Rome recently announced that they are making their CreditRisk product available as a web-based software subscription to small and medium sized businesses, and are calling it CreditRisk OnDemand. The solution will be hosted on Rome’s servers and offer clients the ability to upload data via Excel.
I suspect the offering will be successful, as more […]

The front page of the business section of the Houston Chronicle yesterday had a story about how many, including politicians, are calling for the re-implementation of the windfall profits tax. In the story, they quoted a representative of the Sierra Club as saying that they were certain that this being an election year, “action […]

The Washington Post last week did a similar examination to my post “What’s the Impact of a Weak Dollar on Crude Prices?”. Their charts, located here also show comparisions of the dollar to the Canadian Dollar, the Pound, and the Yen. The article is located here.

A few days ago, I had an opportunity to speak with Deane Price, head of Ventyx’s energy group, and Mike Muse who’s in charge of the group’s ETRM products. As most know, Ventyx has been in acquisition mode for the last year, having picked up New Energy Associates and Global Energy, amongst others. […]

Yesterday evening, ERCOT, the Texas ISO, had to declare an emergency and interrupt 1,100 MW of demand due to a combination of colder temperatures and under-delivery of some generators. However the real lynch pin in the situation was the loss of some 1,400 MW of power out of the West Texas wind farms. […]

A UtiliPoint International IssueAlertBy Patrick Reames
Having tracked activity in the Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) solutions market over the last several years, UtiliPoint has been able to see trends emerge and disappear and markets leaders rise and fall, only to rise again. It’s an impossible proposition to declare any particular solution vendor THE […]

Solarc recently announced that they had signed Northwest Airlines to a RightAngle license…
SolArc, an innovative, market-focused software company with a proven solution that streamlines and automates the jet fuel supply chain, announced today that Northwest Airlines will implement SolArc RightAngle for managing the jet fuel supply, logistics, accounting and price hedging for their domestic and […]

I’ve been kicking around this question with some of my associates here at UtiliPoint over the last few weeks. In trying to quantify the impacts of a weak dollar, the most obvious way, at least to me was to look at the buying power of the Euro as opposed to the USDollar. The […]

Late last week Allegro announced that they had, for the first time, taken on outside investment. The two venture firms involved were North Bridge Growth Equity and Tudor Ventures. According to a quote by Eldon Klaassen, Allegro’s founder and CEO, in the press release, “With this investment, Allegro is better positioned to accelerate our […]

The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) just announced that they are acquiring YellowJacket Software. As I’ve talked about in the past, YellowJacket is provider of what I consider to be one of the best applications for traders to expand their market reach. Using YellowJacket’s application, you can utilize instant messaging to reach multiple counterparties simultaneously, […]