Albuquerque, New Mexico-October 9, 2007-UtiliPoint® International, Inc. (UtiliPoint) has released a new report that establishes a reliable, independent and conservative size for European software markets for Energy Trading, Transaction and Risk Management (ETRM) software. The study uses the UtiliPoint Market Sizing methodology and utilizes both top-down and bottom-up analysis to establish a range of vales […]

Following is a press release issued by Navita this morning…
NAVITA Systems AS (www.navita.com) announced today that the company has acquired 100% of the shares in Advantage Energy Solutions Ltd, a UK-based software solutions provider to the energy generation, utilities and trading sectors.
The acquisition is motivated by the identified synergies between NAVITA and AESL’s […]

We want to thank The Structure Group for their sponsorship of the ETRMCommunity website.
I’ve worked with this company and, in particular, their marketing genius, Marc Bane, for quite a while now. They really are a great company and a great group of people.
Thanks again for your support!

I had the opportunity to present and lead a roundtable discussion at the Allegro Summit 2007 in Dallas last week. It was a very well organized and hosted event and I extend my congratulations and thanks to the staff at Allegro that pulled it together.
Allegro used the event to roll-out the latest version of […]

When I first started working in the ETRM space, some 10 or so years ago, the issues of the day were reporting and integration.
No customers of vendor supplied systems were happy with the reports offered with the systems and their architectures were such that writing custom reports was difficult and painful. System […]

October and November seem to be high times for conferences. I suppose its partly a function of cooler weather at popular conference locations, like Las Vegas. Speaking of Las Vegas, that’s the first stop on my trip. I’m heading out today to attend the Deloitte 2nd Annual IT Energy Transacting Roundtable. […]

I’ve been hearing and seeing a lot about Triple Point’s efforts in the biofuels market lately. They have been holding a number of seminars (like this one) and, according to the preverbal “word on the street”, seemed to be getting quite a bit of traction with the emerging market (read signing new customers). […]

We’ve got several new job postings on the ETRM website. You can check them out here.
The market for ETRM related skills is continuing to be very strong. All the software companies and consulting firms that I’ve talked to have many unfilled positions. As an executive of one of the ETRM consulting houses told […]