Saudi Aramco ... applying IT solutions
As a company which strives and achieves operational excellence, innovation and competition, Saudi Aramco embraces IT as a fundamental tool in its ongoing success.
The company benefits from the exchange of information and knowledge, which are seen as critical to the productivity, reliability, efficiency and safety of its operations.
Saudi Aramco says it will continue to invest in developing and enhancing the IT knowledge of its workforce, in order for employees to become more skilled at identifying IT solutions and rapidly deploying them.
Today, integrated teams at Saudi Aramco are utilising new information and communication technologies to visualise deep reservoirs, locating new reservoirs and managing existing ones.
Employees are today working together through high-tech networks to bring new levels of cost efficiency to refineries, pipeline systems, utility operations and other facilities.
The dependence of company business on IT will become even more pronounced over the next decade, according to trends identified by Saudi Aramco.
The corporate Integrated Learning System is heavily dependent on IT solutions such as computer-based training, Internet- and Intranet-based distance learning, interactive multimedia, and desktop and room-based video conferencing.
For instance, the company's Internet Petroleum Product Sales (IPPS) for LPG is an application which automates manual LPG Tender Sales and Marketing to maximise profitability from the sale of propane and butane.
IPPS therefore enables Saudi Aramco's LPG sales and marketing operation to electronically publish LPG sales tenders to selected customers, allows customers to review published tenders and submit offers and allows the sales and marketing department to notify customers whether their offers were accepted.
All of the company's business lines consider the Internet and Intranet as vital business information and knowledge-sharing tools for enhancing productivity and efficiency.
To enable this business environment, Saudi Aramco's IT strategy seeks to create synergy between technology and human talent to excel and innovate in all company endeavors.
Value-added IT solutions will, according to the company, be provided, with an infrastructure that is robust, reliable and scalable.
Such infrastructure will allow the creativity of users to provide innovative business solutions. Knowledge and information will be brought to employees' work locations anywhere, anytime, to increase their contributions to the company.
