Tag: CTRM

Discovering New Vendors

ComTech is tracking around 90 vendors that have solutions in the ETRM and CTRM space and this number isn’t getting any smaller. Last week at E-World, we ‘discovered’ a new ETRM vendor (new to us anyway) called VisoTech. During the same week, we were contacted by a small...
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Updated CTRM Consultants and SI’s list/directory is now available

We have posted our newly updated list of CTRM consultants and systems integrators.  This new list includes the addition of several firms since the last version.  We are now also accepting in-listing ads in order to support the maintenance and publication of the information.  The new list/directory can...
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Analytics to Address the Increasingly Complex Global Agricultural Market

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Be wary of self-proclaimed “analysts” on the internet

NOTE: During the writing of this post, the article/analysis that I’m referencing has been “removed from the site at the author’s request, due to an error in analysis.” Nonetheless, the comments still remain at the time of this writing and do make interesting reading. Hopefully the “analyst” that...
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Shifting Markets and Impacts Discussion

The market for CTRM software is not homogenous and consists of a number of overlapping markets identified by commodity group, geography and industry niche. For example, a generator in Florida will likely have a different set of needs than a rubber producer in Asia. In the past, we...
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Commodity Management and CTRM

Commodity Management has gained acceptance in the market, the term is increasingly used to describe the entire breadth of processes involved in handling commodities including trading and risk management to the point where CTRM software is essentially becoming a subcategory of Commodity Management. This evolving terminology is causing...
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CTRM Directory Makes for Interesting Reading

Towards the end of last year, ComTech made an announcement regarding the CTRMCenter Directory. We adopted the diliger platform as it had many more features and tools that we felt we could provide independently. Over the holiday period, we were hard at work building out the basic details...
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CTRM Directory Makes for Interesting Reading

Towards the end of last year, ComTech made an announcement regarding the CTRMCenter Directory. We adopted the diliger platform as it had many more features and tools that we felt we could provide independently. Over the holiday period, we were hard at work building out the basic details...
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CTRM for Sugar – Managing Sugar’s Complexity

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Even in a Unsettled Market, Some CTRM Players are Thriving

As you’ve heard, and as we’ve talked here many times, the commodities markets are…ah…”difficult” right now. With the Bloomberg Commodities Index scraping new record lows on a daily basis, commodity producers – from ags to metals to oil & gas – are certainly suffering. Traders too, having been...
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