Theme: IT Consulting in Energy Marketing Client:  One Of The World's Largest Independent Oil And Gas Exploration And Production Companies  Business Problem:  Our client needed an integration process and procedure to interface financial exposures from all marketing systems on as real-time a basis as possible to their corporate credit system. This would enable the credit department to more accurately track risk exposure by counterparty across all marketing systems – critically important in post-Enron trading What Provante did: Analyzed the current marketing systems and the credit system interface points and procedures Managed the project team composed of Provante and client resources Provante built, documented, tested, and moved into production– The global credit cross-reference sub-system Interfaces from the US and Canadian natural gas and crude marketing deal entry systems Interfaces from the client’s risk management system for mark-to-market exposure Client’s Results:  Our client is now able to view total exposure across counterparty from one credit system for quick response to deal credit validation requests  The credit department was able to maintain its staffing numbers while decreasing credit response time as well as quickly respond to management requests for counterparty exposure