IBM Centre of Excellence Stavanger

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  Our highly qualified teams of consultants from our Center of Excellence for Oil and Gas are deployed to our client's base and are delivering value in all 3 perspectives described above, people, technology and process. We are supporting our clients in achieving rapid changes, by using our approach - issue driven, process based methodology that:

• Rapidly redesign critical processes with users/process managers, guided by facilitated issue identification.
• Focuses on key sub-processes and tasks, system and organization issues
• Target critical tasks rather than complete process or strategy.
• Focus on achieving tangible operating improvement results in an accelerated timeframe.
• Encourages continuous improvement by providing training for internal resources.
• Drives speed-to-benefit of actual change vs. theoretical recommendation.
• Provides front-to-back evaluation module to estimate value creation.
• Efficient approach to identify broken or missing processes and analyze corresponding root causes.
• Requires strong sponsor support and dedicated team.

Oil Sands Centre of Excellence, Calgary, Alberta

Located in IBM’s Calgary offices, the centre focuses on technologies designed to improve oil sands development projects; from construction and project management, to labour productivity, process optimisation and environmental management. Technologies available at the Oil Sands Centre of Excellence include Asset Lifecycle Management, Deep Computing Visualization, Intelligent Plant, and Supply Chain Management. Contact Tom Olver

Energy Competency Centre, Beijing, China

China’s first Energy Competency Centre (ECC) is a joint effort by IBM and Intel located in the Beijing Shangdi Information Industry Base. Technologies available at the ECC Beijing include Deep Computing Visualization, Grid Computing and Virtualization. Contact Stephen Chu

Centre of Excellence for Oil & Gas, Stavanger, Norway

Stavanger is the hub for IBM’s oil and gas related activities in Northeast Europe and Russia, the Middle East and South Africa. The centre is developing industry-targeted solutions with a focus on Integrated Operations. The Stavanger Centre of Excellence also collaborates with the IBM TJ Watson Research Centre in the United States, which has developed technologies and business processes focused on Intelligent Oilfields. Contact Helge Kristoffersen

Energy Competency Centre, Moscow, Russia

Russia's first energy competency centre established jointly by IBM and Intel, enables oil, gas and service companies to test and optimize technological solutions. Technologies available at the ECC Moscow include Deep Computing Visualization, and IBM cluster technologies. Contact Michael Lebedev

Energy Competency Centre, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Originally established in 2002 as a joint initiative between IBM and Intel, the ECC Abu Dhabi is the Middle East’s only centre of its kind and is located at the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) Centre of Excellence for applied Research and Training (CERT) in Abu Dhabi. Technologies available at the ECC Abu Dhabi include Deep Computing Visualization, Grid Computing, and digital enablement of key assets to enable real time monitoring and alerts, as well as Asset Lifecycle Management. Contact Matthew Willis

Dallas Global Solution Center

Dallas focuses on in-depth industry solution architects and integration specialists. How to bridge the gap from business process to technology, accelerating client integration of Services Oriented Architecture (SOA). Dallas has world-class facilities with executive workshops and C&P solution exhibit areas. Contact: Keeley Weisbard

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