eSearch is produced by Iron Mountain in the United Kingdom. For the global energy market, we work with Schlumberger Information Solutions as a partner in the worldwide technical support and marketing of the product.
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE:IRM) is the world's trusted partner for outsourced records and information management services. Founded in 1951, the Company has grown to service more than 235,000 customer accounts in 160 markets across four continents, operating over 800+ facilities in the United States, Canada, Europe, Latin America and now expanding into the Pacific Rim.
Iron Mountain offers records management services for both physical and digital media, disaster recovery support services, and consulting - services that help businesses save money and manage risks associated with legal and regulatory compliance, protection of vital information, and business continuity challenges.
Schlumberger is the world's leading supplier of technology, project management and information solutions to the oil and gas industry. The company employs 52,000 people of 140 nationalities operating in 80 countries, and consists of three business segments.
Schlumberger Oilfield Services is the world's premier oilfield services company supplying a wide range of technology services and solutions to the international oil and gas industry. In 2002, Schlumberger revenue was $13.5 billion.
Schlumberger Information Solutions (SIS), an operating unit of Schlumberger Oilfield Services, is the global industry leader for the supply of integrated business solutions comprising GeoQuest software and information management services. SIS enables petroleum companies to drive their business performance and enter into the iEconomy.
SIS is the exclusive global reseller of eSearch for Oil and Gas companies.
The partnership between Iron Mountain and SIS provides a complete end-to-end Data Management Solution, leveraging the eSearch software, and comprises comprehensive services encompassing project management, information workflow optimization, data integration and consolidation, Web data access and management, file room management, storage and warehousing.
The development of eSearch was driven by the historical success of the Hays OpenRSO product, which has been widely accepted within the energy sector as a comprehensive asset management solution.
eSearch is a sophisticated piece of software, providing indexing, searching and ordering functionality. Information can be indexed in a number of ways offering a flexible approach that means different types of information assets can be indexed in a variety of ways to suit the characteristics of the information. eSearch can look for information in different ways via a single user interface, which may either be a web based browser or a desktop client graphical application. By using eSearch a user can access physical information stored with Iron Mountain, physical information stored with other third party suppliers, and physical information held on their own site. eSearch can also provide a portal into users digital information, enabling access to any image archive and on-line databases that are indexed via eSearch. eSearch has the ability to accurately index all the information that the user needs to access via the portal. The index can either be entered on-line or imported from a third party source. eSearch enables an organisation to 'virtually' integrate their information sources and search and access that information via a single user interface.
From version 2.0 onwards, eSearch has been a production of the Iron Mountain partnership with SIS, combining the power of OpenRSO with the functionality of AssetDB.
eSearch is an open, flexible system and can readily integrate to any in-house or third party system through a published industry standard API.
The eSearch flexible data model offers an easy migration path as it enables central administration of data held in different locations - on or off site - including technical libraries. By integrating legacy indices from disparate systems into a single 'virtual' catalogue substantial savings and improved functionality can be achieved. The eSearch server typically resides on the client's network, providing on-line access to selected users, enabling management of the data through electronic ordering and tracking. Iron Mountain has extensive experience of these migrations and can offer full support in all aspects of the exercise; initial planning, data migration, software installation, training and ongoing support.
Items you wish to order, or which require further services, transfer directly to an electronic order form for direct transmission to the store or library. eSearch uses barcodes which are assigned to individual data items to enable the system to maintain complete order histories.
eSearch includes a comprehensive native web browser interface, allowing the product to be used wherever internet access is available.
