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ZEMA is a data discovery and analysis solution that helps businesses in agriculture, energy, data services, and other industry segments streamline operations related to data alignment, aggregation, sharing, and more on a...
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- Industry: Research
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Makes work easy
Pros
ZEMA provides amazing data management services with optimal and efficient operational speeds. Makes work very easy with automated curves and quick refresh times.
Cons
Initial processes and customer help could be a little better.
Response from ZE PowerGroup
Thank you for taking the time and writing a review for us. It is with these reviews either Pro or Con that enable us to build a world-class Data Management and Analytics Solution while maintaining as the Number 1 solution for the Energy, Commodities, Mining, and Shipping markets. We will work on improving customer help, in the meantime, please visit our updated ZEMA User Community portal to find more user guides, tips and tricks videos, and other training resources.
- Industry: Mining & Metals
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Useful for weekly/monthly data refresh!
Pros
One-click data refresh is very useful for reporting.
Cons
Data isnt updated real-time on ZEMA due to which data needs to be sourced manually
- Industry: Mining & Metals
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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review from a data scientist
Pros
Many data source and ETL is all done in ZEMA
Cons
User interface is too complicated, sometimes difficult to navigate
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- Industry: Mining & Metals
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Zema review
Good product
Pros
A very efficient organiser of price data, choice of multiple sourcing from emails, websites, ftp servers and even pdf reports, price data organisation from forward curve construction angle, ability to construct independent curves using multiple data sources and automate it, easy integration to various downstream systems (CTRMs, ETRMs etc), single sour of price data across organisation, off-the-shelf product, Zema personnel experience in price curve management needs, easily saves consultants and developers cost to design and build a tool that only does 10% of what Zema is already doing.
Cons
I would expect Zema to be more involved with current and potential users on training and explaining various features of the product. Most of the time users have to do a lot of self-learning through trial-and-error exercises
Response from ZE PowerGroup
Hello Konstantin, thank you for your valuable review and comments. We are happy to hear that you are getting good value from the ZEMA suite. Our teams are always making improvements to the product and training process. We will work harder on providing enhanced training solutions, In the meantime, you can also visit our updated ZEMA User Community portal to find more user guides, tips and tricks videos, ZEMA Certification, and other training resources.
Thank you again.
- Industry: Oil & Energy
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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ZE GroupTeamwork
Pros
The speed and collaboration of the ZE Group and our company has been exceptional. If we have questions they have been on point with responses. We are installing a new ETRM and ZE has worked with the vendor without issue to get both systems in on schedule.
Cons
I've known of ZEMA for 13 years and have yet to run into a major issue.
Response from ZE PowerGroup
Thank you Thomas for your feedback and commitment to the ZEMA platform for the last 13 years. It is clients like you with your input on ZEMA's Roadmap that helps us shape and develop a tier 1 solution that is now ranked #1 as a data management and analytics solution for traders, risk managers, analysts, and IT departments.
- Industry: Renewables & Environment
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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9+ year of ze experience
great experience with ze, been with them 9+ years
Pros
overall the application is great, its tailored to fit every company, the software is mature, not alot of bugs
Cons
the only thing that stands out as a con is that their pricing is abit high, but you are getting a great service
Response from ZE PowerGroup
Thank you Habib for your feedback and review. We are happy to hear that you are getting good value from the ZEMA suite. Our teams are always making improvements and expanding to the product, data delivery, training, support, and professional services. Thank you again for helping us make ZEMA the #1 solution for Data Management and Analytics
- Industry: Mining & Metals
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Zema the saviour
Pros
Zema helps us to get data, make curves, analytic using single or multiple sources which helps us make our dashboard
Cons
back tracing OData query at times is difficult.
Response from ZE PowerGroup
Thank you, Jay, so much for taking your time and writing a review for us. We are glad that we can help you out with our product and services and we are committed to ensuring we provide Tier 1 data management and analytics solutions.
- Industry: Oil & Energy
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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A great tool for a robust pricing mechanism for daily EOD needs
Pros
The prompt customer support which is available in case of any unforeseen issues is very appreciable from ZEMA team. The business analysts at the customer support are well trained and commit to providing a resolution as per the criticality of data needs for our daily EOD work makes us feel assured to meet our targets on time without much delay.
Cons
The self-ticket generation tool can be remodeled to be more user friendly and less time consuming in case we require to raise tickets ourselves.
Response from ZE PowerGroup
Hello Ankit and thank you so much for your feedback. Your comments and recommendations will help us improve and expand the ZEMA platform to better support your requirements and self-ticketing recommendations.
- Industry: Utilities
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Overview of ZEMA
Overall Happy with the functionality and cannot fault the support team
Pros
Ease of setting up need processors and configuring new curves
Cons
logging could be improved and alerts when no data is uploaded from source
Response from ZE PowerGroup
Thank you for your feedback. We are pleased to hear that you are getting the most out of ZEMA's functionality and are happy with the client services. Please visit our ZEMA User Community portal on ZE.com, to find more user guides, tips and tricks videos, other training resources, and our updated interactive data ecosystem. Thank you again.
- Industry: Mining & Metals
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Zema
Overall Zema is helpful to automate reports, but I'm not sure if connection can be relied for large range of data which takes a lot of time to pull in and many time, the operation times out.
Pros
Like the ability to integrate different data source into one place and ability to create analytics and curves.
Cons
The loading time to process multiple data sets. it takes a lot of time and mostly just times out. Also the data update is not very up to date. New data is reflected a bit late than required with many times data is missing too. Need to raise a ticket very often regarding problems.Excel plugin does not work very efficiently. Ends up freezing the excel and system sometimes.
Response from ZE PowerGroup
Hello Yugank, Thank you for taking your time and writing a review for us. These reviews either Pro or Con enables us to build a world-class Data Management and Analytics Solution while maintaining us as the Number 1 solution for the Energy, Commodities, Mining, and Shipping markets I have presented your concerns to the data team and they are currently exploring these concerns. In the meantime, please contact client services as they will be able to rapidly help you on resolving the Excel plugin.
- Industry: Oil & Energy
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Essential curve building tool and interface
Pros
curve analysis and building and used it to interface from ZEMA to current ERP system.
Cons
support model in Asia Pacificnot so much of user friendliness, need much more training support
Response from ZE PowerGroup
Thank you Yik Ming for your feedback and review. We are working on providing enhanced training solutions. In the meantime, you can also visit our updated ZEMA User Community portal to find more user guides, tips and tricks videos, and other training resources.
- Industry: Oil & Energy
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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review
Reasonable. The set up took a long time and there was a lot of confusion regarding the login. That's also to do with our internal set up as well. But once it's set up...using it has been reasonably ok.
Pros
The web interface is convenient but not the fastest. Python API's are reasonably well set up...but more work could be done with making it easier to use for US focused products. More templates for specific examples (US power and gas) would be helpful - I guess I haven't seen them yet.
Cons
Haven't used the full capabilities yet. So far.......nothing to hate on at this time
Response from ZE PowerGroup
Hello Chet, thank you for your feedback. We are pleased to hear that you are getting the most out of ZEMA's functionality and are happy with the client services. We are working hard to ensure our clients gain the maximum benefits of using ZEMA and that their requirements for Data Management and analytics are fully met. Please visit our ZEMA User Community portal to find more user guides, tips and tricks videos, other training resources and our updated interactive data ecosystem. Thank you again.
- Industry: Oil & Energy
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Overall, good product
Good
Pros
ZEMA is reliable software and we can depend on it
Cons
Can be made more user friendly for our users
Response from ZE PowerGroup
Thanks, Gautam for sharing your comments. We have recently launched Spaces which is part of the ZEMA Roadmap to ensure the usability of the platform is key to your ease of use in the solution. As a client please visit the User Community portal for product updates, the enhanced interactive data catalog, and training resources.
- Industry: Mining & Metals
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Zema Review
Not able to achieve the data formats in excel output required
Pros
Wide Variety of Database/ Datasource and allows for consolidation of different data needs across the business
Cons
Not able to display different database e.g. Baltic + Crude + FX in 1 tableNot able to display Forward rates e.g. FFA in desired format of 1 row of data per day
Response from ZE PowerGroup
Hi Samuel, thank you so much for taking your time and writing a review. We are glad that we can help you out with our product and services and we are committed to ensuring we provide Tier 1 data management and analytics solutions. We will address your concerns regarding the display of databases and contact you directly.
- Industry: Oil & Energy
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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Zema: good product but with some improvements it could be great
Pros
The ease of creating custom calculations using the pricing data
Cons
Limited userbase. This product would be better if non-users could view dashboards via a web interface
Response from ZE PowerGroup
ZE values all customer feedback. We are happy to hear that you are getting good value from the ZEMA suite. Our teams are always making improvements to the product usability, dashboard enhancements, and training process. In the meantime, you can also visit our updated ZEMA User Community portal to find more user guides, tips and tricks videos, and other training resources.
- Industry: Oil & Energy
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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Zema Review From Hong Li
the best part is Zema support is really great. Even sometimes take more time due to time zone, but service is really great.
Pros
Build Market Analytic, applied formula, create curve.
Cons
sometimes that I have to manually rebuild curve even just loaded in from processor.
Response from ZE PowerGroup
Thank you Hong for your feedback. We are pleased to hear that you are getting the most out of ZEMA's functionality and are happy with the client services. Please visit our ZEMA User Community portal on ZE.com, to find more user guides, tips and tricks videos, other training resources, and our updated interactive data ecosystem. Thank you again.
- Industry: Oil & Energy
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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Good Market Data ETL
Add intelisense to the table columns in sql query will be helpful
Pros
It helps to get market data for all markets
Cons
Incomplete data set make it unusable, some data set has a gap, some data sets missing values
Response from ZE PowerGroup
Hello Zhuoming, Thank you for taking the time and writing a review for us. These reviews either Pro or Con enables us to build a world-class Data Management and Analytics Solution while maintaining us as the Number 1 solution for the Energy, Commodities, Mining, and Shipping markets
Please contact client services as they will be able to rapidly help you on resolving the data set gaps.
- Industry: Consumer Goods
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Good
Pros
Mainly the appearance
Cons
Maybe the lack of validations and debugging
Response from ZE PowerGroup
Hello Tiago, Thank you for your feedback and comments. We are happy to hear that you are getting good value from the ZEMA suite. Our teams are always making improvements to the product and our development/testing processes; however, if there is a specific concern, please contact Customer Support and we can discuss this in more detail.
Thanks for your review.
- Industry: Environmental Services
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1-5 months
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IT management review
Pros
It is quite easy to communicate with customer service when making user changes.
Cons
not much, overall the use of the product from an IT admin perspective has been great.
- Industry: Mining & Metals
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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User friendly
Very simple and handy
Pros
very handy to use. We normally use to extract metal prices and it takes just 2-3minutes to run the report on excel.
Cons
sometimes, when the data is not available on a particular date, report goes into error. We have to follow a process which takes another 2 minutes. which is very irritating.
Response from ZE PowerGroup
Thank you Simar for your review and feedback. These reviews either Pro or Con enables us to build a world-class Data Management and Analytics Solution while maintaining us as the Number 1 solution for the Energy, Commodities, Mining, and Shipping markets. I have presented your concerns to the data team and they are currently exploring these data report responses.
- Industry: Oil & Energy
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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ZEMA fits our data ingestion and curve building needs for ETRM processing and fundamentals data
Pros
ZEMA fits our data ingestion and curve building needs for ETRM processing and fundamentals data. ZE is easy to do business with and acts in good faith as a partner
Cons
ZE support is very responsive, but mostly re-active not pro-active
Response from ZE PowerGroup
Thank you Jay for your feedback and review. Thank you for complimenting our customer support services, we will, however, endeavor to work harder on providing more proactive support for your needs. In the meantime, you can also visit our updated ZEMA User Community portal to find more user guides, tips and tricks videos, and other training resources.
- Industry: Oil & Energy
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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Zema
Pros
Excel add on might be only thing I have liked using about ZEMA.
Cons
Reliability of data. We cannot rely on data coming to ZEMA.
Response from ZE PowerGroup
Hello Lari, Thank you for taking your time and writing a review. These reviews either Pro or Con enables us to build a Tier 1 Data Management and Analytics Solution.
Please contact client services as they will be able to rapidly help you on resolving the data delivery from the source. We can contact the data vendors directly to further help resolve these issues.
- Industry: Mining & Metals
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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Satisfy functional needs
Pros
Flexibility to customise curves and ease of exporting/refreshing in excel
Cons
More tutorials for beginners will be helpful
Response from ZE PowerGroup
Thank you Wen Qi for your feedback and review. We are in the process of providing enhanced training resources for new ZEMA users. In the meantime, you can also visit our updated ZEMA User Community portal to find more user guides, tips and tricks videos, the ZEMA certification program, and other training resources.
- Industry: Renewables & Environment
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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End to end data Suite
ZEMA is a good product! It works!
Pros
Broad range of data parsers spanning multiple industries. This software gives access to a wide-range of data that is valuable to any company. And if it's not currently available, the vendor can develop it in a short period of time.
Cons
Certain in-depth functionality would be nice to have particularly in managing curves.
Response from ZE PowerGroup
Hi Thomas,
Thank you so much for taking your time and writing a review for us. We are glad that we can help you out with our product and services.
- Industry: Oil & Energy
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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Powerful tool, poor support
I've been using Zema for 7 years working as a trading analyst and other roles. The software has a lot of functionalities and is a powerful data vehicle, however simple things around the customer service are tarnishing the overall experience. Lately we've been trying to add a new pricing curve and the messy and slow communication with the support team made something as simple as that to get dragging unsolved for months. we kept going in circles without been given clear explanation about the nature of the process, additional costs and time for implementation. Honestly, if our parent company wasn't tied up with an enterprise contract we'd definitely consider switching to different product .
Pros
The software has a large range of data analysis tools and functionalities.
Cons
the customer support is slow and not as helpful as expected
Response from ZE PowerGroup
Thanks you so much Sonya for providing your feedback. We will work towards there. You can also visit our new ZEMA User Community portal to find more user guides, tips and tricks videos, and other training resources.
