in providing a scalable solution for energy data management and scheduling with sub-hourly resolution. We are now implementing sub-hourly support across the ECTRM platform, which is part of GA release targeted for March 2011.
MORE UNTIED MONEY
Some of our clients, like many other purchasers of software in mostly any vertical, want to lease, not own their software and pay as they go. This has particularly been the case for smaller clients. Less money for IT translates into more money to invest in the markets, as typified by hedge funds and shipping companies. We have already more than 10 smaller and larger clients on hosted solutions. We continuously enrich our SaaS-based offerings, and encourage prospective clients to contact us about lease-based licensing models.
GETTING CLOSE TO INTERACTIVE MAGIC
As any CIO in a trading organization can testify to: Traders need significant screen real estate to make accurate, profit-generating decisions in a timely manner and traders love gadgets. We believe new form factors and new user interaction paradigms will, for these two reasons, force its way onto the trading desks. Navita is therefore investing, together with academia, in efforts to explore new form factors and new user interaction paradigms. Particularly interesting, from a business value perspective, is multi-touch interaction that allows one or more users to manipulate digital content on any surface by the use of gesture recognition, see also www.microsoft.com/surface/en/us/default.aspx.
WELCOME TO THE NEXT GENERATION
While it may take some time before widely deployed on the trading desk, a working prototype of Pomax on Microsoft Surface was demonstrated on June 11, 2010. For more information about these experimental efforts, see http://www.navita.com/?ItemID=1207. Most of the above initiatives are being undertaken as part of Navita’s ‘Next Generation ECTRM System’ project and based on core generic technologies from Microsoft and Oracle.
For more information and an opportunity to discuss with project management for this project, send an email to mail@navita.com or contact Grim Gjønnes, Head of Business Development, at grimg@navita.com or +47 934 01 002. For more information about our short-term road map, contact your sales or accounts executive.
Disclaimer: The information in this section is by its nature forward-looking. Navita reserves the right to at any point in time before release postpone or terminate further investment in a specific technology. We will make reasonable efforts to inform prospective and current clients about significant changes to our technology strategy.