Valero Energy

Due to lmitations on access to reserves and remote exploration opportunities and margin pressure and risk through market volatility, mergers and acquisition is one of the best ways to grow in this industry. With M&A though comes the problem of aligning the new entity with the parent.  Hence a strategy was needed to shorten this alignment time.  SOA was used asit offers the flexibility to make changes to business processes, helps in business optimization and risk mitigation by providing access to accurate real time commercial, financial and profitability data across the value chain and makes the system reliable

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