Philex Mining engineers at the remote Padcal Mine relied on personal email accounts to exchange operational documents. To enhance efficiency, the firm rapidly deployed Microsoft Exchange 2010 on a private cloud, with technology partner ePLDT hosting servers and support services from their own data centre. As a result, Philex Mining has reduced capital investment costs and the mine-site staff is now equipped with professional email that is secure and easy to use.

Gold Fields Limited is a South African gold mining firm. Headquartered in Johannesburg, the company owns and operates mines on several continents including Africa, Australia, and South America. With employees working in different locations around the world, Gold Fields faced a challenge keeping workers on the same version of Microsoft Office. In addition, employee demand to access Office from more than one device was growing. When Gold Fields learned about Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus, the full client version of Office delivered as a service, it decided to deploy the solution to a group of early adopters to evaluate the latest deployment and business productivity capabilities. By using Office 365 ProPlus, Gold Fields believes it can simplify administration, reduce licensing costs, provide support to multiple devices, and improve employee productivity.

Air Products wanted better control over employee access to data stored on file servers in Microsoft Office SharePoint and in applications. It turned to Windows Server 2012 and Dynamic Access Control as a potential solution to gain a powerful and flexible way of managing access to those resources. It expects to improve corporate data security and reduce its approximately 35,000 security groups by about one-third.

The China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec Corp.) is an oil and gas company based in Beijing, China. The company had deployed a Microsoft messaging solution for 200,000 employees for business-critical communication. After testing Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, Sinopec has decided to deploy it to support daily business operations, reduce its data center footprint, and increase availability.

Facilium consultants used several cloud-based communication and collaboration tools to complete technology projects for oil and gas customers, but the tools didn’t include instant messaging or presence capabilities. Nor did they work equally well on everyone’s mobile phones. Facilium worked with Microsoft Partner Network member Cloudstep to replace the tools with Microsoft Office 365, a suite of cloud-based business productivity tools that consultants are using on their preferred devices to achieve ubiquitous access to the people and information that they need to expedite customer service.

Kosmos Energy is a pathfinding oil and gas company focused on emerging areas in Africa and South America. The company’s spreadsheet-based financial planning solution was manual, time-consuming, and prone to inaccuracies. With help from Microsoft partner Altius Consulting, Kosmos deployed a new solution based on Microsoft SQL Server. The company can now create reports and analytics in a very short time frame and analysts can deliver more-accurate data and meaningful insights.

Founded in 1980, MedcoEnergi Internasional (MedcoEnergi) was the first national drilling company in Indonesia. With remote sites around the world, the right communication tools are critical for MedcoEnergi employees to collaborate on complex projects. The company had deployed a robust Microsoft communications solution that included email, unified messaging, presence information, instant messaging, conferencing, and desktop sharing capabilities. It also retired its outdated private-branch exchange telephony system and deployed an enterprise voice solution. MedcoEnergi wanted to expand this voice solution even further to ensure that every employee could stay connected and to reduce costs across the organization. It deployed Microsoft Lync Server 2013 for the improved high-availability options and client capabilities.

As one of the world’s leading oil exploration and production companies, the Kuwait Oil Company Ltd. (KOC) was aware of increasing cyber threats and security issues troubling similar companies in the region. KOC wanted to ensure that their IT infrastructure and ecosystem was robust enough to withstand any present and future threats or attacks by conducting security health checks to mitigate or eliminate these risks. By engaging Microsoft Consulting Services – MEA, the company had a Microsoft product Security Assessment performed, including a roadmap to strengthen their security.

The largest gas distribution contractor in the US, NPL Construction Company (NPL) has replaced its manual, siloed, and paper-based processes with a Business-Critical SharePoint solution from MyOVS®, providing automation, self-service, and mobility for compensation related processes for all employees across the company. The solution maximizes the value of their Microsoft® Office SharePoint® 2010 and SAP® system investments.