In recent years and months, you could be forgiven for thinking that CTRM software has consolidated to a few bigger vendors. At first sight, it does seem that way with ION acquiring anything that moves, FIS with a still reasonably sizable installed base......
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I first met Saurabh Goyal a few years ago as he was a speaker at one of our CTRM Conference events. At the time, he was head of IT Systems, for a large Ags firm. I had heard that he had left that firm and helped to start...
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The 11th Annual Energy Trading Operations & Technology conference will be taking place on the 10th-11th October in London and both Patrick and I will be attending. I will also be moderating a panel on Evolution in the ETRM world – how are buy......
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Recently, a well known US congresswoman made a rather interesting (and in our opinion, illogical) statement about truth. She said, essentially, that it’s more important to be morally correct than factually correct. That raises a question: Given ......
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In a recent post, we discussed SAP’s success in and around commodities with its Commodity Management offerings based on a recent briefing call. During the same call with SAP senior management, we also discussed recent enhancements to the products and t......
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Energy One Limited is the leading supplier of software and services to the wholesale energy market in Australia offering a range of products including ETRM solutions. It also acquired UK-based ETRM supplier Contigo late last year and now offers similar......
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Over the last few years, ComTech has watched as DrillingInfo made a series of strategic acquisitions namely those of Datagenic, MarketView and several others to transform itself from an upstream-focused firm to a potential powerhouse across the energy ......
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It with sadness that we learned this week of the unexpected passing of Richard (Dick) Couron, CEO of Trilogy Effective Solutions, this last Saturday. Dick was truly one of the pioneers of the ETRM software category and we at ComTech have known him for ......
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I just got an unsolicited pitch from a PR firm about a CEO of a software firm that wanted to talk to us about ethics. I declined because I couldn’t quite see the connection to commodity trading software – at least none that a generic softwa......
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Contigo is busy these days bringing new features and functionality to its ETRM solution – enTrader. I spoke with Product Manager Dean Haden recently to see what was new. The first thing he mentioned was a new electronic confirmations module that curren......
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