Upgrading legacy applications
Building resilience by modernising custom-built tools and systems
Overview
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Advanced mathematical, time shift and conditional calculation functions built into Eigen Analytics Platform
Context
When we first set up Eigen more than fifteen years, a lot of our work was connecting together a patchwork of disparate custom-built systems to bring data to engineers’ desktops so they could make better decisions.
A lot has changed in fifteen years, but much of our work remains focused on connecting together a (larger and often more complicated) patchwork of disparate custom-built applications and tools.
Consequences:
Poorly understood legacy applications have been unconsciously built into today’s business-critical workflows
An over-reliance on a dwindling number of individuals who understand how the technology works.
Outlier applications that don’t conform to modern architecture standards and tend to cost more to support and design around.
Reviving legacy applications
Impact for operators
Perspective
Download our thought piece Victim to legacy
2+ million
Number of data points passing through Eigen systems every minute
< 4 Weeks
Time to value now measured in weeks for even complex analytical problems
>80%
Productivity improvements delivered through Eigen solutions
Options
Limited options exist for IT departments trying to drive down costs and meet ever more stringent standards:
1. Identify an alternative vendor that performs the same service.
2. Pay an expensive consultant to build a new tool, custom or in Microsoft Power Apps
3. In extreme cases, turn off the tool and face the consequences.
At Eigen, we believe there’s another way, with a path to cost-effectively productising those applications, leveraging our domain expertise in oil and gas systems.
Miles Daffin
Miles is an Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics graduate, with 5 years experience in developing advanced visualisation solutions for Eigen's most demanding Oil & Gas customers. His abstract thinking training serves him well in transforming equipment and tag lists into the Neo4j graph model at the heart of Eigen Ingenuity's digital twin.
“I love to deliver working solutions to our customers. I particularly enjoyed developing the python script that automatically verifies all blowdown events. The python plug-in provides so much power to automate workflows!”
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Eigen upgrades legacy applications
We bring together a unique blend of oil and gas domain expertise and digital technology knowhow, begun from our early days offshore with the latest technologies and system design, development, deployment and support.
1. Latest technologies: we draw from a range of technologies, some built by Eigen, like Ingenuity, others open-source like like Neo4j’s graph technology, InfluxDB timeseries database and Node-Red’s workflow engine.
2. Design expertise: We are design thinking practitioners and have in-house user experience specialists to ensure we design tools that users love because they work.
3. Modern methods: We operate robust change management and control processes to accelerate deployment without compromising continuity.
4. Cloud migration: We build resilient, secure and compliant cloud-based solutions.
5. World-class support: Our globally co-located teams provide expert support and problem resolution to keep your operations up and running .
Operators know we can extend the life of their business-critical applications, improve their user experience so more of the workforce can get value from them, increase the functionality and move them to the cloud for increased flexibility, security and reduced total cost of ownership. This then provides the strong data foundations necessary to exploit and scale up innovations like machine learning and artificial intelligence.
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