WSI Launches WSI AgTrader™
Weather-Driven Business Solutions Leader Answers Agricultural Traders' Call for Market Advantage
Andover, MA (PRWEB) April 8, 2008 -- WSI, the solutions leader for weather-driven business applications, today unveiled WSI AgTrader™, a new, comprehensive, weather service for the global agricultural commodities trading community. WSI AgTrader provides a single, online source for easy access to weather forecasts, real-time commentaries, historical information and global model data coverage that is unavailable anywhere else.
As the market leader in weather-related business tools for energy trading, WSI has leveraged those skills and created a new comprehensive, cutting-edge tool exclusively for the agricultural trading community. This product, based on superior and exclusive global forecast data from the European global-weather-model (ECMWF) plus other weather models, combines weather forecasts for key growing regions around the world, valuable commentary and unique model data until now only available to a limited few.
"Within this highly volatile arena, agricultural commodities traders need an edge and WSI can provide it," said Ira Scharf, General Manager of WSI's Energy and Risk Services. "WSI AgTrader is compelling because it offers superior forecasts for every major global growing region based on exclusive global weather data. In such an unpredictable marketplace traders need unique tools that can offer the most accurate, real-time information to make the best buying and selling decisions. WSI AgTrader is such a tool."
WSI AgTrader provides current, easy to understand temperature and precipitation forecasts for key growing regions around the globe. The product provides:
| | - Superior Forecasts - Only available through WSI, these forecasts strongly utilize global data from the exclusive European global-weather-model.
- Global Model Data - WSI provides graphics depicting the raw data from a suite of weather-models for each global region. Exclusive access is provided to data from the most skillful global weather model, ECMWF.
- WSI's Historical Weather Data from around the globe
- Daily Mid-day Commentaries from WSI meteorologists who are continuously monitoring all key global regions
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Model data is available for nine global regions, including:
| | - North America
- Northern Hemisphere
- Europe
- South America
- Australia
- East Asia
- West Asia
- Africa
- Southern Hemisphere
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In beta as of April 9, the product will be available for purchase on May 1. To learn more about WSI AgTrader email rboucher@wsi.com or call 978-983-6558.
About WSI Corporation
WSI is the most trusted source of weather information across the globe. Top energy and agriculture trading groups and financial institutions trust WSI to supply them with easy-to-use, timely and expert weather guidance to help anticipate market volatility mitigate risk and make critical decisions with confidence. For more information, please visit us on the web at www.wsi.com or call us at 877.WSI.CORP or +44.121.233.7600.
For more information, please contact:
Kristen Sullivan
WSI Corporation
(978) 983-6607
ksullivan @ wsi.com
Editorial Contact:
Barbara Rudolph
Rudolph Communications, LLC
(781) 229-1811
bjr @ rudolphcommunications.com
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