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“Microsoft Power Platform provides a low code environment to drive innovation at the edge of our business, enabling us to drive digital transformation at an enterprise level\u201d \u2013 Alan Chai, Digital Transformation Leader, Schlumberger<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Schlumberger<\/a> is the world\u2019s largest energy service company. Operating in over 85 countries with 100k+ employees, they describe themselves as a \u201cmini United Nations\u201d of 140 nationalities. With a strong culture of engineering and innovation, Schlumberger firmly believes that technology drives exploration and production performance. For over 90 years, they\u2019ve used innovative technology and reservoir domain expertise to deliver solutions that help improve the performance of customers in the energy industry. Schlumberger’s mission is to use technology to uncover the full potential of energy sustainability.<\/p>\n

Over the past eighteen months, Schlumberger has seen rapid viral adoption of the Power Platform, reaching over 10k monthly active users, 650+ production apps and 120+ citizen developers building solutions on the platform across 32 countries. This past summer they ran a Power Platform hackathon, which, in a single week saw 1000+ participants sign up across 47 countries and build ~100 solutions in a week.<\/p>\n

Given the scale of adoption and breadth of solutions, we will cover the Schlumberger story in multiple parts. In this post we\u2019ll focus on the solutions built by Alan Chai, who spearheaded the citizen development efforts in a \u201cDigital Cell\u201d at Schlumberger Europe. The Digital Cells are part of a decentralized IT effort, in contrast to \u201cDigital Studios\u201d that reside within a Central IT function. We will highlight how it all got started with a health campaign and an app to motivate Schlumberger employees to live healthier lives. We\u2019ll also describe an Employee Career Progression app which has been used to promote over hundreds of engineers and save over 2000 hours by eliminating paper-based processes, and a Digital Value Calculator solution that is integrated in Microsoft Teams. In a follow up post, we will highlight the progression of the Power Platform into the pro-dev led \u201cDigital Studios\u201d, and the successful efforts within Central IT to create a Center of Excellence around the platform with robust governance, monitor, alerting and security practices.<\/p>\n

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