ComFin and The BullDog
Yesterday I had an opportunity to speak with Peter Wais, Managing Director of ComFin. ComFin are located in Vienna – not so far away from myself here in Brno. The company was started 10-years ago and developed a paper trading TRM solution that has subsequently been expanded to cover physical trading as well for crude oil, chemicals, petrochemicals and shipping which is known as The BullDog. CommodityPoint first became aware of the BullDog via one of our surveys in which it was highly ranked.
Mr. Wais told me that about 40% of its customers are based in Europe and that it has a representative office in Singapore from which it has gained clients in Singapore, India, Thailand and the Middle East. It does have a small number of US clients on the shipping side but currently no office there. The system is primarily used by traders, integrated refiners/petrochemical firms and shipping companies.
ComFin has 30+ employees in development, support, consulting, business development and marketing.
Mr. Wais described The BullDog as utilizing typical client/server architecture and delivered either on a traditional license basis or on a leased basis. He claims that the software can be implemented with base set ups, no enhancements and users trained in as little as 2-weeks.
We will be getting a demonstration of The BullDog in the coming weeks and we are looking forward to learning more about this solution.
Peter Wais Says:
Just received information from a reputable journal, that ComFin also ranks highly in many categories according to their latest survey. Details will be published in their March issue.
Posted on February 12th, 2010 at 3:37 pm