Small Business Awards 2020

Oct20170 Best Energy Sector Digital Transformation Consultancy - Europe Eigen has been delivering digital projects for oil and gas operators for more than a decade, and its Ingenuity platform is fast establishing itself as the leading platform for digitalizing existing assets. Having worked with high- profile clients such as BP, Lundin Energy, Wintershall Dea, and Vår Energi, Eigen has the experience and skill necessary to help any client digitalize and prepare for an increasingly digital world of work. In essence, what Eigen does is help companies with existing assets move towards being intelligent, pro-active organisations in a step-by-step way whilst keeping their investments in existing systems. Eigen products enable companies to make whole work processes more efficient, rather than just one part of the work process. Founded in 2007 by process, electrical, mechanical, and control engineers who have worked in oil and gas, energy, and transport operations, Eigen has designed and delivered integrated digital solutions for all manner of needs and requirements. Given that the team at Eigen understands the oil and gas industry thanks to previous experience, it knows better than most how to design and implement digital technology and solutions in industrial environments that really work. The team work tirelessly to deliver a working solution, and they won’t ever leave a job half done. Underpinned by three core values, the mission of the business remains the same as it ever has done; to improve people’s lives and businesses through digital technology. Firstly, Eigen believes that digitalization only delivers value if the client can make and act on decisions faster or better than they could before. Secondly is the belief that digital initiatives must be delivered while an asset is still operating. Finally, Eigen believes that new things should only be adopted if they make people’s lives better. Innovation, particularly in a digital sense, requires Eigen to be a forward-thinking technology supplier and systems integrator, and there is no small amount of passion driving the team’s every move. There are six core products and four service lines that cover the areas of ongoing support, consulting, custom development of software and implementation, and configuration of specialist industry software and applications. This selection of products and services empower organisations to work efficiently and operate safely within their environments, whilst bringing data to the very people who need it at the right time to make effective decisions, transforming the way businesses operate. Over the years, Eigen has developed a way of working to solve particular business problems based on four steps. Firstly, the business can engage with its customers to discover and understand the problem that they would like to solve, influenced by design thinking principles. From there, Eigen can build high quality solutions using its agile delivery process, and then subsequently deliver the solutions into the organization to transform the way customers and their teams operates. Lastly, the business can provide ongoing support and continuous improvement to ensure that its software always works for the business and teams that it supports. Bringing all of these outstanding services to the clients are the multi-skilled team who, alongside the powerful products, shape visions into reality and enable efficient working, workflow automation, remote monitoring, data visualisation, and custom applications for industrial operations. Staff are key to what makes the culture and atmosphere at Eigen. That culture can be summarised through key phrases such as “make it happen”, “detail matters”, and “it’s got to look good”. As a result, Eigen has cultivated and fostered an atmosphere of success and achievement. There are good processes in place, and the entire company is ISO9001- certified to ensure quality across the board. Technology only gets adopted by clients because it is trusted and people like it, so the company has made sure that it gets the details right and makes it look good. New talent must also understand this, and must display the qualities of integrity, genuineness, and tenacity. Needing the skills is a given, but there is also a requirement that someone can get into the details on things and pursue a level of deep mastery. All of these outstanding elements come together to create the award- winning work that Eigen does, but what makes it unique? There are two core unique selling points that make Eigen stand out from the competition, and the first of these is the domain knowledge of the industry and how to apply appropriate solutions. Secondly, there is also the Ingenuity platform, which enables the contextualization of information using its Shared Asset Model, powered by leading edge open source graph database technology. After delivering a dozen digital oilfield projects, Eigen soon realised that there was something missing; all it was doing was creating more and more data to drown people with. It needed a way to make it easier for people to see what was going on, rather than harder; it needed to provide context in information to link it together in an easy to use and relevant way. 2007 saw the start of the development of what today is the Ingenuity platform. It was not easy, and the company did find a lot of ways not to do it. Eigen investigated a number of emerging technologies, even partnering with several start-ups from Silicon Valley and open source projects from around the world, but nothing quite fitted. What it needed was all the flexibility of a graph with all the power and rigour of a relational database. So, the team at Eigen set about building its own platform that would do all of these things. Since 2007, that software has continued to evolve, built by engineers for engineers. It remains proud that, as a business, it continues to solve real-life and complex problems with great software. Ultimately, Eigen is growing and plans to continue growing. It is extremely important to everyone involved at the company that it continues to develop and deliver high quality projects for its clients as this growth keeps coming, to guard against inflating like a balloon before an untimely pop. Instead, the business’ growth is measured and controlled, in line with its outstanding services that have seen it secure award-winning success in the Small Business Awards 2020 from Corporate Vision Magazine. Company: Eigen Ltd Contact: Murray Callander Website: https://eigen.co/ As the world fast becomes a more digital place to live and work than ever before, industries have had to contend with the fact that digitalization is no longer a luxury; it is now a necessity. Even well- established industries such as oil and gas have had to rethink the approach they take to digitizing their operations and projects, and that is where the work of Eigen Ltd comes into the picture. Discover more about what this company does and how well it carries out these services as we highlight its successes in 2020.