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INSIGHTS

Five Minutes with

Oyvind Orbak,

CEO, Docmap

Please provide an overview of the software solution you Looking at the coming 20 years, what trends do you see offer to the global maritime market. evolving today that will effectively shape your business,

Docmap AS, a leader within the Marine and Offshore sec- shape the use of software solution products onboard com- tors, is the provider of Docmap software solutions for Safety mercial ships for a coming generation?

and Quality management. More than 110,000 users and 1,200 I believe that specialist vendors will increasingly collabo- vessels are using Docmap to manage their core operations, rate and some vendor consolidation must take place. and the company is present in Norway, Malaysia, Canada, and

The Netherlands. Docmap Document Management is speci? - Maritime Markets are typically cyclical, and notoriously cally designed to meet the needs and requirements for mod- conservative in their acceptance of new solutions. Brie? y ern HSEQ management for maritime businesses. Docmap is discuss how attitudes have/are changing among ship own- designed to be a highly con? gurable solution easily adaptable ers and ship operators toward modern software solutions.

to any kind of organization and ? eet structure. It is web based Yes – attitudes are changing – but at a slow pace.

system supporting modern platforms such as smartphones and tablets. The solution consists of four main functional modules: BIG DATA: Many of our discussions today center on “BIG • Document Management DATA” and its transformative effects on the marine indus- • Incident Reporting and try. When I say “BIG DATA”, what does it mean to you, and • Task Risk Assessment what does it mean to the development and positioning of • Audit & Inspection your product suite in this market?

All Docmap modules are integrated, ship/shore synchro- Big Data in shipping means acquiring a lot of data from nized and fully web enabled. a lot of sources both on and around the ship and perform- ing real-time analysis on this data in order to ? nd relevant

When you look at the evolution of the software side of the correlations or a deeper understanding that may in turn be marine business over the last 20 years, what do you see? used to tune business processes and implement operational

The software supply side is still dominated by smaller ef? ciencies. For example; weather sensing, re-routing, early companies. For example, the most recent Fraunhofer report error detections, etc. The possibilities are limitless. Docmap states that 83% of software vendors in this sector have less may in the future use Big Data analysis tools across our en- than 30 employees. However – some vendors are trying to tire client base to provide better insight to our clients within build a wider offering with a broader functionality set. The risk assessment and to help clients implement strategies to challenge is that ever increasing demands require ever more prevent undesirable behavior. Another example may be the complex offerings, and this clearly plays in favor of indus- Docmap based on input from the ship itself will make the try specialists. Docmap is consolidating our position as the captain/chief engineer aware of new regulations / deadlines

HSEQ expert while collaborating with expert vendors with and other issues that are appropriate in the waters that the ship complimentary offerings. is about to enter.

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