MDM & Integration
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MDM & Integration Past, Present & Future John Jacobs Jacobs Consulting Four Decades of Change Late 70s to early 80s Change Is Coming 1990s Standards Movement The Standards “Wars” Integration Technologies Late 90s to 2012 Today’s Buzz The Future 70s – 80s What Did We Worry About Machines did not network well EBCDIC vs ASCII Big Endian vs Little Endian (byte order) Format Conversions (why are they always different) READ(*,'(2I5,F10.2)') READ(*,"(5F10.2)") WRITE(*,"(10F5.2)") Change Is Coming Mainframes started to give way to “minicomputers” VAX 11/780 Introduced in 1977 (32-bit) Sun Microsystems 1982 (RISC) "the network is the computer,” John Gage 1984 The Personal Computers Arrive Commodore 64 1982 First IBM PC 1982 Apple’s Lisa 1983 First Mac 1984 Computer Aided Exploration (CAEX) Intergraph InterPro 32 was introduced in 1984 1MB 1st Landmark workstation 1984 3D Interpretation on PC architecture (Intel 286 chip) GeoQuest 1984 2D on VAX Sun E&P’s Geophysical Workstation 1987 1990s Standards Movement 1988 Open Software Foundation (OSF): Motif (GUI Standard), X- Windows The PPDM organization got its start in 1988 when, recognizing the need for petroleum data standards, a group of petroleum industry players and data experts joined forces in 1991 to create the Public Petroleum Data Model Association.* Petroleum Open Software Company (POSC) was formed in October 1990 by five founding sponsor oil companies: BP, Chevron, Elf (since merged into Total), Mobil (since merged into ExxonMobil), and Texaco (since merged into Chevron). Now known as Energistics.* IBM’s Mercury project to establish a logical data model for the petroleum industry. FINDER (standard???) * Extracts from PPDM and Energistics websites Let The Wars Begin Ingres vs Oracle (the best does not always win) 1988 UNIX Standards (UNIX Wars - AT&T vs OSF) 1998 PI(Dwights) endorsing the PPDM (PIDM) data model over POSC's Epicentre * POSC compliance made by both Landmark and GeoQuest* Integration Technologies Schlumberger’s RP66 submitted to API in 1991 Interchange for well Log Data POSC took stewardship in 1998 DLIS Geoshare and half links (RP66 based) OpenSpirit business objects 1997 Neil McNaughton “On the other hand, how many standards can we manage?” (1998) Late 1990s -Early 2000 Project Databases Master Databases (early MDM) Corporate Databases Mid 2000 - 2012 Market Spoke – The Strong Survived No Silver Bullet Standards? – Are we there yet? Open Source Technologies Grew Linux XML Java GNU Apache … Internal Development PPDM w/”extensions” Fit for purpose views 1 off custom solutions Today’s Buzz Digital Oilfield Realtime Data (Data Historians) Big Data (how many Vs are there really) Data Analytics / Data Scientists Do Not Forget the “Small Data,” Chris Josefy (EP Energy) Create Value Crystal Ball Time The Future Two-Tier Three-Tier N-Tier The Virtual Database The Ultimate Abstraction Layer Software Written Without Constraints of a Database Workflow, Data Integration All Based on Fully Extensible Data Objects What Needs To Happen Technology exists Business Object Definitions “What Is A Well” is a great start This work needs to continue Software Development Needs to Move to Virtual Data ($$$$$) .