Providing a database featuring information, analytics and statistics about commodities for use in the field of finance; providing actuarial services, including risk metrics, to provide statistical distributions, data, and software for insurance and reinsurance purposes; providing online prediction services in the field of commodities, namely, predictions relating to the creation, movement and disposition of commodities, namely, providing financial risk assessments regarding globally distributed information technology assets related to commodities and commodities sectors; financial research, analysis and consultation; computer analysis of commodity and financial information based on deployed IT systems; financial analysis, namely, compiling and analyzing statistics, data and other sources of information for financial purposes