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Our E/CTRM Conference in London, England, May 29 & 30 is really coming together.  This two day event will focus on E/CTRM technologies and related software, and will bring together the users of these technologies to share ideas and emerging requirements with their peers and solution developers.  This event is will be a terrific forum to examine how current and emergent technologies can be leveraged to best meet the needs of a complex and rapidly evolving energy and commodity trading marketplace.

We’ve got a great roster of industry leaders and experts who will be sharing their thoughts and views, including:

The E/CTRM Conference Series for 2012 builds on the success of 2011, in which events in Prague and Houston attracted more than 250 industry professionals and received highly favorable reviews. This year, the E/CTRM Conferences will be hosted in London, England, May 29 & 30 and Houston, Texas, July 11 & 12. These two-day events will focus on E/CTRM technologies and related software, bringing together the users of these technologies to share ideas and emerging requirements with their peers and solution developers.  Our events are intended to facilitate an open dialog to examine how current and emergent technologies can be leveraged to best meet the needs of a complex and rapidly evolving energy and commodity trading marketplace.

According to a just issued press release from Allegro, the company saw a greater than 60% year-over-year growth in software license revenues, with a 50% year-over-year increase in new customer signings from 2010 to 2011. The press release names several of those new clients including Saudi Aramco, Capital Power, PAA Natural Gas Storage, EPIC Aviation and Green Plains. Geographically, they note success in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific; with new sales covering crude and crude products, energy utilities, chemicals and minerals.

Though E-World organizers say attendance this year will exceed 20,000 delegates, for whatever reason, the event seems somewhat less chaotic then last year. Many of the large CTRM vendors have booths again this year, including both the European based, such as Navita, and the US based, including Triple Point, Allegro, SunGard Energy and Commodities and Open Link (with their EUR subsidiary IRM), and traffic appears to be good, if not overwhelming.

A CommodityPoint CommodityAlert

Patrick Reames, Managing Director

Service providers and system integrators are a vital part of the CTRM landscape, providing unique skills or supplementing resources for companies that are working to improve their CTRM system capabilities. In fact, a recent CommodityPoint study, Consultants and Systems Integrators in Trading and Risk Management, notes that about 80% of the companies utilizing commercial CTRM systems have employed the services of one or more of these consulting organizations.

The companies that provide these services around CTRM software can be generally described as one of four types of providers: