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CTRM Vendor Perceptions 2018
products across the space, speaking to the continu-
ing complexity and often regional or business com-
plexity of the space.
The maturation of the CTRM software market is fur-
ther indicated by looking at the ratios of those who
named a vendor solution as market leader versus
those respondents that didn’t know or didn’t think
that there was an overall market leader. Figure 33
shows the split of respondents that did have an opin-
ion and named a vendor versus those that could not
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or thought there was no leader. One way to look at
this data is that the more mature the segment, the
more likely it is that respondents have an opinion…
and it’s clear that the Energy segment, Electric Pow-
er Natural Gas and Crude Oil, are the most mature
segments indicated by this study. There remains a lot
less clarity around Ags & Softs and Metals; however,
this can be misleading to some degree as the num-
ber of respondents qualified by virtue of their market
knowledge or experience in those commodities is
much more limited in the sample.
FOCUS ON CONSULTANTS AND
INTEGRATORS
Consultants and Integrators can be influential in se-
lecting CTRM software and so their views are of par-
ticular interest. Figure 34 shows their responses for
unprompted brand recognition and it actually looks
very similar to the overall unprompted brand recogni-
tion results. ION OpenLink and Allegro are the most
widely known followed by FIS, ION Triplepoint, Eka
and Brady. Other vendors are not so well known but
ION Aspect, Amphora and Pioneer were quite widely
mentioned.
The result is also quite similar to 2016 and is also
broadly similar to the overall survey results outlined
above.
The influencers also share similar views on overall
market leaders with the only difference being in elec-
tric power and natural gas where the results are in-
verted (Table 2).
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