Senior Solution Architect at Freeport LNG Development, L.P.
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2024-07-31T17:56:27Z
Jul 31, 2024
For engineering in the oil and gas industry, most of these companies, specifically in the Texas region, are kind of OpenText customers. Since we all do bigger enterprises and stuff like that, I go to these meetings called Regional User Groups, which are oil and gas-based quarterly meetings to discuss and look into the roadmap, look into the products, and stuff like that. So, I know pretty much almost every single company here is an OpenText shop inside this oil and gas industry. OpenText Extended ECM for Engineering is a big product that most of these companies have in common. OpenText has different product stacks. One of the products, which was primarily called Content Server or Content Suite, has been rebranded as Extended ECM, essentially Extended ECM platform. So OpenText becomes ANY basic ECM. It’s a bigger module suite. It’s another application altogether to manage engineering drawings and the lifecycle of engineering-related stuff. So that’s another stack. Now, consider that if you come to SAP, they call it Extended ECM for SAP. The terminology is still the same. The common term is Extended ECM; then the extensions are called something. So if it is engineering or operations-related stuff, dealing with drawings and other stuff, we call it Extended ECM for engineering. If we are dealing with SAP-related information or asset information, we call it Extended ECM for SAP. So Extended ECM for SAP comes in two different kinds of flavors, if you will. There is a smaller flavor, and then there is a full-blown capability related to stuff, which is called Extended ECM for SAP. Extended ECM for SAP typically starts with a small implementation. However, most manufacturing companies have a SAP footprint, and if they are getting started either in OpenText or stuff like that, they will integrate at some point for the attachment parts of the SAP implementation because SAP HANA is a costly deal. You don’t want to architect all the content, which is not essentially business content, to store in an SAP HANA database. So that’s where Extended ECM for SAP comes into the picture. Most of the companies I had some past experience with this bigger manufacturing company will integrate their SAP, not completely with OpenText, but using a smaller integration. It’s called archival and document access (ADA). That’s the component most of these companies will utilize. At a certain point in their implementation, they’ll realize, "Hey, let’s take a closer look at the full-blown capability of Extended ECM for SAP." So that’s where this kind of rollout will evolve.
OpenText Extended ECM is a tool you can integrate with SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management. OpenText Extended ECM is like an extension of SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management. I use the solution in my company for supply chain management and material management. The use cases related to the product revolve around the standard module offered by SAP.
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For engineering in the oil and gas industry, most of these companies, specifically in the Texas region, are kind of OpenText customers. Since we all do bigger enterprises and stuff like that, I go to these meetings called Regional User Groups, which are oil and gas-based quarterly meetings to discuss and look into the roadmap, look into the products, and stuff like that. So, I know pretty much almost every single company here is an OpenText shop inside this oil and gas industry. OpenText Extended ECM for Engineering is a big product that most of these companies have in common. OpenText has different product stacks. One of the products, which was primarily called Content Server or Content Suite, has been rebranded as Extended ECM, essentially Extended ECM platform. So OpenText becomes ANY basic ECM. It’s a bigger module suite. It’s another application altogether to manage engineering drawings and the lifecycle of engineering-related stuff. So that’s another stack. Now, consider that if you come to SAP, they call it Extended ECM for SAP. The terminology is still the same. The common term is Extended ECM; then the extensions are called something. So if it is engineering or operations-related stuff, dealing with drawings and other stuff, we call it Extended ECM for engineering. If we are dealing with SAP-related information or asset information, we call it Extended ECM for SAP. So Extended ECM for SAP comes in two different kinds of flavors, if you will. There is a smaller flavor, and then there is a full-blown capability related to stuff, which is called Extended ECM for SAP. Extended ECM for SAP typically starts with a small implementation. However, most manufacturing companies have a SAP footprint, and if they are getting started either in OpenText or stuff like that, they will integrate at some point for the attachment parts of the SAP implementation because SAP HANA is a costly deal. You don’t want to architect all the content, which is not essentially business content, to store in an SAP HANA database. So that’s where Extended ECM for SAP comes into the picture. Most of the companies I had some past experience with this bigger manufacturing company will integrate their SAP, not completely with OpenText, but using a smaller integration. It’s called archival and document access (ADA). That’s the component most of these companies will utilize. At a certain point in their implementation, they’ll realize, "Hey, let’s take a closer look at the full-blown capability of Extended ECM for SAP." So that’s where this kind of rollout will evolve.
OpenText Extended ECM is a tool you can integrate with SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management. OpenText Extended ECM is like an extension of SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management. I use the solution in my company for supply chain management and material management. The use cases related to the product revolve around the standard module offered by SAP.