There is no single market for agricultural and soft commodities – each commodity has its own unique value chain and combination of production methods, processing/transformations, and consumption patterns; the combinations of which any particular commodity can, and in many cases will, vary significantly by geography.
Prices for these commodities are influenced by weather, input costs (seed, fuel, fertilizer, equipment and labor), changing consumer lifestyles, wealth distribution (both globally and within individual countries), currency values, interest rates, regulations (including impacts of GMO regulations), subsidization, and emerging technologies (such as bio-fuels). Where any particular enterprise falls within the value chain from producer to consumer, the influence and impact of any one or more of these factors will vary.
With the majority of agricultural and soft commodity wholesale prices at or near 5 year lows, and the outlook projecting more of the same, almost all market participants are facing significant challenges in maintaining profitability. From producers to processors, any company that operates in the ags and softs market must remain vigilant and constantly adjust to these rapidly changing market conditions, including uncertainty driven price volatilities, in order to ensure a profitable operation.
The global supermarkets and hypermarkets market was valued at $3636.8 billion in 2017. Western Europe was the largest geographic region accounting for $1091.1 billion or 30% of the global market.
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Navigating New Channels to Success
As technology, demographics and infrastructure continue to accelerate the speed and efficiency with which goods are produced and moved among world markets—global supply chain strategies are being revisited and new models are emerging.
Food retailers continue to face challenging economic times as the Great Recession, albeit now officially over, has changed and accelerated changes in consumer behavior and the retail marketplace. Shopping patterns have shifted as consumers have re-evaluated the price-value equation, and the lines dividing retail channels continue to blur.
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The global food and beverage services market was valued at around $5 trillion in 2017. Asia Pacific was the largest region in the food and beverage services market in 2017, accounting for around 49% market share.
Full report: https://www.thebusinessresearchcompany.com/report/food-and-beverage-services-global-market-report-2018
The global supermarkets and hypermarkets market was valued at $3636.8 billion in 2017. Western Europe was the largest geographic region accounting for $1091.1 billion or 30% of the global market.
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https://www.thebusinessresearchcompany.com/report/supermarkets-and-hypermarkets-global-market-report-2018
Navigating New Channels to Success
As technology, demographics and infrastructure continue to accelerate the speed and efficiency with which goods are produced and moved among world markets—global supply chain strategies are being revisited and new models are emerging.
Food retailers continue to face challenging economic times as the Great Recession, albeit now officially over, has changed and accelerated changes in consumer behavior and the retail marketplace. Shopping patterns have shifted as consumers have re-evaluated the price-value equation, and the lines dividing retail channels continue to blur.
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The global food and beverage services market was valued at around $5 trillion in 2017. Asia Pacific was the largest region in the food and beverage services market in 2017, accounting for around 49% market share.
Full report: https://www.thebusinessresearchcompany.com/report/food-and-beverage-services-global-market-report-2018
Smart packaging is an advanced form of packaging that provides additional functionalities such as extended shelf life, freshness monitoring and improved safety along with the traditional basic three functions of packaging that is protection, communication and containment.
This is a short revision video on some of the key functions of the price mechanism including the signalling and rationing function in the allocation of scarce resources among competing uses.
THE AGILE SUPPLY CHAIN IN TURBULENT AND VOLATILE MARKETIAEME Publication
Agility is the fundamental characteristic of a supply chain needed for survival in turbulent and volatile markets, which are becoming normal, as product life cycles shorten and environmental forces create additional uncertainty resulting in higher risk in the supply chain management. Agility further helps in providing the right product, at the right time to the consumer, which is the main objective of any supply chain.
Being responsive is an increasingly important skill for firms in today's global economy; thus firms must be agile. Naturally, it follows that an organization's agility depends on its supply chain being agile. However, achieving supply chain agility is a function of other abilities within the organization, specifically supply chain flexibility and technology integration. The integration enables a firm to tap its supply chain flexibility which in turn results in higher supply chain agility and ultimately higher competitive business performance.
The information provided here is to represent trends in sales of properties within Windridge Condominiums through the Metropolitan Indianapolis Board of REALTORS (MIBOR). The data have been compiled from information obtained from MIBOR.com and the local listing service. This information is deemed reliable, but not guaranteed.
CH&CO_SMA review_Op Risk comments and suggestionsHelene Freon
Following BCBS publication in March 2016, CH&Co welcomes the opportunity to provide comments on the consultative document covering the Standardised Measurement Approach for Operational Risk.
We have though suggested some areas for improvement, based on our research and simulations, which are presented in the exhibits.
In this regard, please find in these slides our analysis and suggestions, on what we consider as important points for discussion.
For further information on BCBS consultative document, please follow this link : http://www.bis.org/bcbs/publ/d355.htm.
For further information on the key impacts of the reviewed SMA, please follow this link and read our contribution : http://fr.slideshare.net/HeleneFreon/chcosma-reviewop-risk-survey-and-challenges.
CH&Co is a consulting firm which specializes in supporting clients within the financial services sector. We have developed a strong Risk Management practice, and through our missions and mandates, we have had the chance to build specific expertise in Operational Risk.
Smart packaging is an advanced form of packaging that provides additional functionalities such as extended shelf life, freshness monitoring and improved safety along with the traditional basic three functions of packaging that is protection, communication and containment.
This is a short revision video on some of the key functions of the price mechanism including the signalling and rationing function in the allocation of scarce resources among competing uses.
THE AGILE SUPPLY CHAIN IN TURBULENT AND VOLATILE MARKETIAEME Publication
Agility is the fundamental characteristic of a supply chain needed for survival in turbulent and volatile markets, which are becoming normal, as product life cycles shorten and environmental forces create additional uncertainty resulting in higher risk in the supply chain management. Agility further helps in providing the right product, at the right time to the consumer, which is the main objective of any supply chain.
Being responsive is an increasingly important skill for firms in today's global economy; thus firms must be agile. Naturally, it follows that an organization's agility depends on its supply chain being agile. However, achieving supply chain agility is a function of other abilities within the organization, specifically supply chain flexibility and technology integration. The integration enables a firm to tap its supply chain flexibility which in turn results in higher supply chain agility and ultimately higher competitive business performance.
The information provided here is to represent trends in sales of properties within Windridge Condominiums through the Metropolitan Indianapolis Board of REALTORS (MIBOR). The data have been compiled from information obtained from MIBOR.com and the local listing service. This information is deemed reliable, but not guaranteed.
CH&CO_SMA review_Op Risk comments and suggestionsHelene Freon
Following BCBS publication in March 2016, CH&Co welcomes the opportunity to provide comments on the consultative document covering the Standardised Measurement Approach for Operational Risk.
We have though suggested some areas for improvement, based on our research and simulations, which are presented in the exhibits.
In this regard, please find in these slides our analysis and suggestions, on what we consider as important points for discussion.
For further information on BCBS consultative document, please follow this link : http://www.bis.org/bcbs/publ/d355.htm.
For further information on the key impacts of the reviewed SMA, please follow this link and read our contribution : http://fr.slideshare.net/HeleneFreon/chcosma-reviewop-risk-survey-and-challenges.
CH&Co is a consulting firm which specializes in supporting clients within the financial services sector. We have developed a strong Risk Management practice, and through our missions and mandates, we have had the chance to build specific expertise in Operational Risk.
Over the last several years, the phenomenal growth and expansion of wholesale commodity trading has begun to have a significant impact on both business practices and strategic thinking across commodity supply chains. Producers and processors of raw materials (commodities) and sellers of finished goods that rely heavily on commodity feed stocks have had to come to terms with a business environment of generally increasing and significantly more volatile prices for their raw materials. Despite some weakening in commodity prices on the back of a stronger dollar and increased supply recently, volatilities remain problematic and in the longer-term, prices will continue to increase as the global population continues to grow and as more of that population become consumers of goods.
Managing Supply Chain Complexity and ExposuresCTRM Center
The supply chains for bulk commodities, including agricultural, metals/ores and some energies, are complex – usually necessitating transportation and storage using trucks, trains, ships, barges, pipelines, and terminals/storage facilities. These movements, and the assets utilized to make them, introduce and accumulate both cost and risk to the commodities owners with each step in the chain.
Additionally, as these commodities transit the supply chain, they may undergo changes that will impact their value, both as traded commodities and as a stock or inventory. These events can include transformations to finished products (such as refining crude oil into numerous petroleum products or grains milled into flour) and repackaging from bulk loads into smaller containers such as bags for wholesale or retail sales.
Commodity markets may well now be at an important crossroads in their evolution. Always risky and intricate, trading, procuring and/or selling commodities, is increasingly more complex and becoming even riskier. For those engaged in commodity markets, there has always been a need for flexible and configurable CTRM software to cater for the rapidly changing nature of the business. Unfortunately, most traditionally implemented on premise CTRM software solutions are suboptimal in terms of keeping current with new business challenges. Often the solution also carries a high cost of ownership as this traditional development model can mean months, if not years, between the emergence of a new requirement and the delivery of the matching functionality. New models are now emerging that utilizes the Cloud from new vendors who, familiar with such issues, have innovated different approaches that hold much promise for users. This white paper examines how the industry is changing and why legacy CTRM software and the traditional models of development, implementation and support are problematic for users. It reviews the emergence of new technologies and delivery mechanisms and contrasts how these solutions may prove to be more responsive to industry needs in the future.
Addressing Commodity Market Challenges With Digitalization Enabled By Platfor...CTRM Center
The pace of change in the global commodity markets is accelerating and historical relationships among buyers, sellers and traders, and even the markets in which they operate, are being interrupted, reformed and reshaped at an ever-increasing pace. Trade wars, military conflict, climate change initiatives, regulatory mandates, sustainability and even as recently demonstrated, market shocks brought about by disease pandemics are shifting supply sources and demand patterns and interrupting industrial output, forcing commodity trading companies to adapt in almost real time.
Our white paper on Costa Rica as a Nearshore software service solution and how our services came to be of greate service to a local food distribution company.
Multi-commodity ETRM’s are becoming too expensive to implement, and maintain ...CTRM Center
Since ETRM software was first introduced around 20-years ago, developers have continually sought to move from developing solutions designed to support specific commodities such as crude oil, natural gas, and electric power, to building solutions that catered for multiple energy commodities. In part, their objective was to reduce costs – specifically integration costs, but without a doubt, part of the objective was self-serving, as this also allowed them to broaden the appeal of their software to a larger and more lucrative market.
Value Study: Investing in ETRM / CTRM in Turbulent TimesCTRM Center
The only constant is change echoes an astute observation by the Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, some 2,500 years ago. Those of us who are engaged in the world of commodities are continually reminded of the accuracy of his observation, particularly recently, as commodity prices collapsed led by crude oil. In fact, our industry is continually impacted by changes in the regulatory environment, supply/demand balance, global economic environment, technology developments, political intervention and more.
Recently, BP noted in its annual Energy Outlook1, “Today’s turbulence is a return to business-as-usual. Continuous change is the norm in our industry. The energy mix changes. The balance of demand shifts. New sources of energy emerge, such as shale gas, tight oil, ultra-deepwater oil or renewables. Economies expand and contract. Energy production and consumption are affected by disruptions, from wars to extreme weather. New policies are created to address climate change or bolster energy security.“
The Importance of Real-Time Forward CurvesCTRM Center
The ability to manage and utilize accurate forward price curves has always been an important aspect of commodity trading and risk management -- indeed, it is at the very heart of price risk management. Despite this, the collection of price time series data and the creation, validation and maintenance of curves, has also always proven to be somewhat problematic – particularly in illiquid, thin and/or real-time markets.
US Dairy Markets – Digitalizing to address complexity and volatilityCTRM Center
US dairy markets are one of, if not the most, unique and complex commodity markets. Dairy production has unique physical characteristics not found in any other agricultural commodities, including continuous production, rapidly spoiling milk inventories, and multiple derivative products with a varying ability to store over time (i.e., fresh milk vs. cheese products).
Dynamic Oil Pricing System Enabled Faster Market Reaction TimeITC Infotech
A completely revamped architecture developed by ITC Infotech based on latest tech platform, delivered an integrated and automated system that is intuitive, highly adaptable as well as scalable.
The Brazilian government should promote participation in the regional Global Value Chains in Latin America and the Caribbean through industrial and scientific and technological development policies, investing in infrastructure and providing incentives for the country's companies. Education and professional training policies can help to create comparative advantages with a "domestic" basis, especially in the service sector - an activity in which human capital and skills are essential for competitiveness. Government policies can be especially useful and necessary for overcoming difficulties such as access to finance and information about potential partners that affect the participation of companies in global value chains.
Commodity Trading and Risk Management in a Multi-asset Class PortfolioCTRM Center
After a period that saw commodity prices and volatilities broadly collapse, there is every indication that commodities are once again an attractive asset class. Prices and volatilities have been rising again across almost all commodities, and investors have been returning in droves. This was demonstrated by the S&P GSCI, having reached a low point in 2016, before climbing relatively steadily ever since. Meanwhile, low interest rates, solid economic growth across the globe and rising corporate earnings have hoisted equities to record levels early in 2018, before losing some luster recently. Commodities, the basic building blocks of civilized life, are again in demand – both from consumers as well as investors.
Leveraging the cloud for improved performanceCTRM Center
While delivery of applications and services in the cloud has been a part and parcel of business for over a decade, adoption of cloud-delivered CTRM applications (not to be confused with hosted solutions), has taken time to develop. However, the collapse in commodity prices and profitability over the last several years has incentivized firms in the commodities space to rethink their approach to acquiring and managing IT solutions.
With increasing market experience with these products, market activity over the last few years indicates that adoption of cloud CTRM solutions is increasing rapidly as the lower cost of entry, benefits of a pay as you go approach, and realization that the cloud can actually be more secure than on-premises, have all aided its growth.
Why retail companies need demand planning and forecastingSarah J
In this fast-paced world, customers want instant access to products, across all channels, at all times. Retail companies therefore need to precisely forecast and manage their inventory whilst meeting customer demands in this competitive marketplace
CTRM - The Next Generation - ComTechAdvisory Vendor Technical UpdateCTRM Center
There is no doubt that technology has undergone a sea-change over the last decade or so potentially making it possible to build and deploy software faster and more cost-effectively while offering a host of features that help users to work smarter, faster and with less opportunity for error. Additionally, the way that applications are designed and built has also changed to take better advantage of these technologies. While arguably there is no single technology that facilitates a paradigm shift in Commodity Trading and Risk Management (CTRM) software, when you combine advances in all areas of solution development and deployment technology, then such a leap forward is both likely and desirable.
Nowhere is the gap between the possibilities offered by these leaps in technology and what is available as commercial solutions more apparent than in the commodity trading and risk management software category. There are many aging, legacy, solutions still being utilized, marketed, and deployed and yet, this is an industry that is experiencing unprecedented demands and change, which in turn, are placing increasing demands on the software it utilizes. What most commodity firms are seeking is more agile software platforms that can allow them to adapt and evolve through these changes. This growing demand is also accentuated by the younger, more tech-savvy people entering the business whose expectations are not being met by many existing solutions.
Global Sugar - A Complex Market that Requires a Fit for Purpose CTRM SolutionCTRM Center
Sugar is a global commodity, with almost 180 million metric tons being produced in more than 120 countries each year. Though much of the sugar produced by these countries is consumed locally in food products or, increasingly, for ethanol production, the largest producing countries are often exporters as well and in total contribute 60-70 million metric tons delivered into the global market each year.
Putting Data at the Heart of Energy TradingCTRM Center
In a digital world, data is King, and while energy and commodities have been going through a period of digitalizing for the last several years, there can be no doubt that coming up with data management strategies has also played an important, if not critical, role in those strategies as well. Indeed, this was strongly emphasized in Commodity Technology Advisory’s disruptive technologies research over the last few years, where more than half of all of those questioned in the industry.
Diversifying Into Renewable Energy: Challenges And OpportunitiesCTRM Center
The energy transition is the move away from fossil fuels towards renewable and sustainable forms of production and generation, in combination with increasing decarbonization (net zero) and electrification. The motivations behind the energy transition are primarily political, environmental, and increasingly, financial. Mostly, it is driven by Governments and international bodies (like the EU, which also sees renewables to increase its’ energy independence) through goal setting, provision of incentives, and legislation such as the US’s Inflation Reduction Act.
The push for decarbonization and ESG is also now being championed by large banks and financial institutions like Barclays Bank, who recently announced that it had tightened its financing rules and abandoned financing for oil exploration altogether. Over the last 12-months or so, geopolitics has played an ever-greater role in shaping the energy industry and the energy transition, as the fall-out from the Russia-Ukraine war has interfered with the energy transition agenda, resulting in soaring power and natural gas prices. This has wrought havoc with consumers and suppliers alike and stalled, or temporarily reversed, certain net zero initiatives, and encouraged the specter of market intervention.
The integration of trade and risk management solutions with the corporate accounting solution has long been an area of focus for commodity companies and software vendors alike. There are many apocryphal stories in the industry regarding trading profits that entitled trader’s to be paid large bonuses. Those trading profits then seem to evaporate when accounted for in the enterprise accounting system. These stories are symptomatic of a broader but important issue – that of integrating two sets of solutions to provide timely and accurate auditable results. Over the last three decades, many different approaches have been tried out and mooted to address and solve the problems. This paper will examine the problem and discuss potential solutions including highlighting the approach taken by Enuit.
How can your ETRM / CTRM solution help with creditCTRM Center
Current market conditions are forcing many firms exposed to commodities to perform a re-evaluation of their credit risk systems and business processes. As most commodity prices are extremely volatile and progressively rising through time due to issues like shortages, supply chain disruptions of various types including most importantly, political sanctions, increased demand and so on, default by a counterparty is seen as increasingly likely. Indeed, were it not for Government intervention, a few high-profile firms would already have defaulted. However, the need to manage cash more effectively is also driving an enhanced focus on credit risk as many commodity firms face huge margin calls from various exchanges and increased scrutiny by lenders. Importantly, the rapid emergence of regulations around ESG and carbon, whether planned or actual, are also having a huge impact on counterparty credit worthiness. As firms review their credit solutions, they are scrutinizing their ETRM / CTRM solutions and their role in managing credit risk as well.
In an era that is likely to be dominated by the energy transition, metals are set to become the new foundation of modern society. As more of everything is powered by clean electricity, demand for metals will pick up with everything from greater quantities of base metals needed to make batteries to store it all the way through to copper for the cables to carry it.
Other metals like iron in the form of steel, along with rare earth elements and speciality metals, will all also be needed in ever greater quantities to support electrification and construction. Metals like Lithium, Cobalt, Manganese, Zinc, Mercury, Silver, Cadmium are the key components of many types of battery along with Graphite in some instance.
RPS and RECs – Managing an Increasing Regulatory BurdenCTRM Center
Renewable energy certificates or ‘RECs’ have become the currency of the renewable power industry, allowing power providers to expand their product offerings and offer ‘green’ power irrespective of whether or not they can physically generate it. RECs also assure consumers who opt to buy renewable power, that that power has either come directly from a renewable generator, or if a renewable generator is not servicing their facility, that it is offset in the market by power from a renewable source, such as wind, solar or hydro, in another geographic area.
Global Renewables Transition Requires Dedicated ETRM CapabilitiesCTRM Center
Renewable energy resource development is accelerating around the globe as the push to reduce carbon emissions continues to gain momentum.
As the pace of renewable energy expansion quickens, market participants will continue to adjust to the commercial and financial implications as well as production variability and intermittency, reliability, and grid stability. In this white paper we will explore the changing nature of power markets, the complexities that will challenge utilities, power off-takers and traders, and the critical ETRM systems they rely on to ensure profitability.
Global LNG Navigating Risks in a Dynamic MarketCTRM Center
Liquified natural gas (LNG) has been a traded commodity for more than a century. But only in the last couple of decades has the market expanded to meet the ever-increasing demand for energy, through low carbon emissions energy sources. With the development of the massive Qatar LNG facilities in the mid-1990s and the increasing demand for imported gas, global LNG trading has grown from about 50 MTPA in 1990 to more than 350 MTPA in 2020.
Most energy commodities struggled with lower trade and consumption volumes under the pandemic-induced industrial shutdowns in 2020. LNG trade was, however, up slightly at 0.4% during the year, continuing its uninterrupted streak of year-over-year growth since 1996. However, that growth was far below rates in the preceding years which averaged 7% since 2004.
Disruptive Technologies – A 2021 UpdateCTRM Center
In 2021, Commodity Technology Advisory LLC (ComTech) published its first Disruptive Technologies research report (that version kindly sponsored by FIS). Technologies covered in the study scope included cloud/SaaS, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), big data, automation and blockchain, amongst others. The findings were supported by an industry survey that led to the broad conclusions that cloud/SaaS and data management initiatives were in flight. AI, ML and automation seemed to be prepping for an explosion of use while blockchain was overhyped and lagging. Over the last couple of years, our general market observations as analysts have largely confirmed the results of the research.
In all of its forms, risk management is rapidly growing in importance within the commodity asset class. It will only become even more critical and complex in the future. Driven by unprecedented levels of change in the industry ranging from geopolitics to carbon, effective risk management is shifting for many commodity firms from just another activity to be managed to a critical component of business strategy that helps drive and inform brand, gain financing and trust, and demonstrates proper controls.
Over the years, there has been a growing realization that building a commodity trading and risk management (CTRM) solution is not a trivial task. Indeed, quite the opposite. It is a hugely complex piece of software that can never seem to meet all the varied needs of all the different types of companies buying and selling commodities around the globe.
Reimagining Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) With Advanced Delivery ...CTRM Center
ETRM systems are, by their nature, complex software products as the software must mirror the full complexity of the commodities industries, markets, and assets that they serve. Spanning from contract administration through invoicing and settlement, the business processes involved in commodity trading varies greatly. This variation is created by the unique combinations and nature of the physical or financial commodity or commodities traded, as well as by the industry segment (power generation/trading, gas production/trading, agricultural production/trading, etc.), the assets employed in the supply chain(s) and geographic differences (North American power vs. European vs. Japan, for example).
Risk and Compliance – Lessons learned and looking beyond the COVID-19 EraCTRM Center
While it is commonly believed that the pandemic was a black swan event, according to most risk experts it wasn’t. As they point out, the COVID Pandemic was an event that was foreseeable in its occurrence, though perhaps not in its timing. Despite being (thankfully) rare, these types of events do occur and bring with them an increased awareness of the importance of proper and holistic risk management practices, not only as it applies to external risks (as the pandemic was), but also commercial and internal risks as well.
2021 Trends in Agricultural and Soft Commodities TradingCTRM Center
Arguably, all commodity and commodity-exposed businesses are facing unprecedented change and disruption. These numerous challenges range from climate and carbon to COVID lockdowns and work from home, to managing geopolitical and operational risks through supply chains while seeking to digitalise, automate and increase efficiencies across the business.
While talk of a new commodities supercycle may be premature, global population growth and the resulting increased demand suggest rising prices and volatilities, especially in agricultural commodities. Companies need enhanced agility in such markets. It starts with a modern software platform that provides adequate visibility and control over the business, from managing physical movements to limiting risks and exposure.
Achieving Digitalization in a Document Intensive Energy MarketCTRM Center
As energy companies seek to become more efficient and agile in a rapidly changing marketplace fraught with risks, digitalization - the process of evolving from manual or analog processes to more efficient and cost effective digital processes by reducing the number of times data is touched and ensuring greater accuracy and more rapid movement of data and information throughout the enterprise – continues to attract attention from CIOs across the energy value chain.
The global market for CTRM (Commodity Trading and Risk Management) software solutions that cater specifically for metals and ores trading and risk management is the third largest among the major commodity groupings of energy, ags & softs, and metals, at an estimated $174m in expenditures in 2019 according to ComTech’s most recent market sizing report. It is also among the most complex of these markets in terms of its functional requirements, especially in areas like concentrates and ores. Complexity is also found throughout the supply chain. Perhaps these are just some of the reasons why the metals market for CTRM and CM (Commodity Management) software have been underserved by commercially available solutions in the past.
For most raw materials and commodities, the supply chain is both long and complex. Increasingly, firms have been focusing on these supply chains in an effort to better control operational risks and exposures, but increased geopolitical and other risks have now served to sharpened that focus even further.
Issues like COVID-19 lockdowns and trade wars, for example, have meant that managing sourcing, movements, processing, production, procurement, contracts, storage and other activities along complex supply chains more effectively not only reduces costs and improves profitability, but also helps ensure business continuity. Meanwhile, although CTRM (Commodity Trading and Risk Management) software applications that help manage trades and the risks associated with trading are seen as critical, the broader commodity management aspects around managing the supply chain more effectively are rightly gaining in importance.
2020 CTRM Vendor Perception Survey and AnalysisCTRM Center
The 2020 Commodity Technology Advisory’s Vendor Perception Study is a biennial survey and analysis conducted to establish end-user and market influencer perceptions of the CTRM vendors, and to determine market leadership perceptions as well as buying criteria and brand awareness of the different vendors. As in previous years, the research survey was comprised of a comprehensive set of questions that CTRM end-users and industry consultants were invited to answer.
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Gamify Your Mind; The Secret Sauce to Delivering Success, Continuously Improv...Shahin Sheidaei
Games are powerful teaching tools, fostering hands-on engagement and fun. But they require careful consideration to succeed. Join me to explore factors in running and selecting games, ensuring they serve as effective teaching tools. Learn to maintain focus on learning objectives while playing, and how to measure the ROI of gaming in education. Discover strategies for pitching gaming to leadership. This session offers insights, tips, and examples for coaches, team leads, and enterprise leaders seeking to teach from simple to complex concepts.
Into the Box Keynote Day 2: Unveiling amazing updates and announcements for modern CFML developers! Get ready for exciting releases and updates on Ortus tools and products. Stay tuned for cutting-edge innovations designed to boost your productivity.
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This presentation emphasizes the importance of data security and legal compliance for Nidhi companies in India. It highlights how online Nidhi software solutions, like Vector Nidhi Software, offer advanced features tailored to these needs. Key aspects include encryption, access controls, and audit trails to ensure data security. The software complies with regulatory guidelines from the MCA and RBI and adheres to Nidhi Rules, 2014. With customizable, user-friendly interfaces and real-time features, these Nidhi software solutions enhance efficiency, support growth, and provide exceptional member services. The presentation concludes with contact information for further inquiries.
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Even though at surface level ‘java.lang.OutOfMemoryError’ appears as one single error; underlyingly there are 9 types of OutOfMemoryError. Each type of OutOfMemoryError has different causes, diagnosis approaches and solutions. This session equips you with the knowledge, tools, and techniques needed to troubleshoot and conquer OutOfMemoryError in all its forms, ensuring smoother, more efficient Java applications.
Exploring Innovations in Data Repository Solutions - Insights from the U.S. G...Globus
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has made substantial investments in meeting evolving scientific, technical, and policy driven demands on storing, managing, and delivering data. As these demands continue to grow in complexity and scale, the USGS must continue to explore innovative solutions to improve its management, curation, sharing, delivering, and preservation approaches for large-scale research data. Supporting these needs, the USGS has partnered with the University of Chicago-Globus to research and develop advanced repository components and workflows leveraging its current investment in Globus. The primary outcome of this partnership includes the development of a prototype enterprise repository, driven by USGS Data Release requirements, through exploration and implementation of the entire suite of the Globus platform offerings, including Globus Flow, Globus Auth, Globus Transfer, and Globus Search. This presentation will provide insights into this research partnership, introduce the unique requirements and challenges being addressed and provide relevant project progress.
Listen to the keynote address and hear about the latest developments from Rachana Ananthakrishnan and Ian Foster who review the updates to the Globus Platform and Service, and the relevance of Globus to the scientific community as an automation platform to accelerate scientific discovery.
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JASMIN is the UK’s high-performance data analysis platform for environmental science, operated by STFC on behalf of the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). In addition to its role in hosting the CEDA Archive (NERC’s long-term repository for climate, atmospheric science & Earth observation data in the UK), JASMIN provides a collaborative platform to a community of around 2,000 scientists in the UK and beyond, providing nearly 400 environmental science projects with working space, compute resources and tools to facilitate their work. High-performance data transfer into and out of JASMIN has always been a key feature, with many scientists bringing model outputs from supercomputers elsewhere in the UK, to analyse against observational or other model data in the CEDA Archive. A growing number of JASMIN users are now realising the benefits of using the Globus service to provide reliable and efficient data movement and other tasks in this and other contexts. Further use cases involve long-distance (intercontinental) transfers to and from JASMIN, and collecting results from a mobile atmospheric radar system, pushing data to JASMIN via a lightweight Globus deployment. We provide details of how Globus fits into our current infrastructure, our experience of the recent migration to GCSv5.4, and of our interest in developing use of the wider ecosystem of Globus services for the benefit of our user community.
Quarkus Hidden and Forbidden ExtensionsMax Andersen
Quarkus has a vast extension ecosystem and is known for its subsonic and subatomic feature set. Some of these features are not as well known, and some extensions are less talked about, but that does not make them less interesting - quite the opposite.
Come join this talk to see some tips and tricks for using Quarkus and some of the lesser known features, extensions and development techniques.
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In this presentation we will share our experiences around getting started with the Globus Compute multi-user endpoint. Working with the Pharmacology group at the University of Auckland, we have previously written an application using Globus Compute that can offload computationally expensive steps in the researcher's workflows, which they wish to manage from their familiar Windows environments, onto the NeSI (New Zealand eScience Infrastructure) cluster. Some of the challenges we have encountered were that each researcher had to set up and manage their own single-user globus compute endpoint and that the workloads had varying resource requirements (CPUs, memory and wall time) between different runs. We hope that the multi-user endpoint will help to address these challenges and share an update on our progress here.
In software engineering, the right architecture is essential for robust, scalable platforms. Wix has undergone a pivotal shift from event sourcing to a CRUD-based model for its microservices. This talk will chart the course of this pivotal journey.
Event sourcing, which records state changes as immutable events, provided robust auditing and "time travel" debugging for Wix Stores' microservices. Despite its benefits, the complexity it introduced in state management slowed development. Wix responded by adopting a simpler, unified CRUD model. This talk will explore the challenges of event sourcing and the advantages of Wix's new "CRUD on steroids" approach, which streamlines API integration and domain event management while preserving data integrity and system resilience.
Participants will gain valuable insights into Wix's strategies for ensuring atomicity in database updates and event production, as well as caching, materialization, and performance optimization techniques within a distributed system.
Join us to discover how Wix has mastered the art of balancing simplicity and extensibility, and learn how the re-adoption of the modest CRUD has turbocharged their development velocity, resilience, and scalability in a high-growth environment.
SOCRadar Research Team: Latest Activities of IntelBrokerSOCRadar
The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) has suffered an alleged data breach after a notorious threat actor claimed to have exfiltrated data from its systems. Infamous data leaker IntelBroker posted on the even more infamous BreachForums hacking forum, saying that Europol suffered a data breach this month.
The alleged breach affected Europol agencies CCSE, EC3, Europol Platform for Experts, Law Enforcement Forum, and SIRIUS. Infiltration of these entities can disrupt ongoing investigations and compromise sensitive intelligence shared among international law enforcement agencies.
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Check out the webinar slides to learn more about how XfilesPro transforms Salesforce document management by leveraging its world-class applications. For more details, please connect with sales@xfilespro.com
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A Comprehensive Look at Generative AI in Retail App Testing.pdfkalichargn70th171
Traditional software testing methods are being challenged in retail, where customer expectations and technological advancements continually shape the landscape. Enter generative AI—a transformative subset of artificial intelligence technologies poised to revolutionize software testing.
We describe the deployment and use of Globus Compute for remote computation. This content is aimed at researchers who wish to compute on remote resources using a unified programming interface, as well as system administrators who will deploy and operate Globus Compute services on their research computing infrastructure.
How to Position Your Globus Data Portal for Success Ten Good PracticesGlobus
Science gateways allow science and engineering communities to access shared data, software, computing services, and instruments. Science gateways have gained a lot of traction in the last twenty years, as evidenced by projects such as the Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI) and the Center of Excellence on Science Gateways (SGX3) in the US, The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) and its platforms in Australia, and the projects around Virtual Research Environments in Europe. A few mature frameworks have evolved with their different strengths and foci and have been taken up by a larger community such as the Globus Data Portal, Hubzero, Tapis, and Galaxy. However, even when gateways are built on successful frameworks, they continue to face the challenges of ongoing maintenance costs and how to meet the ever-expanding needs of the community they serve with enhanced features. It is not uncommon that gateways with compelling use cases are nonetheless unable to get past the prototype phase and become a full production service, or if they do, they don't survive more than a couple of years. While there is no guaranteed pathway to success, it seems likely that for any gateway there is a need for a strong community and/or solid funding streams to create and sustain its success. With over twenty years of examples to draw from, this presentation goes into detail for ten factors common to successful and enduring gateways that effectively serve as best practices for any new or developing gateway.
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