How DDD became an essential ingredient for competitive software in the energy sector

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Exploring for oil is an expensive business, getting it out of the ground even more so. Discovering, describing and simulating oil reservoirs is a competitive software-intensive activity. The dominant players must provide unique advantages within the constraints of off-the-shelf software systems.

Domain models and their APIs, which provide firm foundations for innovative customisations, have emerged as a major product differentiaton in a billion dollar shrink-wrap software market. In this session I’ll illustrate the benefits and challenges – both technical and cultural – encountered by one company in applying DDD to “shared earth models” which were hitherto implicitly encoded in legacy systems. I’ll also discuss the all-important business imperatives that have motivated the adoption of domain modelling in the oil and gas software industry.

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