Software and Technology Services
Executive View
Top Level Objectives
Owner Operators are increasingly demanding more integration, collaboration and specialty database formatting for their deliverables to help them decrease commissioning, start up and operating costs. These new contracts terms that EPC’s have to abide by are placing greater empathize on software and communications infrastructure.
Engineering integration with the enterprise, sharing design data across design functional areas, and reduction of rework are everyday challenges that when solved through better software infrastructure will supply efficiency and quality benefits. Rolta is in a unique position as large consumers of engineering technology to assist our clients in optimizing their engineering infrastructures. Customers satisfaction and on schedule & budget projects are the main objectives that Rolta wants to deliver to our customers through the better use of engineering technology. If customization is needed to achieve this, Rolta has a long history in authoring application utilities to make sure our customers engineering business needs are met.
Solution - Innovation
Organizations will realize more dollars leveraged per man hour delivered if the business processes are integrated and automated. The only way to accomplish this is through superior software implementation, integrations and performance management. Rolta's innovation in our technology group is around application utilities, specification databases of materials, work process design and redesign, and integrating the enterprise with the engineering infrastructure. Innovation is part of every implementation because if customization is needed to meet customer objectives, Rolta has the talent and resources to deliver.
Advantage - Insight
Integration and aggregation of engineering with enterprise data can provide early detection of problems in projects. Combination of integrated engineering software with business intelligence can supply great business insights to your key performance indicators. This is only possible if you have the correct infrastructure to mine to correct data. Good communications with clients during all project phases vastly reduces risks. Insights from those communications are enabled by correct technology usage to ensure each party is working from a consistent data set.
Benefit - Impact
Great software implemented improperly hurts more then it helps. Benefits from an engineering solution are generated through correct work processes, trained and motivated people and technology. Rolta will help with all three. The net results can be $5M or more savings per engineering project. Rolta can start by building a strategy plan with a business case. This sets the stage for correct budgeting and timing. Then Rolta's experts will implement and help sustain your engineering environment.
Management View
Business Objectives
All companies are trying to perform more work with less head count. This demands efficiency gains in engineering processes which are not easily obtained. Rolta can customize a complete engineering infrastructure strategy that will address the gains in efficiency needed to stay competitive and advance your business.
Solution
Integration, quality assurance, asset master data lifecycle management and data validation are the main functional components to Rolta's software and technology offerings. Rolta innovates on every project because each customer's business details are different and the "one size fits all" does not work in these types of complex and changing environments. With Rolta's standard off-the-shelf software and our ability to rapidly tailor the software to specific needs, our customers maximize their benefits well beyond standard approaches.
Approach
Rolta's consulting discovery services analyze the current engineering work practices and build a list of success criteria, project hurdles, customer deliverables, resource allocation and complete work process maps to ensure an on time on budget project that meets the business objectives. After implementation, Rolta performs a stabilization phase to make sure the solution is robust and scales to meet the needs of the business. Once fully deployed Rolta can sustain your environment through hosting, managed services and onsite or online support so you continue to receive your business benefits and meet your customer expectations.
Business Value
Rolta's experience and productivity enhancing software helps to minimize or eliminate the project "unknowns" and reduces cost overrun risks for engineering infrastructure upgrades. Engineering efficiencies can increase 10% to 20% with the correct material reference database, workflows and integrations supplied by Rolta.
Technical View
Technical Issues
The current technology situation is very heterogeneous which makes sharing data, integrating work processes and engineering reuse difficult. Absorbent cost of upgrading engineering infrastructures is the number one reason companies have postponed these types of projects. The pay back is also a matter of years given the high cost and calculating a 10%-20% efficiency gain. Rolta offers an enhanced business case for these types of projects by taking advantage of our onshore / offshore project model as well as our vast database of material specifications and symbols. Rolta can cut the breakeven time for these investments in half which means you will only have months of negative cash flow instead of years.
Solution Components
Material specifications, workflows, symbols, enterprise integration software and specialty software utilities comprise Rolta's arsenal of technical weapons to attack these types of projects and shorten the time to larger paybacks.
Implementation
Our unique assessment methodology will help set your strategy and expectations for project cost vs. returns. Rolta has a unique advantage of being a full IT shop as well as an excellent engineering company. This allows Rolta to fully integrate the enterprise with engineering therefore optimizing work processes and helping to gain efficiencies within and outside the engineering areas. After full implementation, Rolta can also provide application support, hosting, application administration, remote database services, specification library updating and support for sustaining your IT infrastructure.
How Does it Fit and Why is it Different?
Rolta is not a CAD/CAM vendor but rather a large user of industrial engineering software to deliver engineering services across all disciplines and a major provider of Oracle and CA IT services. Engineering infrastructure upgrades presents many challenges, some in core IT areas and some in very technical engineering areas. Rolta possesses both the engineering and IT savvy to help reduce the pain and increase the benefits for these projects.