Architecture

Flexible modular approach.

Only Allegro component architecture consists of numerous specific application modules, each of which can stand alone or seamlessly integrate in any combination to form highly customized solutions, enabling the scope of the solution to precisely match the scope of business objectives. Customers pay only for the functionality they need, and can easily add modules at any time. Further, this architecture accelerates deployment and reduces project risk.

Allegro’s modular "component architecture" renders the traditional product approach all but obsolete. Advantages of Allegro component architecture have earned rapid market acceptance.

For example, Allegro component architecture enables "custom fit" solutions tailored to a company’s unique requirements. Also, this architecture enables Allegro solutions to be readily modified to keep pace with fast-changing strategies and market trends.

Component architecture arose from a simple idea. Instead of bundling energy functionality into application products, it unbundles this functionality into smaller modules. Thus, for example, producers of crude seeking an advanced hedging solution plus logistics management can get precisely the functionality they need without purchasing software that also includes gas or power marketing. Further, customers are free to select functionality by business process rather than by commodity, enabling even more flexible choices.

Later, if this producer acquires a gas play, a physical gas module can simply be added to the integrated solution. But this approach’s flexibility goes further. Each component module stands alone as an independently functional application. Yet these independent components readily integrate in any combination to deliver a seamless “total solution” at any scale.

Because the range of modules can be very broad, Allegro’s component approach facilitates the new vision of competitive trading, physical management and risk mitigation — bringing together all aspects of energy decision making in a single optimization environment, and extending the environment to applications outside traditional energy trading and risk management, such as production field accounting and management.