The Inaugural Edition of CommodityAlert by Gary Vasey & Patrick Reames
Happy New Year and welcome to the new CommodityPoint CommodityAlert newsletter! CommodityAlert will be issued weekly and will be written by CommodityPoint analysts on a variety of topics around commodity markets and the technologies that support them. We trust that you will find CommodityAlert a useful and valued source for news and analysis related to those issues that impact you and your business.
CommodityPoint Initiatives for 2010
This new newsletter is only one of a variety of new CommodityPoint initiatives for 2010.
First, we are expanding and will be adding key new staff throughout the year both in Europe and North America, beginning with Mark Tredway who will help us with account management. Mark will be located in the Brno, Czech Republic office and, being a native of South Africa, adds additional multi-national experience to CommodityPoint. We will also be adding an additional analyst in the Houston office and expanding our staff of researchers in Brno over the year.
Towards the end of the first quarter, CommodityPoint will commence with a series of webinars on a variety of topics, each supported by our industry leading, proprietary research. Included in our 2010 research calendar are a variety of topics including an examination of non-energy commodity CTRM and the market for Saas or ASP delivered CTRM products. In a significant change for CommodityPoint, the resultant reports from our research will now be made available free of charge, ensuring the widest distribution possible.. The first report we intend to issue in the New Year will be what we believe to be the most comprehensive directory of CTRM vendors and their products ever published, a report that we anticipate will become the “source book” for those companies seeking to procure CTRM software.
CommodityPoint will also be leveraging UtiliPoint’s relationship with both The Abraham Group and Forbes Connect. We expect to partner with The Abraham Group to deliver a thought provoking live and video conference on GHG regulatory and market developments towards the beginning of Q2 which will be titled “Live from Washington—The Issues as We See Them.” CommodityPoint will also prepare thought leadership articles for the Forbes Connect website during the year.
Another new development is the launch of the CTRM Blog, primarily authored by Gary Vasey, which will be a companion site to the highly successful ETRM Community Blog authored by Patrick Reames. The two blogs will provide not only each of our primary analysts take on the developments in the global commodity markets, they will also cover the regional issues and activities in their respective geographies. We take pride in having become the market’s most innovative provider of information to the buyers and sellers of CTRM/ETRM technologies, having developed such tools as the online CTRM Software and Services Directory, and we anticipate that CommodityPoint will continue to be the leading source of information, analysis and opinion for the CTRM marketplace in 2010.
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We look forward to a great year and we wish you a great and profitable 2010.
