Around 80 delegates attended the SAP Commodity Management Forum in Heidelberg a couple of weeks ago to network and to learn about developments. With over 100 licensed customers globally, SAP is moving ahead at a surprisingly rapid pace offering an ‘all in one’ solution that is strong in...
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Am I the only one that seems a bit puzzled over oil prices? As the chances for an OPEC agreement on production oscillates between they will or they won’t, the oil price gyrates in step with sentiment on the outcome of the meeting. For everyone in the Commodities...
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As 2016 winds down to a close, we are beginning to see the undeniable signs of the ‘dislocation event’ that has been occurring for the last 12 to 18-months. What is a dislocation event? Well the model was devised over a decade ago by us and is explained...
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Back in June 2016, Agiboo made an announcement regarding making its Agiblocks CTRM solution available in the cloud on a subscription basis. ComTech blogged about this development and suggested that Agiboo was attempting to disrupt the CTRM software market place with this offer and we promised to follow...
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I spent the first part of this week at the SAP Commodity Management Forum in Heidelberg – of which – more next week. There were around 80 people attending and I was pleasantly surprised to find that group included a lot of old friends and colleagues. I was...
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We’ve been seeing it for some time now – the increasing momentum toward adoption of web-delivered and cloud-based CTRM. We’ve written about it extensively (almost to the point of exhaustion), but it is clearly a trend that will ultimately transform CTRM technology and something like that can’t be...
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I attended OpenLink’s 2016 Global Summit last week in New York City and had the privilege to visit with a number of the OpenLink’s customers and executives as the company unveiled their new cloud strategy. Though OpenLink has not yet publicly released their cloud solutions (and I can’t...
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Meeting with the good people who attended the CTRM Conference last week, one thing remains apparent. The CTRM software space is very dynamic. Among the delegates were vendors like Q88, Fendahl, InaTech, WinRisk, iRely, Washington Square Technologies, Q......
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The 2016 CTRM Conference was attended by the over 105 delegates who registered for the event last Thursday at the Amba Hotel, Marble Arch. Around 1/3rd of the delegates also got together the evening prior for a reception sponsored by Factum. Feedback from attendees was excellent and the...
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My Opa, a Texas-German farmer like his father and his father’s father before him, were keenly aware of that time-honored proverb “Make hay while the sun shines.” While the meaning was perhaps distinctly more literal for them in terms of actually getting the hay in before bad weather...
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