Use cases
Cenova Command delivers immediate value across a number of common scenarios. Below are the problems customers most often start with — and how Cenova Command helps solve them.
The Subsurface Data Crisis
Technical data estates are growing faster than anyone can manage. A large portion of subsurface data is dark data — unclassified, duplicated, or of unknown value — costing organizations significant time and money, and stalling transformation programs.
Problems we solve
"Where is my data?"
Pain: Geoscientists spend a large share of their time finding and preparing data instead of analyzing it.
How Command helps: A single, searchable, cross-platform index of every file and project, regardless of where it lives.
Migration & cloud stall
Pain: Cloud migrations get stuck because teams are afraid to delete data and don't have time to audit it.
How Command helps: Quickly identifies what's high-value, what's junk, and what's duplicated — before the migration starts.
Uncontrolled storage spend
Pain: Storage consumption grows year over year without a corresponding increase in business value.
How Command helps: Pinpoints large duplicates, orphaned projects, and data that can be tiered to cheaper storage.
M&A blind spot
Pain: Acquired data handovers are messy; it can take months to know what was actually acquired.
How Command helps: Indexes and audits acquired data estates fast, providing a "health check" on day one.
The governance gap
Pain: Data has no owners. It's hard to know who created a project, whether it's compliant, or whether it can be archived.
How Command helps: Automatically tags data with metadata, ownership, and classification — a foundation for governance.
Common scenarios
☁️ Cloud migration accelerator
The customer is planning a move to Azure or AWS but is overwhelmed by the volume of legacy data.
Cenova Command value
- Identify duplicates across the estate
- Tag high-value projects for priority migration
- Quantify dark data that can be moved to archive or cold storage instead of high-performance tiers
🤝 M&A data due-diligence
A new asset or business has been acquired and the incoming data needs to be integrated quickly.
Cenova Command value
- Run a rapid scan on the incoming data library
- See the quality, format, and completeness of the acquired data
- Identify duplicates with existing projects to prevent estate bloat
💰 Storage optimization
IT has been told to cut costs while the business keeps asking for more storage.
Cenova Command value
- Highlight the largest waste opportunities — duplicates, orphaned projects, and non-technical files
- Support tiering and archive moves that reclaim capacity from low-value data
⏱️ Time-to-data productivity
Asset managers report that geoscientists are spending too long delivering results.
Cenova Command value
- Provide search across the technical project environment
- Reduce time spent looking for missing seismic, latest-version wells, or orphaned project files
Where to next
- New here? Start with the Introduction.
- Ready to roll it out? Follow the Installation guide.
- Run your first scan with the Pre-Assessment guide.
- See how it all fits together in Architecture.