Allegro announced this morning that it has acquired JustCommodity, the leading Asia-Pacific vendor of CTRM software specifically in the Ags and Softs arena. This is the first acquisition by Allegro which until now, had grown organically. See the press announcement. More later. The post STOP PRESS – Allegro...
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Earlier this week, Agiboo announced that Tereos Commodities had selected its Agiblocks CTRM software. Tereos is the world’s fifth-largest sugar group, and is specialized in processing sugar beet, sugar cane and cereals. It also has leading positions in the markets for alcohol (No. 1 in Europe and No....
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Earlier this week, Agiboo announced that Tereos Commodities had selected its Agiblocks CTRM software. Tereos is the world’s fifth-largest sugar group, and is specialized in processing sugar beet, sugar cane and cereals. It also has leading positions in the markets for alcohol (No. 1 in Europe and No....
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While in London recently, I met with Richard Quigley, CEO of DataGenic. Among other news, Mr. Quigley told me more details about their plans to roll out a cloud-delivered intelligent decision support desktop platform in the near future that will be focused on mining unstructured data for the...
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I thought I would post another reminder today that listings for the new Sourcebook should be received by Patrick or I no later than May 31st. They have started to trickle in but this is not something we would recommend any CTRM software vendor missed as the Sourcebook...
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A discussion that came up during a visit to OpenLink’s Vienna office recently was what the definition of optimization was. OpenLink has historically sold its IRM optimization software but is optimization actually a defined and understood software category? I think that we concluded that probably it wasn’t a...
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Just a reminder to all CTRM vendors, the deadline for the return of the 2015 CTRM SourceBook listing materials is May 31…or early in the day on June 1st. If you have any questions, please let us know. The post Reminder for Vendors – SourceBook Deadline appeared first...
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Recently, we asked Richard Williamson, CEO of G10 to answer a few questions about his company, the market and CTRM. Given Mr. Williamson’s status of an long-time veteran of the Ags CTRM market, his answers provide an honest and insightful assessment of the market and the trends that...
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TRADESPARENT Risk Management Solutions is a new software application created by the specialist consulting firm – Commodity Services & Solutions (CSS)- and based upon its experiences in commodity trading and financial markets. . In essence, TRADESPARENT comprises a set of data aggregation, risk integration, management and analysis software...
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I met-up with Mike Muse, VP of energy marketing solutions at Quorum this afternoon to get an update on the company’s efforts in the E/CTRM space since the acquisition of Woodlands Solutions a little over a year ago. According to Mr. Muse, after spending much of last year...
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