A while ago, I wrote a semi- off-topic blog on my frustrations with online support (at my bank and so on) and asked the question, is this what online support might be like in an actual cloud, SaaS CTRM context? Well, that blog seemed to be spot on...
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Recently, iRely gave Patrick and me a detailed briefing on its testing program, which in itself was unusual, as mainly, we get shown software demonstrations. In this instance, Deanna Palm, Chief Quality Officer at iRely, took us through a look at something that iRely sees as a bit...
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In this third and final article based on talking about the 3-D’s (Digitalization, Decarbonization, and Decentralization) with Gen10, I talked to Richard Williamson, CEO, Gen10 about digitalization….. Richard Williamson of Gen10 is of the opinion that digitalization in commodities really requires industry standards to deliver the largest benefits...
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Tony Teo of Enuit’s Singapore office says that things have slowed a bit there recently, aggravated by the ongoing fallout from the lockdown but, more importantly, by a series of scandals that have rocked the industry. “There have been several cases of trading houses in trouble,” he said....
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Having been deeply involved with ETRM, CTRM, and CM software since its inception, I have seen countless vendors and products come and go. Patrick and I must have seen every product out there at some point or another. One thing I have noticed in the last 25-years of...
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As we had noted in a Dec 2019 blog post covering a conversation with Aquilon Energy Services’ president Randy Wilson, Aquilon “provides an invoice settlement/reconciliation platform – called the Energy Settlements Network – primarily for gas and power market participants.” Founded in 2015, Aquilon spent its first few...
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Yagnesh Savania of IGNITE CTRM got in touch with us last week and gave us an update on how things are going. “We managed to close deals throughout the pandemic,” he told me. “It was tough though, especially in the late spring/early summer timeframe.” Things began picking up...
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CTRMCubed is one of several newer vendors that have come to market recently. Led by Simon Piercy and his vision of an affordable, cloud-based CTRM and an associated ecosystem of applications built by a variety of different providers from an app store, the product is now being actively...
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As they say, it never rains but pours, and this last couple of weeks has seen us get introduced to several new and emerging vendors. Yesterday, I spoke with Topaz Technology in London. Topaz was founded in 2015 by Jon Fox and colleagues. Jon is ex-Trafigura, and he...
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I recently checked-in with Keith Thibodeaux, Enuit’s head of sales for the Americas, to see how the firm fared during last year’s challenges and how he sees the market shaping up in 2021. As he and most others had pointed out, 2020 was certainly different from anything anyone...
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