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OpenLink Sponsor 2016 CTRM Conference

OpenLink has become the first sponsor of the 2016 CTRMConference at the Gold level. OpenLink was also a major sponsor of the CTRM Conference last year and we thank them for their continued and invaluable support of this unique industry event. The CTRM Conference is the singular must...
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Shouting the Loudest – Marketing and Promotion

Back in the days when I was a VP of Marketing, things were relatively straight forward if you wanted to get a message out. You paid one of a couple of outlets to promote your press announcement, you targeted a readily identifiable set of media – all print,...
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Inatech and TechOil – an end-to-end ETRM for physical oil trading

Recently, I was approached by another relatively new vendor called Inatech. Inatech is a Glencore company and, as stated on its website, “As part of their Oil division, Inatech benefits from the knowledge and expertise of Glencore in oil trading, hedging and management of the entire oil supply...
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CTRM Vendor Perceptions – Tell Us What You Think?

The survey for the 2016 Vendor Perceptions study is doing quite well but if you haven’t filled out our short survey and given us your input, now is the time. You can find the survey here. We particularly need responses from people in North America, Ags and Softs...
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CTRM Vendor Perceptions – Tell Us What You Think?

The survey for the 2016 Vendor Perceptions study is doing quite well but if you haven’t filled out our short survey and given us your input, now is the time. You can find the survey here. We particularly need responses from people in North America, Ags and Softs...
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Lets talk about this blog for a minute…

I’ve had two different conversations this week with people I’ve not spoken to before – each worked in a mid-level role with different solutions vendors.  Both noted that they followed our research, whitepapers, etc, and this blog.  One intimated that they would like to see their name in...
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OpenLink Capturing European Power & Gas Mid-Tier Market Share

Over the last 12-months or so, OpenLink has announced a string of (for it) rather untypical license deals in the middle tier in European power and gas, including firms like Romande Energie, MET group, Energy Delivery Solutions, and several others. In fact, it has announced some six such...
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OpenLink Capturing European Power & Gas Mid-Tier Market Share

Over the last 12-months or so, OpenLink has announced a string of (for it) rather untypical license deals in the middle tier in European power and gas, including firms like Romande Energie, MET group, Energy Delivery Solutions, and several others. In fact, it has announced some six such...
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OpenLink Capturing European Power & Gas Mid-Tier Market Share

Over the last 12-months or so, OpenLink has announced a string of (for it) rather untypical license deals in the middle tier in European power and gas, including firms like Romande Energie, MET group, Energy Delivery Solutions, and several others. In fact, it has announced some six such...
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Buy Versus Build Report Issued

Towards the back end of the summer of 2015, ComTech began to note what looked like an increase in popularity of at least considering building CTRM software in house. Frankly, this trend puzzled us somewhat as why would anyone want to build deal capture again, for example? Despite...
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