Telvent offers high value-added information services and technological solutions in sectors critical to the economy and sustainability of the planet: energy, transportation, environment and agriculture.
The company’s Energy business develops real-time automation solutions for the power industry. The Smart Grid solutions suite, for instance, optimizes power supply for both distributors and users. Telvent’s systems are present in widely diverse operational settings, from the power supply to the New York subway to the electricity distribution networks of cities as distant from each other as Madrid, Bangkok and Rio de Janeiro. Telvent also offers a broad range of solutions for the integrated operation of oil and gas pipelines.
The Traffic and Transportation business helps improve urban and inter-urban mobility, and makes rail and maritime infrastructure safer and more efficient. Its solutions and services support the operation of public transport, and this in turn encourages people to make use of it. Telvent products help control city traffic and support effective management of highways, toll facilities, tunnels and inter-urban means of transport. These systems form the basis of traffic control in major cities all around the world, including Beijing, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Mumbai, New York and Madrid.
The purpose of Telvent’s Environment division is to provide technological solutions and services that protect biodiversity and help mitigate the effects of climate change. Today, Telvent controls key environmental disaster prevention infrastructure all over the world, and manages water distribution to more than 45 M people in Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East. The company supplies weather information management technology to airport operators, air forces, and the weather and hydrology authorities of several European countries, including Spain’s State Meteorology Agency (Agencia Estatal de Meteorología), inter alia. It has supplied real-time critical information for business decision making in the agricultural sector for more than 30 years. These services cater to the entire supply chain of the complex North American grain and livestock market — from producers seeking to avoid the effects of market volatility, to commodities operators and brokers trading on the big international markets. Telvent’s agriculture solutions facilitate spot price formation for grain and create higher transparency across the sector via real-time data and online trading, primarily in the grain market.
Telvent’s Energy business area provides real-time IT solutions and services to the oil, gas and power industries.
The division’s business model combines several key elements. First, Telvent’s in-depth knowledge of the vertical market, based on robust relationships of trust built with its customers over many years of recurring business. Second, the great value it offers in the form of sophisticated, highly scalable technology platforms supported by ongoing investments in research, development and innovation. Third, its delivery model that provides systems, services and critical business data in real time.
Telvent has been providing support services to the electricity industry since the 1980s
This model is successful thanks to the effort of the Energy team’s 1,400-plus professionals, and the consistent excellent performance of its executives. In 2010, the company’s efforts were focused on attracting and retaining the industry’s finest talent, and perfecting the technologies and applications in Telvent’s product range. It operates five product centers, three competency centers, and business units located in Europe, the Americas and Asia.
Today, Telvent serves approximately 500 utilities and more than 400 customers from the oil and gas sector worldwide. World-class energy companies rely on its technology and services to meet the requirements of their customers, shareholders and industry regulators, at all times ensuring the highest standards of infrastructure security and public and environmental safety in all operations.
A broad customer base coupled with wide geographic diversification has enabled Telvent to continue to grow, offering solutions and services to customers around the world. In 2010, the company’s growth performance translated into revenue of €253 M, 5.1 % up from 2009, and accounting for 33.7 % of Telvent’s total business. In North America alone, revenue from the power industry was up 11% from 2009.
Telvent’s Energy area works in the following segments:
Since the early 1980s, Telvent has supplied specific applications and support services to the utility sector. Thanks to its long track record, it is able to respond to power utilities’ needs by providing technology to operate critical infrastructure and information required for agile decision making.
The Smart Grid Solution (SGS) suite encompasses Telvent’s broad array of solutions for meeting the industry’s needs, and constitutes one of the company’s key bids for innovation and sustainability. SGS helps power utilities to transform their grids to distribute electricity in a safer, cheaper and more efficient way.
The company’s Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) raises energy efficiency by supporting real-time control of the power distribution network. The suite also aids more rational and efficient use of human resources and infrastructure, for a stronger bottom line.
Telvent’s geographic information systems (GIS) solutions within the SGS suite provide water and gas utilities with tangible benefits for cutting costs, increasing productivity and offering better customer service. The ArcFM™ solution is a single platform that captures all spatial data for a utility’s assets and manages it in real time.
Telvent’s technology, services and information suite for the oil and gas sector provides applications to manage and supervise pipeline transportation from refining sites to end-users in an integrated way. Its proprietary technology, developed and perfected over the course of more than 30 years, is installed at more than 60% of oil and gas transportation networks across the Americas. The company’s price data, business risk management, back-office solutions, and product sales platforms connect producers to end consumers throughout the whole supply chain, aiding operations and decision making in a complex business through times of high volatility.
The Energy division has retained its status as an industry leader. 2010 highlights include:
The transportation networks that criss-cross Earth support more than 23,000 M.km of passenger travel a year — and this figure is expected to increase to 105,000 Mkm by 2050. These networks also transport goods worldwide, which will be 60 % higher by 2020. To support this critical industry, the company offers Telvent SmartMobility™, an integrated solutions suite that completely rethinks the intelligent management of existing transport facilities.
Telvent’s advanced tolling systems are capable of processing five times more vehicles than a conventional tolling station
In 2010, Telvent’s Traffic and Transportation division further broadened its product range and won major tenders in several different geographic regions.
In Spain, Telvent maintained the volume of recurring operation and maintenance service agreements (Seville, Barcelona, Vitoria and Bilbao) and has also secured major contracts for the construction of new road infrastructure. The company is set to achieve a strategic foothold in new, high-growth niches in the rail sector through projects like the development and implementation of an integrated management system for the new metropolitan light rail transit system in the Bay of Cadiz.
On the international stage, the company’s customer base now includes the Department of Infraestructure and Transportation of Brazil; Saudi Oger Ldt, in Saudi Arabia; Ferrocarriles de la Junta de Andalucía, in Spain, and Enterprise Metro d´Alger, in Algeria, demonstrating Telvent’s firmly established strength throughout the world.
Strong performance in Latin America, where revenue grew 20 %, was driven largely by consistently good news out of Brazil, where Telvent is a leader in mobility management and toll networks. The start up of a traffic management system in the city of Panama and fresh contract awards in Mexico and Chile open up promising business prospects.
New contracts with recurring customers, as well as increased business expectations with key customers such as departments of transportation in Florida, New York, Texas and Washington reveal leadership in the US market. One relevant milestone includes the introduction of a new traveller information system to the Maryland Department of Transportation — which showcases “a before and an after” in traffic systems management.
Finally, Telvent bolstered its client list in Saudi Arabia, where it closed a deal to implement the traffic management system for King Abdullah Road in Riyadh. Moreover, new contracts to prioritize light rail transit systems in Algeria and Morocco widen the company’s business vistas in North Africa and the Middle East.
2010 sales in the Traffic and Transportation division totaled €209 M, a 3.9 % increase year-over-year; the segment now accounts for 27.7 % of Telvent’s total revenue.
Telvent’s Traffic and Transportation area works in the following segments:
Cities and roads are plagued with daily traffic and pollution problems due to society’s excessive dependence on private modes of transport. Telvent is aware that new challenges call for new solutions, and it has accordingly developed an integrated suite of intelligent transport systems — Telvent SmartMobility Road suite, which combines critical data in real time with advanced mobility management services to raise road safety while lowering pollutant emissions.
The suite supports daily traffic management, tunnel and parking lot operation, passenger information systems, highway tolls and offense management. Telvent also offers consultancy and project planning services, highway payments management and intelligent traffic systems (ITS).
The company offers Telvent SmartMobilityTM Rail Suite, an integrated railway network management solution to enhance safety in rail traffic and infrastructure control, support user access to public transport and foster transport intermodality.
This suite encompasses solutions for comprehensive rail management: rail traffic control and regulation, railway ticketing, station management and user information systems to remote energy control systems, communication networks and park-and-ride car park management.
Maritime authorities and operators are provided integral port management solutions coupled with a wide range of maritime and fishing simulators to operate and manage maritime transport to the highest standards of safety.
Telvent’s SmartMobilityTM Maritime is an integrated management suite designed to offer the maximum flexibility and address all of the different aspects of maritime port management: maritime traffic, port facilities control, fleet management, real-time information systems, port security, port communications and advanced business applications.
The Traffic and Transportation division’s 2010 milestones and achievements include:
In the interest of a sustainable future, Telvent helps different companies and public bodies overcome the social, environmental and economic restrictions affecting the supply of water to users. The company strives to ensure the quality of the drinking water supply, and fosters good use of emerging technology and services as an integral part of responsible water management.
Telvent manages the supply of water to over 45 M people worldwide
In 2010, Telvent’s Environment business area continued to update and improve its technology-based solutions. In the fields of both product and business development, the company has engaged in a policy of selective strategic alliances to bolster the value it offers and entrench its privileged vantage-point in markets where it has achieved leadership.
In geographical terms, Telvent consolidated its environment activities in its strategic regions. North America now accounts for more than 40 % of the segment’s entire business. In Western Europe, it has become a benchmark in aeronautical meteorological observation systems. And over the course of the year, it managed to create a solid base of recurring business in countries such as Libya, Jordan and Qatar, thus confirming the powerful attraction exerted by its transport and water distribution management technologies
As to business diversification, the focus on water utilities moved towards new business proposals and a wider, more dynamic offering of value-added services. The Environment division made good progress in developing high-quality, robust solutions that add value via efficient water demand management, energy use optimization, leakage control and resource quality. This set of modular, scalable applications make up Telvent’s Water Management Suite, WMS, the cornerstone of what Telvent calls Smart Network Management (GIS).
The company’s strong bid for innovation and excellence is reflected by the Environment division’s sales figures, which in 2010 rose 7.3 % year-over-year to €63 M, accounting for 8.4% of Telvent’s total revenue.
The Environment business area includes the following fields of activity:
Telvent offers aeronautical meteorological observation solutions that meet all International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and World Meteorological Organization (WMO) recommendations. It also supplies rainfall and temperature forecasting to the main airports in the United States and for several international airlines.
The company develops solutions that include surface meteorology, seismic detection systems, remote detection, meteorological radar networks, surface water flow and quality monitoring and control systems, and hydrologic detection and alert systems. In all these areas, accurate forecasting is vital.
Telvent observes climatic conditions, forecasts weather, tracks and alerts to adverse meteorological and water-related events, and monitors contamination by supplying real-time technology and high value-added services.
In order to provide weather forecasting customers with added value when managing processes and assets, the company has prepared a horizontal platform of decision making support applications that serve the energy, transportation, aviation and other sectors at international level.
Telvent supplies equipment and installs, maintains and operates air quality control networks and pollutant emission measurement systems in cities and industrial zones. Its concern for the quality of the air we breathe also extends to developing and implementing environmental emergency management systems.
Telvent provides technological solutions and services to ensure the integral management of water and purification companies. These solutions embrace applications that operate, maintain and plan comprehensive supply and sanitation systems (networks and treatment plants) and technological platforms capable of processing data in support of business decision making.
In order to combine the operational and corporate activities of water utilities, the company developed its Water Management Suite (WMS), a modular system that allows users to optimize operational processes and assure service quality by cutting energy costs, reducing network loss, managing demand and controlling the quality of treated water.
The main 2010 projects and milestones achieved by the Environment business area include:
Telvent DTN’s agricultural information services give an edge to customers in the production, marketing and distribution of grain and livestock in the large, complex Canadian and US markets. These services facilitate the daily business and operational decision making processes of 550,000 subscribers throughout North America. The company supplies vital information to producers, brokers and commodity traders that can help them minimize business risks.
Telvent offers critical information in real-time to improve decision-making along the entire agricultural supply chain
The company’s solutions provide exclusive, award-winning editorial content, accurate, location-based weather information, consultancy services, and an online marketing portal that brings together buyers and sellers. These features make it the industry’s most advanced information service.
Throughout the year, high price volatility prompted increased sales of Telvent DTN services in this field. Real-time business management requires accurate information — even more so in the present economic uncertainty. The company’s customers have shown a high degree of loyalty, and the value of its services has been enhanced. Customer retention rates are near 90 %.
Innovation is fundamental to Telvent DTN’s corporate culture. The new, improved products launched this year were widely welcomed by customers. In addition, Telvent DTN’s team of 100 analysts and experts is highly regarded as leaders in the industry.
The advertising area has faced tough challenges over the past year as a result of increasing financial pressure on advertisers at all levels. Telvent DTN’s offline publication, The Progressive Farmer, which celebrated its 124th anniversary in 2010, continues to be regarded within the industry as a top quality traditional trade publication, and has strong relationships with major advertisers, including John Deere, Sygenta, Bayer, and Pioneer.
In 2010, the Agriculture division’s sales grew 6.6 % year-over-year to reach €83 M, or 11 % of Telvent’s total revenue.
The Agriculture business area includes the following lines of business:
Telvent DTN is the leading supplier of agricultural information services to the North American corn, soybean and livestock industries. The company offers widely-adopted solutions for a range of different agricultural sub-sectors, such as DTN Grains®, DTN Marketspace™, DTN Livestock®, DTN Dairy®, DTN Canada®, DTN Mobile® and DTN Six Factors® Market Strategies.
Telvent DTN enjoys a dominant position among the leading intermediaries, converters and associated agribusinesses, including traders, ethanol plants, cooperatives and brokers. All of this is possible thanks to two key applications: DTN Portal™, which enables market players to manage their grain purchases online on a 24-hour basis and integrate sales directly with their management systems; and DTN AgHost®, a powerful management platform for other key industry suppliers.
DTN ProphetX® is a risk management and commodities trading platform widely used by market professionals for trading and critical information needs. DTN ProphetX offers real-time prices, analysis tools, market news, expert commentary and order execution.
The Progressive Farmer is the leading trade publication in the United States agricultural sector. Released monthly, its highly specialized and educational content has made it a market opinion leader, as confirmed by the editorial awards it wins year after year.
In 2010, the Agriculture division undertook a range of different projects, including the following highlights:
Telvent Global Services is Spain’s only independent supplier of information technologies able to provide added value to customers over the entire life cycle of its business technology.
This group provides services and solutions that foster security, sustainability and present and future business feasibility, enabling companies and government authorities to keep up with the dizzying changes in technology, manage change and support innovation through collaborative models.
The Global Services group aims to help its customers define and re-engineer their processes, technology strategies and systems planning. It provides support for framing and implementing technology solutions that meet the emerging needs of the business. The team works on simulating processes and exploiting and analyzing relevant data in support of successful decision making.
The solutions of Telvent Global Services help corporations and public bodies alike to keep up with the dizzying technological changes we are currently witnessing
Telvent’s competency centers and software factories (six in Spain and two in Latin America) develop tailored applications that provide customers with added value. In addition, the company’s five data processing centers located across the Iberian Peninsula offer users more than 25,000 M facilities to meet rising demand for systems and service outsourcing.
In Spain, Telvent Global Services followed a territorial positioning strategy by seeking to grow and create jobs at a local level. The company’s approach to customers combines the personalized care, prompt responsiveness and flexibility of a local supplier with the wide-ranging capabilities and robustness of a multinational corporation.
On the international stage, the division continues to diversify geographically. It made a determined effort to develop the company in Latin America by deploying its capabilities in Chile, Brazil, Uruguay and Mexico, while continuing to grow in the United States. As a result, the company created two software factories in Brazil and Uruguay, and more than 200 jobs, on the back of a 250 % leap in sales.
Telvent Global Services’ growth in 2010 has made it an exceptionally strong player in terms of proprietary capabilities (consultancy, software factories, product and data processing centers) and third-party relationships (software developers and hardware manufacturers). It is able to offer its customers latest-generation service outsourcing — Software As A Service (SAAS) and Infrastructure As A Service (IAAS) — while generating new ideas (sustainability management solutions) and achieving a clean break with established models (zero-defect apps) to lay the foundations for growth in the coming years.
As a result of new services, geographical diversification and, most importantly, the strong performance of its more than 1,500 highly-qualified professionals, Telvent’s Global Services division reached year-end having achieved sharp year-over-year growth in order intake on a like-by-like basis. Revenue for 2010 increased year-over-year by 14.4 % to €145 M, and accounted for 19 % of Telvent’s entire business.
The Global Services business area includes the following lines of business:
Telvent assists its customers in the day-to-day running of their multifaceted businesses, deploying technology and/or process consultancy expertise to provide industry-specific solutions, ranging from the initial stage of pinpointing needs to business transformation.
The company consistently demonstrates its ability to integrate different technologies, set complex projects in motion and develop applications within the timeframes prescribed by the market, thereby ensuring their feasibility and ultimate success.
Telvent handles the daily running and maintenance of its customers’ information systems at their own sites or on an outsourced basis using the company’s data center network.
In addition to providing support to key Telvent divisions (Energy, Transportation, Environment and Agriculture), Global Services targets IT-intensive segments like industry, retail, banking and insurance, telecommunications, health care and government.
The Global Services division’s milestones and achievements of 2010 were: