Brn0, Czech Republic / Houston 21 December 2010

CommodityPoint, a division of UtiliPoint International, Inc. that provides world-class research, analysis and consulting around commodity markets and underlying technologies, announced today the release of its 2010 Non-Energy CTRM Vendor Perception Study report. This multi-client research project was conducted with the support of several sponsors, including Brady PLC, Navita, SolArc and TradePaq TRM and took place during the latter half of 2010.

“The non-energy CTRM Vendor Perception study suggests that the CTRM software market for commodities other than energy commodities is somewhat immature and remains very heterogeneous overall,” said Dr. Gary M. Vasey, Managing Director, CommodityPoint Europe and Asia-Pacific.

"Perhaps one of the more surprising results of the research effort was in sheer number of solutions identified for managing non-energy commodity transactions," noted Patrick Reames, CommodityPoint's Managing Director for The Americas. "The respondent group indentified literally dozens of vendors servicing these markets, an indicator of both the heterogeneous nature of the specific commodity markets, and of the potential complexity that market participants face when seeking a technology solution to help manage their business."

Historically, the CTRM software space has evolved from a set of commodity-specific and often geographically constrained markets with a number of specialist suppliers providing commercial software in each niche and geography. The CTRM vendors in the space have sought to cross from commodity to commodity, either through platform extension or via merger and acquisition. While some vendors have been successful at developing a multi-commodity capability, others have remained somewhat statically focused on their traditional market; meaning that there are in fact numerous vendors serving the non-energy commodities software arena.

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The study report is available as a free download from either the UtiliPoint website at:

www.utilipoint.com/research/index.asp

or the CTRM Blog at: www.ctrmblog.com/reports-and-articles