Gary, Andrew (our web guru) and I spent last week in London for our annual planning session; and to visit a few customers/partners and attend the annual CommoditiesNow awards event. One of our appointments was in Fulham, southwest of London early in the day last Thursday. As is...
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One of the benefits of being an analyst in the commodity trading and risk management space is undoubtedly attending the various vendor user forums. This year, I was invited to Powel’s, but unfortunately I could not make it. Powel Days 2015 was held in Trondheim in mid-November and...
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One of the benefits of being an analyst in the commodity trading and risk management space is undoubtedly attending the various vendor user forums. This year, I was invited to Powel’s, but unfortunately I could not make it. Powel Days 2015 was held in Trondheim in mid-November and...
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We visited this week with Aspect to get an update on some of their recent activities and developments as the company (which started as OILSpace) marks its 15th year in delivering cloud-based solutions to the energy and commodity trading markets. Brigette Gebhard, the company’s VP of sales and...
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Last week, I took a briefing from SunGard regarding its Adaptiv software product line. The software was originally designed for the capital markets that are already highly regulated and already fall under regulations such as MiFiD. With an eye of MiFiD2 and CRD IV impacting energy and commodity...
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Last week, I was invited to SAP’s Commodity Management Forum 2015 in Heidelberg, Germany. It was a well-attended event with representatives of 15 customers, and 7 partner firms, as well as myself. There were also many familiar faces, now working for SAP Commodity Management, from the TRM software...
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A quick peak at our lists of vendors and their clients is enough to see that many top tier firms in commodities such as the big marketers, for example, have at one time, procured many different CTRM solutions or built their own. The large marketers have complex operations...
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A quick peak at our lists of vendors and their clients is enough to see that many top tier firms in commodities such as the big marketers, for example, have at one time, procured many different CTRM solutions or built their own. The large marketers have complex operations...
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It is November and it’s the month when some of us decide to try to grow something on our top lips to raise money for charity… The charity is aimed at men’s health which is a topic that probably doesn’t get as much air time as it deserves....
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I was in Miami at the Allegro Customer Summit this week, presenting on the topic of “The Value of Your Investment in CTRM/CM” to the assembled group and visiting one-on-one with some of the more than 300 customers, partners and Allegro personnel that were in attendance. Allegro used...
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