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One Virtual Source®

An innovative oil & gas
workflow framework delivering flexible data access, monitoring, analytics, and automated workflows to the desktop.

Discover our unique framework.

With OVS, engineering and asset management teams are equipped to realize the industry-wide push toward integrated operations with a single solution providing data integration, visualization, surveillance, and workflow automation tools. Enable more effective analysis, control, and optimization of your operations in highly-configurable and collaborative environments.

Contrary to many other software providers, the OVS philosophy is not to add another layer of complexity by introducing yet another tool engineers and managers will need to learn. The OVS workflow deployment principle is to fully utilize previously made investments and leverage existing applications and databases. OVS does not create any additional databases that need to be maintained. OVS provides easy-to-use contextual displays and eliminates challenges associated with complicated data access and manipulation mechanisms. Coupled with sophisticated analytics and unmatched configuration and integration capabilities, OVS delivers a complete workflow automation experience to our clients.

No Replication/Migration of Data

Integration of Broad Databases & Files

OVS Virtual Connect™ enables virtual data integration using live data connections to provide an integrated view of data without data replication or migration. Your single-point-of-access easily links to any relational database, real-time historian, and/or unstructured data, such as Microsoft® Excel®, without changing your underlying data structure or displacing existing systems. By decreasing data management efforts, you gain incredible insight into operations and an increased focus on data analysis.

Rapid Candidate Selection

Real-Time Surveillance & Live Analytics

Using the most comprehensive library of surveillance methodologies available in the petroleum industry today, OVS Surveillance By Exception™ helps prioritize your operational activities by automatically evaluating current field and equipment conditions against user-defined operating envelopes and thresholds. Alarm notifications are automatically generated and sent to key personnel by email, SMS, or on-screen alerts. Surveillance results and analytics can be further evaluated in reports, charts, maps, and other visualization tools to ensure rapid and informed decisions by your asset team.

Dramatic Operational Impact

Workflow Automation & Vendor Neutral Application Integration

The OVS Workflow Engine™ provides a complete workflow design and run-time environment that allows teams to quickly configure and roll out your standard business and engineering processes without heavy development costs. The environment includes an extensive library of configurable workflows, system functions, and tools for the integration of third party and in-house applications using OVS Virtual Connect™. Adapted to your organization, these smart workflows consider the unique needs of individual assets to fully optimize your existing infrastructure.

Surveillance
  • Easy generation and visualization of surveillance scenarios
  • Automated evaluation of current field and equipment conditions using user defined operating envelopes and threshold
  • Automatic exception reporting via email, SMS or on-screen alerts
  • Windows based look and feel
  • Extensible entity-based (i.e. reservoir, well, flow station, opportunities) hierarchy
  • User-defined hierarchy and watch lists based on configurable attributes
  • Sophisticated filters and queries
Visualization
  • Customizable instructions using visual workflows for workflow guidance
  • Personalized user interface at login
  • Context sensitive interactive dashboards which are customizable and dynamic
  • Surveillance By Exception reporting with customizable intelligent alarms, and notifications
  • Ad-hoc HTML reporting engine, for any reporting need
  • Interactive chart engine that can annotate, and show multiple variables
  • Gauges, tables, document links, and contextual graphics
  • Fully integrated mapping engine (base maps, bubble maps, contour/grid maps)
Workflows
  • Open system for workflow creation and editing by the end users
  • Delivery of complex engineering and business workflows
  • On-demand .NET code compilation for development of custom workflows
  • Workflow task scheduler can run as an automatic process or by user on demand
  • Fully customizable user interface to personalize workflow process
  • Rule-based expert system for exception reporting, alarms and notifications
Application Integration
  • Full access to third party applications via API, Active X, COM, etc. for application control
  • Run-time inclusion of external DLLs for extending functionality and third party and/or proprietary applications
  • OPC interface for historian/sensor device data access
  • Third party integration for ‘Black box’ technologies using command-line control (i.e., reservoir simulators)
Security
  • Windows integrated security (Active Directory) for data access
  • Protected project database
  • Encryption of sensitive project data
  • Protects against SQL injection acts and spoofing
  • Full audit tracking
Data Integration
  • Virtual integration of multiple data sources in varying formats, sizes and frequencies, including real-time data from SCADA devices
  • Integration with Oracle, SQL Server, Access, Excel, Web services, text files, ODBC-compliant sources, OPC, PI Historians and many more
  • Configurable data access layer specific to project requirements (e.g. mixed units, custom labels)
  • Single point-of-access with no data replication or migration
Analytics
  • User defined calculations (algebraic and/or iterative)
  • Data cleansing and preprocessing of data outliers using configurable parameters
  • Rules-based notification & alarms (email, reporting, charts, dashboard, text messaging)
  • Run & update third party simulation models automatically
  • Automated task scheduling based on time and/or user-defined events
  • OVS Workflow DesignerTM allows users to create dynamic assemblies with compile on demand
  • Customizable guided user interface (GUI) creation for user-defined data input and workflow interaction
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Why OVS?
  • Powerful in any data-rich industry
  • Extremely broad application integration & flexibility
  • No displacement of existing applications, databases, or infrastructure
  • Designed to support rapid but customized implementations
  • Maximizes investment in existing tool sets & data sources
  • Applicable from “C-level” users to field personnel
  • Outstanding user adoption
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