Customer Testemonial utilizing Pragmatic Works

1. Win Wire
BreitBurn Energy
October 2009
Business Problem
BreitBurn Energy Partners is an independent oil and gas limited
partnership, focused on the acquisition, exploitation and
development of hundreds of oil and gas properties.
After extensive company growth, an accounting system
consolidation in 2009, and rapidly changing commodity prices
BreitBurn was left with a P&L tool that no longer met the needs of
the company. The existing P&L reports were restrictive and only
available after hours of manual data extracts, summarization, and
“Senior management formatting into fixed, Excel based, reports. Overall the process
had a negative feeling was inefficient, laborious, and was not able to answer all the
towards Data questions presented by Operations. C-Level management
Warehousing based on requested a better, more flexible BI solution.
their prior experience
and feedback from Mike Dominick, Manager of Systems Integration and Development,
peers. The Pragmatic determined that a SQL Server 2008 data warehouse based BI
Works „Agile BI‟ solution would deliver the best results and provide long term
methodology helped us benefits. But first he needed to get his team up the BI learning
show results after a curve and show solid results to the management team early in the
week and deliver a investment cycle for the project.
production BI solution in
under 4 months.” Mike
Dominick, BreitBurn
Energy Solution
Pragmatic Works provided a one week, onsite “Business
Intelligence Quick Start” engagement in late June to build a proof
of concept Data Warehouse, and mentor the Breitburn technical
team on using the Microsoft BI stack technologies.
During July through September the BreitBurn team continued
working on the project. In August the Pragmatic Works BI
Consultant returned for a one week “Sprint” engagement to
continue mentoring the team and work on the more difficult BI
issues. A final week of reporting assistance in September pushed
the project across the finish line for BreitBurn. The new Data
Warehouse based property P&L reports were rolled out to business
users in October, less than 4 months after the project started.

2. Page 2 Win Wire – BreitBurn Energy
Value
Key elements of the value proposition for Breitburn Energy were:
KEYS TO SUCCESS
 Pragmatic Works:  Shorter time to value
o BI Quick Start  Lower cost to value
for mentoring and  Flexible P&L reporting now available to users on demand
Proof of Concept
 Increased level of reporting detail
o Sprint week to  Hours of manual summarization eliminated
drive project
towards finish  BreitBurn team is now equipped to complete BI solutions
line rapidly for additional business problems
 Microsoft Business  The project flushed out, and addressed, data and
Intelligence nomenclature inconsistencies so that future projects will
technologies:
proceed even more quickly.
o SSIS
 Rapid delivery of this initial BI application with C-level
o SSAS visibility has established credibility for the Microsoft SQL
o SSRS 2008 BI stack technology and the Breitburn BI team for
future projects
For additional information contact:
Sam Washburn, Technical
Director, Pragmatic Works
Consulting. +1.617.326.3846,
swashburn@pragmaticworks.com