Budget Management System

Client Overview
Our client is a subsidiary of a leading integrated energy corporation, one of the world's major petroleum engineering providers with businesses covering oil and gas upstream and downstream operations, petroleum refining, oilfield services, and equipment manufacturing and supply. It is one of the foremost oil and gas asset holders on the continent of Africa.

Project Overview
Their requirement is to create financial reports based on the up to date budget numbers of the project. After reviewing the collected data, the results would be presented to the upper echelons of the company for project approval. Under the old system it was a multi-day process to gather and aggregate the information. The delay was significantly impacting the client's business operations.

Project Challenges
Collection of data from many functional units of the client.
Interface compatibility issues between varying database systems during data mining.

Solution
According to the client's current work model, we selected Microsoft Office as the data input interface. This choice allows users to use the standard Office formulas, functions and graphs with which they are familiar, thereby avoid any operational disruptions. There are two key stages in the Planning Management System development process:

The PMS system provides tools include data entry, data mining, results display, cost analysis and statistical reporting.

Points of project