“It’s busier than ever,” says Jan van den Brom of Agiboo. “We have won two new customers already this month and a nicely sized Swiss coffee company and our first ever metals customer.” Jan pointed to ex-users who had joined the metals company pushing for Agiboo even though...
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As Aviv Handler of ETR Advisory reminded me, it’s been 10-years already since all the new rules and regulations in commodity trading began to emerge. Time flies! “People are finally getting used to it and upping their game as they go,” he said referring to the regulations. “Even...
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The space for CTRM and CM software for metals has gotten quite crowded of late, with several vendors adding significant metals capabilities including Enuit, Gen10, Amphora, Fendahl, and others to join existing suppliers like Brady, ION OpenLink, and ION Aspect, for example. However, they all have some pretty...
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Fendahl is very busy, says Henry Thornalley. “We have submitted three RFPs this week alone for sizeable opportunities,” he says. “It’s unprecedented busy, and under normal circumstances, we would be lucky to do one RFP of that nature every couple of months.” He sees the activity as broad-based...
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Back in early February, I penned an article about the growing calls of a commodities supercycle and my skepticism. “I may well be wrong but I don’t see an end to issues around China, Iran, and Syria to name a few. I do see continued geopolitical risks and...
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Right now, we are hard at work on the latest disruptive technology research kindly sponsored by Beacon, Kyos, and Invensoft. To that end, we are engaged in research around use cases for technologies like AI, ML, Process automation, blockchain, virtual and augmented reality, and so on. If you...
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It is already the second quarter of 2021 and Simon Wheeler, CEO of Contigo, says that the year so far has been very busy. “We are recruiting, building the team, responding to RFPs, working on projects and also the product roadmap and enhancements” He points to a number...
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It was interesting that I saw this post in the Archive section as I was just thinking about posting something similar for the new questionnaire… as it turns out, I can copy and paste and replace the link….. so here we go again, three years to the day....
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A while ago, I wrote a semi- off-topic blog on my frustrations with online support (at my bank and so on) and asked the question, is this what online support might be like in an actual cloud, SaaS CTRM context? Well, that blog seemed to be spot on...
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Recently, iRely gave Patrick and me a detailed briefing on its testing program, which in itself was unusual, as mainly, we get shown software demonstrations. In this instance, Deanna Palm, Chief Quality Officer at iRely, took us through a look at something that iRely sees as a bit...
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