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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Airlines live and die on fuel prices – when the price of oil (and the jet fuel derived from that oil) is high, you’ll see lot of headlines about massive losses in the airline sector. When oil prices are low, the story lines switch to ̶......
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As the new year dawns, we at ComTech are watching developments on a number of fronts. That said, we’ve picked out five that could be bellwethers of the trajectory of the ETRM/CTRM markets in 2019 and beyond: CTRM Demand and Global Economic Uncertainty ......
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