Hydrocarbon Management

HM Centre of Excellence

SAIC's HM framework has taken several years of development, based on experience in the field. It enables us to create dynamic screens accessing multiple data sources, with limited code development. It incorporates:

• configurable calculation engine
• generic menu and tree view
• filtered item diary screen
• visualisation of calculations
• data access layer
• supporting relational database.

Our Hydrocarbon Management Centre of Excellence offers a single, proven and industry-recognised architecture upon which all applications are delivered, providing reduced development and support costs.

We provide a single, stable, development environment in which to operate systems as component re-use is maximised. Our whole approach is based on minimising background complexity to focus on the actual business needs of our customers in this critical area.

SAIC's solution makes it possible for the customer to break out of constant technology upgrade cycles. Our framework provides the facility to replace multiple systems with a single technology, minimising the impact of technical advancement. Delivery of the framework via a managed service can also completely flatten the cost of ownership for an application suite, enabling the business to understand exactly what their costs will be for several years in advance.

Providing a stepped approach to the replacement of legacy systems via the SAIC framework allows an organisation to take advantage of system standardisation without the associated risk of a large scale change programme.

Our framework can be used to replace the top layer (data capture), providing a standard interface and access to multiple systems via a single thin client desktop application. This data capture upgrade is provided along with a data persistence model that replicates the source data back to the original systems. Critical business processes then continue to be performed by the stable legacy systems, with the result that the existing reporting mechanism produces the desired output.

Once the data capture layer has been standardised, work can begin on replicating legacy system result data back to the framework, so that a new, up-to-date reporting layer can be implemented. Finally, if required, the legacy business processes themselves can be replaced.