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Aquilon and the Energy Settlements Network

I recently had the chance to catch-up with Randy Wilson, CEO of Houston-based Aquilon.  For those that aren’t yet familiar with the company, Aquilon provides an invoice settlement/reconciliation platform – called the Energy Settlements Network &#......
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Hot off the press – ComTech’s 2019 CTRM Market Sizing, Trends and Outlook Report

ComTech Advisory just released our 2019 CTRM Market Sizing, Trend and Outlook report. In that report, we have forecast the 2019 CTRM Market will close the year at $1.7B, including vendor software, implementation services and the value of home-built or ......
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2DA – A new company with a new approach to optimizing the petroleum liquids supply chain

Scheduling and tracking crude and refined products has always been a difficult task.  Disparate systems, many with differing views of the transaction (contract vs. trade vs. movements) and lack of integration – from pipeline bulletin boards to various ......
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Looking at Capco’s acquisition of ATOM Solutions

Capco, the global scale technology consulting firm focused in the financial services and energy markets, announced late last week that they were acquiring Houston-based ATOM Solutions, an IT consultancy focused on ETRM/CTRM and related technologies.  I......
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Trilogy Effective Software Solutions continues moving forward

As we noted in this blog, the co-founder and CEO of Trilogy Effective Software Solutions (Trilogy) and longtime industry veteran, Dick Couron, passed away suddenly several weeks ago. In light of his passing, we recently reached out to Jeremy Frye, pres......
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nGenue – a new, but mature, solution for retail nat gas

I recently had the chance to visit with Kenneth Hall, CEO, and Richard Pinos, Head of Customer Success at nGenue, a retail natural gas solutions provider.  nGenue traces their origins back to Lloret Data Systems, a company started by Mark Lloret in the......
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NatGasHub.com – Improving Efficiencies in Natural Gas Scheduling

I recently had the opportunity to visit with Mr. Jay Bhatty, CEO and founder of Houston-based NatGasHub.com (NatGasHub).  NatGasHub is a natural gas scheduling service/tool that helps streamline what is otherwise a very labor intensive, and potentially......
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Has ION cornered the market in CTRM?

In the last couple of weeks, we’ve had numerous people ask us what we thought ION’s strategy might be? Are they out to corner the market for trading solutions servicing energy and commodity companies? And now, with the acquisition of Allegro, had they ......
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Prices for ETRM/CTRM solutions haven’t ever really increased…is that about to change?

Having been involved in the ETRM/CTRM market for almost 25 years, most of those as a market analyst, I’m struck by the fact that license prices haven’t increased much, if really at all, for almost the entirety of that time.  Back in the mid 90’s, when ......
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2019 CTRM Sourcebook

As Gary previously noted, we’ve just released the 2019 CTRM Sourcebook!  This latest addition includes 38 detailed product listings from 31 different vendors and covers the vast majority of the full-scale, multi-market CTRM products, and many of ......
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