Last week Patrick and I both spent most of the week in and around EWorld in Essen. On the Monday, we were delighted to welcome Mr. Jan van den Brom, CEO of Agiboo, BV who took the time to come and visit with us in Dusseldorf. Agiboo is...
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Comtech advisory has released a new white paper on Commodity Management discussing EKA‘s positioning in that industry segment. Here is the introduction to that paper; Rapid global population growth combined with increasing urbanization is driving demand for raw materials of all kinds. By 2030, it is estimated that...
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I spoke to Joel Lou this morning, CEO of Singapore-based JustCommodity. JustCommodity has been in business around 10-years and has a strong track record for delivering its ContraXcentral CTRM solutions in particularly Asian markets in for commodities such as edible oils, grains and other soft commodities like rubber....
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Steve has lead Aspect from a start-up software specialist in the oil industry to the leader in Cloud-delivered solutions for multiple commodities. Steve’s software expertise continues to spearhead Aspect’s...
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With the recent acquisition by ION, it appears that the management team at Triple Point is quickly evolving. Peter Armstrong, the company’s founder and CEO, left when the deal with ION was done; soon after, Oni Chukwu, SVP and CFO was gone. Now it appears that Greg Taylor,...
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I had the chance to drop in on a SAS event this week and get a view of their latest technology around data visualization. Most of the market has been aware for some time of SAS’s ability to aggregate massive amounts of data from large number of sources,...
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While no press announcements have been forthcoming from either Triple Point or Ion, the acquisition of Triple Point by Ion Investments has been consummated. The Westport CT (home of Triple Point) newspaper says the deal was announced last Saturday (though you’d be hard pressed to find that announcement...
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EKA Software Solutions, with the recent announcement of their investment in Australia-based Matrix Group, has now built a base of products, personnel and revenues that has separated the company from the mid-tier physical-capable CTRM vendor pack and moved them into a select group of vendors – those with...
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The Securities and Exchange Commission voted today to allow hedge funds and other private investment firms to start publicly advertising for investor dollars, something that has been strictly off-limits since the 1930’s. With this change, firms will no longer have to limit their fund raising to direct contacts...
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