The primary business need is to design and develop a quality database for LNG for use in storing information about global LNG sources, markets and facilities to review the feasibility of all supply scenarios.

Prior to the development of this application all the LNG quality related data was managed through Excel spreadsheets. This was a person-dependent process and had all the problems associated with a manual system. The data had to be sent to several technical specialists for calculations. Since all the data was maintained in excel sheets, no data repository existed. This made coordination, data integrity and data security causes for concern. The data integration between different plants was also non-existent. Reporting was a tedious process with retrieval of data for ad-hoc reporting becoming a resource and time intensive process.

Wipro was involved in the end-to-end design and development of a web based application in .NET for managing the global LNG data. This internet based secure application can be accessed world wide by valid business users of the client over HTTPS. The service oriented architecture principles were used to make available to the consumers the functionality through machine and language independent components. The access to various application modules was strictly role based and controlled using in built authorization mechanisms. All data transfer between various application layers was accomplished using XML confirming to SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) protocol, this allowed any non .NET client to avail the web services offered by the application.

	LNG liquefaction plant
	LNG re-gasification terminals
	LNG sources and composition
	LNG shipping fleet information
	LNG contract system
	LNG reporting including adhoc and standard reports