Opinion

A quick view of SAS’s Visual Analytics

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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Can Commodity Hedge Funds Grow Through Junk Mailing?

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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CTRM for Ags is a Competitive Space

To my utter amazement I was able to come up with twenty-five different CTRM solutions for Ags and I will be honest, its not inconceivable that I missed a few! If you pop over to the CTRMCenter directory you can check out my assertion by looking at all...
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Vendor Websites Often Leave a Lot to be Desired.

This last few days I have been visiting a lot of websites. Before anyone should get the wrong idea regarding my browsing habits, I have been reviewing and looking at all of the vendor websites across the CTRM space. Its a good way to catch up and stay...
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Is there a deal in place for Triple Point?

As many know, there was a recent article in the press that said Triple Point’s owners, Welsh Carson, had put the company on the block, seeking to leverage the solid success the company has had over the last few years (20-30% year over year growth) into a very...
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Everything and Nothing

Over the last week or so I have managed to catch up with quite a lot of contacts, colleagues and friends across the industry. Having been away for 18-months or so I am keen to catch up so if anyone would like to brief me on their activities...
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Expect a Shuffling of ETRM/CTRM Vendor Deck in 2013

The streets are rife with rumors these days of E/CTRM software companies closing their doors, buying others, selling off, merging and every other flavor of transaction imaginable.  Even in the craziest of times, like after the financial meltdown of 2008, I’ve never gotten the level of calls and...
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If You Want to Know What to Think or Do, Just Ask a Celebrity…

…as they are clearly the wisest people we have. The Associated Press published an article earlier this week spot lighting some of the terrific work done by our Hollywood heroes and a few sorta-celebrities in fighting the good fight against evil energy companies and their tool of global...
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