The Practical Application of AS2 in the PIDX World

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The Practical Application of AS/2 in the PIDX
World

• Steven Carter
• VP Operations, Wellogix, Inc
• Chris Welsh
• Project Manager e-Procurement, Baker Hughes
  International

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Wellogix

• Wellogix is a software company that develops and
  supports business process software designed to
  streamline and improve the planning and purchase
  to pay processes
• Wellogix patented core product, Complex Services
  Management (CSMTM) Suite is hosted remotely and
  available on-demand
• Wellogix has partnered separately with SAP and
  Microsoft to develop and market joint industry
  solutions for complex services in oil and gas

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The Integration
Integration Strategy
The Result
The Challenges and Opportunities
Conclusions
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What we were trying to do

• Make a single, secure b-2-b connection between
  Baker Hughes (BHI) and Wellogix to exchange
  business documents with Marathon (MOC) and Forest
  (FOC)
• Leverage the existing BHI integration and the OFS
  Portal Competency Center and relationship with
  GXS
• Provide end-to-end business messages to allow
  communication of invoice status and to enable
  management of Invoice error and disputes by
  exception
• Do it quickly, do it cost effectively

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The Integration
Integration Strategy
The Result
The Challenges and Opportunities
Conclusions
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PIDX TRP Strategy a reprise

• PIDXs vision is to achieve petroleum industry
  and enterprise-wide integration of business
  processes through seamless electronic business
  communication. Fundamental parts of a TRP best
  practice are
• The ability to reach all trading partners large
  and small, buyers and sellers
• A low total cost of ownership
• General purpose and not bound to certain
  industries or payload

Kevin Harper, OFS Portal, 2005 PIDX Fall Meeting
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Wellogix Integration Strategy

• Wellogix was relatively late to the application
  of integration standards game
• First connections were point-to-point,
  non-standard web services. Not a scalable
  solution
• Wellogix made the decision to adopt PIDX
  standards and conducted review TRP options
• Our goals were
• Quick, low cost connection that would work across
  a relatively complex, multi-partner landscape and
  be available to a wide range of trading partners
• Standard connection that could yield learning
  curve performance improvement and predictable
  integrations

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Wellogix Application of Standards

• TRP
• AS/2 was selected as single choice of TRP
• Implementation skills are broadly held in the
  community available within Wellogix
• Software is low cost and implementation
  configuration straightforward
• Connections are inter-operable and integrations
  promised to be relatively short and predictable
• Schema
• PIDX Honest Schema Implementation Guide
  developed
• Effort made to stick to the true intent of the
  PIDX Schema

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Concerns

• No standard technical/business message
  choreography
• Questions of applicability to larger suppliers
• Others existing investment financially and
  emotionally in RNIF

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Baker Hughes Integration Strategy

• Relatively new to the game little legacy
  messaging to protect and no desire to
• Requirements
• Use OFS-Portal competency center
• Support BHIs complex environment
• Support the complexity and variation of our
  Customer environment
• Avoid customization to the back office
• Leverage industry expertise in B2B transaction
  processing
• Low cost, low risk entry point
• Result
• OFS-Portal sourced transaction routing
  transformation services for its oilfield service
  company members

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The Integration
Integration Strategy
The Result
The Challenges and Opportunities
Conclusions
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What we achieved

• Implemented an AS/2 connection between BHI and
  Wellogix that connected BHI to MOC and FOC
• Connectivity completed in hours
• Developed a series of end-to-end business
  acknowledgements
• Based on PIDX recommendations for Invoice
  Response, and
• Between two Wellogix applications and two
  Wellogix clients and through two third parties
• Project ran from January to May during which we
  estimated 20 man-days combined

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Integration Landscape
Customer A Upstream
Customer B Upstream
PIDX XMLStandards
Traditional EDI VAN
Baker Hughes Back Office 1
Transaction Routing Service (Transformation
Routing)
Baker Hughes Back Office 2
BHI Standards
PIDX XMLStandards
Baker Hughes Back Office 3
ChanneLinx
Travel Industry XML Standards
Baker Hughes Area of Responsibility
Supplier A Travel Services
CIDX XMLStandards
Customer D Downstream
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The Integration
Integration Strategy
The Result
The Challenges and Opportunities
Conclusions
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Challenges

• Business Messaging in Complex Landscape
• Defining a business process choreography and
  format
• Passing on the messages across various
  counterparty systems
• Multi-part Attachments
• Existing GXS version was not Drummond Certified
  for MPA
• Development of .zip file payload handling
• No in-depth experience in AS/2 in either BHI or
  Wellogix
• Steep but short learning curve
• Coordinating Numerous Partners
• Aligning people and business processes rather
  than negotiating connectivity

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Leveraging the AS/2 Integration - Other
Opportunities

• BHI EDI to MOC
• Passing existing EDI messages through the AS/2 to
  ChanneLinx via Wellogix allowed BHI to turn-off
  legacy EDI systems
• Wellogix Integration to FOC Back Office
• Wellogix used Front-end integration
  infrastructure to send business messages to FOC
  accounting system
• PIDX for the masses, the Wellogix Small Business
  Adaptor
• Secure, PIDX integration with small suppliers
• Quick, Out of the box connections
• Low cost and reliable
• Leveraging SMB Suppliers middle-tier AS/2
  capabilities

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The Integration
TRP Strategy A Background
Challenges and Opportunities
Conclusions
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Conclusions

• Our experience shows AS/2
• Reduces cost, complexity and timeline for
  connectivity
• Lowers the barrier to entry for a wide range of
  suppliers operators
• Is clearly scalable and is suitable for companies
  of all size and capabilities
• Provides learning curve savings on subsequent
  deployments
• Furthermore AS/2 meets all of PIDX TRP
  requirements, for example security and
  non-repudiation
• However, standards for AS/2 functional responses
  need to be developed and adopted