One thing I know very well is that Americans simply don’t take proper vacations. In Europe, I think the other extreme may well be true! For me, August is pretty much a write off. Europe is on vacation and that is all there is to it. In my...
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Patrick and I started in the CTRM world early. A long time ago now. We were both at a vendor by the name of TransEnergy Management based in the Houston office. The company was eventually acquired by Altra and while Patrick made the transition to Altra, I did...
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The agenda of the CTRM Conference is now mostly finalized with only confirmation of initial roundtable panelists now being waited on. The full agenda can be found at the CTRM Conference website. ABOUT CTRM CONFERENCE The CTRM Conference is a unique 1-day event that is focused on the...
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The 2016 CTRM Conference to be held October 27th in London will look at CTRM software in the current business environment of lower margins and higher costs. One such cost has been the swathe of new regulations hitting energy and commodity trading and one of the three panel...
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For the last twenty-years, I have been reliably informed by all sorts of experts that eventually, the CTRM software sector would come down to one dominant player and two or three smaller competitors. I recall being told this by the big wigs of the investment bank that had...
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Perfect Channel, the experts in creating intelligent, enterprise-level auction and trading technologies, are the latest company to sponsor the 2016 CTRM Conference and we thank Perfect Channel for its support. Perfect Channel partners with its clients to build global, dynamic marketplaces to reach new customers, optimise pricing and...
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Generation 10 has announced it will sponsor the 2016 CTRM Conference for a third straight year. We thank them for their support. The agenda for the Conference is now largely set and many have already registered for this one of a kind event. If you are seeking CTRM...
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Over the last 18 -24 months, as commodity prices have fallen, commodity traders/buyers/sellers of all types have had to grapple with rising costs and lower revenues. Recently, ComTech has been conducting research aimed at finding out what this has meant for ETRM software in particular. At this stage,...
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The agenda for the 2016 CTRM Conference is now complete, we are just waiting on materials from the various speakers to update the agenda on the site. The latest addition is Mr David Waite of CRM associates who will speak on “How metal processing companies use CTRM system to...
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Following the CTRM and related software space, we are aware of almost all of the solution providers in the space (an odd one pops up now and then that we have never heard of and that certainly keeps our job interesting). Having performed this analyst role for the...
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