Yes, you can have it all
The Oil and Gas team at Microsoft thinks that our solution approach means that you, our customers, don’t have to choose between leading-edge industry technology, ease of use and value—you can have it all.
Our approach
We partner with the industry service providers that you already work with for the oilfield technology and industry-specific solutions, and integrate and deliver those solutions on the platform that everybody already knows—Microsoft.
Why is this approach important?
Because in the new global, inter-dependent economy that will continue to rely predominantly on oil and gas for the vital energy to keep the engine running for decades to come, we need quantum leaps in productivity so that the industry can keep up with energy demand—especially challenging in this most turbulent economy of our lifetime.
How does this approach deliver?
You get the leading-edge industry apps from our partners—the experts in oil and gas industry solutions—to meet the technological challenges. Unlike some of our software company competitors that try to develop their own proprietary solutions, we work closely with the industry partners that our customers already rely on.
Ease of use and increased productivity comes from Microsoft technology.
Our platform to enable business performance, Microsoft SharePoint, is quickly becoming a quasi-standard in the industry for collaboration, information management, corporate performance and social networking—which is crucial in helping people to connect across domains and company boundaries to jointly make better decisions faster.
New Microsoft technologies like “presence” and collaboration let you know who the right people are, if they’re available, and then connect you with them immediately, right from the app, with a click of a button.
Our partners are integrating these and other Microsoft technologies right into their apps, many of which are built on Microsoft development technologies to make integration that much easier.
And more value comes from building on the Microsoft platform that most companies already have in place. We’re also supporting global alliance partners in developing “next generation” apps on the Microsoft stack. These efforts will further help to integrate these industry-specific partner solutions with Microsoft technologies to maximize productivity and value.
We want to hear from you. Let us know what you think about this approach and your experience with these solutions.
(And check out the really futuristic Microsoft productivity technologies that Chris Van Dyke referred to in his earlier post and the video on the Office Lab website.)
- Dr. Albrecht (Ali) Ferling, Worldwide Managing Director, Oil and Gas Industries