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Introduction and Scope
Commodity Technology Advisory (ComTech), the leading analyst firm covering commodity trading and risk
management (CTRM) technology markets, has recently completed an in-depth review of the CTRM market space in
order to compile an estimate of the size of the global CTRM technology markets, and the results of this analysis and
review are included in this report.
Readers of this report should be aware that in the development of this data, we have had to necessarily delineate
boundaries for the companies/applications that are reflected in this scope of the analysis.
‘CTRM’ is a term that has been widely adopted by many technology companies. “Traditional” CTRM vendors have
been expanding their reach outside of what has been widely accepted as core CTRM through acquisition of
applications what would commonly viewed as tools for managing and optimizing supply chains.
As such, for this report, ComTech has utilized a fairly rigid view of what capabilities are encompassed within the
bounds of CTRM. The included capabilities (and associated services) for this report are:
1) Physical and financial commodity deal capture and contract management,
2) Position management and valuation and,
3) Tracking/managing of commodities logistics as they apply to functionality commonly deployed as a
functional component of large scale CTRM solutions servicing gas, power, crude and bulk product
movements,
4) Settlement and accounting of deals/transactions, and
5) Trader analytics and trading optimization tools.

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