It had been a while since I had had an update from DycoTrade, the MS Dynamics -based Commodity Management and CTRM vendor based in the Netherlands. However, this week, I had a briefing from Sales Manager, Frederik Haaxman and one of his colleagues to bring us back up...
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Back in 2018, ComTech released its definitive report on disruptive technology in commodity trading that concluded the cloud would likely be the most disruptive technology followed by others such as advanced data management, AI and ML. Blockchain was seen as someway off despite the hype that surrounded it...
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We have issued a new ComTech white paper titled Three Trends of CM/CTRM Software for 2021 to kick off the year. The paper is as usual a free download from this site and can be found here. There are so many things happening that impact commodities right now...
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In our book (published over a decade ago and now mostly well out of date) and many different papers and blogs over the years, Patrick and I have talked about the evolution of C/ETRM software in terms of technology adoption curves and market dislocations. Some of you might...
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As we’ve noted in various reports and posts, the market for CTRM products has been moving away from the traditional monolithic solutions that dominated the market for decades, to cloud-based solutions (often multi-tenanted applications) that offer lower acquisition and deployment costs. This trend has been accelerated in 2020...
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Previse Systems is an innovative new play in the European TRM space that announced its presence late last year when it launched ChorusLink – ‘a new approach to recording, storing and managing energy trade data and related information – in a common trade repository. Each trade is only captured once as a...
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For Amphora, 2020 was a record year I had been told the last time I had spoken with Ivan O’Toole in September. I caught up with Ivan again this week as we commenced the new year to see how things were going. “Well, we signed another customer in...
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From time to time, Patrick and I get invited to participate in webinars or various kinds. Next week, is one such occasion as I have been invited to moderate a webinar on risk management organized by FIS. I’m looking forward to it as I expect to learn quite...
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The energy transition has delivered challenges and opportunities and Enegen (formerly Dunstan Thomas Energy) is one company that sees an opportunity. The current trend is to build more, smaller and distributed generation facilities and batteries and this leads to issues in trading around and scheduling so many assets,...
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Yesterday, I added three new vendors – ones I had not heard of previously. This morning I added another that I had found in the data aggregation arena. We keep the directory as up to date as possible and we continue to find ways to allow you to...
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