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Handling Pricing Complexity is a Key to Gen10’s Multi-Commodity Positioning

Over the last couple of decades of development of ETRM, CTRM and CM software solutions, many have aspired to provide support for multiple commodities. As ComTech has explained many times in the past, having a solution that is truly multi-commodity is a complex task and it is very...
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You Use a CTRM? Give us Your Opinions?

There is still time to give us your views on CTRM vendors via the Vendor Perception Study that we do every two years. If you use or have used CTRM software (or CM or ETRM or similar), we would like to have your input in our short survey...
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Commodities People To Run Virtual Tradeshows Amid Lockdown

An area of business activity severely impacted by lockdowns is the tradeshow and conference area. There are many events in the commodities pace during the course of a year and many have either been cancelled or postponed already. So I spoke with Ben Hillary, MD of Commodities People,...
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Adapting to a Virtual World at Contigo

“It has been a busy March and April,” Simon Wheeler, CEO of Contigo told me last week. “It may even have been a bit busier than normal for the time of year and there has certainly been no less interest since E-World.” Indeed, in early February, E-World went...
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Value Creed’s Leveraged CTRM Support may be more valuable now than ever

When companies implement a new CTRM system on-premises (or even in the cloud), perhaps one of the least appreciated aspects of deploying the new system is the need to develop an internal support capability, one in which users have immediate access to b......
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Taking out the trash…oil at negative $40 plus per bbl.

Traders caught holding NYMEX May contracts are seeing their nightmares come to life – with no place to store oil, the contract has cratered, and at the time of this writing, is priced at minus $40/bbl and potentially heading lower – https:/......
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nGenue is finding success in retail gas, and moving deeper into ETRM

Back in August of last year, I wrote in this blog about the emergence of nGenue in the retail gas markets.  As I wrote at the time, “Mr. (Kenneth) Hall (nGenue’s CEO) and group of investors bought Lloret Data Systems and rebranded to nGenue......
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Will Corona crater the CTRM market?

In 2014, the commodities markets pretty much collapsed, with the composite commodities price index falling by 38% between June 2014 and February 2015.  While the impact on sales of new CTRM systems wasn’t felt immediately, the market for new lice......
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Sorting through the terminology of CTRM deployment

Buyers of CTRM systems are clearly, and increasingly, interested in adopting web-delivered solutions and as such, the marketing terminology being used in this market has changed. CTRM vendors now commonly say their software is “web-enabled”, “web-deliv......
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Enuits’ Entrade – Addressing multiple commodities in a single platform

We have often heard from CTRM vendors touting their ability to handle multiple commodities and commodity types in a single platform, spanning from energies such as natural gas, hydrocarbon liquids, and power, to metals including base metals, ores and c......
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