As the global need for energy has increased, oil and gas companies around the world strive to respond with new technologies for finding, extracting, and delivering energy to the market. But the industry is complex, and the factors that determine the business success are constantly evolving, making it difficult to remain agile and productive.
If you are an oil or gas company, you most likely are using solutions that help you digitally manage your oil fields and successfully execute environmental, health, and safety programs. You may also have some standard industry solutions that streamline your hydrocarbon supply chain and deliver a wide range of engineering services. And in an ideal world, these solutions deliver cost efficiency and help you lower costs. 
But the reality is that your business is unique, even within your own industry and to retain a competitive edge, you need more. You want a solution that maximizes the value of your initial investment and drives innovation. To go beyond what your competition is doing, it’s beneficial to partner with a company like SAP that has deep expertise for your specific industry.
Industry expertise that runs deep
SAP has been a long-time leader in the oil and gas industry, and we head up an industry consortium through the industry’s global advisory council. As part of this council, we help identify the innovation needs of the industry and work with local groups to focus on specific requirements important to regional markets. This allows multiple companies to share in the cost of joint development, thereby reducing both risk and expense to any one customer. SAP Custom Development works with these groups to drive the innovation that is needed and turn out new solutions that help companies maintain a competitive advantage.
We can extend this expertise to your company and help you create the agility you need to respond quickly and effectively to the changing needs of the market. Our custom-developed solutions can extend your existing SAP platform and help you better meet your unique business needs. We can also help you take advantage of innovative game-changing technologies, such as enterprise mobility and in-memory processing. And with generally available SAP solutions that address the busine
ss priorities of your specific industry segment, we can drive your costs and risk down to a minimum. Plus, we’ll provide you with start-to-finish solution lifecycle support for all your SAP solutions.
Leading with innovation
Our extensive knowledge in the oil and gas has lead to the development of solutions for customers within the industry that are now standard commercial offerings. To reduce your costs while increasing the time to value, you can immediately benefit from solutions such as:
- SAP Multiresource Scheduling application for optimizing resource management
- SAP Application Interface Framework tool for implementing and monitoring user-friendly interfaces with error-handling functionality for business users
- SAP Asset Retirement Obligation Management application for creating, changing, and terminating asset retirement obligations
- SAP Upstream Operations Management application for integrating field data capture, production planning, production allocation, maintenance, reporting, and analytic functionality
We are known within SAP as the innovation delivery organization so we can provide you with the solution you need, the way you need it. With our expertise in oil and gas industry and our ability to provide you with game-changing technology as soon as it’s available, we can put together a team to get you up and running quickly.
To learn more about how our services can serve your unique requirements, read the solution brief entitled, “Innovation and ROI with SAP Custom Development,” or visit the SAP Custom Development Services page.