In the past, the typical CTRM procurement often involved long and expensive RFIs and RFPs, demonstrations, scorings and decisions. With the advent of the cloud along with all of the issues and challenges faced by commodity-focused businesses today, this is undoubtedly changing. Disruptive technologies cannot succeed with equal...
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This last 6-months or so, this is a question I have been asking myself. The interest levels in Blockchain are high and many trials are being conducted in the commodity trading area. Will blockchain replace CTRM? It’s early to answer that question but plainly, there are those who...
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ComTechAdvisory: What is Contigo seeing in terms of uptake of the ETRM in cloud and what are the benefits of such an approach?
Adrian Bullock: We are seeing strong interest in implementing in the cloud from both small and bigger players. Over 80% of our contracts signed in the...
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ComTech is seeking good presenters and presentations for the 2017 CTRM Conference in October. We are particularly seeking the following; – Blockchain and trading/settlement – CTRM in the cloud – pros and cons and different approaches – Analytics and BI applied to CTRM data – Automation and machine...
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I recently spoke with Mr. Tim Rogers, Head of Sales & Business Development for Contigo, about Contigo and his views on what is happening across the industry. Top of my list was to ask how the market looked at the moment for ETRM software in Europe. Mr. Rogers...
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Last week, both Patrick and I were in London. It was a busy week and we managed to visit a lot of people in the industry over the course of the week. One recurrent theme that we picked up was changing technology. Whether discussions about the impact of...
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ComTech Advisory’s Patrick Reames visits with Mr. John O’Malley, CEO of OpenLink about the company’s recently announced cloud strategy....
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The CTRMCenter will often conduct short written interviews with people from around the industry. The interviews can be found in the Interview Corner section of the website under the Publications tab. In the last few weeks, we have had some truly insightful interviews on the general theme of...
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As we enter Q2 of 2017, three things seem to be apparent to me at any rate. They are as follows; Deals Are Smaller While I am hearing almost across the board that activity levels have picked up considerably, I think the average deal size is smaller. Hi......
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2017 started with an extremely busy January for us at ComTech and that rolled into February as well. Now, in March, we finally have got ourselves somewhat organized to work on our two big projects for the year – the 2017 Sourcebook and 2017 update to CTRM Market...
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