The Customer
BP America is an oil & gas
giant based in Houston, Texas at the Westlake campus. They are a major player in
the market and are structured with both upstream and downstream operations. As one
can imagine, being a large company brings the necessity to use third party systems.
Managing integration and the moving target of efficiency, between the people and
those systems, can pose its own problems.
US Logistics - Terminal Account Management
The Challenge
The Terminal Automation System (TAS) is managed by the Distribution Support System
Team (DSST) for BP US Fuels & Logistics. During 2004, the TAS application was
formally audited. The audit tested compliance with Section 404: Management Assessment
of Internal Controls of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX). Certain recommendations
were made As a result of the audit.
To comply with these reccomendations, BP required a web based account provisioning
solution to manage all the North America terminal database servers.
The Solution
The solution provides an automated workflow process for requesting, approving, provisioning
and auditing user accounts for the Terminal Automation System.
The TAS project includes custom software developed to interface with an internal
Terminal Access System by TopTech.
Pineywoods was able to create a solution that includes account provisioning, approvals,
updates, password reset, password recovery, and access control list change auditing.
Compliance Management - Reporting Platform Migration
The Challenge
The current Reporting Server hardware was reaching end-of-life and had experienced
component failures over the previous 18 months. Furthermore, the growth in Reporting
scope and increased demand for Reporting outputs had brought the old hardware to
the limit of its capacity. In order to ensure continued availability and supportability
of the BP Compliance Reporting Service, it has been decided to migrate Reporting
processes to a new platform.
The Solution
Pineywoods was able to provide expertise and knowledge in transitioning to a new
reporting environment that better suited the needs of the department.
Compliance Management - Reporting Improvements
The Challenge
Managing the compliance for software and patches on ten thousand workstations and
laptops is no walk in the park. BP already had the data aggregation in place, but
needed a solution for reporting patch and software compliance in the Americas.
The Solution
Teaming with the BP representative, Pineywoods helped create the compliance reports
and SQL server procedures for processing the data based on metrics provided by BP.