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Why LiveQuest?
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Whether your E&P company is an integrated
multinational or an independent producer, the total service
offering of LiveQuest provides enhanced business value to today's
enterprises. The LiveQuest Application Service Provider (ASP)
and LiveQuest Inside Local Service Provider (LSP) solutions,
provide centrally-hosted platform independent applications and
data access. However, technology benefits are not the only reasons
to consider ASP and LSP implementations: |
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Improved productivity |
| Industry is continually looking for ways
to improve productivity. Through LiveQuest, and the adoption
of ASP or LSP services, both productivity and business processes
are significantly improved. LiveQuest maximizes these benefits
for every client by centralizing IT, reducing overall IT costs,
and removing barriers to effective and faster decision-making
through Web access to data and applications anywhere in the
world. |
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Improved secure collaboration |
| Central to LiveQuest value-creation, is that
recognized experts within an organization can securely share
information and expertise with colleagues around the world,
or with appropriate entitlement, with partners in other organizations,
to improve the overall quality of common knowledge for a project.
By using secure, hosted collaboration, clients can exploit the
many benefits of information sharing. |
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Focus on core competencies |
| One of the major challenges for oil and gas
companies moving from a product-centric to an information-centric
economy is the requirement to reduce the costs of and improve
access to computing solutions. This is in conjunction with the
need to reduce business cycle times and to realize better bottom-line
results. LiveQuest helps E&P companies not only to reduce
IT costs and improve information-access, but also enables organizations
to focus 'freed' resources on core competencies to meet this
challenge. |
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| Additional Services |
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Information Management Services |
| In addition to platform independence; providing
clients with access to best-in-class UNIX and NT based E&P
software solutions through a Web browser, LiveQuest also provides
a comprehensive array of back office data management services
delivered by Schlumberger E&P domain experts. These experts
have extensive experience across the geophysical, geological,
engineering and portfolio management domains and have been providing
these services to clients for years through Schlumberger PowerHouse*center-based
computing environment. The spectrum of data management services
available to LiveQuest clients includes activities ranging from
the routine: data validation, loading and project building,
to complete E&P data management outsourcing. |
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Consulting services |
| LiveQuest clients also have access to E&P
consulting services provided by the Schlumberger Data Consulting
Services Group. Our consulting group's activities range from
integrated field studies through to economics and finance. The
team is widely recognized as experts in their fields and use
a comprehensive set of best-in-class analytical software to
provide value to our clients. |
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