Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic we are all very familiar with the term ‘lockdown’. A situation where people lock themselves inside their homes to protect themselves from outside threats. Such a self-imposed lockdown also applies to energy trading firms continuing with their legacy ETRM systems, being apprehensive about the prospect of migrating to next-generation solutions.
Driven by an increasingly complex marketplace, as well as outdated technology leading to workarounds and poor manageability, the cost of implementing an energy trading and risk management (ETRM) system has come under question in the past years. Still some buyers paid only lip service to their call and now experience the costly consequences. Others were
The top of the world can be glimpsed from Pioneer’s office in Kathmandu. Our head-office is based in the Mile-High city of Denver. Literally and figuratively we operate at high levels in delivering next generation energy trading and risk management solutions: for the past decade, Pioneer Solutions has consistently been ranked as a Top rated
Working remotely looks like something that is here to stay in some shape or form; surveys show broad support from both employees and employers. Some companies are even considering doing away with their office completely. Technology is playing a large role here as enabler. The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting everyone, including the commodity / energy
When customers tell you that your software has been an eye-opening solution for their business, you feel the urge to tell others and give them an opportunity to experience the same. Investing in a modern C/ETRM system will help not only surviving but succeeding in today’s disruptive business world. With this summer being very different,
You may agree with it or not and viewpoints may differ from where you are in the world, but arguably there is a move to switching to renewable sources of energy. Tesla’s company valuation just surpassed ExxonMobil. Royal Dutch Shell cut its dividend for the first time since World War. German parliament approved a coal phase-out. With this
While we are having fun doing it, we do not create our C/ETRM software for ourselves, we do it to help our customers getting their job done: energy/commodity trading and risk management. The core of being a next generation C/ETRM supplier, is that we bring value to either reduce their pain, or to enable them
We already know that there is one constant in the energy and commodities market, and that is change – nowadays even more rapid than before. Yet it often takes more dramatic changes, such as the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis, to make it clear that being able to directly adapt is essential. Market participants will