Accenture and Microsoft drive digital transformation with OnePlatform on Microsoft Vitality Knowledge Companies for OSDU™ | Azure Weblog and Updates

This publish was co-authored by Sacha Abinader, Managing Director, Accenture and Keith Armstron, Senior Supervisor, Accenture Microsoft Enterprise Group.

Speed up decision-making and interoperability with the OSDU Knowledge Platform

The OSDU™ Discussion board is a cross-industry collaboration to develop a typical, standards-based, and open platform for the exploration and manufacturing (E&P) group with the objective to liberate and allow larger entry and perception into your useful knowledge. The OSDU Knowledge Platform promise is compelling and provides worth past what may be achieved with in-house options by way of established {industry} requirements and openness to the bigger expertise ecosystem. Accenture has partnered with Microsoft and collaborated intently with Schlumberger throughout the Microsoft Vitality Knowledge Companies preview and improvement course of. Along with Accenture’s area experience and digital integration acumen, the preview expertise has allowed Accenture to develop abilities and scale a group particular to this providing to allow an operator’s OSDU Knowledge Platform journey at tempo. 

As such, the OSDU Knowledge Platform as an {industry} answer has been a high precedence for Accenture with important investments in abilities, individuals, property, and our presence and management as a part of the OSDU Discussion board.

“We’re thrilled to be a providers companion for Microsoft Vitality Knowledge Companies. The partnership with Microsoft and Schlumberger in enabling an open platform has been fantastic. As a part of preview, Accenture has been driving for interoperability throughout the expertise ecosystem to bridge siloed groups and has partnered with Schlumberger and a number of other ISVs to make this a actuality. We’re excited to allow operators to create extra worth by way of improved and accelerated determination making and the event of latest workflows and analytics.”—Emma Wild, Managing Director, World OSDU Lead.

Accenture has been actively concerned within the OSDU Knowledge Platform initiative for a number of years. Along with our dedication to the OSDU Discussion board, we’ve developed our personal imaginative and prescient and technique as to how we are able to help OSDU Knowledge Platform integration into E&P workflows and the way we are able to improve operators’ enterprise functionality and knowledge worth.

Accenture understands our shoppers’ challenges and is their companion for advanced transformations

Our companions and shoppers need entry to safe, clear, and curated knowledge. To attain this, they have to liberate and migrate their knowledge to the OSDU Knowledge Platform. Our shoppers are coping with massive and extremely advanced knowledge units which have various high quality and codecs. Additionally they must handle their ongoing enterprise utilizing the present and future capabilities of the OSDU Knowledge Platform with its continuous enhancements of latest knowledge varieties and options. Accenture has deliberate a technique that helps the transition from monolithic apps and knowledge to the OSDU Knowledge Platform at tempo. Accenture and Microsoft are companions on this transformational journey as seen in Determine 1.

 

Our imaginative and prescient, your worth

To achieve success we consider there’s a must create and help an answer that gives an end-to-end enterprise functionality, specializing in enterprise worth and time-to-value acceleration.

Our strategy will rapidly put together and current knowledge to the person by way of the OSDU Knowledge Platform no matter its present performance and functionality. By integrating and consolidating knowledge in a regular format and enabling the interoperability of the platform throughout ISVs, operators can unlock the milestones to the precise of the diagram and ship the accelerated worth they’ve been promised.

We consider it as supporting an information life cycle and journey to mitigate perceived dangers because of the evolving nature of the OSDU Knowledge Platform whereas frequently enhancing your online business workflows.

Why select Microsoft Vitality Knowledge Companies?

We acknowledge the complexity and dangers concerned within the transition and migration to the OSDU Knowledge Platform. Whereas vitality corporations have all the time managed E&P danger and uncertainty, there may be usually a a lot decrease urge for food in the case of IT and digital platforms. Consequently, the {industry} is more and more looking for packaged options or out-of-the-box supply constructions. This permits them to appreciate the visions promised by the OSDU Knowledge Platform but nonetheless concentrate on the “day job” and operating their operations and enterprise. These options and constructions assist de-risk the journey and reduce disruption to enterprise continuity. Recognizing this, Microsoft developed an open-packaged answer to supply the OSDU Knowledge Platform as a PaaS by way of Microsoft Vitality Knowledge Companies. 

Microsoft Vitality Knowledge Companies was designed to help the vitality {industry}’s ambition to speed up innovation, develop enhanced insights to drive operational effectivity, and inform new methods of working and workflows. Microsoft Vitality Knowledge Companies can speed up the journey to a cloud-based OSDU Knowledge Platform and thus, the trail to worth.

Accenture and Microsoft Vitality Knowledge Companies collaboration

Accenture has helped deploy and take a look at Microsoft Vitality Knowledge Companies by way of the preview levels to supply suggestions to Microsoft Engineering. Accenture is concentrated on connecting knowledge to enterprise worth and dealing with Microsoft to ship a completely built-in strategy utilizing the OSDU Knowledge Platform to speed up digital transformation. Accenture demonstrated this throughout the preview by deploying the Microsoft Vitality Knowledge Companies answer, ingesting knowledge with OSDU core service instruments and Accenture proprietary instruments, and stitching collectively an information workflow throughout a number of ISVs to validate the openness of the platform. Throughout this course of, Accenture has constructed a group that may assist deploy and scale on Microsoft Vitality Knowledge Companies.

Microsoft Vitality Knowledge Companies differentiates itself as it would permit and allow:

• Integration with just about any vitality dataset, software, or cloud service with built-in instruments.
• Administration for compute-intensive workloads at a world scale.
• Compliance with the OSDU Technical Customary for open supply innovation.
• Ease the deployment of the OSDU Knowledge Platform whereas offering ongoing platform and administration help to align to OSDU Knowledge Platform deployments.
• Fast knowledge ingestion for analytics and decision-making.
• Enhance operational effectivity and achieve international scalability whereas lowering operational prices.
• Complete safety and compliance.
• Skill to simply leverage native Azure and Microsoft options.

Microsoft Vitality Knowledge Companies additional builds on and permits the OSDU Knowledge Platform worth drivers:

• The power to entry clear and curated historic knowledge underneath a single knowledge platform.
• Open entry to innovation and a wider set of expertise companions (ISVs).
• Removes siloes and limitations between disciplines and lays the inspiration for digital transformation.

Accenture’s particular capabilities and toolkit

Knowledge by itself will not be the reply, and Accenture has been working exhausting to supply end-to-end providers and instruments which join the complete enterprise and enterprise. The journey requires the necessity to ship clear knowledge to unlock worth by way of knowledge science, deploy, and roll out these options throughout international operations, and importantly, to instill belief from finish customers and the enterprise to permit the worth to be acknowledged.

Accenture is spearheading the {industry} adoption of the OSDU Knowledge Platform to allow vitality corporations to speed up their digital transformation. One such platform we’re creating is the Accenture OnePlatform, as seen in Figures 3 and 4, which is a working answer to deal with the present points and challenges and assist execute the information to its most restrict.

Determine 4: Accenture’s OnePlatform Knowledge Workflow.

Accenture OnePlatform is a cloud-agnostic platform and one-stop answer for knowledge extraction, schema mapping, metadata technology, and knowledge ingestion that’s operationally environment friendly. Accenture OnePlatform permits OSDU Knowledge Platform providers which are obtainable with only one click on with none want for additional plugins or any open supply installations. 

A few of the key highlights of Accenture OnePlatform are outlined under:

• Orchestration of the OSDU Knowledge Platform: Present end-to-end supply of enterprise workflows by way of a single interface.
• Knowledge extraction: Extracting totally different knowledge varieties by utilizing an information kind converter equivalent to LAS, SegY, or ResQML.
• Schema Mapping: Mapping consumer knowledge with Accenture OnePlatform–compliant knowledge varieties by utilizing AI/ML fashions.
• Metadata Era: Producing metadata by utilizing AI rule-based strategy.
• Knowledge Ingestion: Ingestion workflow. Working on click on answer utilizing python utilities.
• Knowledge Validation: Validating data utilizing python utilities by including custom-made guidelines.
• Knowledge High quality: Clever method to arrange the principles and do the standard checks mechanically.
• Information Graph: Construct Accenture OnePlatform-based ontology and provides the semantic outcome to the client.

As well as, the Accenture OnePlatform can function an orchestration device throughout a number of SaaS ISV options. We all know interoperability is a key worth driver for selecting OSDU. Accenture has performed a serious position in ISV’s integration by collaborating with varied ISVs and Microsoft for collective function of consuming the information obtainable in single knowledge platform. Accenture is working with a number of main ISVs for improvement of their functions to fetch knowledge in keeping with the schemas from the OSDU Knowledge Platform and Microsoft Vitality Knowledge Companies, providing best-in-class interoperability and the flexibility to ship end-to-end enterprise workflows. Microsoft Vitality Knowledge Companies with Accenture’s help has demonstrated the combination of DELFI with a number of ISV functions, equivalent to Interica and Ikon Science, and we had been happy to display this on the Schlumberger Digital Discussion board 2022.

Conclusion

In closing, Accenture is dedicated to being a number one companion to assist operators navigate the uncertainties round OSDU Knowledge Platform implementation, handle the dangers of deployment, and understand the complete worth of their knowledge.

We consider Accenture is finest positioned to ship on these commitments and allow your worth based mostly on our deep {industry} experience, investments in accelerators just like the Accenture OnePlatform, 14,000+ devoted oil and fuel expert international practitioners with 250+ OSDU™-trained professionals, and our in depth ecosystem relationships. We’re assured that our capabilities and our partnership with Microsoft are key to serving to operators execute and scale their OSDU Knowledge Platform transformation with Microsoft Vitality Knowledge Companies and the interoperability of the platform.

Learn how to work with Accenture on Microsoft Vitality Knowledge Companies

Microsoft Vitality Knowledge Companies is an enterprise-grade, totally managed, OSDU Knowledge Platform for the vitality {industry} that’s environment friendly, standardized, straightforward to deploy, and scalable for knowledge administration—for ingesting, aggregating, storing, looking, and retrieving knowledge. The platform will present the size, safety, privateness, and compliance anticipated by our enterprise clients.

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