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Igloo Seeing Short-Term Power Solution Demand

Last week, I had an update from Igloo Trading Solutions (Igloo), the UK-based ETRM software vendor. Igloo’s Dale Emmerson told me that it is also experiencing high demand. “We have closed two new clients in the last two weeks. One was a UK supplier and the other a...
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Enuit Sees Opportunity in Asia-Pacific CTRM Markets

Asian markets for CTRM and CM software have been pretty active in 2020 despite everything, says Tony Teo, Enuit’s MD for Asia-Pacific and Middle East. “We can’t travel so much during the pandemic but Singapore’s team has been very active in engaging potential clients over phone discussions, face-to-face...
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If It Can, It Will

I know Friday was the 13th in 2020 striking fear into the hearts of many a brave soul. For me, it passed routinely. Which is more than I can say for yesterday! In an era where it isn’t just me that works from home, there are certain things...
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Enegen Sees Potential in ATOM

The transition in the UK power generation scene to one where there are many smaller distributed assets in the form of wind or solar farms, batteries and the like along with an emerging infrastructure to support them, has created new opportunities for software providers. Enegen Power Systems (formally...
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Agiboo Sees Strong CTRM Demand

Last week, Agiboo announced something interesting – Agiboo Video Tutorials. I asked Jan van den Brom, Founder and Managing Partner, what was behind this idea? “I’ve always wanted to help educate people and so this is a series of video tutorials about physical commodities. How to trade and...
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Enverus’ CurveBuilder – Raising the bar on forward curve development

As we’ve noted many times on this site in multiple blog posts and reports, data is both the lifeblood and a scourge for energy trading companies.  With new sources of data (new markets, new trading locations and points, new systems, new assets, etc.) constantly increasing in number and...
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iRely Expands on Back of Product Investment

iRely has been quietly building its market presence with several new customer wins so far this year according to George Olney, CEO. “We closed a couple of significant petroleum deals and also an agricultural company in Canada. We have a couple of good wins in the hopper and...
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Commodity Management and CTRM – where is the Beef? Opinion

A few years ago, ComTech had a go at defining a variety of software categories including ‘Commodity Management’, ‘CTRM’ and ‘ERP for Commodities.’ Since then, with an increasing interest on moving and managing physical commodities and declining trading margins, more emphasis has been rightly placed on supply chains...
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2020 Vendor Perception Study Report Now Available…

The 2020 Commodity Technology Advisory’s Vendor Perception Study is a biennial survey and analysis conducted to establish end-user and market influencer perceptions of the CTRM vendors, and to determine market leadership perceptions as well as buying criteria and brand awareness of the different vendors. As in previous years,...
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AgFlow – Agricultural Data Aggregator Expanding Digital Platform

One very important requirement in commodity trading is, of course, market data. Last week, I was introduced to a market data provider on the Ags side of things called AgFlow. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, AgFlow got started in 2013 taking in new investment last year in order to...
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