Case Study
Case Study
Energy Trading Operations
Company
Confidential (Global Energy Company)
Company
Confidential (Global Energy Company)
Company
Confidential (Global Energy Company)
Services
End-to-End Software Development · Legacy System Modernization · Real-Time Trading Dashboard Development · Data Automation & Reporting Engine · Risk & Portfolio Management System
Services
End-to-End Software Development · Legacy System Modernization · Real-Time Trading Dashboard Development · Data Automation & Reporting Engine · Risk & Portfolio Management System
Services
End-to-End Software Development · Legacy System Modernization · Real-Time Trading Dashboard Development · Data Automation & Reporting Engine · Risk & Portfolio Management System
Industry
Energy
Industry
Energy
Industry
Energy
Year
2025
Year
2025
Year
2025
A leading energy trading company operating across multiple international markets needed to upgrade its digital infrastructure.
The Data Duck
Partner at The Data Duck
“Partnering with The Data Duck and their extended engineering team transformed the way our trading desks operate. The new systems are faster, more reliable, and perfectly aligned with our workflows. Their understanding of both technology and the nuances of energy trading was exceptional. We now treat them as an integral part of our technology organization.”
Overview
A global energy trading firm was operating on outdated systems that could no longer keep up with the speed and complexity of modern power markets. Their trading desks relied on fragmented tools spread across Excel sheets, legacy dashboards, and siloed reporting systems. While the company had strong trading expertise and a massive flow of market data, they lacked the digital infrastructure to turn it into real-time insight and operational efficiency.
The Data Duck, acting as their primary technology partner, brought us in as a specialized development team — a double-outsourced model — to rebuild their ecosystem from the ground up. The goal was simple: modernize their trading operations, eliminate manual processes, and create a real-time, scalable digital backbone for decision-making.
The Challenges
Transforming a high-stakes trading environment required solving deep and systemic issues:
Legacy tools slowing down execution: Traders relied on outdated dashboards that couldn’t support real-time market volatility.
Heavy reliance on Excel: Critical exposure, risk, and P&L calculations were still done manually.
Data silos across teams: Trading, research, settlement, and compliance used different systems with no unified view.
No automation infrastructure: Reports, alerts, and audit logs were generated manually, risking delays and errors.
Despite having a talented internal team and rich data sources, the company needed a modern product foundation to bring everything together.
Our Approach
Our Approach
🧭 Phase 1: Systems Audit & Architecture Assessment
We analyzed legacy dashboards, backend APIs, role workflows, and trading pipelines to understand gaps in reliability, performance, and scalability. This helped define a clear modernization blueprint.
🧠 Phase 2: Stakeholder Alignment & Workflow Mapping
We worked closely with traders, analysts, settlement teams, and leadership to map real-world workflows — ensuring the new platform reflected how decisions were actually made on the trading floor.
📊 Phase 3: Platform Modernization & Feature Development
We rebuilt core trading tools into a suite of high-performance systems, including:
Real-time trading dashboard
Risk & portfolio management engine
Automated reporting and notification systems
Role-based access management
Centralized data and analytics layer
Everything was designed for low-latency interaction and high uptime.
🏗️ Phase 4: Infrastructure, Governance & Long-Term Ownership
We established stable CI/CD pipelines, scalable backend architecture, and a governance model that ensured clean deployments, secure permission controls, and transparent versioning — enabling the client to evolve without friction.
Overview
A global energy trading firm was operating on outdated systems that could no longer keep up with the speed and complexity of modern power markets. Their trading desks relied on fragmented tools spread across Excel sheets, legacy dashboards, and siloed reporting systems. While the company had strong trading expertise and a massive flow of market data, they lacked the digital infrastructure to turn it into real-time insight and operational efficiency.
The Data Duck, acting as their primary technology partner, brought us in as a specialized development team — a double-outsourced model — to rebuild their ecosystem from the ground up. The goal was simple: modernize their trading operations, eliminate manual processes, and create a real-time, scalable digital backbone for decision-making.
The Challenges
Transforming a high-stakes trading environment required solving deep and systemic issues:
Legacy tools slowing down execution: Traders relied on outdated dashboards that couldn’t support real-time market volatility.
Heavy reliance on Excel: Critical exposure, risk, and P&L calculations were still done manually.
Data silos across teams: Trading, research, settlement, and compliance used different systems with no unified view.
No automation infrastructure: Reports, alerts, and audit logs were generated manually, risking delays and errors.
Despite having a talented internal team and rich data sources, the company needed a modern product foundation to bring everything together.
Our Approach
Our Approach
🧭 Phase 1: Systems Audit & Architecture Assessment
We analyzed legacy dashboards, backend APIs, role workflows, and trading pipelines to understand gaps in reliability, performance, and scalability. This helped define a clear modernization blueprint.
🧠 Phase 2: Stakeholder Alignment & Workflow Mapping
We worked closely with traders, analysts, settlement teams, and leadership to map real-world workflows — ensuring the new platform reflected how decisions were actually made on the trading floor.
📊 Phase 3: Platform Modernization & Feature Development
We rebuilt core trading tools into a suite of high-performance systems, including:
Real-time trading dashboard
Risk & portfolio management engine
Automated reporting and notification systems
Role-based access management
Centralized data and analytics layer
Everything was designed for low-latency interaction and high uptime.
🏗️ Phase 4: Infrastructure, Governance & Long-Term Ownership
We established stable CI/CD pipelines, scalable backend architecture, and a governance model that ensured clean deployments, secure permission controls, and transparent versioning — enabling the client to evolve without friction.
Overview
A global energy trading firm was operating on outdated systems that could no longer keep up with the speed and complexity of modern power markets. Their trading desks relied on fragmented tools spread across Excel sheets, legacy dashboards, and siloed reporting systems. While the company had strong trading expertise and a massive flow of market data, they lacked the digital infrastructure to turn it into real-time insight and operational efficiency.
The Data Duck, acting as their primary technology partner, brought us in as a specialized development team — a double-outsourced model — to rebuild their ecosystem from the ground up. The goal was simple: modernize their trading operations, eliminate manual processes, and create a real-time, scalable digital backbone for decision-making.
The Challenges
Transforming a high-stakes trading environment required solving deep and systemic issues:
Legacy tools slowing down execution: Traders relied on outdated dashboards that couldn’t support real-time market volatility.
Heavy reliance on Excel: Critical exposure, risk, and P&L calculations were still done manually.
Data silos across teams: Trading, research, settlement, and compliance used different systems with no unified view.
No automation infrastructure: Reports, alerts, and audit logs were generated manually, risking delays and errors.
Despite having a talented internal team and rich data sources, the company needed a modern product foundation to bring everything together.
Our Approach
Our Approach
🧭 Phase 1: Systems Audit & Architecture Assessment
We analyzed legacy dashboards, backend APIs, role workflows, and trading pipelines to understand gaps in reliability, performance, and scalability. This helped define a clear modernization blueprint.
🧠 Phase 2: Stakeholder Alignment & Workflow Mapping
We worked closely with traders, analysts, settlement teams, and leadership to map real-world workflows — ensuring the new platform reflected how decisions were actually made on the trading floor.
📊 Phase 3: Platform Modernization & Feature Development
We rebuilt core trading tools into a suite of high-performance systems, including:
Real-time trading dashboard
Risk & portfolio management engine
Automated reporting and notification systems
Role-based access management
Centralized data and analytics layer
Everything was designed for low-latency interaction and high uptime.
🏗️ Phase 4: Infrastructure, Governance & Long-Term Ownership
We established stable CI/CD pipelines, scalable backend architecture, and a governance model that ensured clean deployments, secure permission controls, and transparent versioning — enabling the client to evolve without friction.
The Results
The transformation redefined how the trading desks operated — improving speed, accuracy, and visibility across the entire organization.
The measurable impact:
55% faster trade execution dashboard, enabling better decisions during market volatility.
40% reduction in operational overhead after eliminating manual Excel-driven processes.
99.9% uptime after re-architecting critical parts of the system.
Unified reporting layer that automated daily, weekly, and regulatory outputs.
Role-based workflows implemented across trading, research, settlement, and compliance.
A scalable platform foundation that supports multi-region users and future product expansions.
Leadership went from dealing with slow, disconnected tools to having a modern, reliable digital ecosystem powering every trade. The company now operates with greater confidence, speed, and transparency — backed by enterprise-level engineering delivered through a lean double-outsourced team.
The Results
The transformation redefined how the trading desks operated — improving speed, accuracy, and visibility across the entire organization.
The measurable impact:
55% faster trade execution dashboard, enabling better decisions during market volatility.
40% reduction in operational overhead after eliminating manual Excel-driven processes.
99.9% uptime after re-architecting critical parts of the system.
Unified reporting layer that automated daily, weekly, and regulatory outputs.
Role-based workflows implemented across trading, research, settlement, and compliance.
A scalable platform foundation that supports multi-region users and future product expansions.
Leadership went from dealing with slow, disconnected tools to having a modern, reliable digital ecosystem powering every trade. The company now operates with greater confidence, speed, and transparency — backed by enterprise-level engineering delivered through a lean double-outsourced team.
The Results
The transformation redefined how the trading desks operated — improving speed, accuracy, and visibility across the entire organization.
The measurable impact:
55% faster trade execution dashboard, enabling better decisions during market volatility.
40% reduction in operational overhead after eliminating manual Excel-driven processes.
99.9% uptime after re-architecting critical parts of the system.
Unified reporting layer that automated daily, weekly, and regulatory outputs.
Role-based workflows implemented across trading, research, settlement, and compliance.
A scalable platform foundation that supports multi-region users and future product expansions.
Leadership went from dealing with slow, disconnected tools to having a modern, reliable digital ecosystem powering every trade. The company now operates with greater confidence, speed, and transparency — backed by enterprise-level engineering delivered through a lean double-outsourced team.
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Sometimes the hardest part is reaching out — but once you do, we’ll make the rest easy.
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Mon to Sat: 9.00am - 8.30pm
Sun: Closed
10:52:04 AM