Solarc announced this week that it had signed Tauber Oil, the Houston based marketer of petroleum and petrochem products. According to the press release, Solarc’s full suite of products will be “utilized for physical marketing and risk management across all of Tauber’s business lines including Natural Gas Liquids, Intermediate and Heavy Feedstocks, Petrochemicals, Blending Components, Carbon Black Feedstocks, Residual Fuels, Natural Gas…”

You can see the full release here.

As I had previously mentioned, I had the opportunity to attend and take part in a panel discussion at Solarc’s Ascent conference at Lake Conroe this week. As usual, Solarc put on a well produced, well attended event. Some interesting stuff coming out of the event…

- Solarc is making strong progress toward converting RightAngle to a full .Net architecture, with the front office, scheduling, valuation and much of the infrastructure services converted to .Net in their upcoming S11 release (currently in beta testing)

- Rolled out new partnerships/integration points - the list now includes such companies as Platts, OPIS, LIM, SAP, Zytax and Oracle

- Solarc has really moved to a full and complete adoption of Microsoft infrastructure and application development products and are using those MS products to explore some really interesting stuff, like potentially embedding GIS functionality in the RightAngle products for scheduling and balancing.

- They also showed off Microsoft’s Surface Computing technology, which if you haven’t seen it, is like a giant IPod, only a lot more sophisticated. Cynthia Haynie, Solarc’s CTO, demoed some potential uses of the technology, such as its value in facilitating work-flow; but, according to Cynthia, they’ve just really started to look at the technology and ways it might add value to the company’s product family. Personally, I’m struggling a bit to see how it could be adopted to a trading floor, but it is cool stuff and fun to play with...Here’s a video showing Surface Computing in action, and no, this is not from Solarc or the Ascent conference….

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