Case Study: Oilfield Services Firm

VISION, READINESS, MOBILIZATION (VRM) GUIDES FIRM’S BUSINESS ANALYTICS & REPORTING

SERVICE
Challenge
Process & Advisory
Infrastructure
Implementation Based in Atlanta, this firm provides oilfield services and
Upgrade & Migration equipment to independent and major oilfield companies
Managed Services in exploration, production, and development of oil and gas
Training properties.

SOLUTION The company was seeking to improve the effectiveness of

Planning & Forecasting their corporate reporting and financial planning processes.
Financial Close & Consolidation
Overall, they wanted to drive efficiencies by better
Master Data Management
Business Intelligence leveraging their existing data mart architecture foundation
Big Data and providing easier, faster, more insightful access to core
financial and operational data. Also, streamlining the
INDUSTRY planning process would shorten the planning cycle and
Consumer Products provide a tighter link between the annual plan and forecast.
Energy & Utilities
Financials The team had clear goals, but they wanted thorough
Healthcare guidance on how to achieve them — a roadmap outlining
Industrials
the major initiatives required and each initiative’s business
Information Technology
Materials case, resources, risks, and dependencies.

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 Solution
The firm selected a unique offering by US-Analytics called the Vision Definition,
Readiness and Mobilization Assessment (VRM). The VRM is designed to create
momentum toward the desired future state by putting a complete plan in place: With US-Analytics’
• Validate the current state deep understanding
• Redefine the future state
• Conduct a gap analysis of the oil and
• Assess people, processes, systems, and data
• Create organizational alignment gas industry, the
• Generate an actionable roadmap with prioritized initiatives
• Build a business case that properly articulates the value proposition
VRM provided
a truly tailored
With US-Analytics’ deep understanding of the oil and gas industry — oilfield
services in particular — the VRM provided a truly tailored blend of industry, blend of industry,
business process, and technology expertise. Below are examples of key current
state issues that the roadmap set out to solve. business process,
and technology
expertise.

Results
Following the VRM process, the firm now has a shared future state vision that
addresses the complete picture of current state issues. The path to the future state
vision is laid out in a sequence of actionable tasks. After defining an analytics
solution in the assessment, US-Analytics was selected to execute on it — we will
build and deploy an enhanced financial analytics model, manage the company’s
hosted EPM/BI environment, and provide application support.

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