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KIPIC stands for Kuwait Integrated
Petroleum Industries Company.
It's [a] downstream company.
We have a natural gas importing for Kuwait
as well as one of the largest refinery
built in the world, south of Kuwait.
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KIPIC is aiming to be one of
the digitalized organization[s],
and the services are using
the new technologies and trends.
One of the challenges that we
are facing is [the] number of users,
and [the] initiatives required [is] much
higher than the capacity in IT.
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We started to use Power Platform,
Power BI, and Power Automate 2 years ago.
Also, we have lots of training courses.
Most of them online to the user
because the platform is very easy;
it is based on low code concept.
So we start taking the benefits quickly.
Now we start seeing solutions
developed by the user
to serve day-to-day needs.
Now they have more time that
they can perform another task
and have more tasks.
And 10 % of our staff
become citizen developers.
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I'm very happy of implementing
the Power Platform
because it is, first of all, integrated
with the ecosystem that we have
as well as it is kind of
offloading the people in IT.
Also, this is a new way of
doing the digitalization.
It is like a catalyst.
It will make the entire organization
working on toward the
digital transformation.
It's not only IT.
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Using Power Platform gives
[us] the capabilities to reduce
the development cycle from
months to days.
It depends on the complexity of the application.
During the pandemic, our HSC department,
they launched COVID-19 app
that enables us to report
the COVID-19 infections.
And having a dashboard to show
all the statistics and data
to the management was a big achievement
happened during COVID.
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In the future, we want to focus on
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
as well as Azure Analytics because in
the coming few years,
the refinery will start operating
and lots of data will
be generated from it.
And using a tool like Analytics and AI
will be helping the users
a lot here in KIPIC.
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