Energy & Utilities

The Energy & Utility industry includes oil, gas, and other energy companies. In this industry, there is an exciting wave of transitioning traditional operations to a clean energy approach, particularly clean energy infrastructures such as wind, clean fuels, solar, etc. In order to ride this Clean Energy wave, Energy and Utility organizations must rely on innovations in technologies to discover, develop, and market innovative products and services that will help limit operational risk, conserve natural resources, invent new ways of producing energy, and increase efficiency in using energy resources.

Energy and Utilities Challenges

• Need to increase Research and Development productivity
• Need to lower operational costs
• Need to closely monitor company performance and practices in order to justify return on investment
• Need to comply with regulations
• Need to constantly innovate and provide value to customers
• Need to monitor fast growing competition which are also riding Clean Energy wave

ESR Technologies Solution

ESR Plasma offers you, Energy and Utility companies, the ability to expedite your Research and Development process, increase team collaboration, gain more market insight, and improve service and regulatory compliance while decreasing your operational costs.

Key ESR technologies

Connectivity

• ESR Plasma offers a wide range of connectors to help you connect to different types of data sources - structured and unstructured.
  
  
• ESR Data integration Studio helps you build connectors to connect to legacy or obscure data sources.
  
  
• ESR Plasma offers disk and web crawlers to help you connect not only internal data, but also content from other related industry and academic sites or even the whole World Wide Web.

Search and Retrieval

• ESR Plasma includes Natural Language Processing (NLP), Automatic Query Guidance, and Real-Time Predictive Query to help improve your user query experience.
  
  
• ESR Inductive Learning Engine offers the ability to learn your industry language and helps your researchers and developers find what they are looking for, and more importantly, find what they don't know they know via search and retrieval features such as Automatic Classification and Taxonomy Generation, Automatic Clustering and Contextual Search.
  
  
• ESR Plasma advanced search and retrieval technologies provide the ability to help your Legal team simplify the analysis of complex compliance data with the fully integrated and unified access to all the data repositories and formats within your organization.

Web 2.0, Collaboration

• ESR Plasma's search and retrieval technologies incorporate Web 2.0 elements like tagging and annotating results and sharing searches to increase the value of collaboration. ESR Plasma can benefit 100 percent of your employees. The potential return on your search investment is significant. Your users not only can find experts in the organization through search, but also can connect with them virtually - eliminating re-work and wasted effort. Even if employees leave the company, all of the content they've added to the system - from tags to ratings to shared searches - will remain in the search solution.
  
  
• ESR Plasma can help Marketing and Management acquire more customer and market insight by leveraging ESR Plasma search and knowledge discovery on the World Wide Web or user generated content such as wikis or other customer feedback mechanisms.

Analytics

• ESR Plasma Command Center includes query logs and monitoring tools for you to understand your search activities and gain more business insight.
  
  
• ESR Web Crawler provides you the ability to crawl other Energy and Utility sites, academic sites, science research sites, industry blogs or social networking sites, and even the whole World Wide Web to help you gain more market and technology insight.

Administration

• ESR Plasma offers easy configuration and installation to help you design, implement, and deploy your search quickly and efficiently.
  
  
• ESR Plasma offers robust security integration, including single sign-on authentication and authorization against a wide range of security protocols such as LDAP and Active Directory. At the same time, it is configurable and customizable to support single sign-on with homegrown and legacy security systems. The open availability of source code and tens of thousands of production deployments worldwide ensure that security issues are rapidly identified and resolved.

For more detailed information regarding ESR Technologies offering, please contact ESR Sales.

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