Flare Solutions to deliver award winning software in Microsoft SharePoint
For immediate release 3rd July 2009
Flare Solutions Limited, based in Europe and North America, are deploying parts of their award winning E&P Catalog functionality and Flare E&P Taxonomy & Ontology on Microsoft’s SharePoint platform.
The integration of Flare’s technologies with Microsoft’s SharePoint suite is designed to compliment the existing E&P Catalog family of applications and deliver unique searching, publishing, graphical tracking and metrics functionality to oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) companies. Flare’s offerings for Microsoft SharePoint will form a suite of products that will help E&P users from exploration, through appraisal, field development and well engineering to production organize and discover information.
Flare’s Taxonomy and Ontology provides a comprehensive knowledge representation of the subsurface environment, containing hundreds of thousands of value-adding terms and relationships. Developed over the past 10 years, its deployment will enhance both the collaborative and electronic document management system (EDMS) implementations of Microsoft SharePoint by improving both manual and automatic tagging and classification, tracking and retrieval of content by end users. This will result in intelligent, focused searching for information that is not possible with other search systems or generic taxonomy plug-ins. This is one of the main challenges today with deploying and gaining acceptance for a document and records management system in business units or global operations.
Flare will also release a suite of discipline solutions around the geoscience, petrophysical, reservoir engineering and production operations domains to meet these users’ specific information requirements.
Flare’s E&P Catalog is already tightly integrated with a large number of systems including OpenText’s Livelink, EMC’s Documentum and Geographical Information Systems (GIS). A variety of E&P Subsurface Data Management systems have also been catalogued using web services to bring data and documents together in single searches.
For more information contact Glenn Mansfield
