This afternoon, Openlink issued a press release announcing that they are being acquired by ION Investment Group. Though the announcement wasn’t necessarily unexpected (see our earlier blog post here), there clearly will be a lot of questions in ......
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Its a busy time for CTRM mergers, acquisitions and divestitures…. In just the last couple of months, we’ve had 1) ION buying Aspect and a strong rumor that they are close to acquiring another large CTRM vendor, 2) Brady divesting their recycling ......
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Rumors have been flying for the last couple of weeks that Dublin-based ION Investments Group is about to acquire one of the largest CTRM vendors. Though a name is attached the rumor, we’re going to forego mentioning it at this time as it’s not cl......
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Just a reminder, we’re currently working on a research effort looking at the impacts of disruptive new technologies in the CTRM space. If you are a ETRM/CTRM user, provider or consultant, we would sincerely appreciate you sharing your thoughts v......
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In the surest sign that blockchain madness has consumed the markets, Long Island Iced Tea Company announced yesterday that they were changing their name to Long Blockchain Corporation and says says it “was shifting its primary business strategy t......
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I visited with Michael J. Snayd, VP of Business Development & Marketing at Aquilon Energy Services a few days ago to get an update on their activities. For those unfamiliar with Aquilon, they’ve recently launched a cloud solution for reconci......
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I wrote about Yahoo Messenger being killed off last year and the pain it caused the oil trading markets in the US (https://www.ctrmcenter.com/blog/oil-traders-panic-not-prices-yahoo-messenger-going-away/). At the time of that writing, August 2016, it ......
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Though there doesn’t seem to be a formal press release issued to the wires, the two companies announced via website postings a couple of weeks ago that MCG has acquired Paragon Energy Software. In the joint posting, the companies note, “MCG Energy Sol......
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I had the opportunity to get a briefing from Allegro’s marketing and product management teams this week…and in summary, its clear that 2017 has been a good year for the company despite continuing challenges in the broader CTRM markets. With a total of ......
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Last week, we had a conversation with Aspect Enterprise Solutions (Aspect) CEO, Steve Hughes and SVP of Marketing, Brigette Gebhard, with the main topic of conversation being the recently announced acquisition of Aspect by ION. Aspect has bucked a gene......
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