Reporting fast and unhampered offshore

“Synergi® eForm can be seen as a prolongation of the normal online Synergi system,” says Myklebust.

“Though eForm is offline, it doesn’t seem like that to the user.” They report from rigs and ships into the central system as if they were working in the normal Synergi system. When they click 'submit the case', a file is generated that is automatically emailed to the central database, where the Synergi application imports the information.

As Seadrill have many low-end users with minimal Synergi training, they decided to simplify the registration process in the eForm version. It looks much like the standard Synergi system but is much more user friendly, according to Seadrill’s Information System Manager.

All fields that were not used were removed, and it was required that the user should only see relevant fields for the case type.

Information has been grouped in logic sections and scrolling is used instead of tabs. Input validation ensures that no important fields are skipped and the whole registration is done on one single page.

“Now it is as simple as it gets. Usability was the most important issue to us but the project has also given us a solution that is more stable and easy to administer. We now have many new users who were not able to register cases before,” states Myklebust, adding that their next step is the replication module to be found in the new Synergi version. “That will be Synergi the way we really want it – updating at night, both ways, via satellite."




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