In an industry continually forced to adapt to significant and fundamental change emanating from all directions, innovation is both necessary and to be expected. Many energy and commodity trading firms are now rightly very concerned with adaptability in their processes and systems to be able to successfully maneuver into an uncertain and changeable future as smoothly as possible. Under pressure to handle greater volumes of business and transactions in real-time, optimization, automation and AI are all tools potentially being deployed to assist. Change is ubiquitous in the industry, but includes the energy transition, which is shifting the generation mix and requires transactions in smaller time increments to try to match up to increased production volatility. That means greater amounts of data requiring faster analysis and an enhanced focus on the speed of trades, transactions and decision making. Other significant drivers impacting the industry include ESG, emissions monitoring, traceability, shifting and new
