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Perspectives on Disruptive Technologies in Commodities – Part 2

We continue today with the input from the CTRMCenter Thought leader panel’s view on disruptive technologies in CTRM and CM software. ComTech is looking at the role of technology in driving change in commodities and we would appreciate your input into a small number of questions to help...
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Perspectives on Disruptive Technologies in Commodities – Part 1

If like us, you keep an eye on what is going on in the world of CTRM then you will have seen the constant reminders that technology is one of several drivers of change. Blockchain, AI & ML, Cloud, and much more. In commodities, this seems to be...
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Enuit Europe Strengthening Its’ Position to Respond to Growing Opportunities

Enuit announced that it had opened an office in London only at the beginning of 2019. The office is headed up by Ganesh Natarajan. Two years later, the vendor is apparently thriving. “We have continued to grow, signing new clients including two last year, and we have continued...
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Commodity Super Cycle?

“Looking at the 2020s, we believe that similar structural forces to those which drove commodities in the 2000s could be at play,” Goldman argues. (“2021 Commodities Outlook: REVing up a structural bull market”, Nov. 18, 2020) That was Goldman Sachs earlier in January. Those comments piqued a great...
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Reddit-onomics Webinar

Next week, I will be a panelist on a CommoditiePeople webinar titled Reddit-onomics – Impact on Commodity Trading. It should be fun and if you’d like to join us, I’d be happy to see you there. I did write a short blog last week about the impact on...
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Change and Education in Commodity Trading

One thing that is more obvious each and every day is the interest in ecosystems as it relates to commodity trading, risk management, and supply chain software. In fact, ComTech predicted and elaborated on this trend all the way back in 2017 in our white paper – CTRM/CM...
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The New World of Support?

Today, I’m going slightly off-topic, and yet it really isn’t. I want to talk about customer support. These days, a lot of support is provided in the following way. Firstly, you are required to browse a library of answers to common problems. There may be some logic built...
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Not a Packaged Software Market?

Since my days at TransEnergy Management in the late 1990’s, I have made an argument (and repeated it periodically) that the CTRM software market is not a traditional packaged software market. It is a message the ComTech has, of course, promoted as once you understand this, everything makes...
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Agiboo and the ‘Perfect Storm.’

Jan van den Brom of Agiboo describes the situation there as the ‘perfect storm’ in which it has almost too many new customers and implementation going on at the moment. In fact, he has been unusually difficult to reach in recent weeks! “Since everything has to be done...
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iRely Sees CM/CTRM-Accounting Integration as Key

We caught up with iRely again about a week ago. They were very keen to extoll the virtues of integrated accounting and Commodity Management/CTRM. “We have always had integrated accounting within the iRely solution,” iRely’s Sanjit Paul told us. “Many of our US customers have been using it...
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