Reports Vendor Perception Study

2014 ETRM / CTRM Vendor Perception Study Commodity Technology Advisory llc CTRM Executives Respond to Report Findings Allegro Introduction & Demographics http://youtu.be/FYmGqoMJk7k Mr. Ray Hood, President and CEO, Allegro Development Mr. Hood discusses the results of the 2014 CTRM Vendor Perception Study. Additionally, he reviews his company’s market position and future plans as Allegro continues to grow and expand their reach global across commodities. OpenLink http://youtu.be/oFtUaY2yd_4 Mr. Doug Wendler, MD of Americas Energy, OpenLink Mr. Wendler discusses the results of the 2014 CTRM Vendor Perception Study. He also reviews his company’s market position and future plans to continue to grow their market reach and maintain their leadership position across multiple categories of CTRM. © 2014 Commodity Technology Advisory, llc Commodity Technology Advisory’s (ComTech) vendor perception study was conducted to establish end-user perceptions of the E/CTRM vendors and products and to determine market leadership perceptions as well as buying criteria, demand levels, and brand awareness of the different vendors. The research comprised of a comprehensive set of questions that end users and others were invited to answer as an internet survey using the Survey MonkeyTM online survey tool. The survey was open for responses between January 24th and March 20th, 2014 and collected some 234 responses. The survey was promoted in numerous ways in order to attract bone fide respondents. ComTech used email notification, blog articles, banner advertising and verbal requests to encourage responses. ComTech used a number of email lists and personal contacts to promote the survey. E/CTRM vendors and service providers promoted the survey of their own accord. ComTech also used an incentive to gain responses with every fifth valid respondent being provided with a small Amazon.com gift certificate as well as the promise of a copy of the final report. The number of responses gained represents a strong response but ComTech were rigorous in validating these responses and in the end, utilized 146 (62%) of them in the results presented below. Reasons for rejecting responses included: 1. The respondent worked for a vendor. Despite instructions to discourage vendor employee responses, ComTech eliminated 12 such responses. These included responses that were obviously by vendor staff using a vendor email address and also those that we discerned to be vendor responses using a private email address, 5

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