SharePoint For Oil & Gas, Energy, Utility and Oil Service Companies - SRG Networks, Houston, Texas
SharePoint For Oil & Gas Project, Utility Companies, Oil Service Companies, Engneering Projects - SRG Networks, Houston, Texas
We are Houston's growing MOSS consulting organization serving nationwide customers in Microsoft Enterprise Solution Services. US based oil companies are going under major expansion phase to revamp their existing facilities worldwide. Numerous deep water exploration activities have been conducted to defeat soaring oil prices and growing energy demand. Oil exploration projects resulted into more off-shore rig construction, engineering platform development and onshore refinery development. Typicall Oil and gas companies operate large number of wells and associated processing facilities connected by thousands of kilometers of pipeline. With such large, technically and logistically complex projects, production bottlenecks can rack up millions of dollars in additional costs. It's a joint effort of engineering companies, petroleum engineers, upstream experts and consulting companies to develop such a magnificiant asset with lifespan of many many decades. United States government enforces complex set of rules and regulation on oil companies and other companies involved in such major projects. It is required to store and access individual documents, project plans, auto-cad drawings and other legal paperwork for successful completion of these projects aging from 2 to 10 years. Quick accessibility for document and other information is critical for all project team working in a remote location such as off-shore field or sophisticated office environment. In order to have documents collaboration and proper information management between all parties involved in such massive oil and gas exploration projects, it is required to have systematic document management system integrated with Project management tool to retrieve and update project progress and deliverables attached with each individual projects and sub-projects. SharePoint offers extensive collaboration and document management system with check in, checkout and version management for documents along with content search for business documents. MOSS 2007 also offers document authorization workflow for approval of business critical documents. All SharePoint documents are stored within document library within each site. Each site can be created for individual projects and associated with Project Server 2007 for web based enterprise project management and collaboration with SharePoint. Majority of oil companies such as Shell, ExxonMobil, BP, Conoco-Phillips, and Marathon Oil have already joined the wagon of SharePoint Server implementation for their collaborative portal and information sharing requirements. Many oil & gas exploration and upstream and downstream projects are successfully managed using SharePoint (MOSS 2007), Project Server and SQL Reporting Services (SRS 2005). All these enteprise level products included integrated security environment to suffice complex security issues involving hundreds of thounsads of users accessing these applications worldwide. SharePoint Server, Project Server and Microsoft SQl Reporting Service ofefrs built-in role based security that can be integarted with your Active Directory security for efficient and quick accessibility. SharePoint is aggressively competing with popular Document Management Systems such as Citadon, Documentum, and Hummingbird. These products offers either Document Management or Content Management features at their best but SharePoint is heading towards offering complete web based portal with Document and Information Management, Knowledge Sharing, Workflows and Collaborative Platform. SRG Networks is helping Houston based oil companies implementing Portal and Collaborative solutions using SharePoint platform. Please contact us for more at info@srgnetworks.com or via phone at 832.606.6071. Windows SharePoint Services is available for Free Download from Microsoft's Website. Please visit Microsoft Official Website for more infromation on Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft SharePoint Portal 2007. |
