Episodes
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In this episode we look at how firms are looking at supplementing legacy CTRM solutions with SaaS cloud apps in order to keep up with market shifts or business changes. We explore supplementation as a strategy and the use cases for it as well as looking at how it impacts overall architecture.
We talk with Richard Williamson of Gen10, Andre Jaeger of ION Commodities and Justin Howat of Topaz. Many thanks to them for their participation. -
Steve Hughes, CEO of Quor, provides an update on its acquisition of Eka as well as sharing what may be next.
Thanks for Steve for his participation.
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At the end of 2024, the EUDR regulation will come into force for large and medium firms dealing with certain commodities and it will require traceablility - the tracking of the commodity from source to end use. Why will this regulation enforce traceability when others haven't? What does it mean and what is needed in a CTRM/CM solution?
We asked Saurabh Goyal of Phlo Systems and Richard Williamson of Gen10.
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In this episode of CTRMRadio we look at data management in energy & commodities by talking with four vendors - two existing vendors and two SaaS newcomers in the form of FIS, HAKOM, Ventriks and OpenDataDSL. What is driving data management? What impact is AI having? What solutions are emerging and why?
Our thanks to our guests - Harshad Kolpyakwar of FIS, Richard Quigley of Ventriks, Stefan Komornyik of HAKOM and Colin Hartley of OpenDataDSL. -
Today's news was that STG had acquired Eka to merge it with Quor. I spoke to Quor CEO, Steve Hughes, about the acquisition - why Eka? How will it work? and what's next in terms of M&A?
Our thanks to Steve Hughes for participating in this podcast bulletin.
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In this episode, we discuss the energy transition and the technologies underpinning it with Ben Hillary, CEO of Commodities People, and announce the new Energy Transition Technologies practice at ComTech Advisory with Irina Reitgruber, Affiliate Analyst at ComTech. In addition to the new practice area, we have also launched www.ettcenter.net as a research and news portal targeting at energy transition technologies and a sister site to the popular CTRMCenter.
Our thanks to Ben and also to Irina for their expert discussion.
Visit the ETTCenter at www.etttcenter.net
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New technologies are available from cloud to AI that are set to change CTRM and related software. It is hoped that these technologies will make for a more cost effective and user friendly CTRM environment but will it result in a revolution or evolution? We talked with three senior software figures to see how they are using new technologies including Saeed Patel, CPOI at Quor, Saurabh Goyal, CEO at Phlo Systems and David Meyers, co-owner at Enuit. We thank each for their participation.
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At the beginning of 2024, we asked a number of industry players their views on commodity and technology trends likely to impact CTRM and related software in 2024. We spoke to and thank Steve Hughes (CEO of Quor) Jan van den Brom (CEO of Agiboo) and Asbjorn Hansen (Previse Systems). I then spoke with ComTech affiliate analyst - Irina Reitgruber - to get her views and discuss what we had heard.
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As many veterans leave the commodity trading and risk management industry as they reach retirement age, they take their knowledge and expertise with them. Newcomers are desperate to learn the business and the software and to fill the gap left behind. But how? Well, there are a number of books out in recent months including our own - CTRM Software: An Analyst View of a Dynamic Software Market - and we discuss this and other training initiatives with the author of another book - Hello ETRM and CTRM - Chirag Ahuja a senior business analyst with Vattenfall Energy Trading.
Thanks to Chirag for joining Patrick and I on the podcast.
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The discussed books can be found on Amazon at https://amzn.to/3RCDIV5 and https://amzn.to/3RkyAo6 - in hardcover, paperback and Kindle formats. -
We cover the topic of operational outsourcing in Energy & Commodities looking at both outsourcing of ETRM, CTRM and other application support services as well as the emergence of operational outsourcing - What's driving it and where is happening? Patrick talks with Russ Meyer Partner at CapCo Energy Partners and I talk with Vincent Dumontoy, GM, Belgium & France, Energy One Europe. Thanks to our guests. Please do like, share and subscribe to CTRMRadio.
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In CTRMRadio 38, we talk to Quor, the new entity formed by the spin off of what was called Brady Commodities acquired by STG. Patrick Reames talks with Quor CEO, Tasja Botha, about the new vendor, its strategy and future. Gary Vasey talks to Chief Business Architect, Harry Knott and with Global Head of Alliances, Connor Hoban about such topics as defending its legacy of leadership in metals, the products and their functionality, ESG and net zero, partnering and more...
CTRMRadio is an ad hoc podcast by Commodity Technology Advisory LLC, hosted on CTRMCenter.com. It is kindly sponsored by Enuit, provider of CTRM and Commodity Management solutions worldwide. Contact us for sponsorship or advertising opportunities. -
Amphora's recent announcement of Alchemy - a new concentrates solution - was the latest in a series of new entries into the metal CTRM and CM space. From a situation where most metals companies had a choice of two or three potential solutions, we now appear to have a growing and varied list of potential solutions. What's driving that explosion of metals-related solutions and are these solutions really up to the job?
We talked to Amphora's David Glasspool to learn a bit about Alchemy and what the opportunity that it sees looks like and then we talked to some of the other vendors in the space including Brain Collins of Commodity Engineering whose Balsamo is a metals solution, Lance Fogtman at ION, which markets a number of solutions capable of handling various aspects of metals but whose Aspect platform appears to be doing remarkably well in the space and finally, Patrick spoke to Edward Porter of Eka, another long-term provider of metals CTRM and CM solutions.
For a full and complete list of the diverse world of metals solutions, please visit the CTRMCenter.com directory - https://www.ctrmcenter.com/resources/ where you will find a continually update list of vendors and products searchable by various criteria.
CTRMRadio is an ad hoc podcast by Commodity Technology Advisory LLC, hosted on CTRMCenter.com. It is kindly sponsored by Enuit, provider of CTRM and Commodity Management solutions worldwide. Contact us for sponsorship or advertising opportunities. -
To kick off the year we decided to poll a few people around the industry as to what they saw the opportunities and threats posed by 2023 might be either to the industry, their business, or both. In part 2, to be released in a couple of days, we talk to Jan van den Brom of Agiboo and Dr. Jens Bartenschlager of Fidectus. In the final part, Patrick Reames and Gary M. Vasey discuss what we have learned.
In part 1, we talked with Sulhi Akmehmet of Beacon Platform, Ito van Lanschot of Tradesparent, Simon Wheeler of Energy One Europe, Tasja Botha of Brady Commodities and George Bradshaw of Gen10.
CTRMRadio is an ad hoc podcast by Commodity Technology Advisory LLC, hosted on CTRMCenter.com. It is kindly sponsored by Enuit, provider of CTRM and Commodity Management solutions worldwide. Contact us for sponsorship or advertising opportunities. -
To kick off the year we decided to poll a few people around the industry as to what they saw the opportunities and threats posed by 2023 might be either to the industry, their business, or both. In part 1, we talked with Sulhi Akmehmet of Beacon Platform, Ito van Lanschot of Tradesparent, Simon Wheeler of Energy One Europe, Tasja Botha of Brady Commodities and George Bradshaw of Gen10.
In part 2, to be released in a couple of days, we talk to Jan van den Brom of Agiboo and Dr. Jens Bartenschlager of Fidectus. In the final part, Patrick Reames and Gary M. Vasey discuss what we have learned.
CTRMRadio is an ad hoc podcast by Commodity Technology Advisory LLC, hosted on CTRMCenter.com. It is kindly sponsored by Enuit, provider of CTRM and Commodity Management solutions worldwide. Contact us for sponsorship or advertising opportunities. -
As we face an interesting winter in Europe with volatile power and gas prices, potential power cuts and more, batteries and their role in the grid have come increasingly into focus. But, what role does a battery play and how does that role vary by geography and market? What sorts of software exists to help with optimising and managing batteries?
Commodity Technology Advisory spoke with Ross Attrill of EnergyOne about how its' Enflow process automation software is being used for battery optimisation in Australia. We then spoke to Brady Technology's Chris Regan to learn about UK and Nordic markets and the role of batteries there before talking with Enegen's David Calmonson about batteries and software in the UK.
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You can find CTRMCenter at www.ctrmcenter.com. CTRMRadio is sponsored by Enuit, provider of CTRM and Commodity Management solutions worldwide and hosted by CTRMCenter – the place for all things CTRM. -
We had quite a conversation with Andre Jaeger of Ion Commodities recently to learn more about Ion Commodities, its strategy, positioning and plans. Patrick Reames and I then discussed what we had heard as analysts in the space. The conversation covered many topics but included the impacts of the Ukraine-Russia war, general market conditions, Ion's products, Carbon and emissions, renewables and much more....
Our thanks to Andre Jaeger and Rowena Bataille of Ion Commodities for participating in this episode.
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CTRMRadio is sponsored by Enuit, provider of CTRM and Commodity Management solutions worldwide and hosted by CTRMCenter – the place for all things CTRM.
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ComTech has issued a new report available for free at ctrmcenter.com on Trends in Commodities Risk Management Technologies (https://www.ctrmcenter.com/publications/reports/trends-in-commodity-risk-management-technologies/). The report was sponsored by NASDAQ Risk Platform, Amphora and Commodities People and we discuss its findings with Adrian Carr of NASDAQ Risk Platform, David Glasspool of Amphora and Ben Hillary of Commodities People. Patrick and I also discuss the findings. Our thanks to the participants.
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In this episode we talk with J. Lance Fogtman, VP of Product Strategy, ION Commodities and Hugo Stappers of Hitachi Energy about what they are seeing in terms of market requirements around carbon and net zero.
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An ETRM / CTRM software acquisition and implementations can impact the entirety of a wholesale commodity-centric company and are a very significant investment in terms of cost and effort required to realize the benefits first envisioned when purchasing the system.
Given those costs, and the risks involved should the project fail in part or whole, in this episode of CTRMRadio we’re discussing the top critical success factors to consider when selecting and implementing CTRM software. Our panel includes four highly experienced experts, three from consulting firms that specialize in selecting and implementing these systems, including Lance Laubach of Essentia Advisory Partners, Martin Hillers with FORRS, and Glen Ragland with Capco; and one from a leading software vendor, KR with iRely.
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