AKILI INC. OIL & GAS BPC ON HANA SOLUTION

Compete like never before. Consulting Technology Performance

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REOil & Gas Industry Challenges

• In a dynamic operating environment, daily operational decisions can have significant and immediate impact on profitability, debt and cash flow.

Complex Decision Making

Dynamic Operating

Environment Internal & External

Investment Options

Significant Capital

Requirements

• Changing commodity markets can dramatically affect performance.

• Significant capital requirements require ongoing evaluation of existing and potential opportunities.

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REThe Strategic Value

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Cash Flow & Debt

$Investment Risk

Evaluate the impact of investment options

While maintaining targeted cash flow

& debt levels

• CFO’s must constantly monitor and validate the company’s key metrics to ensure compliance with debt covenants and investor/shareholder expectations.

• Tools to quickly evaluate investment choices and changes in the operating environment are critical.

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REPerformance Management Solutions Address Financial Priorities

Processes Improvement Priorities:

2011 Gartner / FEI Technology Study, John van Decker, 24 May 2011

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REReasons to Invest in a Planning Solution

Firms enjoying best-in-class performance share several common characteristics*• 96% of best-in-class companies are able to track actual performance

against budget.• 82% of best-in-class companies have the ability to reforecast as market

conditions change.• 75% of best-in-class companies have established enterprise-wide

collaboration from the top-down and bottom-up during the planning process.

• 70% of best-in-class companies have the visibility that allows them to drill down to successive level of detail and 60% have the ability to perform multi-dimensional roll-ups.

• 34% of best-in-class companies are more likely to enable the budgeting process with technology.*Source: Financial Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting in the New Economy. Aberdeen Group. March 2011

Anticipated ROI of 50% to 150%, and 6- to 12- month payback. Can reduce the duration of the planning cycle by 30% to 90%, and reduce the cost by 25% to 75%.”

Source: 2009 Gartner-Financial Executives International Technology Survey

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REOil & Gas Industry Opportunities

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• Integrate operational systems and data into planning systems allowing a proactive response to changing operating conditions.

• Use a driver based model to evaluate multiple assumptions or scenarios.

• Quickly assess new opportunities.

• Flow these changes through driver based models to assess the impact on profitability, debt and cash flow.

o Production volume forecastso Pricing scenarioso Resulting revenue forecastso Lease operating expenseo Cash flow, debt, and interest o Capital planning

• Generating reports is reduced from 1-2 days to instantaneous.

• Dramatically reduced close process timeline allows for more analysis.

• BPC’s user interface (Excel) is familiar to most end users.

• Results in BPC environments that are in-memory optimized.

• Yields faster performance for loading and reporting.

• Is a platform built to handle “big data”.

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REBusiness Planning and Consolidation on HANA Benefits

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Akili’s BPC on HANA forecasting solution enables features such as automated variance analysis or sophisticated scenario planning involving:

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REWhy Akili’s BPC Solution on HANA for Oil & Gas?

• Akili’s Oil & Gas optimized BPC solution provides reporting and forecasting at the individual well level.

• Experience complex scenario analysis running Akili’s Oil & Gas BPC solution on HANA.

• Don’t waste resources developing customized applications – use Akili’s Oil & Gas BPC solution now available on HANA.

• Akili’s Oil & Gas optimized BPC solution is based on our 20+ years of experience learning industry best practices.

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RENext Steps with Akili

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• 12+ weeks• Requirements,

Design, Build• Training• Organizational

Change Management

Implementation

• 2 Weeks• Analyze the current

state of financial planning, reporting and analysis in your organization.

• Define specific goals and objectives.

• Develop Business Case.

• Create a Roadmap to achieve your goals.

Roadmap

• Outline current Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solutions.

• Discuss issues with the current environment and how BPC can be applied to these issues.

• Plan for a Roadmap Workshop.

½ Day Workshop