Hi Brian, so my question is not so much about the back-end GCZ services, but about the application layer.
We're trying to figure out how to show value to customers who say they are interested in OSDU enablement of our computing platform by showing them a live demo... we're looking for the vendor geospatial and geoscience applications which actually are OSDU enabled, so that we can share data between application ecosystems in real time... not only geospatial (maps) but also wellbores in 3D, seismic data (2D/3D), production data, and on and on.
The problem is... I can't find any vendor apps that are OSDU enabled. I see hints of it here and there, on a few YouTubes, some of them years old, but when I send tickets to software help desks about this, they don't even reply. I'm sure their Level 1 people don't know what the h*** OSDU even is.
At some point, I'm fearing there may be "The Emperor Has No Clothes" moment... when the managers who have sent millions of dollars out to vendors and contractors and consortia realize that there is no immediate ROI because no application vendors have written and commercialized the final layer.
If there is one truth in the energy industry since the oil crash of 2014 / 2015, it is that shareholders demand cash flows returned to them, and managers have gotten very disciplined. I fear there could be an OSDU blowback.
I'm hoping I'm wrong, and my perception is just an artifact of my advancing age and personal obsolescence, but on the other hand, I've been in the industry for 38 years, many of those years employed by these very software vendors, so probably I'm not wrong.
If you know of any vendors who have implemented the final layer to actual implement GCZ, I'd like to know some names. We can communicate privately about this offline from the community.
