An Overview
The Role of Teradata during Transformation BP's Transformation Challenge
BP's Transformation Challenge An Overview
BP’s strategy for 2008 and beyond is to close the competitive gap by:
1. Teradata in the sub-surface:
Restoring revenues in both the upstream and the
Teradata believes there is a better
downstream.
way to manage sub-surface data in
Addressing the issues of greater consistency across BP’s operations, reducing complexity and controlling costs;
E&P. Teradata has taken a data centric approach to integration using a spatially registered data structure (SRDS), where all sub-
and Transforming and refocusing BP’s downstream
surface data elements (seismic, well
business to restore its performance
log, etc) are consolidated into a
Teradata has identified 2 specific areas in which we can accelerate progress:
single data and co-ordinate (WGS-84) system. The key difference is that the analytics workload is shifted to the database level, rather than the application level. With the
1. Enable BP E&P to transform their analysis of seismic
power of Teradata as the database, this increases the amount
data, speeding exploration decisions which directly
of available data, the speed of processing the data, and the
affect BP’s revenue stream.
ability to automate complex analytics. From a business
2. Create an enterprise performance management
perspective, this provides the following benefits:
platform that delivers deep structural cost reduction
A single instance of data to support multiple seismic
across the business via the deployment of a Virtual
surveys with the potential to allow workflows and
General Ledger and Logical Chart of Accounts. It will
analytics on a regional scale and multi-reservoir projects.
deliver common, standardised reporting and extended analytical capabilities independent of ERP consolidation
Centralised processing allows users from multiple geographies to share the single instance (i.e. no physical shipping of data to sites which are globally remote) Pre-processing of visualisation, allowing users the benefit of more time to interpret visual representations of data vs building visual representations Automation or semi-automation of data analysis on a massive scale (e.g. velocity modelling, detection of geological structures through pattern matching) Free engineers and geologists from pre-defined queries/analysis by enabling a 'search engine for seismic data' Leveraging Teradata's effortless scalability to support multi-terabyte analytical applications and petabyte data management
BP's Transformation Challenge An Overview
2. The Challenge of Transformation
The Role of Teradata during Transformation
BP has moved to a new organization/management
Teradata has a long history of providing high performance
model, changing the shape
organizations with flexible business intelligence solutions
and way it manages
that neutralize the barrier of IT complexity. Our
performance. One of the big
technology is widely regarded as leading the market, with
challenges is to provide
Gartner showing us as the leaders in the relevant magic
focused information and meaningful, timely business insight from a diverse set of
quadrant analysis for seven successive years.
transaction accounting systems, each of which is configured
Teradata’s difference is the philosophy of using detailed
differently with less than uniform information structures
data in a flexible data model in order to allow an
and definitions. So how do you deliver business
organization to answer ‘any question, any time, any where’.
transformation when your organizational data is trapped
This model easily caters for organizational change,
inside the old complexity?
allowing as-was, as-is and to-be analysis using quickly
Explicitly, there is a mis-match between the structure and format of historic data, making quarter-to- quarter trend
rendered views on the data, rather than having to recreate reporting OLAP cubes or change transactional systems.
analysis difficult. Much needed information resides in systems that have been outsourced, which limits your
Customers who have benefited from the flexibility of a Teradata
ability to probe it. New infrastructure projects such as
database include 3M and AT&T.
ERP consolidation take years to complete, and in many cases do not provide common reporting and analysis with
Combines data from 800 systems in 62
the level of granularity that enables managers to take
coutries to a single reporting instance
decisive action at the coal face.
Teradata supports multi-dimensional Enterprise Performance Management
Our value proposition is illustrated below.
Single P&L line of sight to individual
Virtual GL
ERP
BPO
Tax
20% Lower F&A Cost
30/40% Lower Investment
20/30% Cheaper & More Capability
$10’s million Lower Liabilities
Procurement
Compliance
IT
Cash flow
20 to 30%pa Recurring Cost Reduction
50% Lower SOX pa
$2m to$3m per data base
Step change per Employee
customers Teradata technology helped accelerate the information merger of AT&T and SBC External financial reporting within 40 days of deal closure Visibility of revenue & expenses during the month
BP's Transformation Challenge teradata.com
Teradata can provide BP with an environment for fast, accurate measurement and reporting during their transformation process. A Teradata system based on detailed data will be: Available years before ERP roll-out projects are completed Senior executive leading the AT&T integration program Compatible with all leading business intelligence applications, including SAP Business Warehouse and Business Objects, Siebel CRM, Cognos, Microstrategy, SAS, etc. Supported by Teradata’s 20+ years of experience in data warehousing
“Within 30 days of the merger being finalized we had the processes in place to close the books on the 10th workday…we get control of the enlarged company quickly… on a daily basis we manage & have visibility of the postings of revenues & expenses during the month without having to wait until month end” Senior executive leading the AT&T integration program.