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By providing access to each of Ertan’s production control systems from a single point of access and a uniform user interface, the Cordys-based portal guarantees transparency, ease-of-use, short learning curves, and a high level of efficiency

Huang Wei,
Office of Ertan’s General Management

Cordys Energy, Oil and Gas Solutions

Address Rising Market Pressures with Increased Agility and Visibility

Today’s fast-paced energy, oil and gas companies face market pressure from a multitude of areas, including stricter government policies and regulations, a liberalized market with high churn levels, a need for increased brand awareness, rising customer expectations, ongoing merger and acquisition activity, and a push from consumers to provide ‘greener’ energy.  To stay competitive, you must increase operational efficiencies and decrease time-to-market, even in the face of data-proliferation and process-integration issues.

Cordys energy solutions offer the speed, control, and flexibility necessary to tackle these challenges and simultaneously reduce operational costs. With Cordys, you can

  • Extend IT value by leveraging your existing infrastructure.
  • Automate and integrate disparate databases and manual processes, including data classification.
  • Work the way you do – flexibly, and in a more natural non-sequential graphical workflow.
  • Quickly automate and streamline business processes and activity workflows.
  • Support effective collaboration across your virtual internal and external supply chain.
  • Significantly increase the speed and quality of data retrieval.
  • Gain real-time unified visibility and transparency for proactive, informed decision making.

Solution components may include:

  • Real-time, enterprise-wide visibility into both high-level business process performance metrics and a granular level of detail into sub-activities of complex workflows
  • Highly refined automated classification of unstructured data in a way that previously could only be accomplished manually
  • Case-centric non-sequential activity workflow management that intelligently integrates all related documents with activities and allows for flexible information exchange and efficient collaboration on all projects
  • An adaptable approach allows you to automate processes based on your specific business and customer needs and make changes whenever necessary
  • Interoperability of applications gives you enterprise-wide visibility into your business and allows you to take full advantage of your existing information, systems, and processes
  • Executable and graphical business process models provide shared control throughout the lifecycle, bridging the gap between business and IT
  • A single, comprehensive toolset that offers robust business process management and service-oriented architecture capabilities for faster implementations and even faster changes

Cordys in Action - Ertan Hydropower Development Corporation

Ertan, the largest hydropower plant in China with 34,500 MW of power, relies on the Cordys BPMS to ensure the interoperability of existing IT applications and provide a development and integration platform for creating new processes. With Cordys BPMS, Ertan was able to:

  • Plan for and start building 20 hydropower dams along the Yalong River in China
  • Cut the number of man hours per IT project in half
  • Save 40 percent on IT investment and maintenance costs
  • Save 30 percent on hardware costs and nearly 50% on licensing fees
  • Eliminate end-user training due to the intuitive Cordys BPMS user interface

“By providing access to each of Ertan’s production control systems from a single point of access and a uniform user interface, the Cordys-based portal guarantees transparency, ease of use, short learning curves, and a high level of efficiency,” explains Huang Wei, office of Ertan’s general management.

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