By Gary Vasey…
We have a full research calendar for 2010 and we are about to commence the first two research studies for 2010. These two studies are the Non-Energy Vendor Perception Study and the Non-traditional Delivery Models for CTRM - SaaS and Hosted Solutions Study.
Non-traditional Delivery Models for CTRM - SaaS and Hosted Solutions Study
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By Patrick ReamesManaging Director, The Americas
We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Eldon Klaassen, CEO of Allegro Development to get his take on a broad range of topics, from recent developments within Allegro to the current state of the ETRM/CTRM market place. […]

New York, NY and Albuquerque, NM--October 12, 2009--Forbes magazine’s Custom Solutions group and UtiliPoint International, Inc. announced today that the two companies have joined forces to launch a series of interviews with today’s leaders who are actively promoting change in today’s rapidly evolving energy industry. The interviews, to be known as the "The Great Transformers" […]

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 […]

Solarc is holding their annual Ascent conference at La Torretta Del Lago Resort on Lake Conroe next week. I’ll be participating in an industry expert panel discussion, answering questions from the audiance. Show-up and see if you can stump me!
If you would like to find out more about the conference, you can […]

OpenLink has officially withdrawn their S-1 in a filing with the SEC in the last day or so. Not a surprise given the state of the equity markets. However, it appears they may be pursuing a different path to an end game…rumors are flying like tin roofs in a tornado…

I recently caught up with Michael Muse, who many in this space will remember as one of the founders of Woodlands Technology, an ETRM provider that was purchased by Siemens in 2004 and was rolled up into New Energy Associates, which in turn was bought about a year ago by Ventyx. After the acquisition […]

Oracle just announced the acquisition of Sun Microsystems for a net $5.6 Billion. According to the press release,
“There are substantial long-term strategic customer advantages to Oracle owning two key Sun software assets: Java and Solaris. Java is one of the computer industry's best-known brands and most widely deployed technologies, and it is […]

Readers of this blog may remember a couple of postings that I’ve done over the last several months mentioning Paragon Consulting. As a reminder, the company’s two principles, Jason Wells and Kevin Gerold had been working to bring a new credit risk application to market and, based on those that had seen it, […]

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 […]