Our data optimisation solutions are designed to deliver effective, usable data and information to the end user, increasing confidence in the source will drive more efficient decision making. We can optimise your subsurface data, improving its quality and providing clear auditability. We can rationalise your information estate, making your content searchable and complaint. We can support large data acquisitions, aligning content to policy and standards. We can ensure your documentation is controlled and promotes collaboration across technology stacks.

Sword’s MigraPath suite is a great example of applied technology, best practice and domain knowledge coming together to produce actionable outcomes for our customers. It is a data driven approach to tackle complex unstructured information challenges.

The MigraPath methodology leverages robust technology to help you discover, rationalise, harvest value from and migrate your unstructured content. Sword’s discipline expertise can devise your future state, whilst providing your stakeholders with a transparent migration process so they feel in control throughout.

We have successfully delivered enterprise-wide clarity, reduced duplication, removed GDPR liabilities, reduced time-to-insight and saved money for a wide variety of customer information challenges.

We help our customer strive toward data unification, providing an integrated and governed data-centric layer drawing on existing systems, applications and silos to produce actionable insight with the user experience in mind. Our Modern Data Platform solutions are designed to tackle the exponential increase in data and help achieve system interoperability, whilst reducing the need for costly data warehousing and specific software integration tools.

Sword developed the Tillit framework to ensure we developed scalable, flexible and robust data platforms to a consistent blueprint, which means we can support, document and maintain them in a centralised and cost-effective way.

Our framework supports the integration of new and legacy systems and utilises components of Microsoft Azure Synapse technology alongside innovative AI and ML to produce real-time insights. The framework underpins a limitless platform that can support evolving business need.

We have deployed Modern Data Platforms to deliver business and operational intelligence across the public, financial, energy and retail sectors.

Our information management service offering is designed to provide your end users with access to trusted, verified and auditable data and documents, supporting your day-to-day operations from a global talent pool of technical professionals. We work with a wide variety of customers, from multiple industry sectors, but they’re all interested in driving better decision making.

To help them do that, we always recommend assessing their digital maturity against Sword’s own current state framework, to help produce a clear direction and define what success looks like for all involved. The resultant roadmap enables an organisation to prioritise BAU and Change activity.

We deliver fully outsourced managed services, providing the data and information management function on behalf of our customers, through to augmenting specific customer capability with industry experts. Our dedicated data factory and data quality teams provide just-in-time access to assured data for well engineering, subsurface and corporate end users, improving interpretation and reducing uncertainty.

We provide industry-renowned Document Control services to several large Oil & Gas operators, supporting asset integrity and management, and reducing operational risk.

Our deep domain expertise provides you with an independent, informed and practical voice to make sense of the UK regulatory landscape. We have decades of experience throughout planning, exploration, development, production and decommissioning and can help alleviate the compliance burden. We will clarify your compliance position, support you through the regulatory process or act on your behalf, from NDR submissions to planning complex ISPs.

Several Sword staff work directly on behalf of our customer’s nominated ISC, supporting live operations, and coordinating with the NSTA, partners and vendors.

Our four-step process involves ‘Discovery’, providing a complete and accurate understanding, ‘Identify’ gaps and candidates for review and submission, ‘Comply’ with data quality preparation and submission, and ‘Assure’ continued compliance through best practice and practical governance. We combine domain knowledge with innovative technologies to deliver a scalable service solution, and we provide dedicated expertise to our energy customers in the UK, Europe and the US.