This publish was co-authored by Sacha Abinader, Managing Director, Accenture and Keith Armstron, Senior Manager, Accenture Microsoft Business Group.
Accelerate decision-making and interoperability with the OSDU Data Platform
The OSDU™ Forum is a cross-industry collaboration to develop a standard, standards-based, and open platform for the exploration and manufacturing (E&P) group with the objective to liberate and allow larger entry and perception into your priceless knowledge. The OSDU Data Platform promise is compelling and presents worth past what might be achieved with in-house options by means of established {industry} requirements and openness to the bigger know-how ecosystem. Accenture has partnered with Microsoft and collaborated intently with Schlumberger throughout the Microsoft Energy Data Services preview and growth course of. In addition to Accenture’s area experience and digital integration acumen, the preview expertise has allowed Accenture to develop abilities and scale a group particular to this providing to allow an operator’s OSDU Data Platform journey at tempo.
As such, the OSDU Data Platform as an {industry} resolution has been a prime precedence for Accenture with vital investments in abilities, folks, belongings, and our presence and management as a part of the OSDU Forum.
“We are thrilled to be a services partner for Microsoft Energy Data Services. The partnership with Microsoft and Schlumberger in enabling an open platform has been wonderful. As part of preview, Accenture has been driving for interoperability across the technology ecosystem to bridge siloed teams and has partnered with Schlumberger and several ISVs to make this a reality. We are excited to enable operators to create additional value through improved and accelerated decision making and the development of new workflows and analytics.”—Emma Wild, Managing Director, Global OSDU Lead.
Accenture has been actively concerned within the OSDU Data Platform initiative for a number of years. In addition to our dedication to the OSDU Forum, we now have developed our personal imaginative and prescient and technique as to how we are able to help OSDU Data Platform integration into E&P workflows and the way we are able to enhance operators’ enterprise functionality and knowledge worth.
Accenture understands our purchasers’ challenges and is their associate for advanced transformations
Our companions and purchasers need entry to safe, clear, and curated knowledge. To obtain this, they have to liberate and migrate their knowledge to the OSDU Data Platform. Our purchasers are coping with massive and extremely advanced knowledge units which have various high quality and codecs. They additionally must handle their ongoing enterprise utilizing the present and future capabilities of the OSDU Data Platform with its continuous enhancements of latest knowledge varieties and options. Accenture has deliberate a technique that helps the transition from monolithic apps and knowledge to the OSDU Data Platform at tempo. Accenture and Microsoft are companions on this transformational journey as seen in Figure 1.
Our imaginative and prescient, your worth
To achieve success we imagine there’s a must create and help an answer that gives an end-to-end enterprise functionality, specializing in enterprise worth and time-to-value acceleration.
Our method will shortly put together and current knowledge to the consumer through the OSDU Data Platform no matter its present performance and functionality. By integrating and consolidating knowledge in an ordinary format and enabling the interoperability of the platform throughout ISVs, operators can unlock the milestones to the correct of the diagram and ship the accelerated worth they’ve been promised.
We consider it as supporting an information life cycle and journey to mitigate perceived dangers as a result of evolving nature of the OSDU Data Platform whereas frequently bettering your enterprise workflows.
Why select Microsoft Energy Data Services?
We acknowledge the complexity and dangers concerned within the transition and migration to the OSDU Data Platform. While power firms have at all times managed E&P danger and uncertainty, there may be usually a a lot decrease urge for food in relation to IT and digital platforms. As a outcome, the {industry} is more and more searching for packaged options or out-of-the-box supply buildings. This allows them to appreciate the visions promised by the OSDU Data Platform but nonetheless concentrate on the “day job” and working their operations and enterprise. These options and buildings assist de-risk the journey and reduce disruption to enterprise continuity. Recognizing this, Microsoft developed an open-packaged resolution to supply the OSDU Data Platform as a PaaS by means of Microsoft Energy Data Services.
Microsoft Energy Data Services was designed to help the power {industry}’s ambition to speed up innovation, develop enhanced insights to drive operational effectivity, and inform new methods of working and workflows. Microsoft Energy Data Services can speed up the journey to a cloud-based OSDU Data Platform and thus, the trail to worth.
Accenture and Microsoft Energy Data Services collaboration
Accenture has helped deploy and check Microsoft Energy Data Services by means of the preview phases to supply suggestions to Microsoft Engineering. Accenture is targeted on connecting knowledge to enterprise worth and dealing with Microsoft to ship a completely built-in method utilizing the OSDU Data Platform to speed up digital transformation. Accenture demonstrated this throughout the preview by deploying the Microsoft Energy Data Services resolution, ingesting knowledge with OSDU core service instruments and Accenture proprietary instruments, and stitching collectively an information workflow throughout a number of ISVs to validate the openness of the platform. During this course of, Accenture has constructed a group that may assist deploy and scale on Microsoft Energy Data Services.
Microsoft Energy Data Services differentiates itself as it’ll permit and allow:
- Integration with just about any power dataset, software, or cloud service with built-in instruments.
- Management for compute-intensive workloads at a world scale.
- Compliance with the OSDU Technical Standard for open supply innovation.
- Ease the deployment of the OSDU Data Platform whereas offering ongoing platform and administration help to align to OSDU Data Platform deployments.
- Rapid knowledge ingestion for analytics and decision-making.
- Increase operational effectivity and achieve world scalability whereas lowering operational prices.
- Comprehensive safety and compliance.
- Ability to simply leverage native Azure and Microsoft options.
Microsoft Energy Data Services additional builds on and allows the OSDU Data Platform worth drivers:
- The means to entry clear and curated historic knowledge below a single knowledge platform.
- Open entry to innovation and a wider set of know-how companions (ISVs).
- Removes siloes and obstacles between disciplines and lays the inspiration for digital transformation.
Accenture’s particular capabilities and toolkit
Data by itself will not be the reply, and Accenture has been working arduous to supply end-to-end providers and instruments which join the complete enterprise and enterprise. The journey requires the necessity to ship clear knowledge to unlock worth by means of knowledge science, deploy, and roll out these options throughout world operations, and importantly, to instill belief from finish customers and the enterprise to permit the worth to be acknowledged.
Accenture is spearheading the {industry} adoption of the OSDU Data Platform to allow power firms to speed up their digital transformation. One such platform we’re creating is the Accenture OnePlatform, as seen in Figures 3 and 4, which is a working resolution to handle the present points and challenges and assist execute the information to its most restrict.
Figure 4: Accenture’s OnePlatform Data Workflow.
Accenture OnePlatform is a cloud-agnostic platform and one-stop resolution for knowledge extraction, schema mapping, metadata era, and knowledge ingestion that’s operationally environment friendly. Accenture OnePlatform allows OSDU Data Platform providers which might be accessible with only one click on with none want for further plugins or any open supply installations.
Some of the important thing highlights of Accenture OnePlatform are outlined under:
- Orchestration of the OSDU Data Platform: Provide end-to-end supply of enterprise workflows through a single interface.
- Data extraction: Extracting totally different knowledge varieties through the use of an information sort converter resembling LAS, SegY, or ResQML.
- Schema Mapping: Mapping shopper knowledge with Accenture OnePlatform–compliant knowledge varieties through the use of AI/ML fashions.
- Metadata Generation: Generating metadata through the use of AI rule-based method.
- Data Ingestion: Ingestion workflow. Running on click on resolution utilizing python utilities.
- Data Validation: Validating data utilizing python utilities by including personalized guidelines.
- Data Quality: Intelligent technique to arrange the principles and do the standard checks robotically.
- Knowledge Graph: Build Accenture OnePlatform-based ontology and provides the semantic outcome to the client.
In addition, the Accenture OnePlatform can function an orchestration instrument throughout a number of SaaS ISV options. We know interoperability is a key worth driver for selecting OSDU. Accenture has performed a significant position in ISV’s integration by collaborating with numerous ISVs and Microsoft for collective objective of consuming the information accessible in single knowledge platform. Accenture is working with a number of main ISVs for growth of their purposes to fetch knowledge in line with the schemas from the OSDU Data Platform and Microsoft Energy Data Services, providing best-in-class interoperability and the power to ship end-to-end enterprise workflows. Microsoft Energy Data Services with Accenture’s help has demonstrated the mixing of DELFI with a number of ISV purposes, resembling Interica and Ikon Science, and we have been happy to reveal this on the Schlumberger Digital Forum 2022.
Conclusion
In closing, Accenture is dedicated to being a number one associate to assist operators navigate the uncertainties round OSDU Data Platform implementation, handle the dangers of deployment, and understand the complete worth of their knowledge.
We imagine Accenture is greatest positioned to ship on these commitments and allow your worth primarily based on our deep {industry} experience, investments in accelerators just like the Accenture OnePlatform, 14,000+ devoted oil and fuel expert world practitioners with 250+ OSDU™-trained professionals, and our intensive ecosystem relationships. We are assured that our capabilities and our partnership with Microsoft are key to serving to operators execute and scale their OSDU Data Platform transformation with Microsoft Energy Data Services and the interoperability of the platform.
How to work with Accenture on Microsoft Energy Data Services
Microsoft Energy Data Services is an enterprise-grade, totally managed, OSDU Data Platform for the power {industry} that’s environment friendly, standardized, simple to deploy, and scalable for knowledge administration—for ingesting, aggregating, storing, looking out, and retrieving knowledge. The platform will present the size, safety, privateness, and compliance anticipated by our enterprise clients.