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Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. It is my pleasure to meet with you today and discuss Information Services, an International Technology for Petroleum Engineers.
My talk will cover three main aspects:
. An overview of Information Services and its technology.
A review of some current petrochemical applications which utilize the Network.
A projection of future Information Services trends.
Information Services can be viewed in three specific phases and time periods.
The first phase began in the mid-sixties and was commonly referred to as Time-Sharing. As you all know, this involved a fairly standard computer with some telecommunications capability and specialized interactive software.
During the next four to five years, this industry grew tremendously and systems and their capabilities progressed on a very fast scale. This type of service was primarily oriented toward engineering and primarily oriented toward engineering and scientific applications and Time-Sharing systems generally served a customer on a regional basis.
In the late sixties, a new phase of the industry was entered… Networking. This development was the merging of computers and telecommunications on a grand scale. Systems developed large networks providing common file access from many diverse locations. Applications began to become more business oriented… inventory management… order processing are a few prime examples. Service vendors today offer Networking capability on widely varying ranges….. from regional to national to international.
Let me now divert for a few minutes and discuss one specific network with which I am slightly familiar….. GE's International Information Services Network.
First, let me discuss the Network's Technology. This can be addressed in two respects - one from an overall system basis and the other with reference to hardware and software.
