PPDM Association AGM 1999 Presenter: Yogi Schulz

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PPDM Association AGM 1999Presenter Yogi Schulz
Interoperability Initiatives
HOW WILL I EVER GET MY APPLICATIONS TO
INTEROPERATE?
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PresentationOutline

• Interoperability Definition
• Interoperability Irritants
• Interoperability Initiatives
• Discussion
• Conclusions
• Recommendations

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How do you describeinteroperability irritants?
Irritant Description
Promising Solution Area

• Inadequate or multiple data models
• Software glitches
• Immovable data, data value differences
• Bad data content

• Epicentre, PPDM, IRIS
• COM for Energy, OpenSpirit, Oracle Synergy
• BizTalk, Geoshare, OpenDX, Perl, XML
• Cleaning tool, populated reference entities

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InteroperabilityDefinition

• Interoperability is seamless sharing of data
  among multiple applications

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InteroperabilityComponents
Applications Data Access Data Data
Models Databases Computing Infrastructure
PPDM Compliant, Non-Compliant
Application, Data Transfer, Interface
Application, Object
Keys, Attributes, Values, Reference
PPDM
Proprietary, Vendor, Standard
Hierarchical, Relational, Object, Multi-dimensiona
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Hardware, Network, Operating System
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ManagingEnd User Expectations
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Types ofInteroperability Initiatives

• Application integration
• OpenSpirit Alliance www.prismtechnologies.com
• Oracle/Open Synergy www.prismtechnologies.com
• POSC www.posc.org/technical/interop/index.shtml
• PPDM Association www.ppdm.org
• Data movement
• BizTalk www.biztalk.org
• BizTech for Energy www.com4energy.com
• Geoshare Users Group www.geoshare.org
• OpenDX www.opendx.com

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BizTalkInitiative

• What is it
• Microsoft BizTalk is a platform neutral
  e-commerce framework
• Driver
• Application integration is too hard today
• Need for enhanced data exchange standards
• Goal
• XML-based interoperability
• Make it easy for businesses to
• integrate applications
• conduct business over the Internet with trading
  partners and customers

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BizTalk Initiative

• Objectives
• Enable integration across industries and between
  business systems, regardless of platform,
  operating system or underlying technology
• Products
• The BizTalk framework based on Extensible Markup
  Language (XML) schemas and industry standards
• Participants
• many software/hardware/data vendors
• http//www.microsoft.com/industry/energy/business/
  partners/biztalk_supporters.stm

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BizTalkBibliography

• BizTalk
• http//www.biztalk.org/
• Getting Started with XSL
• http//msdn.microsoft.com/xml/XSLGuide/xsl-overvie
  w.asp
• W3C Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)
• http//www.w3.org/Style/XSL/
• XML in 10 points
• http//www.w3.org/XML/1999/XML-in-10-points

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Component Object Model (COM)Definition

• COM is the underlying software architecture for
  the language independent development and
  packaging of reusable binary application and
  application integration components
• It is publicized as the most widely used
  component software model

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BizTech for Energy Initiative

• What is it
• Microsoft-led initiative to promote use of COM
  within the energy industry
• Driver
• Need for enhanced data exchange standards
• Goal
• To foster greater business process integration
  between the technical and business domains of the
  energy industry through the development of open,
  multi-platform software interface standards,
  focusing initially on exploration and production

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BizTech for Energy Initiative

• Objectives
• C4E is an initiative that aims to develop
  technical specifications based on COM that will
• enable the development, packaging and deployment
  of reusable application integration components
• allow the integration of disparate technical and
  business applications used in the EP sector of
  the energy industry
• Products
• Specifications not software
• XML schemas
• Participants
• Landmark Graphics Corp., Microsoft Corp., SAP AG,
  PricewaterhouseCoopers and Schlumberger GeoQuest

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BizTech for Energy Bibliography - 1

• BizTech for Energy
• http//www.com4energy.com/
• BizTech for Energy QA
• http//www.com4energy.com/1_mar_99.htm
• The Business Internet Realigns the Energy
  Enterprise
• http//www.microsoft.com/Industry/energy/articles/
  bizinternet_energy.asp
• Energy Industry Presentations
• Technology descriptions and case studies
• http//www.microsoft.com/Industry/energy/dns/prese
  ntations.asp

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BizTech for Energy Bibliography - 2

• Leading Energy Organizations Back BizTalk
  Framework
• http//www.api.org/ecit/pressreleases/pressrelease
  14.html
• Petroleum Industry Data Exchange
• http//www.pidx.org/
• POSC eBusiness and XML
• http//www.posc.org/ebiz/
• Working to Bring Effective E-Commerce Standards
  into the Energy Industry With BizTalk
• http//www.microsoft.com/Industry/energy/articles/
  biztalk_ecom.asp

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Geoshare Users Group Initiative

• What is it
• Public standard for integration of computer
  systems and application programs used in the oil
  and gas industry. This integration is based on
  exchange of data, whose content and encoding are
  an integral part of the standard
• Driver
• Need for enhanced data exchange standards
• Goal
• To simplify movement of data between applications

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Geoshare Users Group Initiative

• Objectives
• increase adoption of the Geoshare standard
• foster development of data movement software
  based on Geoshare standard
• Products
• specifications not software
• members have created rich software library
• Participants
• http//www.geoshare.org/frames/gug_membership_fram
  e.htm Almost everybody

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Geoshare Users Group Bibliography

• Geoshare Users' Group
• http//www.geoshare.org/
• 3rd International Data Integration and Management
  Conference April 26-28, 1999
• http//www.seg.org/sections/gsh/DIMC.html

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OpenDX Initiative

• What is it
• Industry-led project to promote the DAEX data
  exchange standard created by Oilfield Systems of
  the U. K.
• Driver
• Need for faster, simpler, predictable, repeatable
  data migration
• Goal
• The goal of the OpenDX Initiative is to focus
  industry experience and effort on the enlargement
  and deployment of Oilfield Systems successful
  data migration technology, particularly among
  users of FINDER, OpenWorks, GeoFrame, Geoshare
  and Recall

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OpenDX Initiative

• Objectives
• Provide more extensive data model descriptions
• Support the development of DAEX links
• Establish and run a DAEX software component
  repository
• Enhance DAEX framework
• Products
• DAEX software components
• definitions of the data model descriptions
• Participants
• targeting users of OpenWorks, Geoshare, GeoFrame,
  RECALL, FINDER, Geolog, PPDM, Epicentre,
  PetroVision, RC2, RMS, LAS and LIS

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OpenDX Bibliography

• The OpenDX Initiative
• http//www.opendx.com/
• Existing DAEX Components list
• http//www.oilfield-systems.com/oilfield/daex/exis
  tcomp99.htm
• DAEX Presentation
• Jean-Paul Marbeau - CGG-PECC
• Ross Davidson - Oilfield Systems
• http//www.posc.org/notes/feb98/supplier_feb98.htm
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• http//www.posc.org/notes/feb98/swf2.ppt

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OpenSpirit Alliance Initiative

• What is it
• The OpenSpirit Alliance is a partnership of EP
  companies which is sponsoring the design and
  development of the OpenSpirit EP Component
  Framework
• Driver
• Improve application integration
• Avoid data migration
• Goal
• OpenSpirit will enable 'plug-and-play' software
  integration of data and applications across the
  EP lifecycle

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OpenSpirit Alliance Initiative

• Objectives
• Provide multi-vendor interoperability
• Facilitate cross-platform development
• Support Epicentre migration
• Utilize web-enabled technology
• Products
• OpenSpirit Component Framework is an
  application-independent software platform
• Participants
• Shell, Elf EP, Chevron, STATOIL, BG plc, CGG,
  GeoQuest, PGS, Shared Earth Technologies, Jason
  Geosystems, de Groot-Bril Earth Sciences, Foster
  Findlay Associates, Petrotechnical Data Systems
  and IFP

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OpenSpirit Alliance Bibliography

• PrismTech operates the OpenSpirit Alliance
• http//www.prismtechnologies.com/

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Oracle Synergy Initiative
Project Synergy

• What is it
• Project Synergy is an ambitious plan to design a
  central repository through which the EP industry
  can share complex technical data in a standard
  way
• Data Warehousing approach
• Driver
• reduce cycle times
• save time passing information and reformatting
• Goal
• By making business-critical decisions based on
  one common set of shared data, the partners hope
  for huge cost and time savings

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Oracle Synergy Initiative

• Objectives
• Utilize Oracle's 8i database
• Design and build a series of specially designed
  cartridges that can read and manipulate technical
  and numerical data
• Products
• POSC-based database schema
• Oracle cartridges
• Prism Technology middleware between the
  repository and associated applications
• Participants
• Chevron, Norwegian Statoil, Oracle and POSC

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Oracle Synergy Bibliography

• OpenSynergy
• Technical Data Warehousing software from
  PrismTech
• http//www.prismtechnologies.com/
• Oracle Corp. announces Project Synergy
• Press Release REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Jan.
  26,1999
• Oracle Synergy
• Petroleum Data Manager, Volume 4, No. 2, February
  1999
• U.K. Information Week
• 3 March 1999, No. 57
• http//www.informationweek.co.uk/newsweek/newsweek
  57/newsweek57_1.htm

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POSC Interoperability Initiative

• What is it
• E P interoperability specifications
• Driver
• reduce cycle times
• Goal
• Deliver application interoperability to the EP
  end-user
• Achieving interoperability requires the use of an
  agreed upon architecture, the use of common,
  shared services and well-defined business objects
  for use as application components.

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POSC Interoperability Initiative

• Objectives
• Provide a standardized object-oriented
  architecture for distributed applications based
  on specifications that enable and support
  distributed, sharable EP business objects
• Define standardized objects for the EP business,
  and for Subsurface Interpretation in particular
• Products
• Interoperability architecture
• Interoperability specification
• Participants
• Chevron, IFP, PDS, PrismTech, Schlumberger, Shell
  International, Norwegian Statoil

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POSC Interoperability Bibliography

• Interoperability and Business Objects
• http//www.posc.org/technical/interop/index.shtml
• Request for Technology - Evaluation Report
• Five Level Interoperability Definition table in
  the RFT Evaluation Report

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PPDM AssociationInteroperability Initiative

• What is it
• Interoperability supported through a standardized
  data model and data content
• Driver
• Enhance EP professional productivity
• Enable effective data management
• Support seamless data exchange among industry
  stakeholders
• Goal
• Deliver application interoperability to the EP
  end-user

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PPDM AssociationInteroperability Initiative

• Objectives
• Provide a data model and related products which
  support application interoperability
• Enable selection of software/data based on their
  technical merits rather than on their impact on
  an in-place data management strategy
• Products
• Now Robust data model, reference guides, sample
  data
• Now Compliance definition
• Future Implemented compliance process
• Future Populated reference tables
• Participants
• workgroup members

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PPDM AssociationInteroperability Bibliography

• PPDM Association
• http//www.ppdm.org/

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Conclusions

• Many initiatives are chasing interoperability
• The substance of each initiative reflects the
  perception of the irritants of its participants

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Alternatives

• Join/promote an existing interoperability
  initiative
• Start a workgroup to strengthen PPDM support for
  interoperability
• Do nothing wait for other trends to develop
• results from current interoperability initiatives
• continuing improvements in hardware/software
  price/performance
• continuing improvements in DBMS capability

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Recommendation

• Canvass PPDM Association members with a proposal
  to charter an interoperability workgroup

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InteroperabilityInitiatives

• Yogi Schulz

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• Information technology management consulting
• Project management and systems development
• Computing Canada columnist
• PPDM Association Board of Directors

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SimplifyingData Management
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POSCInteroperability Level Definitions

• Applications access the same data store
• Same application runs on different data stores
• Applications can request notification of data
  object content changes
• Applications can share process and presentation
  objects/servers
• Independently developed applications can be
  configured into reusable, virtual applications
• Virtual applications can be configured by
  end-users

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Alternatives toAchieving Interoperability

• Implement single vendor, full meal deal
  solution
• available here and now simplified implementation
• holes, gaps, inadequacies in functionality
• Use available standards to implement multi-vendor
  interoperability
• avoids a single vendor, enables best-of-breed
  applications
• standards and supporting technology not ready
• Implement best-of-breed applications for each
  professional discipline
• high application functionality
• huge data management problems

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PetroWeb/StrataWebService Offering

• What is it
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS) application
  to present oil gas data via the Web
• Driver
• Improve data accessibility
• Reduce TCO through web-based applications
• Goal
• Provide worldwide access to current visual data
  through leading edge technology with a spatial
  presentation that integrates multiple data
  sources

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PetroWeb/StrataWebService Offering

• Objectives
• Meet distributed data warehousing requirements
• Present data/information in a single viewer
• Become the prevalent choice for data analysis and
  subsequent business decisions.
• Take advantage of shift toward thin client
  computing
• Products
• GIS service offering for display, query,
  reporting of oil gas public data
• ability to integrate with private data
• Participants
• oil gas producer and service companies

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PetroWeb/StrataWebBibliography

• Bruce Rodney, from UK-based current trends in
  data management
• visual integration vs. actual integration
• Petroleum Data Manager, Volume 4, No. 3, March
  1999
• PetroWeb
• http//www.petroweb.com/default.asp
• StrataWeb
• http//www.strataweb.com/

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BizTalkEnergy Industry Participants

• Ariba Inc.
• Cambridge Management Consulting
• Commerce One Inc.
• Compaq Computer Corp.
• Concur Technologies Inc.
• EMC
• Enermetrix.com
• ESRI Corp.

• Exodus Communications
• IPNet Solutions Inc.
• J.D. Edwards
• OSI Software
• Phonoscope Communications
• Resource 2000
• Technomation
• Tobin International Ltd.
• Webridge Inc.
• Wyle Systems

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BizTalk ServerServices
Outgoing Message
Incoming Message

• Map
• Initialize
• Sign
• Encrypt
• Pre-transport audit
• Transport
• Post-transport audit

• Decrypt
• Initialize
• Verify signature
• Generate receipt
• Map
• Pre-application audit
• Application integration
• Audit

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Other Oil Gas IndustryInteroperability
Initiatives - 1

• CORBA
• OMG
• Norwegian Slegge Group
• Statoil, Saga, IBM
• Esprit Project OMEGA II
• European Petroleum Survey Group
• defined various geodetic and cartographic
  coordinate systems to encourage standardization
  across the E P segment of the oil industry

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Other Oil Gas IndustryInteroperability
Initiatives - 2

• Geoshare/Epicentre Migration SIG, or GEMSIG
• Defining technical solutions to enable a
  migration of Geoshare to use the POSC Epicentre
  Data Model as the logical data model for exchange
• Recent activities of the GEMSIG have centered
  around mappings between Geoshare and Epicentre,
  based on Common Business Objects
• Open Energy Exchange or OE2
• proposed convergence of various standards
  initiatives into one organization
• focus on objects, data model and eBusiness

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InteroperabilityBibliography - 1

• Wireless Lan Interoperability Forum (WLIF)
• promoting an open specification for
  interoperability among wireless LAN computer
  hardware and software.
• Reuse Library Interoperability Group (RIG)
• drafts standards for interoperability of software
  reuse libraries and submit them to formal
  standards organizations, such as ANSI and IEEE.
• Directory Interoperability Forum
• a group of directory vendors developing open
  standards to ensure the interoperability of
  directory-based applications and reduce the
  investment risk for companies doing e-business.

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InteroperabilityBibliography - 2

• TURNIP The URN Interoperability Project
• an international collaborative effort which
  provides an experimental testbed for developers
  of URN services to evaluate their
  interoperability with other URN resolution
  services.
• LonMark Interoperability Association
• non-profit organization to facilitate the
  development of open, interoperable guidelines
  based on LonWorks technology for home, buildings,
  utility, and industrial control networking.
• CEBus Industry Council
• non-profit organization that governs home plug 'n
  play specifications, providing interoperability
  guidelines needed for home network products.

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InteroperabilityBibliography - 3

• Navy Center for Tactical Systems Interoperability
• http//www.nctsi.spawar.navy.mil/default.htm
• University of New Hampshire's InterOperability
  Lab
• 1394, ADSL, ATM, Bridge Functions, DOCSIS, Fast
  Ethernet, FDDI, Fibre Channel, Gigabit Ethernet,
  HDSL2, IP/Routing, Linux, Token Ring, and
  Wireless
• http//www.iol.unh.edu/consortiums/index.html
• Web Interoperability Pledge
• a promise to adhere to current HTML standards as
  promulgated by the World Wide Web Consortium
  (W3C).

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InteroperabilityBibliography - 4

• W3C The World Wide Web Consortium
• founded in October 1994 to lead the World Wide
  Web to its full potential by developing common
  protocols that promote its evolution and ensure
  its interoperability.
• Mobidick
• Mobile Databases, Interoperability, Computing
  Knowledge.
• Digital Audio Visual Council (DAVIC)
• non-profit association that develops industry
  standards for end-to-end interoperability of
  broadcast and interactive digital audio-visual
  information, and of multimedia communication.

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InteroperabilityBibliography - 5

• Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA)
• a consortium of storage, networking, operating
  system companies working with the IS
  Integration community to cooperatively achieve
  standards interoperability across networked
  storage systems.
• Gigabit Ethernet Alliance
• current information on technology, products,
  equipment interoperability, Alliance membership
  and industry activities.
• Object Management Group, Inc
• consortium of software hardware vendors users
  dedicated to standards for distributed,
  heterogeneous interoperability, such as CORBA.

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InteroperabilityBibliography - 6

• Enterprise Computer Telephony Forum -- ECTF
• is a non-profit trade association focused on the
  development of interoperability agreements on
  implementations of the various standards within
  the industry.
• Inter-Language Unification -- ILU
• a system that promotes software interoperability
  via interfaces.
• Logic Group - Knowledge Sharing effort
• concerned with automating the interoperation of
  programs.
• http//logic.stanford.edu/sharing/knowledge.html

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InteroperabilityBibliography - 7

• European Commission's Open Information
  Interchange (OII)
• Bi-Monthly Reports on Electronic Commerce
  Interoperability
• http//www2.echo.lu/oii/en/ec-reps.html