Energy Giant Leads Industry Transformation with Innovative Digital Factory

The Challenge

Business Challenge

When this global energy giant company launched an ambitious plan for digital transformation, it wasn’t looking simply to transform itself; it wanted to transform the entire energy services industry.

By marshaling the combined power of big data, the Internet of Things (IoT), and the HCL Volt MX digital app dev platform, it’s injecting its business with the insight and agility needed to lead one of the world’s largest and most important industries. “Our vision is to be a leader in the energy transition,” said the chief Digital Officer and CIO. “The world is in the process of moving away from fossil fuels and moving to renewables. At the same time, we still have two billion people without access to basic energy — specifically electricity. We want to contribute to the overall reduction of the carbon footprint while bringing energy to those who don’t have it today.”

For this company, which employs 155,000 people in 70 countries, the energy transition brings with it the opportunity to simultaneously reduce its environmental impact and grow its business. To take full advantage of this opportunity it had to make sure it was equipped to crank out digital applications for multiple audiences and platforms, and it needed to be able to do so more quickly than ever. To launch its digital transformation, the company took some important steps forward.
 

The Search for a Digital Partner

The company would need more to fuel its digital efforts. It wanted to build a “digital factory” that would serve as a platform for managing IoT, big data, mobility and API assets — and provide a process for enabling accelerated digital and IoT app development. To do so, it needed the right partners.

The company conducted a thorough evaluation of top vendors in the digital space. After an intense selection process, they chose the HCL Volt MX platform based on technology superiority and level of partnership.

The head of the new Mobile Apps Platform Competencies Center (the entity formed to lead the company’s digital transformation) said three capabilities of HCL Volt MX technology are proving to be most important: the ability to develop a single application that can run across multiple platforms; the fact that business teams can use it as effectively as IT to support digital initiatives; and the ability to reuse components as it moves from one app to the next. This leader says, “With the HCL Volt MX technology, we have seen lots of positive outcomes: savings in both time and money — and the time-to-market and the launch of new applications worldwide is greatly improved.”