The CTRM Blog

Brady Plc is the only publicly held CTRM vendor in the space.  Being public, and therefore being required to report their financial results, the company provides some unique insights into the health of the CTRM market, especially in their core market area of Europe.

According to their press release of January 16th, the company saw a 70% year-over-year growth in revenues in 2011, including increases in recurring revenue (revenues from support & maintenance, license “rentals”, etc)  of 145%, which represents about 52% of their total 2011 revenues.  Recurring revenues in 2010 were only 36% of total revenues.  They noted that they had secured 14 “substantial” new license sales in 2011, versus 10 in 2010.

We released a new Technical Briefing Note (TBN) this week entitled “CTRM Founded In and Around Business Intelligence”. In this new TBN, we look at the unique design philosophy and architecture underlying Woodland Solutions Phoenix ETRM solution. Having built the product around a data warehouse/data mart core, Woodland’s can offer some unique capabilities in business intelligence and reporting. You can find out more by downloading the report here.

We launched our all new CommodityAlert this week. In addition to articles of interest to the commodity trading and risk management industry, you can also find the latest news, calendar of events and links to current research projects and reports…

If you’re not yet a subscriber to CommodityAlert, you can sign up here.

CommodityPoint‘s CTRM Vendor Perception Survey is nearing its completion and you have but days left to express your thoughts about who’s the leader in CTRM (amongst other thoughts), as we conduct this latest version of our biennial review of the market’s perceptions of trading and risk management applications and their vendors.

So, we would really appreciate hearing your opinions about, and experiences with, the various products and vendors that support energy and commodity trading activities around the globe.  The short electronic survey won’t take you long to complete and the final report will be freely available for you to check how your views match up with others.

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas reminds me that we have a long way to go as an industry in terms of innovating the technologies used in CTRM.  While exciting new products and services are unveiled this week at the annual electronics industry get together in Sin City, the energy and commodity trading industry continues to plod down the same weather beaten paths in CTRM technology.  We still use terms like “n-tier” and “straight-thru-processing” as if these are the hottest new technologies to appear in the last year; meanwhile, the consumer markets are continually introduced to innovative new products, services and media that are transformative – changing the way people collect, share and consume information and, arguably even changing the very nature of human interaction.