Over the past 30 odd years, upstream and mid-stream businesses have implemented Vertex applications to manage growth, maintain sound internal control, and deliver reliable operational results to management, other stakeholders, and regulatory agencies.
Vertex does not produce these results in isolation. Rather, success is achieved when we partner with a team that shares similar ideas on how systems support business processes and the corporate whole. Most customers agree, the success factor has little to do with computer technology, and a great deal to do with how information is updated, validated, stored, and shared across the organization.
What characterizes a Vertex customer?
Customers range from start-up exploration and production companies, to some of the largest and most complex gas and liquids producers and processors in North America.
Regardless of size, each has a common understanding that:
- Reliable and accessible information is required by all departments as a prerequisite for managed growth.
- Each departmental discipline has a unique contribution to make.
- A key goal is capturing and storing the knowledge and experience of its best talent, so it can be shared by everyone that needs it.
- Duplicate processes and duplicate data result in unproductive, wasteful reconciliation and discussion.
- Data should be maintained by uniquely qualified staff, as their contribution to other departmental users and processes.
- By implementing systems that mirror organizational responsibilities, management reinforces development of productive team-work, while encouraging independent review by others.
These principles are simple; there is only one version of the truth.