As we head into the long summer months, I thought I’d post a few updates and bits of news from ComTech and CTRMCenter. So here we go…. ComTech does try to undertake research and for this we do rely on survey-type interactions. Since the adv......
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I do a lot of calls. It’s just a part of the job. Recently, I realized that my nice and expensive iPhone X was being underutilized (at least – as a phone anyway) in favor of the many and varied internet calling services like Skype, Skype fo......
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In a recent article, I wrote about the replacement market for CTRM making the case that actually, replacing another vendor was much harder than might be imagined for many reasons. One of these reasons was that the implementation and data conversion act......
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A couple of weeks back while in London, I met with Sean Milton who covers business development and client support for Hivedome. Hivedome markets and supports ITAS, a commodity management platform primarily in the ags & softs space in commodities l......
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Recently, I wrote a critical blog about the sudden plethora of CTRM software awards. Apparently, this hit a chord with many colleagues and we got quite a lot of feedback. So much so in fact, that we thought we would try a snap poll around the issue and......
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Back in the days of TransEnergy in Houston, one of my key roles was to protect and defend our installed base. Invariably and at any point in time, one or two would be unhappy and threatening to go elsewhere. At first, I was quite niave and really expec......
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Last week, I was in London and visited with a good many people that we know there before attending and presenting at FIS Connect at the QE2 Center. It was a good week and I had intended to write a number of blogs about it this week. Unfortunately,...
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I recently had the opportunity to visit with Mr. Jay Bhatty, CEO and founder of Houston-based NatGasHub.com (NatGasHub). NatGasHub is a natural gas scheduling service/tool that helps streamline what is otherwise a very labor intensive, and potentially......
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One area of growth for ETRM seems to be where there are competitive retail environments. Smaller, disruptive new entrants into these competitive retail markets might initially start out with Excel for managing their portfolios but quickly realize that ......
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Recently, I spent some time with Enuit CEO Ken Han and President David Meyers who started Enuit as a commodity agnostic product company focused initially on US natural gas and power. Enuit has opened a London office, hired a team of industry veterans a......
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