The Required Value of Open Digital Platforms: an Example of Connection to Third Party Applications.

New digital journeys should easily integrate with already well-proven technology adding value to open digital platforms that account for some Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that allow users to connect to third party applications. The digital footprint of all this data becomes essential, with new ways of analysing the results and new workflows that can utilise other cloud and non-cloud based existing solutions to create new insights and value to decision makers. Interconnecting applications by exporting results, exchanging tokens and validating users as well as ingesting results from other applications seamlessly becomes key to maximise technology investments. In that way we can expand the capabilities of new workflows, without having to focus on developing technology that is already existing, nor having to duplicate data. The results of the running external engines, once dynamic simulation has been completed, get stored in the original contextualised cloud service for further analysis and results evaluation. Extracting value from digital data should therefore not be about a scattered search for some relationships in data, but having a deliberate approach to query the data for the information the energy industry could utilise for specific decision making.