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Social Media

I try to use social media to do a spot of promotion of things we are doing but to be honest, I don’t really get it. Take Twitter for example – this seems to me like a bunch of people shouting short statements from mountain tops. OK if...
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A Quick Trip to London

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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Catching Up With Generation 10

I had an interesting conversation with Richard Williamson and Andrew Dalby of Generation10 last week. Lots going on, they said, through organic growth with new deals, new hires and a new office in London. Their new business is coming from ags and softs, with some new features rolling...
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Catching up with FIS Energy’s Markus Seiser

Last week at FIS’s Customer Summit in Orlando, I had the opportunity to sit and visit with Dr. Markus Seiser, head of the FIS Energy group. In a quick update on the acquisition and integration of SunGard into the FIS organization, he noted that the transition has gone...
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VuePoint Update

Vuepoint Solutions has been quietly growing a business focusing on UK and European energy – in particular, the retail side of that business, for several years. It offers a couple of main products – Market VuePoint and Energy Risk VuePoint. The Market VuePoint product provides access to real-time...
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Mistakes To Learn From

Back in the early 90’s, I had just been hired as VP, Services for TransGas Management (TransEnergy – eventually acquired by Altra and now part of FIS/Sungard as part of their acquisitions). It took me no more than a couple of days to establish that this fledging ETRM...
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An SAP Update – A Strong Q4 and Enlarged Ags Footprint

SAP’s VP for Agribusiness and Commodity Management Forum last year. Apparently, SAP’s Q4 was pretty strong with a sizeable number of new deals closed across the entire gamut of Ags & Softs, Metals and Energy including a number of household names. Several of these deals were replacements of competitive...
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It Just Got Very Busy!

This last week, things got very busy all of a sudden with multiple projects and a host of news and follow up calls to schedule. One thing we are working on is the 2016 Vendor Perception Study which looks really good with a lot of quality data behind...
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Fendahl Technology Announced as Silver Sponsors of the CTRMConference

Fendahl Technology is to sponsor the CTRMConference as a silver sponsor in 2016. Fendahl is a specialist provider of consulting services and CTRM (commodity trading & risk management) software solutions to commodity trading organizations. A rapidly growing global software company we have a dedicated team of 85 staff with offices...
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Fendahl Technology Announced as Silver Sponsors of the CTRMConference

Fendahl Technology is to sponsor the CTRMConference as a silver sponsor in 2016. Fendahl is a specialist provider of consulting services and CTRM (commodity trading & risk management) software solutions to commodity trading organizations. A rapidly growing global software company we have a dedicated team of 85 staff with offices...
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