# Product Overview

## Ascend Product Ecosystem

Our complete product ecosystem offers a full spectrum platform for decision-making across planning, financing, and operations.  By utilizing Ascend market forecasts and resource analysis, the platform addresses the needs of resource planners, developers, power buyers and investors. Ascend provides solutions that range from day-ahead and real-time operations, intermediate term hedging and budget risk management, to long-term investment analysis for the [**industries we serve**](https://www.ascendanalytics.com/industries-served).

[See Our Clients](https://www.ascendanalytics.com/solutions/ascend-values-its-clients)

The **Ascend Analytics Product Suite** captures the new dynamics of electricity markets. Ascend Software integrates weather variability as a key predictor in modeling renewables, load and price to provide robust and insightful risk-based portfolio management and optimized resource plans. Ascend transforms thought leadership into software with actionable intelligence for making decisions from the next hour to the next 30 years.

## Analytic Solutions for the Power Industry

Ascend transforms thought leadership into software with actionable intelligence for making decisions from the next hour to the next 30 years. Our software integrates weather variability as a key predictor in modeling renewables, load and price to provide robust and insightful risk-based portfolio management and optimized resource plans.

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market intelligenceTM\
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PowerVALTM\
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Ascend Energy ExchangeTM\
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SmartBidderTM\
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powerSIMMTM\
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**Portfolio Management, Valuation & Resource Planning**](https://www.ascendanalytics.com/solutions/powersimm-suite) .webp)\
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Ascend Power\
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ProcurementTM\
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**Procure, Evaluate, & Optimize Power Supply Contracts**](https://www.ascendanalytics.com/solutions/ascend-power-procurement)

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## Distinguishing Ascend Software

Ascend provides critical insights for planning, valuation, risk management, and power market operations. Trusted by more than 350 leading-edge businesses, Ascend Analytics provides the platform-of-choice that fuels more than $25 billion in asset investments for [**our clients**](https://www.ascendanalytics.com/solutions/ascend-values-its-clients).

### Unique Modeling Capabilities

### Competitor

### Ascend

Forecast nodal sub-hourly prices & RE gen

Incorporate imperfect foresight (i.e., forecast error)

Integrate weather to drive load, renewables & marketplace

Match hourly & sub-hourly price vols & spreads

Simulate full transmission & generation outages

Continuously optimize battery bid strategy