Elsam to License Caminus' Zai*Net Manager & Risk Analytics; Contract Award Represents Caminus' First Nord Pool Client in Serving the Nordic Power Market.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 23, 2001 Caminus Corporation (Nasdaq: CAMZ), a leading provider of software solutions and strategic consulting services to participants in the competitive energy markets throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and Europe, today announced that it has licensed its Zai*Net Manager & Risk Analytics to Elsam A/S of Denmark. Elsam is largest power producer in Denmark and a player on the Nordic Power Exchange (Nord Pool Nord Pool, the Nordic Power Exchange, is the world's only multinational exchange for trading electric power. Nord Pool was established in 1993, and is owned by the two national grid companies, Statnett in Norway (50%) and Svenska Kraftnät in Sweden (50%). ), the world's first international commodity exchange for electrical power. Caminus' Zai*Net Manager & Risk Analytics will provide Elsam with complete power, gas, financial, coal, risk management, scheduling and operations software solutions. The license represents Caminus' first Nord Pool customer, and the first European customer to utilize its Zai*Net Options Model client and Physical Scheduling client. Providing a total risk management solution for its diverse power portfolio, Caminus is assisting Elsam mitigate risk as it expands its growing European operations. "Caminus' ability to provide a robust, proven total risk management solution with physical scheduling modules was a critical factor in our decision making process," stated Leif Winum, Sales Manager sales manager n → gerente m/f de ventas sales manager n → directeur commercial sales manager sale n → , Electricity at Elsam. "Our evaluation of competing products was thorough, and the functionality of Zai*Net and the industry and product knowledge from the Caminus team led us to the conclusion that Zai*Net was the best solution for Elsam. The flexibility of Zai*Net and its configuration capabilities with diverse interfaces will enable us to expand our operations while maintaining a fully-integrated risk management system." "This is a milestone win for Caminus as we have significantly increased our presence in the Nordic power market and have secured our first Northern European seats for our options models and physical scheduling software," stated Ian Mullane, SVP SVP S'il Vous Plaît (French: Please) SVP Senior Vice President SVP Schweizerische Volkspartei (Swiss People~s Party) SVP Society of Vertebrate Paleontology SVP Social Venture Partners SVP St Vincent de Paul , Director of Software Operations for Caminus. "We are pleased to be a value-added partner to Elsam in helping them build first-class trading and risk management and physical operations systems for their expanding portfolio of power assets." About Elsam A/S Elsam A/S is the main producer of electrical power and district heating District heating (less commonly called teleheating) is a system for distributing heat generated in a centralized location for residential and commercial heating requirements. in Denmark. Elsams production capacity are sited in the western part of Denmark (Jylland and Fyn). The main task for Elsam is to produce and sell electrical power and district heat to wholesale customers. Elsam also have a portfolio of windmill windmill, apparatus that harnesses wind power for a variety of uses, e.g., pumping water, grinding corn, driving small sawmills, and driving electrical generators. Windmills were probably not known in Europe before the 12th cent. production capacity, including offshore plants. With a staff of nearly 1,300, Elsam operates 7 large powerplants as well as a number of small plants all located in the west region of Denmark. Elsams Head-Office is in Skaerbaek, Fredericia. More information about Elsam can be found on www.elsam.com. About Caminus Corporation Caminus Corporation is a leading provider of risk management software and strategic consulting services for participants in energy markets throughout North America and Europe, including utilities, electrical power generating companies, energy marketers, electric power pools, gas producers, processors, and pipelines. Caminus offers a suite of software solutions and associated services to enable energy market participants to manage complex risk scenarios and effectively trade and manage energy transactions addressing multiple energy commodities and types of risk across varied geographies. In addition to its suite of risk management software solutions, Caminus also provides strategic consulting services for market-related issues within the energy sector. The company currently has over 150 energy enterprise customers of its software solutions and strategic consulting services, including British Energy British Energy plc (LSE: BGY) is the UK's largest electricity generator by volume and a constituent company of FTSE 100. It is primarily an operator of formerly state-owned nuclear power stations. , Electrabel, Endesa, Conoco, Fortum Energy, Powergen. REMU REMU Remote Environmental Monitoring Unit REMU Remote Environmental Measuring Unit and Shell Energy. Caminus is headquartered in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , with offices in London and Cambridge, UK; Houston and Dallas, Texas “Dallas” redirects here. For other uses, see Dallas (disambiguation). The City of Dallas (pronounced [ˈdæl.əs] or [ˈdæl. ; and Calgary, Canada. For more information about Caminus, please visit the corporate Web site at www.caminus.com. This press release contains forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc Caminus Corporation's financial outlook for 2001, and such statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Among the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements are Caminus Corporation's lengthy sales cycle, its dependence on large license agreements to meet revenue targets, competition in the energy industry, continued market acceptance of Caminus products, changes in customer requirements, Caminus Corporation's inability to manage its growth, governmental regulations, general economic conditions and the risk factors detailed from time to time in Caminus Corporation's periodic reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including without limitation its Annual Report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. for the quarter ended December 31, 2000. Caminus Corporation expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter any of its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. |
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