“A kilowatt for your thoughts dear…”, said Jane Smith as her husband peered intently at a 3D holo-advertisement for the latest model of the Hover SUV 550. John Smith waved for his wife to come see his dream vehicle. “Look sweetheart, it’s only 500 kWh a month!” he...
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I was in Dallas recently to meet with Allegro’s senior management team for a briefing on the company’s recent activities, their 2016 results and the outlook for the 2017. Reflecting on their 2016 results, Michael Hinton, Allegro’s chief customer officer & senior vice president of products and solutions,...
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As I’ve mentioned it this blog before, I enjoy getting out and shooting photographs of birds and wildlife. In my hundreds of trips around south Texas and the Gulf Coast, I’ve been fortunate to have spotted a bald eagle on less than a half dozen occasions. When I...
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I just wanted to take this opportunity to wish all our customers, colleagues and industry friends the very best this holiday season and for the new year. Though the CTRM space has been a bit challenging for many this year, recent developments in the global markets do point...
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Flipping homes. It seems to be all the rage on TV these days. Flip or Flop. Flipping Las Vegas. Masters of Flip. You get the idea. While the concept of flipping (buying an existing home at a very low price, improving it, and then reselling it for a...
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Reuters is reporting that Barclays, one of Britain’s largest banks, is existing the energy markets, joining others financial institutions such as RBS Sempra and Deutsche Bank who had previously given up on energy. Reuters notes one potentially significant impact of the closing of their energy business: The departure...
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As more CTRM vendors and customers look at moving their systems into the cloud, its worth noting that Amazon Web Services (AWS) just wrapped-up their latest Amazon cloud conference, titled re:Invent, and announced a bunch of interesting “cloud stuff”. The event, covered nicely in a summary slideshow by...
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We’ve been seeing it for some time now – the increasing momentum toward adoption of web-delivered and cloud-based CTRM. We’ve written about it extensively (almost to the point of exhaustion), but it is clearly a trend that will ultimately transform CTRM technology and something like that can’t be...
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I attended OpenLink’s 2016 Global Summit last week in New York City and had the privilege to visit with a number of the OpenLink’s customers and executives as the company unveiled their new cloud strategy. Though OpenLink has not yet publicly released their cloud solutions (and I can’t...
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My Opa, a Texas-German farmer like his father and his father’s father before him, were keenly aware of that time-honored proverb “Make hay while the sun shines.” While the meaning was perhaps distinctly more literal for them in terms of actually getting the hay in before bad weather...
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