I have been having a lot of conversations in recent weeks across the space and have picked up on a number of trends have emerged from those conversations. One of which is China! I have heard more about China and commodity trading this last two weeks th......
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Vendors of E/CTRM software operate in fast moving and highly challenging markets. Buyer requirements are shifting and changing all of the time as customers seek new ways to make or protect profits and respond to their shifting regulatory, technical and......
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Contigo has been busy focused on project work recently, according to CEO, Simon Wheeler. Both of the big Scottish projects have now gone live, he told me, with several new exciting projects in motion. Since its acquisition by Australia’s EnergyOne, it ......
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It had been quite a long time since we spoke with e·Opt and Rajeev Bhatt, but an email alerting us to e·Opt’s new website gave us the opportunity to reconnect. e·Opt was set up in 2008 in Mannheim, Germany and focuses exclusively on the energy vertical......
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Like the proverbial Phoenix, Amphora is reborn under CEO, Chris Mudry, with a new brand and a new website to boot. However, it doesn’t stop there. Mr. Mudry told me that Amphora has signed 3 new clients in recent months and that it has finally consolid......
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In countries like the UK and Germany where renewables have become a large component of the generation mix, bringing on new assets and getting them to operate profitably has increased in importance. Wind, solar and other renewables generation can, of co......
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Over the last couple of years, Gen10 has more or less completely reinvented itself. This was confirmed in the last call that I had with CEO Richard Williamson. Founded in 2000, Gen10 has delivered many projects across the commodities space. These days,......
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MTX Commodities was established in 2013 in Turkey but recently (2018) it has opened an office in London as it tries to build on the success that it has had to date. It got started by Ms. Melis Aksari who saw the need to build an ETRM in...
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The number of announcements from vendors regarding new sales of E/CTRM software have been few and far between through 2019 to date. In part, this reflects a stronger reluctance on the part of buyers to publicly ‘endorse’ vendors whose softw......
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At the ETEM conference last week, quite a lot of panel time was dedicated to a discussion of spreadsheets versus ETRM. To me, this is a long dead topic that has been done to death but…. new people and new entities come into the industry all of th......
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