Overview
Today's challenges for chemical and petroleum companies include increased demand for fuel and products, customers wanting more for less, volatile pricing and availability of reserves, and increasing operational complexity as companies move into increasingly remote, technologically and logistically complex locales.
On top of the business intricacies are the geopolitical dynamics from facility investments in new countries, nationalization of companies by governments, political instability and health/safety and environmental influences.
With chemical and petroleum companies often struggling to meet their knowledge needs while continuously investing in many knowledge and information related initiatives, key issues should resound with oil and gas executives. This includes making sense of complex information-focused opportunities; using knowledge and intelligence in the appropriate areas of the business; and how to best utilize the information infrastructure that has been built over the years within and across business and functional groups.
IBM Application Services addresses the demands of the chemical and petroleum industry through specialized skills, technology and tools that can better align applications with business-driven needs and drive common global business processes and application infrastructure.
Business challenges
- Accessing critical business support system knowledge that resides with specialist suppliers
- Managing and maintaining an environment of "always on" operational systems
- Managing severe production capacity constraints
- Mitigating the effects of declining production or yields
- Operating with limited/decreasing end customer loyalty
- Maintaining margins and service levels in the face of severe pricing pressure
- Capturing and analyzing vast amounts of technical data essential for margin improvement
- Compliance with health, safety, environment (HSE) and other regulatory requirements
- Creating turnkey production capacity in new geographies
Application services that we offer
- Turnkey Maximo management - Economical and quick-to-implement asset management maintenance and enhancements for critical business support.
- Legacy to SOA Point of View assessment - Improve IT responsiveness to changing business objectives by consolidating/modernizing your applications with SOA.
- Application Portfolio Assessment (APA) - Streamline global application portfolios and identify areas for consolidation.
- IBM Testing Services - Identify and implement improved testing processes in critical business areas, such as complex interfaces with third-party data services or high volumes of data to be managed.
Why IBM
IBM's industry expertise, global investment in application skills, and leading modernization and testing capabilities help provide its foundation for leadership in application design, development and management. Our in-depth understanding of business processes and information technology uniquely qualifies us to work with C&P clients who wish to focus on transformation initiatives, establish global support models, simplify and reduce support vendors and business risk and eliminate support costs.
As a leading global provider of consulting, systems integration and application services, IBM has unrivaled experience optimizing application investments and aligning them to business requirements. Our team of more than 90,000 Application Services consultants located around the world can assemble industry and technology expertise and utilize proven methodology, research innovation, and technology accelerators to help you reduce cost and risk while improving business value from applications.
