Building resilience and scalability into a centralized terminal automation system

Round-the-clock system availability with reduced support costs

Enhanced business growth opportunities with horizontal scalability in the cloud

Industry

Energy, Oil&Gas

Headquarters

Houston, TX, USA

Services

Cloud Consulting Services

In a nutshell

TechnipFMC is a global oil and gas enterprise offering energy sector clients full project life-cycle services. It needed to modernize its centralized business systems to deliver better performance and scalability.

By utilizing our re-engineering and cloud expertise, we helped TechnipFMC improve its client management processes, boost reliability, and tap into new opportunities and markets.

Objectives

Global oil and gas firm, TechnipFMC, offers energy sector clients full project life-cycle services. To keep up with demand, it needed to modernize and enhance its centralized business system.

Complex software system

TechnipFMC’s clients utilize FuelFACS – both a local facility business system and a centralized business system – throughout their refined petroleum and lubricant terminals to enable end-to-end automation of operations and processes. With FuelFACS, all facets of terminal operations, from terminal access and entry to product movement, production of bills of ladings, product inventory management, and ERP integration are taken care of.

Re-engineering needs

FuelFACS, first launched in the early 2000s, needed an overhaul to boost its performance and scalability while reducing the costs associated with maintenance and support. Furthermore, TechnipFMC needed to make a shift from facilitating its clients’ expensive on-premise customizations and upgrades to a more sustainable, cost-effective approach.

Solution

With decades of software modernization and cloud strategy consulting under our belt, we instigated a comprehensive reverse-engineering project to transform TechnipFMC’s centralized business system – replicating the app’s current mechanics, controls, and business logic.

Kick-off

Beginning with a two-week client visit, our experts gathered system artifacts and clarified TechnipFMC’s architecture vision ahead of kicking-off development.

Migration

To remove the need to host the FuelFACS web app on the client’s side, we migrated it to Azure, which mitigated any performance issues and enabled centralized update generation and customization.

Transition to Agile

ELEKS’ expertise in Agile principles was one of the key advantages for TechnipFMC, enabling its development and product management team to safely and gradually transition to Agile principles. In doing so, the client was able to boost customer engagement and deliver the product to market faster.

Tech Stack/ Features

FuelFACS was implemented as a single-page web app with an infrastructure updated to fit the cloud

The existing project database was migrated to Azure

Results

With a modernized FuelFACS system, TechnipFMC’s client engagement model was transformed, helping it tap into a host of new opportunities.

Streamlined client management

By harnessing the benefits of cloud hosting, FuelFACS’ ongoing support needs – in terms of IT management, OS patch updates, and product upgrades – are mitigated, enabling significant cost savings and better efficiencies.

Improved reliability

The revamped system also offers close to 24/7 availability, which can flex according to demand, as well as reduced downtime for software updates.

New market opportunities

By shifting away from an on-premise installation approach, we helped TechnipFMC deliver increased customer value while enabling it to tap into new revenue opportunities and markets where business automation had been considered too expensive.

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