Recently, a German consulting firm contacted us to inform us about its Maturity Model for algorithmic trading. Founded in 2015, FORRS is a consulting firm focused on the financial, energy and commodities space. With offices in Heidelberg and Munich, it provides a range of services like management consulting,...
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In my ongoing roundup of discussions with vendors and other industry players, I spoke last week with Debbi Bavin, head of Marketing at Brady, to get a catch up. As usual, I was very interested in activity levels given the whole situation with COVID-19 and the lockdown. From...
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Hot on the back of a recently announced deal with Bonroy Petchem, I spoke to Dale Emmerson of Igloo to find out more about that particular transaction and see how Igloo was doing in the current business environment. “We signed Bonroy at the very start of the current...
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Power Costs Inc. (PCI) is an Oklahoma-based vendor of solutions for power markets, from generation to scheduling to transmission & distribution. Though the company has been in business more than 28 years, they have historically been a fairly quiet organization. Founded by engineers/professors at the University of Oklahoma,...
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Much to my amazement, Jan van den Brom of Agiboo told me he had actually driven cross border to a customer meeting last month traveling from Agiboo’s Netherland’s base to a customer site in Germany by car. It has been possible for legitimate business reasons in some parts...
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Next week, Commodities People will innovate with a virtual trade show and conference called CTWOnline. It’s free to attend for anyone interested in doing so and has a strongly business continuity-focused agenda as might be expected under current circumstances. The full details of agenda, speakers, networking and so...
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We have had a pretty good response to the survey so far however, we could use more and especially from North America. So, if you use, have used, implement or help select E/CTRM software and you do NOT work for one of the vendors currently, we would love...
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Being an analyst in the Commodity technologies space, you get to see a lot of software demonstrations and there are very few CTRM/CM solutions remaining that I haven’t had a look at. However, until last week, one of those that remained broadly unseen by me was Fusion from...
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I recently caught up with Jeremy Frye, CEO of Trilogy Effective Software Solutions (Trilogy) to find out how the company is fairing with the current chaos in the upstream oil and gas markets. As the Trilogy solution, TIES, services and is largely focused on the upstream and midstream...
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Just a reminder for those that haven’t yet committed to listing their CTRM products (and/or advertising) in the 2020 CTRM Sourcebook, we only have a couple of weeks left before the cut-off for submissions. As we’ve noted in the past, previous versions of the Sourcebook, last published in...
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