Dynamic Platform for Oil & Gas Services - The Microsoft Way

Encode's Dynamic Platform is a development of Microsoft's Dynamics NAV, which has been tailored by Encode to meet the needs of businesses operating in the Oil & Gas industry. Dynamic Platform provides an up-to-date view of operations across an organisation and allows users to be more effective in managing equipment rentals & sales and resource management.

Dynamic Platform forms an integral part of the Microsoft Stack of technologies which creates a complete Oil & Gas solution with the Contract at the core.

The primary function of the solution is to manage the rental of equipment and personnel to contracts with clients, as well as the financial requirements of the business. The easy to use Dynamic Platform solution will provide a single version of the truth providing the business with real time information on any contract at any time, including; committed costs, actual costs, and profitability.

The main features and benefits of the software include:-

• Keep tight control of job costs and budgets
• Analyse jobs by job task (e.g. materials, labour)
• Controls flow of quotes through to order and invoice
• Complete Management of equipment rentals/sales & personnel requirements
• Enriched HR specific to the needs for Oil & Gas Resource Planning and Allocation
• Equipment planning, certification and calibration recording
• Personnel planning and certification
• Full reporting suite and integration with Jet Reports
• Quality and performance scoring by contract
• Integrated with SharePoint to provide additional functionality and expose vital business data
• Role tailored user environment
• On-premise and web-based clients available

Platform in the Web

Encode Software also extends the availability of its Oil & Gas solution by providing an web-based environment for remote users to access and amend data as well as role-specific functionality.

Some key features are:

• The creation of an environment that can allow clients to securely login to defined areas of the software, to enquire on equipment or personnel currently hired or ordered for contracts
• The ability to automatically create a site from a newly opened job in Dynamics NAV.  The site displays all pre-defined information of a job/order such as –
  • All documents relating to a job (document management)
  • Budget enquiries & cost control
  • Project issues control
  • Health & Safety
  • Performance reports and dashboards
• Executive dashboards collating all jobs or defined reports specific to the user