Case study – Oil & Gas

Challenge

alfrednet was contracted for its consultancy services to design the architecture for a PIAM (Physical Identity and Access Management) solution to fully automate the management of 20k+ employees and 30k+ contractors and subcontractors. The solution covers PACS (physical access control solution), PDA solution fully integrated with PACS, workforce management application, and integration layer between PACS, PDAs and workforce management application.

Solution

• Designing the solution architecture to withstand the requirements and capacity
• Defining and design the requirements for the PDA solution including integration with PACS
• Design the solution SoW (scope of works) for the project pilot and the rollout
• Design the integration layer between the workflow application, PDA solution and PACS
• Designing all the required documentation for the project implementation

Results & Benefits

• High performance, reliable integrated PIAM application, integrated with SAP HR, PACS and PDA solution
• Handling physical identity of 20k+ employees and 30k+ contractors, subcontractors and heavy vehicles and managing their access based on a granulated access level matrix through 2k+ physical readers and 700+ mobile readers (PDAs)
• Fully automated access management process from user registration to user’s badge assignment and printing
• Greater control of access permits and operations through real time information
• Centralized control and automation of all processes and procedures
• Solution’s architecture designed to withstand small and medium changes/updates within the company’s organizational structure, without the need of any additional development