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Nord Pool Gas web relaunch

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

The gas exchange Nord Pool Gas was established in 2007. It is owned by Energinet.dk and Nord Pool Spot. Since its very first trade in March 2008 Nord Pool Gas is organizing the physical trade of natural gas by offering a transparent and competetive market place to producers, retailers, energy companies, trading representatives and large consumers.

Offering comprehensive information on the Danish gas market as well as its rules and regulations, the Nord Pool Gas website is considered to be a junction for all its participants. Nord Pool Gas decided for a relaunch of its website to meet demands of suppliers, trading companies and end users: Nord Pool Gas wants to provide its custmers an easy access to information on the Danish gas exchange, the market and its possibilities. The web project has been realized under project management of Speicher 210 and in close cooperation of Nord Pool Gas, the designer Jutta Häuser as well as the Software development company 4Morgen GmbH.

At the new Market Data section website visitors receive an overview on latest as well as historical prices. Furthermore Nord Pool Gas is offering a price calculator to its end users. This tool is calculating historical monthly gas prices based on Nord Pool Gas’ “pure commodity” exchange prices. Please feel free to visit http://npgas.com to get to know to Nord Pool Gas’ new website.

The Speicher 210 team would like to thank all project participants for supporting and encouraging the web project.

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New Online Store of Skicentrum Heemskerk

Monday, December 5th, 2011

Just in time for the start of the winter: Skicentrum Heemskerk launched its new online store at http://skicentrumonline.nl. Speicher 210 has realized the web project in close cooperation with egoactive B.V. and Traformats.

We’d like to take this opportunity to say thank you to all project team members for the great commitment and performance throughout the project.
And we wish Skicentrum Heemskerk all the best with their new web shop.

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Nord Pool Spot web project 2010/2011

Friday, August 12th, 2011

The Nord Pool Spot group is the largest energy exchange in Europe and has offices in Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Tallin and London. The exchange is providing its customers both intraday and day-ahead markets. Actually, 350 companies from 18 countries are trading on the market (August 2011). In 2010 the Nord Pool Spot group had a total turnover of 310 TWh*, which includes auction volume in the UK market N2EX.

In contrast to specialized web applications of the Nord Pool Spot group, such as the trading system Elbas or the UMM platform*, the Nord Nord Pool Spot website is considered to be a junction for all market participants: At Nord Pool Spot’s website overall and individually processed market data, statistics and market information is displayed and available via download.

Fig.: The former Nord Pool Spot website.

Nord Pool Spot had performed customer surveys and personal interviews of website users. The investigation showed that market participants and visitors critized the usability of the website. Nord Pool Spot considered the old layout, as for example tables, to be cumbersome and critized the speed of automatic update of dynamic content. And hence, the Nord Pool Spot group has opted for a web relaunch, with the objective of meeting individual requirements and needs of different user groups.

Under the project management of Michael Wolf, the web project has been realized in close cooperation of Nord Pool Spot with

Speicher 210 (overall PM; support web administration, web editor and test),
full-service agency Creuna (design & support texts),
Making Waves (development, implementation) and
JF Software AS (interfaces to external data bases).

In the scope of the soft launch on May 5th, 2011 Nord Pool Spot provided the opportunity for market participants to get to know with the new website before the offical switch.

Fig.: Nord Pool Spot's new website

Today, 15th August between 14:00 and 15:00 CET, both sites will be switched: The new website will officially take up the position of the elder one: www.nordpoolspot.com

Director Communications at Nord Pool Spot and sponsor of the web project Siw Hauge says

“I will use this opportunity to thank project manager Michael Wolf and the project team for creating a great corporate website that we hope our customers and users will find a transparent and user friendly source of information in their daily work”. (Source: Exchange information 2011/040).

Speicher 210 would like to thank all people who have supported and encouraged the web project 2010/2011.

Glossary

TWh:
Terawatt hour is a larger measure for work and thus also energy.
1 TWh = 1 000 000 000 000 watt hours.

UMM:
Market participants and Transmission system operators (TSO) are obliged to disclose all information that is price-sensitive. An example for this information might be a production failure of a power station. With the UMM application Nord Pool Spot is providing a platform where market participants can publish those Urgent Market Messages.

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New website of Nord Pool Spot AS: Excellent ranking in June issue of “Europower”

Monday, June 20th, 2011

The new website of Nord Pool Spot AS has been tested in the June issue of the Norwegian trading newspaper “Europower“: The Scandinavian power exchange received best possible rating for its new website; especially its user-friendliness is highly commended. Until its launch in August 2011, the new website is available under http://www2.nordpoolspot.com/.

We’re proud of this ranking, that has been achieved through both, the successful project management by Michael Wolf and the excellent cooperation by all project participants.

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RFQ Tool 2.0

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

SUM=, one of the largest independent printmanagement service providers in Europe, commissioned Speicher 210 with the extension of RFQ 1.0. This web-based application had been developed to optimize the Request For Quotation process. The main objective of the follow-up project was to optimize as well as to extend the RFQ-tool so, that users were able to configure biddings rounds in more detail. The project had been carried out in close cooperation with the Software developers of 4 Morgen GmbH and SUM=. Speicher 210 has been responsible for project management including planning, analysis of business procedures, requirements management, coordination as well as documentation.

The recently relaunched Management application RFQ 2.0 is optimizing the entire bidding process. Users’ authorizations are determined according to their role within the application – site administrator, executive officer or supplier.

Some functionalities that are available to users are for example:

Creating and managing tender items and organizing them within tender groups
Address administration
Creating and managing individual and global values and value lists
Creating and managing customized forms for receiving offers and estimates
Automated e-mails, e.g. for sending bidding round invitations
Quote comparison, vendor comparison, vendor rating including Excel export function

Individually configurable fields offer more space and ways in creating requests for quotation. Executive officers can create and manage customized query-entry-forms with just a few clicks, also by using global or individually created value lists. An integrated reporting tool makes it easier to compare quotes or to create vendor ratings.

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21% for the “Friedenskirche – Osterkirche”

Monday, October 25th, 2010

The Speicher 210 team is spending 21 % of its time on things it is passionated about.

In his freetime Michael Wolf is supporting the Evangelical-Lutheran parish “Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirchengemeinde Eilbek Friedenskirche – Osterkirche” as a project manager. During his voluntary work he is helping the parish in planning and conception of their new web presentation.

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My business, my company car, my private cloud

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

It seems, companies couldn’t be without it: Nowadays the majority of business processes is supported by software applications. They are playing a growing role in business and become more significant than ever. There are quite a lot entrepreneurs who put a great deal of emphasis on flexibility as well as an adequate cost-performance-ratio; that is why they are using services from the cloud.

Cloud Computing is a rather new trend: Initially, the business community seemed to look at Clouds with some scepticism. But Cloud Computing has increasingly established itself in the past few years. Although a clear definition is still missing, the principle is quite simple: Cloud computing providers make software, software packages, development environments and similar on a platform available. End users, e.g. companies and private users “rent” this “service” and have access via a network, such like the internet.

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IOI’s new product websites: Lanolin & Omega-3

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

Imperial-Oel-Import (IOI) is specialized in import, export and distribution of vegetable and animal-derived waxes, oils, resins and fatty acids. The company supplies customers in the cosmetic, pharmaceutical, chemical, metal, food and feed industries.

On February 26th, 2010 www.lanolin.com was launched. Now, Oliver Kromer, Managing Director of Imperial-Oel-Import Handelsgesellschaft mbH, proudly announces the launch of www.maris-omega3.com.

Speicher 210 was responsible for the overall coordination for both web presentations: beginning at requirements to project planning and management through to support, e.g. at the testing phase and approval. Both websites were implemented in collaboration with 4 Morgen GmbH (Programming), Jutta Häuser (design of Lanolin) and Michael Kahl (design of Omega-3).

Lanolin.com and maris-omega3.com have been developed as a first stop for all who are interested in receiving information on the substances and their numerous possibilities of usage in personal care, medical as well as industrial applications.

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Vendor-Rating Tool

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

SUM= is one of the largest independent printmanagement service providers in Europe. The company supports its clients e.g. in taking care of planning, purchasing and production of marketing and communication materials by optimizing processes.

Vendor rating is one of these processes: SUM= rates quality and costs of products and services provided by suppliers. Furthermore vendor-rating includes for example controlling and rating of observance of terms of delivery etc. SUM= wanted to optimize this process and tasked Speicher 210 with the realization of a tool.

Speicher 210 was responsible for the requirements management, planning and coordination of the IT project. We were supported by 4 Morgen GmbH who developed and implemented the new vendor rating tool.

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