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Kalibrate

April 2015

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Kalibrate is a supplier of price optimisation software that is used by fuel retailers to become more flexible with pricing, promotions and forecasting. The key product is PriceNet, which enables a petrol company to estimate how a change in price might impact on consumer demand. PriceNet has traditionally been sold on a licence fee but there has been a preference by the oil firms to buy the software as a service (a trend that can be expected to continue). This means that instead of a lumpy licence being recognised, Kalibrate instead recognises income monthly during the life of the contract. The corollary of this is that income seems to grow at a much slower pace if you are only recognising it a month at a time. For instance in ...

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