Oil and Gas production and use form an integral part of any economy with operations of these energy companies are known to have a positive impact on the economy involved with the products.

The industry is wide as it has different departments which handle: drilling and extraction of the oil/gas, purification of the products and distribution of the merchandise. All this processes can be well with the help of software such as simulation software and analysis software which are in place to ensure resources are used to the latter and that the output is maximum. The software offer solutions for upstream, downstream, onshore and offshore challenges.

Facilities management has always been a popular choice for businesses in the service industry and seem to offer a good solution the oil/gas industry sector. The output of a facility manager especially in the oil/gas industry who has a lot of things to manage can be improved by incorporating a computer aided facility management (cafm) system software into the firm. The advantages it brings into the whole system include:

Most CAFM systems integrate the software as a service (SaaS) idea which is advantageous to the firm in many ways.

Patching and installing updates for a software that uses the SaaS model is way simpler as it only needs to be done at the server end of things, this way, every users computer or device has access to the latest version of the software.

Storing data in a computer aided facility management system makes it accessible from any place since information has been consolidated and all one needs is a remote connection to the web-based application. The systems proves to be reliable and efficient as it allows employees to work form anywhere.

Installing a SaaS computer aided facility management system takes less funds as compared to packaged desktop software and reduces he budget. This is so because one doesn’t need hi-tech equipment and to buy packaged software to set up the system.

There is no worry of change as the system scales itself. This is to say that as the oil firm changes or achieves growth, the system adapts to the current situation by itself which makes it conforming and easy for companies to use.

Security of data stored on the system is the only major challenge that a CAFM system faces. However, this is a shared problem with the other possible software solutions which doesn’t make them any better. The security of data here depends on the measures the server has put to protect the data, this measures have to get updated regularly too.

Facility management system software may offer the best solution to the oil and gas industries since all major problems that the industry seem to face have been tackled by it. The software seems to help the facility manager to make analyze and make sober decisions which he can?t make without help.