The energy software sector is awash with vendors competing for business. But Santa-Clara-based software provider Knowmadic has announced a number of high-profile deals already this year, and has a happy customer in Dallas-based energy company TXU Energy.

Tom Boyd, director of market information at TXU Energy, says he spent more than a year searching for the right software product. “We were looking for a combination of characteristics in a product, rather than a ‘one size fits all’ kind of