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- Oil Services Firm Consolidates Servers, Simplifies IT With Branch Optimization Solution
- Expro is a leading provider of oil-and-gas services and products. As the company expanded to 150 offices in 50 countries, its branch servers multiplied. Expro decided to centralize servers but needed to address the challenge of increased traffic on its Wide Area Network WAN and the productivity impact on field...
- Tags: Network, Information Technology, Oil & Gas, Expro, WANs, Servers, Networking, Hardware
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- Exterran Holdings, Inc. Improves Uptime to 99.95% With Hosted Enterprise Resource Planning System
- Exterran Holdings, Inc. wanted to unify information across the new global organization created by the merger of Hanover Compressor Company and Universal Compression Holdings, Inc., under scrutiny of investors and senior management and facilitate customer retention and improve employee efficiency. The challenge was to ensure system scalability and flexibility to...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., ERP, Oil & Gas, Uptime, Enterprise Application, Exterran Holdings Inc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Enterprise Software, Investment, Finance, Software
- Case studies 2009-05-01
- Managing Risk With Project Portfolio Management in the Oil and Gas Industry During an Economic Downturn
- Companies in the oil and gas industry must invest heavily to further exploration, production, and refining, yet they face growing challenges. The recent past has seen historic revenue and profit growth at the major oil and gas companies, but they now face an unprecedented economic backdrop. With decreased global demand...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Project Portfolio Management, Oil & Gas, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Balance Sheets, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Finance
- White papers 2009-03-01
- SAS Geology, Geophysics and Reservoir Engineering (GGRE) Analytics for the Oil and Gas Industry: Analytic Insights to Mitigate Subsurface Uncertainty and Unconstrained Risk
- SAS Analytics provide potential answers to questions related to risk and uncertainty; endorse reserves information; and ensure that exploitation plans are adhered to in accordance to predefined targets. SAS Analytics offer predictive and descriptive modeling, forecasting and spatial analysis that incorporates variograms, kriging and simulation to better comprehend the reservoir....
- Tags: Analytics, Industry, SAS Institute, Oil & Gas, Geology, Financial Planning, Finance
- White papers 2009-03-01
- Oil and Gas Leader Poised to Reduce Costs, Increase Productivity With Operating System
- PEMEX is the world's third-largest producer of crude oil. It is headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico, and has 300 other locations throughout the country. PEMEX wanted to better support its growing workforce, while still reducing costs. It is upgrading its 40,000 computers to the Windows Vista operating system. As a...
- Tags: Cost, Operating System, Oil & Gas, PEMEX, Operating Systems, Software
- Case studies 2009-01-30
- Groupe Genoyer Ensures 24/7 Information Access for Subsidiaries With Bi-Directional Replication
- Groupe Genoyer is a leading industrial and commercial operator for large international oil, gas, and hydraulics projects, and the world leading supplier of oil and gas industry piping equipment. The group operates eight production sites and 29 sales offices across the globe. It needed to ensure the continuity of enterprise...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, Oracle Corp., ERP, Oil & Gas, Replication, Groupe Genoyer, Internet, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Effective Practices for Data Management in the Oil and Gas Industry
- Effective information and data management also known as information lifecycle management consists of managing data from its creation to when it is no longer needed. In the upstream oil and gas industry, this involves actually managing the ever-increasing volume of data that oil and gas enterprises generate, while also managing...
- Tags: Data Management, Hardware, NetApp Inc., Oil & Gas, Storage
- White papers 2007-02-01
- TFED Sells Lubricants With SAP Oil and Gas Secondary Distribution
- Many companies are looking for a solution to improve customer service and simultaneously cut costs. The German TotalFinaElf lubricants division - TFED today TOTAL has already found one. The integrated solution made up of SAP CRM, SAP IS Oil & Gas and SAP Oil and Gas Secondary Distribution facilitates faster...
- Tags: SAP AG, Oil & Gas, TFED, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Product Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing
- Case studies
- Santos Streamlines HR and Procurement on Shared Services Platform, on Track to Earn 47% Net Investment Returns
- With the oil and gas sector in the midst of a global boom, there are few companies better positioned in the market than Australia's Santos Ltd. In an effort to maximize value from emerging opportunities, Santos launched a strategic initiative designed to reduce operating costs while simultaneously increasing the effectiveness...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Human Resources Inc., Oil & Gas, Procurement, Santos Ltd., Santos, Enterprise Software, Software
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Additional Resources
- Copenhagen countdown
- "climate debt" is BS. It's wealth transfer.From countries that work, to countries that don't work.And Harry. This is a TECH SITE. Go somewhere else with your anxious alarmist nonsense.AMEN!THIS IS A TECH SITE!Well, I think going to Copenhagen is too political and he should skip it.Better to do some behind...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, sea surface temperature, wealth transfer, tax
- Discussion threads 2009-10-25
- Global warming promises more hunger, more innovation
- Hopefully not a repeatThe idea of GM foods is found most abhorrent in the nations with some of the worst food problems? Also, did anyone notice that the FPRI report indicates that more than 50% of the world's agricultural green house emissions are generated by the primitive natural agriculture...
- Tags: global warming, climate change, food
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- Antitrust: Time to break apart the phone companies -- again?
- Actually,those 'guaranteed revenue' companiesAre not so rare. Food companies, oil and gas companies, phone companies, electric companies, water utilities.... the list goes on and on if I had enough time to think of them all.That is why we need to break up any company that gets more than a 10%...
- Tags: Corporate law, Telecom & Utilities, Network technology, Food & Beverage, 360Networks Corp., phone company, phone, antitrust
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- Energy prices are about to permanently alter world history
- Stop this alarmist nonsense, Harry. Write something about IT. Not your pathetic eco-farts.may be you should check this outhttp://www.livescience.com/common/media/video/player.php?videoRef=LS_091013_IONTigerHydrogen powerthe use of Hydrogen to power a UAVActually...He is right. Energy prices will probably push us to use something else. Besides gas is in limited quantity so we will reach a...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology, Energy-Price
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- GM to sell small electric car for less than $6,000
- it would be nice......if GM would sell these cars in North America...just my two centsRE: GM to sell small electric car for less than $6,000It aggravates me. Why is the US the last one to get this type of innovation that is affordable. I WANT ONEOh yeah people in a...
- Tags: car, General Motors Corp., electric car, small electric car
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- Uncle Sam: less wasteful?
- At first thought, the idea of ......disconnecting elevators to the first six floors sounds like a great idea, but what about the handicapped - there would have to be a way to let them use the elevator ... universal access to all places and all that jazz ...LudoThis blog is...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, tax, Uncle Sam, dictator
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- Adobe and Nvidia bring GPU computing to the masses
- Adobe and Nvidia announced that the next version of the Flash player will take advantage of Nvidia graphics processing units GPUs to improve online video. Adobe Flash Player 10.1, which will be in beta by the end of this year, will be designed to get a boost from Nvidia's GeForce,...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., NVidia Corp., Video, Computing, Graphics, Netbook, GPU, Ion, Mini 311, John Morris
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- Cellulosic ethanol, corn, etc.
- Not related to ZDNet. So why are you blogging here?ZDNET says of itself:"ZDNet: Tech News, Blogs and White Papers for IT Professionals." and "Where Technology Means Business: ZDNet delivers the best tech news, and resources for IT hardware, software, networking and services."Given the above, why are you here,...
- Tags: Blogging, blog
- Discussion threads 2009-10-04
- Big carbon emitters fighting two wars simultaneously in America
- ZDNet is a tech site.nt.To be more specific:this is a computer tech site. This is not a political forum for non-computer related rants by treehuggers and tax-increasing socialists. I am pointing out that Fuller's Gaia-licking & definitely political blogs are out of place here.And, tech will be a big part...
- Tags: carbon, carbon emitter
- Discussion threads 2009-10-03
- Lawsuit alert: carbon wars are set to begin
- I actually heard one political analyst today say that "nobody" wants the EPA to single-handedly deal with greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. By that I presume this MSM reporter means nobody with lots of power or money in Washington. All sides want to see Congress weigh-in....
- Tags: Lawsuit, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- What do Bill Gates and other billionaires see as the world's #1 problem?
- It's not peak oil and it's not war. But it is a greentech issue. It's population growth. But without unbridled population growth it's very hard to maintain economic growth. This issue strikes at the very heart of 21st Century business and politics. That's why we...
- Tags: Bill Gates, Population Growth, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
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