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	Drillinginfo Pumps Data-driven Applications Faster Using Denodo’s Data Virtualization Platform Denodo Technologies

Drillinginfo Pumps Data-driven Applications Faster Using Denodo’s Data Virtualization Platform

Denodo Technologies

Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Data-as-a-Service Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing Product Research & Development
Use Cases	Predictive Maintenance Predictive Quality Analytics Supply Chain Visibility
Services	Data Science Services System Integration
Challenge	Drillinginfo's business growth drove the need for the company to build next generation products to support key O&G market segments. These products include applications to support well production and oil field services workflows, geo services for map analysis, a Geology, Geophysical and Engineering (GG&E) platform for interpretations and visualization, as well as a soon to be released mineral interest analysis application. Rapid time-to-market for these products and applications was crucial and this implied that the Data Tech team needed to deliver a data platform that supported the internal application development team quicker than they had been doing in the past. Also, rapid delivery of data directly to the customers was needed as well. However, the Data Tech team was challenged with integrating the data across the data warehouse, other data sources and providing it to the data consumers quickly. The product development team's delivery timelines were routinely at risk due to data availability and data consistency issues. Read More
About Customer	Drillinginfo is the leading SaaS and data analytics company for energy exploration decision support, helping the oil and gas industry achieve better, faster results. The company’s predictive decision platform combines intelligence, analytics, tools, and services in one seamless system to deliver value at every stage of the E&P process. Drillinginfo services more than 3,200 companies globally from its Austin, Texas-based headquarters, and has more than 500 employees on five continents. Drillinginfo’s primary goal is to enable key O&G market segments with information that drives business intelligence in these functions: decide where/how to drill and produce wells to generate the highest return (E&P companies); decide where and in whom to invest equity and debt financing (financial markets and M&A); and decide the highest potential business development opportunities (oil field services). Read More
Solution	Due to strength of the Denodo Platform to rapidly expose underlying data from source systems as data services, Drillinginfo decided to use the solution to manage and quickly provision all of the data to the product development team and its customers. Drillinginfo ETLs the regulatory agencies data into an internal data store that powers the DI Classic product. The production data is stored in another system called DI Desktop. The data from DI Classic, DI Desktop, as well as geo-spatial and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) data stored in other systems are then ETLd into their data warehouse. Drillinginfo has created a virtual data abstraction layer using the Denodo Platform above the DI Classic, DI Desktop, and data warehouse. The Denodo Platform connects to these data sources, combines the data and publishes the resultant virtual views as data services, which are consumed internally by the application development team, analytics and decision support applications, and application data marts, as well as externally by their customers. Read More Log in to view content
Contents

Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Data-as-a-Service

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Product Research & Development

Use Cases

Predictive Maintenance

Predictive Quality Analytics

Supply Chain Visibility

Services

Data Science Services

System Integration

Challenge

Drillinginfo's business growth drove the need for the company to build next generation products to support key O&G market segments. These products include applications to support well production and oil field services workflows, geo services for map analysis, a Geology, Geophysical and Engineering (GG&E) platform for interpretations and visualization, as well as a soon to be released mineral interest analysis application. Rapid time-to-market for these products and applications was crucial and this implied that the Data Tech team needed to deliver a data platform that supported the internal application development team quicker than they had been doing in the past. Also, rapid delivery of data directly to the customers was needed as well. However, the Data Tech team was challenged with integrating the data across the data warehouse, other data sources and providing it to the data consumers quickly. The product development team's delivery timelines were routinely at risk due to data availability and data consistency issues.

About Customer

Drillinginfo is the leading SaaS and data analytics company for energy exploration decision support, helping the oil and gas industry achieve better, faster results. The company’s predictive decision platform combines intelligence, analytics, tools, and services in one seamless system to deliver value at every stage of the E&P process. Drillinginfo services more than 3,200 companies globally from its Austin, Texas-based headquarters, and has more than 500 employees on five continents. Drillinginfo’s primary goal is to enable key O&G market segments with information that drives business intelligence in these functions: decide where/how to drill and produce wells to generate the highest return (E&P companies); decide where and in whom to invest equity and debt financing (financial markets and M&A); and decide the highest potential business development opportunities (oil field services).

Solution

Due to strength of the Denodo Platform to rapidly expose underlying data from source systems as data services, Drillinginfo decided to use the solution to manage and quickly provision all of the data to the product development team and its customers. Drillinginfo ETLs the regulatory agencies data into an internal data store that powers the DI Classic product. The production data is stored in another system called DI Desktop. The data from DI Classic, DI Desktop, as well as geo-spatial and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) data stored in other systems are then ETLd into their data warehouse. Drillinginfo has created a virtual data abstraction layer using the Denodo Platform above the DI Classic, DI Desktop, and data warehouse. The Denodo Platform connects to these data sources, combines the data and publishes the resultant virtual views as data services, which are consumed internally by the application development team, analytics and decision support applications, and application data marts, as well as externally by their customers.

Impact #1	Building usable web services for developing applications used to take 1 – 2 weeks; with Denodo’s data virtualization solution, this process now takes less than 1 day.
Impact #2	Drillinginfo now has just one full time developer and a part time virtualization admin managing the entire data virtualization process.
Impact #3	About 20 – 30 internal developers and 7 external customers are using the data services to build data-driven applications.

Impact #1

Building usable web services for developing applications used to take 1 – 2 weeks; with Denodo’s data virtualization solution, this process now takes less than 1 day.

Impact #2

Drillinginfo now has just one full time developer and a part time virtualization admin managing the entire data virtualization process.

Impact #3

About 20 – 30 internal developers and 7 external customers are using the data services to build data-driven applications.

Benefit #1	Reduced time to build usable web services from 1-2 weeks to less than 1 day.
Benefit #2	Reduced the number of developers needed to manage the data virtualization process.

Benefit #1

Reduced time to build usable web services from 1-2 weeks to less than 1 day.

Benefit #2

Reduced the number of developers needed to manage the data virtualization process.

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Drillinginfo Pumps Data-driven Applications Faster Using Denodo’s Data Virtualization Platform

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