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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Just prior to the holidays, we spoke with George Olney of iRely to get a briefing on activities. iRely in common with many other vendors, actually ended up having a good year and met its targets for growth. “We met and exceeded budget revenues for all markets,” he...
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Fintrade from Brady is a comprehensive commodity management solution that can cater for many different commodities from pre-trade activities all the way to and including financials. Most recently however, Brady has been selling Fintrade into a strong trend that it has seen on the scrap metals side of...
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Anja Strothkaemper, VP, SAP Commodity Management & SAP Agribusiness, saw 2020 as having been a bit of a peculiar year but with lots of activity for SAP. She thinks that the unique situations seen during the year have had the effect of adding impetus to the digitalization trend...
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As we’ve mentioned before on this blog, Value Creed, a Dallas-headquartered firm, began as a hosting/managed services provider for Allegro users several years ago, augmenting their revenues with some project consulting. I recently caught up with Priyankar Datta, Value Creed’s Managing Director, to get an update on their...
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“SAP acquired net new customers through 2020 in areas like mining, metals, oil & gas, automotive, consumer products and travel and transportation,” Harald Schlueter of SAP told me. “We experienced reasonable growth during the year and saw mainly smaller deals, adding around 25 or so new customers.” It...
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Robert Balinski is VP Services for Enuit based in Houston having joined Enuit last summer. We were discussing remote implementation, a topic of interest in these days of lockdowns. Robert has 20-years or more experience with various CTRM software packages and implementation that he draws upon.“We were in...
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