Read about how IBM's Integrated Information Framework helps chemical and petroleum companies improve business operations while simultaneously reducing costs.

1. IBM SALES & DISTRIBUTION Helps optimize production operations and asset management
Solution Brief
IBM Chemical and Petroleum
Integrated Information
Framework
To help customers in the chemical and petroleum industry enhance
production, improve asset management and optimize global opera-
Highlights tions, IBM delivers the Chemical and Petroleum Integrated
Information Framework, a configurable software platform based on
● Reduces costs with optimized
processes, enabling more intelligent industry and IT standards that works with existing applications.
decisions that leverage federated
information with performance compar-
isons across the enterprise Deliver consistent representation in context
● Improves the productivity of skilled Picture your oil fields, pipelines, refineries and chemical plants, all of
people with contextual views of them busy producing and generating terabytes of data with a consistent
critical operational data about plat- view of equipment, relationships, unit operations and measurements,
forms, pipelines and refineries as it is
leveraging common processes. Now imagine that you can view, in near
happening
real time, critical operational data about those assets in context. Such
● Decreases planned and unplanned power delivers events and alerts to help you proactively make better
shutdowns for long-lived asset man-
agement, decreasing maintenance
business decisions, reduce lost production, decrease operational costs
costs by providing proactive monitor- and increase overall efficiency. But it’s not just a vision. It’s the IBM
ing of equipment condition Chemical and Petroleum Integrated Information Framework.
Tap into a pipeline of real-time, trusted information
The framework delivers new business benefits by utilizing distinctive
new technology approaches. The framework integrates field data on
drilling and well operations, reservoir and plant production status,
considering overall operations, maintenance and repair. Data is
delivered in consistent formats—despite its ties to diverse assets.
Sophisticated alerts can be set up and triggered based on business rules
that speed engineering interpretation. And it is all delivered in an
interface that visualizes the operation through intuitive hierarchies.
Start standardizing those best practice business processes across remote
diverse heterogeneous assets.

2. IBM SALES & DISTRIBUTION Helps optimize production operations and asset management
Solution Brief
Refine your business operations
Optimizing production operations, enhancing quality, and ensuring worker and
environmental safety are all vital business objectives. This framework can help Produced in the United States of
by providing: America
July 2009
● Visualization of contextual operations information—view across your All Rights Reserved
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Improve experts’ productivity
The ability to make timely, smart business decisions about field operations and
production, refining, and chemical plant assets directly drives the effectiveness,
efficiency and production of upstream or downstream facilities. Get more
timely information in context with the IBM Chemical and Petroleum
Information Integration Framework, the software platform for upstream and
downstream oil and gas and chemical production solutions.
For More Information
To learn more about IBM Chemical and Petroleum Integrated Information
Framework, please contact your IBM representative or IBM Business Partner,
or visit: ibm.com/software/industry/frameworks/chemical_petroleum.html
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