Web Based Reporting System_Pentaho Solution

1. Improved customer convenience through a
web based reporting system for a
leading natural gas and crude oil
information provider
in North America
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2. One of the leading providers of
information on crude oil and natural
gas prices wanted to migrate from a
legacy standalone desktop reporting
tool to a web based system. They
wanted to provide their users an
instant access to information they
need.
Sigma Infosolutions leveraged its
expertise in Business Intelligence to
build this reporting tool. The system
provides business users role-based
access to the central knowledge-
store. The system generates reports
and analysis on index comparisons,
multiple leases and their prices,
pricing data required for annual Ad
Valorem tax preparations, etc.
Since its inception in 1988, the client has been a leading provider of
information on crude oil and natural gas prices to customers ranging from
industrial consumers, marketers, oil and gas operators, investors, litigation
support, etc. Their proprietary databases comprise of natural gas Henry Hub
Nymex prices, oil volumes, and natural gas volumes. Their current
knowledge bank stands at 51,597,034 records including 641,144 leases. They
also maintain a comprehensive library of crude oil bulletins for over 100
different crude oil purchasers dating back to January 1977.
The ClientExecutive Summary
The client combines multiple data sources like Texas RRC data, Texas
Comptroller data, Nymex crude oil and natural gas futures, as well as crude
oil purchaser WTI postings into one single repository system. To access this
database the user needed to install a desktop client and the database on
their local machine, which was provided by the client on a CD. The desktop
client synched with the database and generated reports on the information
the user needs. The users only got to update their databases twice a year.
Therefore, this system was not giving real-time information to the users.
Since, the analytical reports generated by the client's software was critical to
contract negotiations, wellhead price confirmations, tax preparations, and
regulatory filing confirmations, the client wanted a new system that could
simplify their role based subscriptions to an all-time updated database.
The client approached Sigma Infosolutions to advance from a standalone
desktop reporting tool to a web based system built on Pentaho. The system
will consolidate all crude oil and natural gas information from various sources
and give business users instant access to the information they need.
Business Case
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Challenges
Due to the scale of the client's information sources, the database
exponentially grew to a size of more than 100 million records. Since, the
client never organized the database; Pentaho's reporting tool took 15-20
minutes to compile one report. However, conditioning the database to
improve search results, all the while reducing the report compilation time to
Reduced
turnaround time
for sign ups
from few days
to few seconds
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3. Technology
Sigma Infosolutions used the following
technologies to build the solution:
 Pentaho 3.5 Reporting
 BIRT
Business Benefits
By leveraging Sigma Infosolutions'
expertise on web based technologies
and Pentaho, the client was able to
develop a solution that:
 Gave 24X7 access to information
for customers
 Reduced turnaround time for sign
ups from few days to few seconds
 S a v e d o v e r h e a d s o n C D
procurement, management, and
distribution
Solution
A team of experts operated from Sigma Infosolutions' office in Bangalore and
took four months to develop, integrate, and test the system.
The Sigma Infosolutions' team closely worked with the business analysts at
the client side. They comprehensively understood the system requirements
and functionalities of the new system. Post this, Sigma Infosolutions migrated
the database from Foxpro to My SQL and then started developing the
reporting tool using Pentaho and BIRT.
The new system now:
 Provides role-based access to business users
 Generates big and complex cross-tabbed reports in a few seconds
 Executes complex conditional column computations
 Extends the ability to export the report in MS Excel and PDF format
 Paginates the results of a report by page(s)
 Generate more than 13 reports including 4Ad Valorem reports
 Generates analytic reports which show index comparisons, wellhead
comparisons of multiple leases and their prices, pricing data required
for annualAd Valorem tax preparations, and much more
a few seconds was challenging.
Adding to this, Pentaho's reporting tool was publishing the entire report on
one web page instead of splitting it in multiple pages. However, the new
version of reporting tool paginated the report, but presented a second
challenge: to do away with query execution each time the user navigates to
the next or the previous result of a report. Pentaho's pagination functionality
was not serving the client's business need. This required exceptional insight
from Sigma Infosolutions into the convergence of various DB engines which
can paginate results of a report in a variety of ways, with the existing Pentaho
reporting tool.
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4. About Sigma Infosolutions
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 Sigma Group, an Indian conglomerate has more than 4 decades of experience in Mining, Chemicals Manufacturing & Export,
Handicrafts Manufacturing & Exports, and Software Development
 Sigma Infosolutions is a TUV certified ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 27001:2005 company
 Headquartered in US with presence in India
 Some of our esteemed customers include Airtel, Zyme Solutions, Yodlee, Celerity Consulting, Resolution Economics, Birla
Global Asset Finance, Fosroc Chemicals, Surgery Planet etc.
 Sigma Infosolutions’ services comprises of application development, application management, IT Consulting, Offshore testing,
and Website and Portal Development
Generates analytic reports which show index
comparisons, wellhead comparisons of multiple leases and
their prices, pricing data required for annual Ad Valorem tax
preparations, and much more
Sigma Infosolutions, Sigma Towers, #66/A, 13th Cross
6th Main, JP Nagar, 3rd Phase, Bangalore- 560078
Telephone: +91-80-40865100
Sigma Infosolutions, 2082 Michelson Dr.
Suite 100, Irvine, CA 92612
Telephone: +1-714-717-1826
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