Pioneer Natural Resources successfully modernized their submittal application by combining two legacy systems into a single web-based application using Wavemaker, achieving this at less than 50% of the original cost and time. The new application enhances functionality, improves user experience, and allows for in-house maintenance, supported by an agile development process that involved business users in iterative releases. As a result, Pioneer was able to streamline data input and retrieval, while ensuring improved communication and security across its operations.

1. CASE STUDY
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Pioneer builds a modern submittal application combining
two legacy applications at half the cost and time with WaveMaker.
The Pioneer Natural Resources
Company

2. ABOUT
The Pioneer Natural Resources Company,
is an $8 billion natural exploration and
production company with operations in the
United States, South Africa and Tunisia.
They are focused on delivering competitive
and sustainable results as they responsibly
produce oil and natural gas to help meet the
world’s energy demands. In order to achieve
this, their team of business users and
geologists are reliant on Pioneer’s submittal
application which captures exploration,
business development opportunities and
submittals for evaluation.
CHALLENGES
Increase IT responsiveness while
reducing costs
SOLUTION
In steps WaveMaker professional
services
Pioneer looked for web based
development tools that did not require
extensive Java development skills. As
part of this search, they tried WaveMaker
and found that it was ideal to build and
maintain business applications like
Pioneer Submittals. Happy with what
they saw, Pioneer approached the
WaveMaker professional services team
for a quote to build the Pioneer
Submittals application and provide
sufficient training to Pioneer developers
so that they could maintain the
application themselves. Because
WaveMaker enables high developer
productivity, the WaveMaker
Professional Services team was able to
put together a very competitive proposal
(in fact, at less than 50% the cost and
time of the original development
project). In addition, WaveMaker Studio
was used to provide a prototype of the
application along with the proposal,
generating excitement among the
business users and accelerating the
budgeting process.
Pioneer is a large independent exploration
and production company with operations in
the United States, South Africa and Tunisia.
In most cases, business development team
members and geologists are away from the
office when they capture data in order to
evaluate prospects and opportunities. of the
Pioneer submittal application, they can input
the data on
a form similar to the online version and
upload the data when they connect to the
application server.
The application used to evaluate these
opportunities was the Exploration &
Business Development Submittal application
or the Pioneer Submittals for short. The
original application Exploration, Submittals
and BD opportunities was built over 5 years
ago using legacy systems. Few problems that
they faced,
Expensive to maintain: any change required
specialized skills only available through
external contractors
Multiple code bases: Pioneer had separate
applications for exploration submittals and
for business development.They had separate
databases (Oracle and SQL server) and only
one had an offline capability.
To address these issues. Pioneer decided to
undertake a modernization project to replace
the two separate submittal applications with
a single web based application and a common
database. In addition,Pioneer was determined
that the new Pioneer Submittal application
would be maintained by in-house staff.

3. Using an Agile development process produced
excellent business results, while delivering the
project on time and on budget. Specific benefits
included:
Better business communication: WaveMaker
worked closely with Pioneer IT and end users to
evaluate business requirements. With each
iterative release (generally spaced at 2 to
4weeks), business users had an opportunity to
test out new functionality and refine their
requirements.
Higher productivity: By working closely with
business users, WaveMaker was able to optimize
the usability based on extensive user feedback
Improved security: Pioneer personnel can
now only see the records available in their
division. Individuals can mark records as private
and IT could assign permissions based on
position.
“WaveMaker gave us a series of
iterative releases that helped
engage our business users,
enabled better testing along the
way and produced a solution that
exceeded
our customer expectations in
terms of quality and productivity.”
- Anne Dollar
Lead Analyst, Pioneer Natural Resources
In-house maintenance: The master
and subpage architecture of the new
application - easily created with
WaveMaker - allows each page to exist
separately and then be assembled into
the larger application, making
maintenance less complicated.
Visually appealing user interface:
WaveMaker’s support for HTML and
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) made it easy
to create a compelling user interface that
met Pioneer’s requested look and feel.

4. RESULT
Working together, the WaveMaker profes-
sional services team and Pioneer develop-
ers created a new Pioneer Submittals appli-
cation using Agile software development
methodology. The application itself compris-
es 15 web pages and includes complex
search with 14 search criteria. Specialized
custom widgets include drop-down selec-
tors, result grids with embedded images
and sortable columns,h and multiselect
widgets. The application uses 18 custom
database queries, 14 active directory roles
and 4 Java services. Users can upload Excel
spreadsheets to the application and gener-
ate PDF report output using MS Report
server. Pioneer was able to provide a
modern web-based solution to combine
two applications into one.
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