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OS/2 PROVIDES ENERGY BOOST AT MOBIL NATURAL GAS
December 7, 1993
AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 6, 1993 . . . IBM's award-winning OS/2*
PC operating system is helping Mobil Natural Gas respond to, and
stay ahead of, changing business conditions in the
energy field.
"The business unit is responsible for the sales and
delivery of natural gas from the wellhead to the burner tip,"
said Art Wengler, team leader, technology group, Mobil Natural
Gas. "In partnership with our vendors, we've developed a
mission-critical line of business applications for marketing
natural gas."
The Information Systems Group has responsibility for
developing the computer systems that market Mobil's natural gas
supply in Canada and the United States -- "everything from order
entry systems to capture the sales order, matching them with the
supplies of gas and then moving the gas through the various
pipelines to our customers in the most cost effective manner," he
said.
Like many businesses, Mobil Natural Gas has been
rightsizing from host-based systems to a client/server
environment. "We have a new generation of product and needed the
power and reliability of OS/2 to run multiple applications on the
desktop simultaneously," Wengler said.
To handle the type of programming and applications that
Mobil Natural Gas needs, intense, complex transactions must be
run against the database.
"We need to manipulate data, and OS/2 combined with
IBM's Distributed Relational Database Architecture product has
helped us do that," said Wengler. "When we started out, we had
'dumb' terminals connected to mainframes. We wanted to leverage
our investment in PCs by moving the application logic from the
mainframe to the workstation. OS/2 helped us gain control of the
problem locally.
"Additionally, the innovative Workplace Shell graphical
user interface helped tremendously," said Wengler. "Our training
needs have been greatly reduced."
But what OS/2 has really done is help the company
attain its strategic goals. "Our mission here at Mobil Natural
Gas is to be the supplier of choice," said Wengler. "We have
chosen to do that by combining talent, teamwork and technology.
And the technology we're committed to is OS/2."
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* Indicates trademark or registered trademark of the
International Business Machines Corporation.