Last week, I spent a couple of days in London and took the opportunity to catch up with a number of vendors including Allegro, Brady, OpenLink, Aspect and Generation 10. I also met our colleague – Aviv Handler. I learned quite a lot of course taking briefings from...
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New report provides an interim review of market trends and market size ComTech has just released our 2016 CTRM Market Update report, which is an interim update to our biannual in-depth review of the CTRM software market space last published in April of 2015. This new update is...
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Brady PLC released its interim full year results for 2015 recently and in line with expectations, revenues were off 7% adjusted for currency, as a result of weaker market conditions in the second half of the year. Including in the impact of a weaker pound, the company’s results...
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I have been following with interest the vote in Switzerland on the motion of banning ‘speculation’ on food. The result was a defeat for the motion and a vote of approximately 60:40 against the motion which was put forward by the Young Socialists who sought curb dramatic price...
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ComTech is tracking around 90 vendors that have solutions in the ETRM and CTRM space and this number isn’t getting any smaller. Last week at E-World, we ‘discovered’ a new ETRM vendor (new to us anyway) called VisoTech. During the same week, we were contacted by a small...
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NOTE: During the writing of this post, the article/analysis that I’m referencing has been “removed from the site at the author’s request, due to an error in analysis.” Nonetheless, the comments still remain at the time of this writing and do make interesting reading. Hopefully the “analyst” that...
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Trayport Contigo has changed its name back to simply ‘Contigo’ according to an anouncement released today, going full circle to capture the brand strength of its original name that apparently means ‘with you‘ and echoes the partnering philosophy held by the company. In addition, Contigo has moved to larger...
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Trayport Contigo has changed its name back to simply ‘Contigo’ according to an anouncement released today, going full circle to capture the brand strength of its original name that apparently means ‘with you‘ and echoes the partnering philosophy held by the company. In addition, Contigo has moved to larger...
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At this time of the year, I tend to spend a bit of time preparing for the new year. This year, that has taken the form of updating our master list of vendors in the E/CTRM and related areas. For someone who has literally spent the last 16-years...
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One of the benefits of being an analyst in the commodity trading and risk management space is undoubtedly attending the various vendor user forums. This year, I was invited to Powel’s, but unfortunately I could not make it. Powel Days 2015 was held in Trondheim in mid-November and...
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