Halliburton Improves Communications, Collaboration, Operational Efficiencies

Overview

Executives at Halliburton Energy Services Group wanted to boost the bottom line by enhancing collaboration among engineers, operators, service coordinators, and customers, and by improving resource utilization and other operational efficiencies. To accomplish these objectives, the executives decided to give employees and customers more-powerful software solutions for making calculations in the field, sharing information, and scheduling jobs. They also decided to base the applications on a service-oriented architecture provided by the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, and to develop and deploy the applications using the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 development system and a SQL Server 2005 database. Consequently, the group has enjoyed a higher level of communications and collaboration among internal staff and customers, and a vastly more efficient approach to job scheduling.