With the dramatic fall in commodities prices through this year, culminating in a accelerated crash to 16-year lows in the last 30-days, we wanted to visit with our CTRM Thought Leaders panel to get their thoughts as to the impact of this on the ETRM/CTRM markets, and to see if there is, in fact, a silver lining or two to be had in this new market reality. Here are our questions and their answers… Commodity Technology Advisory: With more or less all commodity prices hitting rock bottom and projections for this to last for some time, how do you see demand for technology and software in this market? Is it being impacted or are people buying differently? Are procurement times increasing and so on?

With the dramatic fall in commodities prices through this year, culminating in a accelerated crash to 16-year lows in the last 30-days, we wanted to visit with our CTRM Thought Leaders panel to get their thoughts as to the impact of this on the ETRM/CTRM markets, and to see if there is, in fact, a silver lining or two to be had in this new market reality. Here are our questions and their answers... Commodity Technology Advisory: With more or less all commodity prices hitting rock bottom and projections for this to last for some time, how do you see demand for technology and software in this market? Is it being impacted or are people buying differently? Are procurement times increasing and so on?