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Recently, I took a short briefing from Mr. Hugo Stappers of Pioneer Solutions<\/a> to catch up with the company\u2019s activities specifically in Europe<\/a>. The recent Vendor Perception Study<\/a> suggested that Pioneer Solutions<\/a> have made some progress in terms of name recognition in Europe<\/a> in recent years. I learned that Pioneer has acquired a couple more customers in Europe including Greenchoice and an unidentified company in the softs space. Also in the USA, they have added a number of customers, including a large utility and a gas retailer resulting in an expanding customer base on both sides of the pond. Mr. Stappers also pointed out that they have been busy at work on the products as well rolling out a completely re-designed version that brings some new functionality but is mainly focused on updating the User Interface. \u201cThe UI was always web-based,\u201d Mr. Stappers told me, \u201cbut the GUI is significantly improved in this new version.\u201d Additional functionality had also been added in the areas of REMIT<\/a> reporting and a highly intuitive report writer he said. On the nature of the market, Mr. Stappers thought that sales cycles remained long due to and slow procurement activities or in some cases postponing<\/p>\n

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Recently, I took a short briefing from Mr. Hugo Stappers of Pioneer Solutions to catch up with the company\u2019s activities specifically in Europe. The recent Vendor Perception Study suggested that Pioneer Solutions have made some progress in terms of name recognition in Europe in recent years. I learned that Pioneer has acquired a couple more customers in Europe including Greenchoice and an unidentified company in the softs space. Also in the USA, they have added a number of customers, including a large utility and a gas retailer resulting in an expanding customer base on both sides of the pond. Mr. Stappers also pointed out that they have been busy at work on the products as well rolling out a completely re-designed version that brings some new functionality but is mainly focused on updating the User Interface. \u201cThe UI was always web-based,\u201d Mr. Stappers told me, \u201cbut the GUI is significantly improved in this new version.\u201d Additional functionality had also been added in the areas of REMIT reporting and a highly intuitive report writer he said. On the nature of the market, Mr. Stappers thought that sales cycles remained long due to and slow procurement activities or in some cases postponing … continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4624,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[374,931,619,929],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPioneer Solutions Steps Up In Europe | Commodity Technology Advisory<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Recently, I took a short briefing from Mr. Hugo Stappers of Pioneer Solutions to catch up with the company\u2019s activities specifically in Europe. 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