Explain about data management at Chevron and How collaboration achieved by integration?

Petrol giant Chevron accumulates data at a rate of 2 terabytes a day, or 23MB every second. But accommodating this data is seen as technical challenge. It is perhaps not surprising that in a company where all the numbers are big $194bn (97bn) in sales, 10,000 servers, 1m email messages handled each day and 3,500 people in IT. A new global IT infrastructure, called Global Information Link 2/Net Ready, connected 50,000 desktops and 1,800 company locations and was expected to save the company $50m (25m) annually by eliminating duplicate processes and systems. The object was to allowed workforce to do their work anytime; anywhere .Chevron has recently begun work on its third Global Information Link (GIL) project. GIL 1 standardized desktops, laptops and operating systems, while GIL 2 built out the network and standard server infrastructure, providing connectivity to operations all over the world. GIL 3 will focus on information management. If GIL 1 and GIL 2 gave users the infrastructure they needed to work with one another, GIL 3 will give them the tools to do so. For example, GIL 3 will use new technology to tag information so it can be more easily found and shared. It will also create new governance policies and strengthen auditing procedures to ensure that new IT standards are adhered to. That includes the adoption of IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) standards for management of IT operations. GIL 3 will use Microsoft's Vista operating system and its SharePoint product suite for communication and collaboration. SharePoint, which Microsoft says is intended to connect people, processes and systems, will facilitate collaboration among employees, partners and customers,ber. Employees will be able to use it to create and manage their own websites and make them available anywhere at Chevron.

Describe the business intelligence Tools at chevron? Chevron Enhances Business Intelligence with Self-Service Analysis and Reporting Tools Chevron, one of the worlds largest oil companies with assets in more than 100 countries, encourages its employees to analyze data and create rich reports. Information Technology Company, a business unit of Chevron, deployed Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 to provide Chevron employees with self-service analysis and report creation capabilities. Users will be able to create enhanced reports with new visualization and analysis tools. The company has also improved the performance of one of its critical business intelligence applications. Chevron, one of the worlds largest energy companies, was founded in California in1879 as the Pacific Coast Oil Company. Today, Chevron has a presence in more than 100 countries, managing more than 24,000 retail sites and employing 60,000people. SQL Server 2008 R2 will also make it easier for Chevron employees to collaborate. Using the shared data sets in SQL Server 2008 R2, our employees can easily share critical business data with colleagues, says Walker. Ultimately, that will help improve the overall quality of that data. How Chevron used ERP for improving Business performance? GLOBAL ENERGY LEADER PUMPS UP ERP FOR RAPID GROWTH Big oil big databases Chevron Corporation (www.chevron.com) is the second-largest integrated energy company in the United States and one of the largestcorporations in the world. Headquartered inSan Ramon, California, Chevron employs morethan 59,000 people and conducts business in 180 countries. Performance triples The Integrity platform immediately tripled performance, says Brody. Jobs that used to take three hours run in one hour, sometimes even less. The ability to find, share and use businessintelligence faster enables Chevron employeesworldwide to do more with their talents, their time, and the companys assets. For example, accounting groups routinely worked until 2:00 a.m. to complete the companys monthly financials. Now they close the books easily, within regular working hours, month after Moving to Integrity systems in two hours The Chevron IT team worked with HP and SAP engineers to transfer their global ERP environment from PA-RISCbased HP 9000 servers to the 64-bit HP Integrity platform

Describe the Information security practices at Chevron corporation? On its way to becoming the fifth largest energy company in the world, Chevron has had its share of acquisitions, inheriting dozens of technology platforms and applications in the process. When the gigantic purchase of Texaco loomed in 2001, Chevron knew it needed more consistent IT standards and practices to make sense of the complexity. The resulting risk management initiative has served the company well in meeting the compliance demands that have since emerged. To address its IT concerns back in 2001, Chevron adopted the Enterprise Security Architecture System (ESAS), an IT risk management framework developed by PricewaterhouseCooper and recently spun off to Brabeion Software. ESAS is a Web-based hierarchical system that helped Chevron define policies, standards and controls. For instance, Chevron's information security policy sets forth high-level guidelines for treating information as a corporate asset in compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Below the policy level are multiple supporting standards. So, for example, Chevron's companywide standard for passwords is eight alphanumeric characters that change every 90 days. The details of technology are left to technical controls that detail how to support the standards within, say, Windows or Unix. Chevron used the framework to identify four levels of information security: public, such as press releases and quarterly reports; business, such as day-to-day e-mail and memos; confidential, including customer and HR records; and classified information, such as preliminary financial results and trade secrets. Chevron now has some 85 pages of standards defined in ESAS as well as more than 1,500 pages worth of technical controls, and the company is moving beyond information protection to address intellectual property, information management, privacy and export compliance policies, standards and controls. The system also has defined business risks tied to IT. For example, SAP has been identified among Chevron's critical applications because a system failure could lead to loss of life, environmental damage, million-dollar losses and negative press across the globe. Incident recovery procedures were developed to mitigate each risk.