Case Study: Precision Drilling achieves 25% faster financial reporting and uninterrupted operations with NetApp clustered Data ONTAP

Precision Drilling Adapting Quickly to Change

Precision Drilling, a global energy services firm that services more than 240 drilling rigs, needed to strengthen its business lines to boost productivity and competitiveness while delivering top-tier drilling and well-servicing experiences. With more than 2,400 employees relying on SAP and Oracle systems, the company faced the challenge of improving performance, availability, and scalability of core platforms and internally developed oilfield applications without disrupting operations.

Precision upgraded its NetApp environment to clustered Data ONTAP, moved VMware and file shares to NetApp FAS systems, and deployed Flash Cache, deduplication, and Snapshot/SnapProtect/SnapMirror technologies to enable nondisruptive moves, faster reads, and automated backups. The rapid, zero‑downtime transition (controller upgrades completed in 2.5 days) cut SAP dev/test storage by 50%, sped financial reporting and consolidation by about 25%, enabled same‑day provisioning, allowed a full data‑warehouse restore within an hour, and noticeably improved application responsiveness and IT agility.

Precision Drilling

Allan Slavens

Manager of IT Infrastructure Architecture