Vendor News

The Agiboo Roadshow

Agiboo has been on the trade show and conference circuit recently demonstrating its software and generating a lot of interest in Agiblocks, according to Mr. Bart Kroon, CEO. The company successful exhibited at the Kingsman Sugar Conference in Dubai and the Chocoa trade fair in Amsterdam in the...
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GlobalView – Raising the bar in the data market

The energy data provision and management markets are very competitive. Having observed the market over the last several years, we’ve noticed that many of the vendors have struggled to differentiate themselves (as most provide very similar data sets and market coverage) and usually end up competing on price....
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Pioneer Solutions European Reset

Recently, I received a call from someone I had last seen in Houston, Texas several years ago. Apparently, he too had decided to head back to Europe and was now living back in Netherlands and working for ETRM vendor – Pioneer Solutions. Pioneer Solutions is a vendor that...
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An Interview with Mr. Richard Quigley, CEO of Datagenic

It is always a pleasure to talk to Richard Quigley, CEO of Datagenic and recently, I asked him a few questions partly as an update to a video interview that we did at E-World last year and partly just to gauge how things were going at the company...
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Enerknol – Energy regulatory data streaming from the cloud

I had the chance yesterday to visit with David Klien, head of a new data offerings from EnerKnol, a company who is described on their website as providing “U.S. energy policy research and data services to support investment decisions across all sectors of the energy industry.”  Enerknol will...
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Scalable – An ERP vendor Having Success in Commodity Trading

New vendors (to us anyway) emerge periodically. Most usually, they are in the Ags and Softs space and often based somewhere in Asia – but not always. Recently, the Director of an Australian ERP software vendor based on the MS Dynamics AX platform, called Scalable, reached out to...
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JustCommodity Has A Record Year

Singapore-based JustCommodity is coming off a record year according to its CEO, Mr. Joel Lou. The software vendor has been growing by more than 30% year on year over the last 3 financial years. In 2014, JustCommodity closed 8 new license deals for its CxC software that included...
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Essen, E-World and the E-World Freebie Index

For the last couple of days, Patrick and I were in Essen for E-World. As usual, the trade show was huge (bigger even?) and attendance seemed very good – it seemed to me to be more crowded even than previous years. Of course, all the flamboyant booths were...
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Essen, E-World and the E-World Freebie Index

For the last couple of days, Patrick and I were in Essen for E-World. As usual, the trade show was huge (bigger even?) and attendance seemed very good – it seemed to me to be more crowded even than previous years. Of course, all the flamboyant booths were...
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Trayport Contigo – One Year On

It’s just over a year or so ago since Birmingham-based ETRM vendor Contigo was acquired by Trayport to become Trayport Contigo. As that anniversary approached, I ask Mr. Tim Rogers, head of Trayport Contigo‘s sales and business development functions, how it had gone so far……… Earlier this year, you...
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