Today’s competitive business environment requires companies to become more and more agile. The ability to act and change rapidly constitutes a huge business advantage. DNV Software offers solutions for good business and environmental performance, quality control and continuous learning within an organisation.
DNV Software is an independent business unit within DNV that develops innovative software solutions for the maritime, offshore and process industries. It has developed a strategy for the next five years, with main focus on strengthening its core areas and stimulating progress. An important challenge is to make sure that the unit’s development is market-driven, enabling customers to be even more efficient in their daily operations.
Traditionally, DNV Software’s portfolio has dealt with strength assessment and risk management. During 2007, DNV Software revamped its strategy. The 2008– 2012 strategy aims at building profitability by shifting the focus from extensive development activities to the strengthening of existing products and solutions and by capitalising on existing strongholds when moving into the asset integrity software markets. DNV Software will build its new strategy on six industry positions:
Yards – become a supplier with a global impact on integrated design and work process solutions for the early design phase of shipbuilding.
Offshore engineering – become the world’s leading provider of strength assessment software to the offshore industry.
Process risk – become the world’s leading provider of integrated process risk analysis and assessment tools for the design and operation of process plants.
Ship owners – deliver software for ship operation management focusing on hull integrity and environmental accounting systems.
Offshore integrity – deliver software for the integrity management of off-shore pipeline systems and fixed and floating offshore structures.
Plant integrity – deliver software for the integrity management of refineries, petrochemical plants and onshore pipelines.
DNV is committed to enhancing its software offerings for environmental and sustainable operations design. As an example, in order to meet the rising demand for integrated software solutions in the shipping and energy industries and be positioned to accommodate China’s ambitious plans for technology development and innovation, a new DNV Software production centre has been established in Shanghai. This centre will mainly focus on two areas: general project delivery capacity and environmental performance systems.
The Environmental Performance System (EPS) strengthens DNV’s overall offering to its customers and helps them put their environmental commitments into practice. The solution, offered to DNV customers as a web service, will help companies to measure environmental performance through a web-based reporting tool that supports the Global Reporting Initiative guidelines and ISO 14001. When resource usage data from company records are entered, the EPS can calculate emissions to the environment using formulas verified by DNV. By benchmarking the EPS results against the prevailing acceptance criteria, organisations may obtain new insight into their biggest areas for improvement.
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