With energy commodity prices having collapsed like Miguel Tejada at a press conference and the futures markets in contango, the preferred strategy for many traders has been to buy as much physical product as available storage capacity would allow and either sell for future delivery, or hold and wait for the cash markets to recover. […]

It’s been interesting monitoring the 2008 results from the various ETRM software houses. In most cases, the major vendors are reporting that their license revenue numbers are up over 2007, even as their numbers of net new customer sales are down, in some cases 20% or more.
Clearly, part of what’s at play is the […]

Yesterday, Triple Point provided a briefing on their results for 2008 and they were certainly impressive. According to the company, their performance last year yielded a:
* 139% growth in license revenue over 2007* 63% increase in total revenue over 2007* 79% increase in profits over 2007* 43% expansion in headcount […]

I visited with several of the leaders from ZE PowerGroup yesterday, including Aiman El-Ramly (VP of Strategy and Business Development) and Robert Bruce (Manager of Product Strategy) about the company’s ZEMA product, a data management, analysis and reporting solution.
ZE PowerGroup is headquatered in Richmond BC, just south of Vancouver. They started business […]

Risk Management Tops Trading Firm’s Critical Business Issues in Less Liquid Energy Commodity Markets
For Immediate Release Albuquerque, New Mexico--February 4th, 2009-- CommodityPoint, a division of UtiliPoint® International, Inc., has released a new report titled "Changes in Commodity Markets - Impacts on Traders and Software” based on a survey of a variety of energy commodity market […]

IssueAlert - January 30, 2009By: Patrick Reames and Gary Vasey
CommodityPoint, the recently launched division of UtiliPoint International that is focused specifically on the global commodity trading, transaction, and risk management space, is now completing our latest report. The report, “Changes in Commodity Markets - Impacts on Traders and Software” will be available within […]