It has been an interesting and busy week with interesting news emanating from three different vendors. First up is that Energy One Europe (Contigo, EGSSIS and eZ-Nergy) has now established its new web page. So these three entities are now rebranded under the Energy One Europe umbrella. The...
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Periodically, we perform online surveys. Historically, we have used SurveyMonkey. It’s a reasonable tool with far too much generic functionality for our specific needs but nonetheless, still usable. But we won’t be using them again. Here is why. Last year, I went for a paid option for our...
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Navitasoft’s website says that it provides energy business software solutions for the regulated electricity and gas market players such as transmission system operators, storage system operators, energy traders, shippers, and regulators. Located in Hungary, its solutions are applied by the most important players in the region in both segments:...
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I spoke to Carl Vellenoweth, CEO of Commoditas Partners who specialise in CTRM recruitment about the current challenges hiring and attracting CTRM talent. He sees talent retention as very challenging at the moment particularly on the services side where the old model of a slow progression to partner...
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Previse Systems are rapidly making a name for themselves, and not just in Europe, if the results of our recent Vendor Perception Study are anything to go by. Previse is an innovative new entrant in the ETRM software market founded by a team of industry veterans. As I...
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At ComTech, we are constantly reaching out to the vendors and others to ensure that we are up to date with developments. Often, these calls are reported on to a degree here in the blog. Our outreach includes to local and newer vendors as well as the better...
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Periodically, we are asked why there hasn’t been more consolidation in CTRM. Why are there over 100 CTRM software solutions still? (See our directory). It’s a good question because in most software categories, especially 20 odd years in, there will be just a handful of remaining solutions probably...
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An item that keeps on coming up in everything from our risk survey last year to briefings with various folk around the industry is that their is a skills shortage. People with skills and expertise are retiring and taking their knowledge with them at quite a pace. I...
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At the very end of 2022, I spoke with Sjors Oosterwaal of Cadran to catch up on its activities. Cadran is an Oracle Platinum Business Partner and reseller, and its ERP portfolio consists of Oracle JD Edwards, Oracle Cloud and Oracle Netsuite and it has also developed a JD...
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The 2022 Vendor Perceptions Report is now available on this site. It is a long and comprehensive report full of detail and charts so analysts among you will likely enjoy it. It does show some very interesting trends though that are very worthy of note both in terms...
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