Innovation, Opportunity and Responsibility are words that describe the companies driving sustainability and success in the energy industry. Some of the key challenges in the energy industry include: meeting future demand, international competition, litigation and eDiscovery, cross border mergers/acquisitions/joint ventures, and environmental impact/climate change.
These challenges translate into tactical issues such as high costs for eDiscovery and litigation, increased regulatory compliance, the need for greater institutional knowledge, improved business process optimization, and the requirement to drive overall costs down through system consolidation, outsourcing/offshoring and embracing partners around the globe who are experts in the exploration, production, transmission, and distribution of energy.
Gimmal has broad experience in the energy industry across: exploration and production, transmission / pipeline, refining, distribution / utilities, trading and generation. Our core value proposition is the effective planning and implementation of an enterprise-wide content and records management infrastructure which enables large multi-national operations to better meet the challenges they face. Many of our clients have a variety of departmental ECM/RM solutions which have improved a narrow set of business processes across departmental files including geosciences, engineering, operations, land, regulatory, environmental, health, safety, accounting, human resources, and other key areas. More and more, we see the energy industry faced with the challenge of managing all content more effectively to meet the demands they face. This includes better management and access of end-user files and shared drives, email, collaborative systems, departmental systems especially in geosciences, engineering and operations, knowledge sharing systems, websites/ intranets, and records management systems.
Gimmal’s ECM/RM planning and implementation services have helped some of the industry’s most successful companies implement and deploy consolidated ECM/RM programs and solutions. In production, these solutions deliver superior information access, improved retention management to reduce the exponentially growing volumes of all content, reduced eDiscovery costs, and improved operational efficiency. A recent energy industry executive communication video that was sent out to 10,000 employees will give you the big picture of the value these programs deliver. See Video
Gimmal’s ECM/RM programs bring together key business stakeholders, information technology, legal and records management professional to address the overall ECM/RM objectives of the corporation. We guide this group through our proven FOCUS methodology and deliver an overall project plan, cost and justification, prioritized list of ECM/RM projects, practical guidance on best practices in legal and records management, retention schedule review, information technology system roadmap, reference architecture, content usage model, information lifecycle model and an overall ECM/RM Governance plan and model. Additional information on these services is outlined in our ECM/RM Planning Services overview. We often conduct a one-day onsite maturity assessment to establish where we need to focus our planning activities for immediate value.
Gimmal has also worked with the leading ECM/ RM vendors to deliver key departmental solutions that include:
- Integrated SharePoint and ECM/RM solutions
- eDiscovery solutions
- Legal and Records Management systems including records hold and retention schedule maintenance systems
- Geological / geophysical portals and well files
- GeoScience knowledge systems with a map-base interface to access key asset data, documents and images
- Land administration / division order interest imaging applications
- Engineering drawing management / technical document management systems that support plant and facilities construction and maintenance
- Trading / deal confirmation document and imaging systems
- Web content management for internal and external sites
- Accounts payable imaging systems
- Human Resources employee records
- Conversion and Migration solutions to bring the content, images and documents from a newly acquired asset or company online quicly
- Intranet, Internet and Web-content management systems
You can find additional information about our engagements here.