There are several challenges faced within the electronic trading and pre-trade negotiation arena. This section sets out these challenges as we see them, and describes how the DUET product aims to address them.

In our experience, many e-trading systems have grown organically over the years, mainly because of the pressure to deliver new functionality very quickly and in response to rapid changes in the markets. Although these systems do work, in many cases they require a lot of support and have reached a critical mass of functionality making them hard to enhance, and making it difficult to provide a consistent, global view of e-trading configuration and activity across the trading desks.
 
Our goal is to provide you with a system designed to provide a unified solution across the whole problem domain, based on our extensive experience within the industry working with traders, trading desk heads, support departments and other business users for several Tier-1 investment banks. We aim for our system to be as understandable as possible to these users as well as technologists. The technology is there of course, but as a servant to deliver these requirements.