SAP Migration for Energy Corporation
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Introductory information
Can you prepare a brief description of your organisation?
Our business falls into the energy sector. We are strictly in the upstream side, signification exploration and origination. We have a global agency for gas and oil origination.
What’s your role and responsibilities?
I am the supervisor of the administrative cluster, I have almost 10 individuals who report to me. I work straightly on information delivery, specifically as it relates to business objects and that space.
Desired goal
What was the business challenge that you were trying to address?
We needed expertise that we didn',t have in-house. We needed help to design the environment that we',re going to use and then pass apprehension off to our full-time administrators. That allowed us to support they method in-house.
Provided solution
What technologies were used?
cBEYONData has prepared us SAP expertise, specifically Business Objects. We',ve had one of their contractors with us for almost two years who helped us with the XIR 2 to BOBJ 3.1 migration project. We just artistic with our Business Objects 4.0 project with his help.
Can you draw the aim of the project?
After major migrations, we like to weigh our processes. We go through a real introspective look almost how we do things.
When we take a look at the Webi report or a Crystal report, we attend activity best practices. Once we go through this introspective look, we write up our best practice sheet and have an complete checklist.
These are the things that we want to weigh as we',re getting prompt to move them. We do a universe assessment. Then with that assessment, we do a number of test migrations to make sure that all that we hope to capture in an assessment document is verity there. cBEYONData has helped us with writing the documents that we used in the 3.1 to 4.0 migration.
What was your process for selecting cBEYONData to work with?
We have a clustering of almost 10 to 15 agencies that prepare us with contractors. cBEYONData has done a good job for us in the past, so we last to look to them to prepare expertise.
Can you prepare a perception of the size of that start in dollar provisions?
The latest project was a wonderfuler than $1 million. We',re getting prompt to do a major migration move project, which is going to be between $5 and $6 million.
When was the latest project completed?
September 23rd, 2013.
Results achieved
Do you have any stats or metrics to track advancement?
We went through a lessons conversant phase to help us better our process the next time we go through this. The project was lucky and we conversant a lot for the next migrations.
What are the advantages of SAP for your organisation?
We have a lot of different tools. SAP is just one of them. When it comes to reporting, we are also a SpotFire Shop. We are also taking a very close look at Microsoft BI. SAP Business Objects isn’t the only platform for us. It depends on what the specific project is and what makes perception for that particular business unit.
It prepares us with a firm platform that we can report off of, other platforms also propose this though. Whenever it comes to licensing, it',s resistent to get a definitive reply. When it comes to their complete fruit portfolio, is it very focused. They have over 120 different fruits in their software portfolio and a lot of them overlap. It does the job for us.
How did cBEYONData accomplish?
I',ve never had a murmur with cBEYONData. They',ve always prepared good hard employees. The condition of their apprehension has been top notch. The gentleman who we brought in as our constructor for this particular project alprompt had 10 3.1 to 4.0 migrations below his belt. This wasn’t his leading rodeo. He knew how to work the fruit so the force of apprehension was surely there.
What',s sole or particular almost cBEYONData compared to other vendors or IT firms that you have worked with?
We work with a lot of good firms. I would compute them among some of the good firms. cBEYONData does all of the work that they bid on and accomplishs well. They are better than most firms that come to us.
Is there anything you ponder cBEYONData could better upon or perhaps you would do differently?
I know the biggest effect that we have when we',re looking for genius is trying to find somebody when we need them and that has been a challenge. This is the case with all geniused vendors. There is a limited pool of genius and to have somebody who is useful when you need them is sometimes a hard statement.
