I recently spoke to Ed Pieters at Cadran Consultancy. Cadran is a consultancy that specializes in the Oracle JD Edwards ERP solution and that has developed a CTRM add on for JD Edwards. The company has gained some traction in recent months with a deal with Interfood that...
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Every two years, we undertake the vendor perception study. In fact, we just released the last one. Personally, I find the result fascinating in many ways as there is so much to be gleaned about brand, perceptions and user behavior. Yesterday, I took some time to look at...
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Recently, I noted the switch going on in our industry towards inbound marketing. Vendors are spending much more time these days on their websites, developing thought leadership content and campaigns to draw in prospective buyers. I had particularly noted that this also meant something of a sea change...
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Over the last few weeks, a familiar question keeps coming up. What does “cloud’ mean and what actually is CTRM in the cloud? In fact, in 2014, ComTech attempted some definitions in its CTRM In The Cloud research report kindly sponsored by Aspect, Brady and Generation 10. I...
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ComTech is still seeking responses to our new research project survey – ETRM in a low commodity price environment. We are primarily looking for responses from businesses that use ETRM software (i.e. not vendors or consultants) in Europe and North America. It isn’t a long survey and shouldn’t...
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I’ve been a follower of John Sodergreen’s publications for years. Under the banner of Scudder Publishing, his market reports, including The Desk (which launched in 1998), were always chock-full of solid market information and analysis that touched on almost all aspects of the energy markets including natural gas...
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Back around 18-years ago, I ran a firm called VasMark Group Inc. It offered both PR and analyst/research services to software vendors and related firms in the energy space. It was eventually acquired by UtiliPoint, Inc. and became the TRM division of t......
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Trying to blog on the theme of Independence Day isn’t easy when it comes to CTRM software however, over the last 15-years or so of being and analyst watching the ETRM and CTRM software space, the one thing that has always struck me as odd was how difficult...
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October is not so far away as it may seem and the 2016 CTRMConference is looming large on the horizon. With a theme around CTRM in a low price environment, the agenda is solidifying nicely and in a couple of weeks or so, it will be published in...
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The hot trend for 2016 seems to be CTRM deployed in the cloud as ComTech predicted earlier this year. Almost every vendor in the space now has a cloud strategy of one sort or another and a very small number have begun to offer standard versions for a...
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