Opinion

Trayport Contigo Strengthens Sales and Customer Areas

The news coming out of Trayport Contigo remains buoyant. In a conversation yesterday with Trayport Contigo’s head of sales and business development functions, Mr. Tim Rogers, he indicated that the company has won two new customers so far this year in what seems to be an increasingly heated...
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What Impact will low oil prices have in the CTRM markets in 2015?

We’re nearing completion of our 2015–2020 CTRM Market Outlook, a report that includes a full market sizing and is based upon both the current performance of more than 80 vendors and the impacts of macro market trends on their future performance. Among the many trends we look at...
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Brady PLC Gaining Market Share

Brady PLC announced its preliminary results for 2014 this morning. Brady PLC CEO, Mr. Gavin Lavelle, briefed me on Friday regarding Brady’s performance and forward business strategy in advance of today’s announcement. The software vendor closed a record 20 new license deals in 2014 of which 30% were...
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Announcing the winner of “ComTech Advisory’s 2015 Best CTRM System”…

(As announced at this year’s ComTech Advisory awards banquet…) Good evening everyone and welcome to 2015 ComTech Advisory Awards Banquet! Finding a winner of Best CTRM System of the Year is a difficult choice. Why? Because the reality is that every vendor has certain capabilities and strengths that...
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VuePoint Solutions – Multi-Tenanted ETRM in the Cloud

A week or so ago, I talked to Mr. Mark Taylor and Mr. David Hirst of VuePoint Solutions. VuePoint is a software development company based in Hampshire, England that specializes in providing energy trading companies with software to gain access to accurate and up-to-date information for the power...
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Central and Eastern Europe Beckons

Last week I visited with a client in Budapest (I love my job!). Budapest is a truly beautiful city with its own culture. Hungary seems like many Central and Eastern European countries, to be full of bright young people who seek work in high technology industries. It is...
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On The Cusp?

Over the last 20-years, there have been moments when I have looked back and realized everything had changed. Sometimes, these moments of change were somewhat obvious; the collapse of Enron and the merchant sector, the entry of the financial speculators and the beginnings of the so-called commodity super...
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Allegro seems to have the wind at their back in the CTRM marketplace

We’ve recently begun preparation of our 2015 CTRM Global Market Size report and are in the process of collecting data from both private and public sources to ensure as accurate a picture of the market as possible. One of the many sources we use is the first-of-year press...
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The winter of our discontent in CTRM

Its been a tough winter.  No, the weather hasn’t been particularly bad; in fact in Houston, its been downright balmy most of the time compared to winters past.  This winter has been particularly difficult is because the CTRM markets have gone a bit sideways, having been driven there...
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An ETRM vendor you may not know – EMK3

As you may know, at ComTech we track more than 80 vendors of ETRM / CTRM technology around the globe.  While many are well-known names in the industry, those serving the top global commodity traders, there are a number that have established themselves in a niche and have,...
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