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Gen10 Sees Collaboration and Cloud as Key Sales Drivers

According to Gen10’s CEO, Richard Williamson, there certainly has been an uptick in interest in CM and CTRM solutions during the lockdown period. However, he also credits Gen10’s messaging which he believes has been helpful in turning interest into action pointing to both its new website and its...
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FIS Energy & Commodities Delivering Containerized Version of Aligne and SaaS Version of XDM

Irina Reitgruber, Product Manager at FIS, told me that “cloud conversations are very active and that there has been a mind shift in the energy sector regarding cloud deployment of applications like CTRM and Risk.” She told us that many firms are now actively seeking ETRM in the...
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The 2020 CTRM Sourcebook is now available

We have just released the 2020 Sourcebook of CTRM Software Suppliers and Products.  This latest addition, with a newly enhanced layout, contains 39 product listing from 31 different vendors and is the most comprehensive and detailed examination of CTRM vendors and their products available anywhere. This new version...
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Aquilon continues to gain traction and is expanding their service lines

It has been about 9 months since we last caught up with Randy Wilson, CEO of Houston-based Aquilon, an innovative company that provides an invoice settlement/reconciliation platform called the Energy Settlements Network, primarily for gas and power market participants. In a recent call with Mr. Wilson, he brought...
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Getting the Best Out of CTRMCenter

CTRMCenter – this website – is actually quite a powerful and information packed website. It may have a number of features and content that some readers are unaware of and so the purpose of this article is to highlight some of these features. Periodically, I update and repost...
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Plethora of CTRM Deals Show CTRM Software Demand Remains Strong

Despite everything 2020 has thrown at us, we continue to see CTRM/CM vendor doing deals. Arriving back after a holiday, I found a couple of things in my email on this topic joining a number of announcements that have been made in the last few weeks – some...
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Digitalization and Commodities – CTRMRadio

On Thursday next, a new CTRMRadio podcast will be released dealing with Digitalization in Commodities and the role of CTRM/CM software in it. It will ask the questions what does digitalization mean and what is the impact on CTRM and CM software? Guests include Mr Matt. Barrett CEO...
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Buyers Seeking More Choice?

The Vendor Perception Study results are currently being analyzed (the report will likely appear in late August timeframe). One thing that seems to be suggested by the data and analysis is that buyers want more choice. In part, this is a direct result of merger and acquisition activity...
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Upcoming Webinar July 1st – CTRM in Metals

On July 1st, I will be the guest speaker on a webinar by Enuit on CTRM in Metals. Please do join us and register at the link below … On Wednesday, July 1st we will host a webinar to answer these questions and more Dr. Gary M. Vasey – Managing...
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CTRM and Commodity Management

A couple of years ago now, we created a white paper looking at the future of CTRM – it was called CTRM as an Architecture and you can still download that paper from this site. The paper had two objectives, We wanted to comment on a trend that...
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