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Aspect Enterprise announced last week that it was to offer free trials of its AspectCTRM Lite Edition at no charge. Interestingly, this announcement followed discussion at the Prague CTRM Conference around hands on software evaluation where Alan Gunn, SVP of Product Marketing at SolArc, sounded out a different approach to buying E/CTRM software. It certainly created some discussion.

Yags Savania, who heads up sales activities in EMEA for AES, explains, “This is groundbreaking. No other solutions provider that we’re aware of can offer a free trial of its trading and risk management solution, supported by system experts. Traditionally it’s been impossible because it’s so costly and time consuming to install software, hardware and customize the product. But because we’re fully Web-based with the latest technology and a flexible subscription program – we’re able to do it.”

A number of photos are now available on the Conference website – both the front page and a new page for photos.

Houston, TX and Brno, Czech Republic, May 26, 2011: CommodityPoint, a leading analyst firm for the Commodity Trade and Risk Management (CTRM) industry, announced today they will host a second event in the CTRM Technical Conference Series on July 21, 2011 in Houston, Texas. The announcement comes after overwhelmingly positive feedback and record-setting attendance at the CTRM Conference in Prague, Czech Republic on May 23, 2011.

The CommodityPoint CTRM Technical Conference took place yesterday in Prague. 92 folks registered and more than 80 actually attended the event, which based on the evaluation forms received, was extremely successful. CommodityPoint would like to thank Brady PLC, Eka, LIM, Sirius Solutions, Opportune and SolArc for their sponsorship of the event and TransGraph, Pioneer and TradePaq TRM for sponsoring the breaks. We would also like to thank all of the speakers who delivered some great presentations and contributed to the success of the event. Thanks also to the attendees for their support.

UK-based ETRM software vendor, Contigo, continue to find success in the European energy trading market, with two deals completing in May, according to Simon Piercy, Director at Contigo.

The first sale sees their customer licensing the enVoy intra-industry communications product. enVoy, part of the enTrader suite, will be used to provide an integrated nomination process to Elexon, the UK Power market operator. This new entrant to the UK market plans to trade power across the interconnector. In addition, Contigo are providing services to assist the party with gaining the qualification to enter the market.