{"id":457,"date":"2015-09-21T12:42:08","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T12:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ridgwaywilkes.co.uk\/flarenew\/?p=457"},"modified":"2015-09-21T12:42:08","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T12:42:08","slug":"global-catalog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flare-solutions.com\/FS2026\/case-studies\/global-catalog\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Catalog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The benefits of a global metadata catalog<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"260\" src=\"https:\/\/flare-solutions.com\/FS2026\/FlareSolutions2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/global-common-metadata.jpg\" alt=\"global common metadata E&amp;P\" class=\"wp-image-2500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flare-solutions.com\/FS2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/global-common-metadata.jpg 800w, https:\/\/flare-solutions.com\/FS2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/global-common-metadata-300x98.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flare-solutions.com\/FS2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/global-common-metadata-768x250.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-essential-blocks-pricing-table\"><div class=\"eb-parent-wrapper eb-parent-eb-pricing-thf9b68 eb_animation eb___animated eb___slideInRight\"><div class=\"eb-pricing-thf9b68 eb-pricing-wrapper eb-pricing-content-center\"><div class=\"eb-pricing style-2\"><div class=\"eb-pricing-item\"><div class=\"eb-pricing-item-overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"eb-pricing-header\"><h2 class=\"eb-pricing-title\">Key Benefits<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"eb-pricing-tag\"><span class=\"price-tag\"><span class=\"original-price\" data-price=\"\"><span class=\"price-currency\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"price-period\" data-period-separator=\"\" data-price-period=\"\"> <\/span><\/div><div class=\"eb-pricing-body\"><ul class=\"eb-pricebox-features \"><li class=\"eb-pricebox-feature-item\" data-icon=\"fas fa-check\" data-color=\"#03bb89\" data-clickable=\"false\" data-link=\"\"><span class=\"eb-pricebox-icon fas fa-check\" style=\"color:#03bb89\"><\/span><span class=\"eb-pricebox-feature-text\">Improved global access to multiple repositories for thousands of users.<\/span><\/li><li class=\"eb-pricebox-feature-item\" data-icon=\"fas fa-check\" data-color=\"#03bb89\" data-clickable=\"false\" data-link=\"\"><span class=\"eb-pricebox-icon fas fa-check\" style=\"color:#03bb89\"><\/span><span class=\"eb-pricebox-feature-text\">Search is quick, precise and accurate and uses industry knowledge to understand user queries.<\/span><\/li><li class=\"eb-pricebox-feature-item\" data-icon=\"fas fa-check\" data-color=\"#03bb89\" data-clickable=\"false\" data-link=\"\"><span class=\"eb-pricebox-icon fas fa-check\" style=\"color:#03bb89\"><\/span><span class=\"eb-pricebox-feature-text\">Search leverages an industry taxonomy, and returns results based on relationships that a full text index without understanding would miss.<\/span><\/li><li class=\"eb-pricebox-feature-item\" data-icon=\"fas fa-check\" data-color=\"#03bb89\"><span class=\"eb-pricebox-icon fas fa-check\" style=\"color:#03bb89\"><\/span><span class=\"eb-pricebox-feature-text\">12,000,000+ files and documents available irrespective of storage medium.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The challenge<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sharing information across the globe to users with diverse needs and search requirements proved to be a major challenge for Flare\u2019s client \u2013 an international energy company in operation for more than a century. With the client\u2019s exploration and production interests spanning 40 countries, and employing around 35,000 people, Flare was asked to provide an IM solution that was capable of supporting these huge numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Flare\u2019s Approach<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the outset, Flare helped with the identification and categorisation of a wide range of E&amp;P information across multiple internal and external systems. This was achieved by utilising one of Flare\u2019s key products:&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/flare-solutions.com\/FS2026\/software\/catalog\/\">The Catalog<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Catalog used a number of global servers which replicated on a regular basis \u2013 so an item added in a system in the USA would be visible to Malaysia within an hour. A key principle was that all items should be visible to all people \u2013 although access to the content would depend on security and regulatory policies.&nbsp;In this way, the system ensured that a user could be made aware of the metadata for an item, without having full access to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flare-solutions.com\/FS2026\/software\/catalog\/\">The Catalog<\/a>&nbsp;integrated seamlessly with other software in the client\u2019s technical ecosystem, such as their Electronic Document Management System (EDMS), Full Text Search Engine and Map Search based systems.&nbsp; Content for the index was populated either manually or automatically, depending on the sources and business requirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once implemented, users were able to perform simple \u201cGoogle-like\u201d searches across multiple internal and external repositories, which were transformed by the taxonomy with its industry knowledge into intelligent, focussed searches<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Benefits\/Outcomes<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Catalog greatly improved users access to information across the company. Many people began to discover information that was never visible before.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Searches are now quick, using ranking, precision and recall algorithms to ensure the results meet the needs of technical users.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The client\u2019s search technology now understands industry terminology, finding items via:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Aliasing, e.g. Well \u201c49\/3a-B12\u201d is also known as \u201cSeinter AD Slot 4\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The use of hierarchies, e.g. a search for content in the \u201cCarboniferous\u201d will also yield results tagged with the \u201cAlbian\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\n<p>&nbsp; Note that these searches would have been missed by full text indices.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stacked versions, folders and renditions that minimise results overload.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Integrated digital documents and data with hardcopy and physical samples, so that the whole story about a well or field is now made available.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Flare has now supplied web-based information management software to the client since 2004, and the platform is used by thousands of staff in its subsurface and wells line of business.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/www.flare-solutions.com\/book-in-for-your-free-demo\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5046\" src=\"https:\/\/flare-solutions.com\/FS2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/3-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"786\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flare-solutions.com\/FS2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/3-1.png 786w, https:\/\/flare-solutions.com\/FS2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/3-1-300x95.png 300w, https:\/\/flare-solutions.com\/FS2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/3-1-768x244.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 786px) 100vw, 786px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The benefits of a global metadata catalog The challenge Sharing information across the globe to users with diverse needs and search requirements proved to be a major challenge for Flare\u2019s client \u2013 an international energy company in operation for more than a century. 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