{"id":3679,"date":"2016-08-24T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/energy-ops-blog\/"},"modified":"2016-08-24T10:06:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T10:06:00","slug":"energy-ops-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/energy-ops-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Are the As-a-Service Winners in Energy Operations? HfS\u2019 inaugural Energy Operations Blueprint reveals frontrunners Accenture, EPAM, Infosys, Wipro and TCS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why An HfS Research Blueprint for the Oil & Gas Industry?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Tumultuous times in the Oil & Gas industry. Understatement of the day I hear you say… Time for a rigorous look at the role service providers play to help Oil & Gas clients battle adversity. <\/p>\n

The Oil & Gas industry is on the cusp of a significant transformation. Economic, societal, market, political and regulatory pressures are coming together bringing immense challenges for companies to solve through more effective and lower cost operations.<\/p>\n

HfS sees a significant role for next generation services providing flexibility to scale up and down, agility to deal with a volatile environment and fully leverage digital technologies and digital enabled business and operating models now and in the future. <\/strong><\/p>\n

What does this Blueprint cover? <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This is not a beauty contest about size, revenue and global scale. There is a place for smaller providers that excel in a niche and help clients on their As-a-Service journey. <\/p>\n

One of the key attributes we looked for in this Blueprint process was if the service provider has a real Oil & Gas practice, not a collection of contracts with a sign “Oil & Gas Practice” slapped onto it. In this light we are interested in the way service delivery is organized, the availability of industry domain expertise, investments in industry talent, acquisitions of companies with industry specific capabilities and partner ecosystems. Another point of emphasis in our research is the move to As-a-Service, how service providers are enabling new ways of working, how automation and analytics are used to tackle industry specific challenges and the level of innovation brought to clients.  <\/p>\n

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Key Market Dynamics<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

 Two dynamics jumped out at us during the Energy Operations Blueprint process:<\/p>\n

Oil<\/strong> & Gas Companies Looking for New<\/strong> Levers:<\/strong> As the focus of the industry is on cost reduction, production optimization and operational efficiency, automation and outsourcing are two principal levers available to the industry. The name of the game for Oil & Gas is: Fix the basics and leverage new technologies. Oil & Gas executives are forced to have a good look at their strategy. Key questions include:<\/p>\n