Akili's 20+ years of Oil & Gas projects has
shaped our BPC on HANA solution to enable features such as reporting and forecasting at the individual well level and automated variance analysis or sophisticated scenario planning involving:
• Production volume forecasts
• Pricing scenarios
• Resulting revenue forecasts
• Lease operating expense
• Cash flow, debt, and interest
• Capital planning
These features combined with the benefits of HANA results in BPC environments that are in-memory optimized to yield faster performance for loading and reporting.
Transcript: New from BookNet Canada for 2024: BNC BiblioShare - Tech Forum 2024
Akili Inc Oil & Gas BPC Solution on Hana
1. AKILI INC. OIL & GAS BPC ON HANA SOLUTION
Compete like never before.
Consulting Technology Performance
2. COMPETELIKENEVERBEFORE
Oil & Gas Industry Challenges
• In a dynamic operating
environment, daily operational
decisions can have significant and
immediate impact on profitability,
debt and cash flow.
• Changing commodity markets can
dramatically affect performance.
• Significant capital requirements
require ongoing evaluation of
existing and potential
opportunities.
3. COMPETELIKENEVERBEFORE
The Strategic Value
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Cash Flow &
DebtInvestment Risk
• CFO’s must constantly monitor and validate the company’s key metrics to
ensure compliance with debt covenants and investor/shareholder
expectations.
• Tools to quickly evaluate investment choices and changes in the operating
environment are critical.
5. COMPETELIKENEVERBEFORE
Reasons to Invest in a Planning Solution
Firms enjoying best-in-class performance share several common
characteristics*
• 96% of best-in-class companies are able to track actual performance
against budget.
• 82% of best-in-class companies have the ability to reforecast as market
conditions change.
• 75% of best-in-class companies have established enterprise-wide
collaboration from the top-down and bottom-up during the planning
process.
• 70% of best-in-class companies have the visibility that allows them to
drill down to successive level of detail and 60% have the ability to
perform multi-dimensional roll-ups.
• 34% of best-in-class companies are more likely to enable the budgeting
process with technology.
*Source: Financial Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting in the New Economy. Aberdeen Group. March 2011
Anticipated ROI of 50% to 150%, and 6- to 12- month payback. Can reduce the
duration of the planning cycle by 30% to 90%, and reduce the cost by 25% to 75%.”
Source: 2009 Gartner-Financial Executives International Technology Survey
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6. COMPETELIKENEVERBEFORE
Oil & Gas Industry Opportunities
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• Integrate operational systems and data into planning systems
allowing a proactive response to changing operating conditions.
• Use a driver based model to evaluate multiple assumptions or
scenarios.
• Quickly assess new opportunities.
• Flow these changes through driver based models to assess the
impact on profitability, debt and cash flow.
7. o Production volume forecasts
o Pricing scenarios
o Resulting revenue forecasts
o Lease operating expense
o Cash flow, debt, and interest
o Capital planning
• Generating reports is reduced from 1-2 days to instantaneous.
• Dramatically reduced close process timeline allows for more analysis.
• BPC’s user interface (Excel) is familiar to most end users.
• Results in BPC environments that are in-memory optimized.
• Yields faster performance for loading and reporting.
• Is a platform built to handle “big data”.
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Business Planning and Consolidation on HANA Benefits
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Akili’s BPC on HANA forecasting solution enables features such as
automated variance analysis or sophisticated scenario planning involving:
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Why Akili’s BPC Solution on HANA for Oil & Gas?
• Akili’s Oil & Gas optimized BPC solution provides reporting and
forecasting at the individual well level.
• Experience complex scenario analysis running Akili’s Oil & Gas BPC
solution on HANA.
• Don’t waste resources developing customized applications – use Akili’s
Oil & Gas BPC solution now available on HANA.
• Akili’s Oil & Gas optimized BPC solution is based on our 20+ years of
experience learning industry best practices.
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9. COMPETELIKENEVERBEFORE
Next Steps with Akili
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• 12+ weeks
• Requirements,
Design, Build
• Training
• Organizational
Change Management
Implementation
• 2 Weeks
• Analyze the current
state of financial
planning, reporting
and analysis in your
organization.
• Define specific goals
and objectives.
• Develop Business
Case.
• Create a Roadmap to
achieve your goals.
Roadmap
• Outline current
Enterprise
Performance
Management (EPM)
solutions.
• Discuss issues with
the current
environment and how
BPC can be applied to
these issues.
• Plan for a Roadmap
Workshop.
½ Day Workshop