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Improved customer convenience through a web based reporting system for a leading natural gas and crude oil

information provider in North America

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One of the leading providers of

information on crude oil and natural

gas prices wanted to migrate from a

legacy standalone desktop reporting

tool to a web based system. They

wanted to provide their users an

instant access to information they

need.

Sigma Infosolutions leveraged its

expertise in Business Intelligence to

build this reporting tool. The system

provides business users role-based

access to the central knowledge-

store. The system generates reports

and analysis on index comparisons,

multiple leases and their prices,

pricing data required for annual Ad

Valorem tax preparations, etc.

Since its inception in 1988, the client has been a leading provider of

information on crude oil and natural gas prices to customers ranging from

industrial consumers, marketers, oil and gas operators, investors, litigation

support, etc. Their proprietary databases comprise of natural gas Henry Hub

Nymex prices, oil volumes, and natural gas volumes. Their current

knowledge bank stands at 51,597,034 records including 641,144 leases. They

also maintain a comprehensive library of crude oil bulletins for over 100

different crude oil purchasers dating back to January 1977.

The ClientExecutive Summary

The client combines multiple data sources like Texas RRC data, Texas

Comptroller data, Nymex crude oil and natural gas futures, as well as crude

oil purchaser WTI postings into one single repository system. To access this

database the user needed to install a desktop client and the database on

their local machine, which was provided by the client on a CD. The desktop

client synched with the database and generated reports on the information

the user needs. The users only got to update their databases twice a year.

Therefore, this system was not giving real-time information to the users.

Since, the analytical reports generated by the client's software was critical to

contract negotiations, wellhead price confirmations, tax preparations, and

regulatory filing confirmations, the client wanted a new system that could

simplify their role based subscriptions to an all-time updated database.

The client approached Sigma Infosolutions to advance from a standalone

desktop reporting tool to a web based system built on Pentaho. The system

will consolidate all crude oil and natural gas information from various sources

and give business users instant access to the information they need.

Business Case

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ChallengesDue to the scale of the client's information sources, the database

exponentially grew to a size of more than 100 million records. Since, the

client never organized the database; Pentaho's reporting tool took 15-20

minutes to compile one report. However, conditioning the database to

improve search results, all the while reducing the report compilation time to

Reduced turnaround time for sign ups from few days to few seconds

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Technology

Sigma Infosolutions used the following

technologies to build the solution:

Pentaho 3.5 Reporting

BIRT

Business Benefits

By leveraging Sigma Infosolutions'

expertise on web based technologies

and Pentaho, the client was able to

develop a solution that:

Gave 24X7 access to information

for customers

Reduced turnaround time for sign

ups from few days to few seconds

S a v e d o v e r h e a d s o n C D

procurement, management, and

distribution

SolutionA team of experts operated from Sigma Infosolutions' office in Bangalore and

took four months to develop, integrate, and test the system.

The Sigma Infosolutions' team closely worked with the business analysts at

the client side. They comprehensively understood the system requirements

and functionalities of the new system. Post this, Sigma Infosolutions migrated

the database from Foxpro to My SQL and then started developing the

reporting tool using Pentaho and BIRT.

The new system now:

Provides role-based access to business users

Generates big and complex cross-tabbed reports in a few seconds

Executes complex conditional column computations

Extends the ability to export the report in MS Excel and PDF format

Paginates the results of a report by page(s)

Generate more than 13 reports including 4 Ad Valorem reports

Generates analytic reports which show index comparisons, wellhead

comparisons of multiple leases and their prices, pricing data required

for annual Ad Valorem tax preparations, and much more

a few seconds was challenging.

Adding to this, Pentaho's reporting tool was publishing the entire report on

one web page instead of splitting it in multiple pages. However, the new

version of reporting tool paginated the report, but presented a second

challenge: to do away with query execution each time the user navigates to

the next or the previous result of a report. Pentaho's pagination functionality

was not serving the client's business need. This required exceptional insight

from Sigma Infosolutions into the convergence of various DB engines which

can paginate results of a report in a variety of ways, with the existing Pentaho

reporting tool.

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About Sigma Infosolutions

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Sigma Group, an Indian conglomerate has more than 4 decades of experience in Mining, Chemicals Manufacturing & Export,

Handicrafts Manufacturing & Exports, and Software Development

Sigma Infosolutions is a TUV certified ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 27001:2005 company

Headquartered in US with presence in India

Some of our esteemed customers include Airtel, Zyme Solutions, Yodlee, Celerity Consulting, Resolution Economics, Birla

Global Asset Finance, Fosroc Chemicals, Surgery Planet etc.

Sigma Infosolutions’ services comprises of application development, application management, IT Consulting, Offshore testing,

and Website and Portal Development

Generates analytic reports which show index comparisons, wellhead comparisons of multiple leases and their prices, pricing data required for annual Ad Valorem tax preparations, and much more

Sigma Infosolutions, Sigma Towers, #66/A, 13th Cross

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Telephone: +91-80-40865100

Sigma Infosolutions, 2082 Michelson Dr.

Suite 100, Irvine, CA 92612

Telephone: +1-714-717-1826

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