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WEB-ENABLEDINFORMATIONMANAGEMENT

AREFRESHINGDIFFERENCE

PESGB-GIGData Management 2000

WEB-ENABLED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

- A REFRESHING DIFFERENCE

Stuart BeattyKestrel Limited




BACKGROUND

• E&P INFORMATION MANAGEMENT• STANDARDISATION

– Intrinsic (eg: Nomenclature)– Functional (eg: Accuracy & Completeness)– Procedural (eg: Policies & Business

Processes)

• INTEGRATION– Technical & Non-Technical Information– Records & Document Management– Hardcopy & Digital Formats– In-House & Remote Repositories

• APPLICATION OF TECHNOLOGY– EDMS– Corporate Databasing




PROGRESSION

• IN-HOUSE HARDCOPY COLLECTIONS (early 70’s)• MULTI-CLIENT DATA STORES (mid 70’s)• BESPOKE IN-HOUSE DATABASES (early 80’s)• CLIENT-SERVER DATABASES (mid 80’s)• INDUSTRY-STANDARD DATAMODELS (early 90’s)• PROCESSES & WORKFLOW (mid 90’s)• DISTRIBUTED DATABASES (late 90’s)

• WEB-ENABLED DATABASES (TODAY)




DEFINITIONS

• “THE WEB” IS SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE:– INTERNET/INTRANET/EXTRANET/

OUTERNET (WHAT NEXT?)– UNIVERSAL CLIENTS (ie: BROWSERS)– STANDARD RAPID DEVELOPMENT

ENVIRONMENT (eg: JAVASCRIPT)– COMMUNICATION PLATFORM (eg: E-

MAIL & WEBPHONES)– ON-LINE SERVICES (eg:TRAVEL)– E-COMMERCE (eg:TRADING)– VIRTUAL SERVICES (eg: OFFICES)– RESEARCH (REFERENCE)– LEISURE PURSUITS (eg: SURFING)




SCOPE

CORPORATE AND ADMINISTRATIVE

USERS

TECHNICAL & NON-TECHNICALIN-HOUSE & OFFSITE

HARDCOPY & DIGITAL

PRODUCTION & OPERATIONS USERS

REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT & EXPLORATION USERS




REQUIREMENTS

• CENTRALISED INDEX• DISTRIBUTED MANAGEMENT• STANDARD CLASSIFICATION• UNIVERSAL DESKTOP ACCESS• MINIMUM IT SPEND• SIMPLE LICENCING• CENTRAL SUPPORT &

MAINTENANCE

= WEB-BASED ARCHITECTURE




STRATEGY

• PHASED INTERNET TRIALS– ADAPT AN EXISTING PRODUCT– WEB-ENABLE THE DATABASE ENGINE– WEB-ENABLE SCREENS & REPORTS– EVALUATE & SELECT WEB-ENABLED

GIS TOOLS– TEST ATTACHED-FILE DOWNLOAD &

VIEWING CAPABILITIES




COMPONENTS

• Application - DataLink• RDBMS - Oracle 8i• GIS - AutoDesk • Tools - Oracle Developer 6.0• Browser - IE5 or NetScape4• Browser Plug-Ins (Thin Clients)– AutoDesk MapGuide Viewer– Oracle Jinitiator (Java Applet)

• TIF / LAS / SEGY Viewers




CONCEPT




REALITY

• BANDWIDTH LIMITS:– MAP DETAIL– QUERY COMPLEXITY– OBJECT SIZE

• THIN CLIENTS/JAVA APPLETS:– ROBUST– ENABLE FAST LOOK-UPS– REDUCE NETWORK LOAD

• FIREWALLS:– CAN FRUSTRATE POSITIVE EFFORT– NEED DYNAMIC MANAGEMENT




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CONCLUSIONS

• So What’s so Refreshing about all this?– Information Technology has found a

universal medium.– Everyone tolerates the web.– Development tools and skills are

abundant and accessible.– GIS is now commonplace.– Needs are converging.– Products are converging.– Attention is turning back to Data and

Information Management.




CONCLUSIONS

• As Web-Based IT matures over the next year of two, I hope that the Information Managers amongst us will find more time and resources at their disposal to deal with the deeper traditional issues:– Data Quality– Completeness of Information– Information Standards– Integration

A REFRESHING DIFFERENCE

Stuart BeattyKestrel Limited

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