Customer Story: Snam Revamps Its Strategy to Help Drive Energy Transition
Key Takeaways
⇨ Operational Efficiency and IT Strategy: Snam S.p.A. revamped its IT strategy by consolidating its workload automation tools with Control-M, significantly enhancing operational efficiency, agility, and compliance, which were unattainable with the previous Redwood system.
⇨ Streamlined Migration and Optimization: By migrating to Control-M in smaller phases and optimizing workflows, Snam reduced obsolete jobs by 25%, improving business service delivery time by 20% and reducing workflow errors by 40%.
⇨ Comprehensive Workflow Orchestration: Control-M provides Snam with a single platform to manage application and data workflows across on-premises and cloud environments, enhancing security, compliance, and integration efficiency, including SAP job monitoring and managed file transfers.
Snam S.p.A. is one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure operators. As a natural gas transporter, dispatcher, storer, and regasifier, the company has been providing energy security in Italy since 1941. Today, Snam is focused on repositioning itself internationally by further developing its energy business and transitioning into new areas like hydrogen and biomethane. The company is pursuing carbon neutrality by 2040.
Many of the mission-critical aspects of Snam’s business, including daily gas trading, sales, and balancing activities, depend on a complex business network of external stakeholders, trading partners, service providers, and contractors. For example, to commercially balance its natural gas system (ensuring the equality between the quantities injected into and withdrawn from the network), calculate market value, or perform accounting activities, Snam must orchestrate data movement from internal and external systems and sources
across the network, alongside other complex data processing activities.
The Opportunity
To achieve these goals while ensuring business continuity in the rapidly changing energy sector, Snam recognized it needed to evolve its IT strategy by implementing innovative and flexible infrastructures and leveraging specific and versatile skill sets from its business partners. Snam knew it was essential to adopt an IT strategy and technology platforms that could reliably support its business with geographical high availability (HA), agility, traceability, and auditability. Only by mastering these requirements would it be able to manage complex IT environments, evolve rapidly and competitively, and maintain high safety standards.
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