The CTRM Blog

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.

This morning I spoke to Peter Waiss, Managing Director of ComFin. ComFin offers software solutions and consulting services to the commodity and energy industries. It’s TheBulldog software is a package that supports trading, trade administration, operations, risk management, back office, finance, storage, logistics, and reporting and is used by companies in the crude oil, chemical, petrochemical, soft commodity, shipping, and refined product industries and covers all physical transactions and paper instruments.

With the aging of the workforce, the energy industry in the United States is facing the loss of the experienced and skilled resources that have developed, deployed and maintained the complex systems that underpin our energy infrastructure and the markets that operate within it. Anticipating the industry’s needs, many universities in the United States have developed programs designed to equip new graduates with a broad understanding of many of the technologies that are required as this industry continues to rapidly evolve in the United States.