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Passionfor energy

Ditte Østergaard26.10.2013

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dc in brief

• Danske Commodities A/S

• Pan-European energy trading company

• Founded by Henrik Lind in 2004

• Headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark

• We have passion for energy

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Organisational structure

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2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

0 50 100 150 200 250 300

•Average seniority

•Average age

•Current headcount

•Employees resigning in past 3

years

•Nationalities

23.9 months

33.6 years

308

1927 (AU, BA, BG, BR, CA, CN, DE, DK, ES, FI, GB, HR, HU, IT, LT, MK, NL, NO, NZ,

PL, RO, RS, RU, SE, SI, TR, US)

Our greatest asset is our people

•Average seniority

•Average age

•Current headcount

•Employees resigning in past 3

years

•Nationalities

Number of employees (average per financial

year)

Updated July 2013

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Software development in Danske CommoditiesAllan Knak Kristensen

26-10-2013

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How does software support the business?

Energy market drivers: Laws,

weather, regulations,

politics

Trading requirements: Flexible, ready

for change, dynamic

Software requirements

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So..

- Agile methods are need-to-have!- Minimize bureaucracy; Focus on results

- Projects of all scopes and sizes- Large technology stack: The right tool for the job

- Developers of all types

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ProjectsLive DataWe receive increasing velocities and volumes of data from third parties such as exchanges, counterparties and customers

Vital that our systems can scale with these increasing velocities and volumes of data

We have designed a live data platform to solve these challenges

Other projectsTrading applications, B2B portals, exchange integrations, internal applications…

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Projects cont’d

Embedded softw

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Scripts

and utiliti

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LOB applications

Distribute

d systems

Enterprise applicatio

ns

Prototypes

Development

tools

Business utiliti

es

Business

applications

Platforms and

frameworks

Software type

Quality requirements

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A growing team

- January 2012: 2 developers- January 2013: 12 developers- Today: 35 developers, 4 UX- Tomorrow?

http://danskecommodities.com/Careers

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Thank you.

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