SharePoint Consulting: Gamification and ROI
The Return on Investment for SharePoint Consulting In our SharePoint consulting engagements, we often come across interesting problems that can be solved by some amount of customization. This was exactly the case when a change manager from one Upstream client came to Entrance with concerns over educating employees on a new system transition. Pipeline controllers […]
Bad Software Consulting: Offshore Voicemails Part 1
Software Consulting that Works for Your Business There are a lot of bad software consulting vendors out there. Let’s face it, lots of people can write code. But the ability to understand your business needs and execute effectively is another story! If your company is looking for a software consulting company, it’s important to consider […]
Custom Software: Game Changers for Oil & Gas Service
Custom Software for Service Companies In the oil and gas industry, every company has a different need for custom software. Every business faces unique issues that can only be addressed by custom software. Custom software applications can provide oil and gas companies with a variety of benefits, including: More effective inventory tracking Automation of repetitive […]
What is a Daily Drilling Report?
Daily Drilling Reports A daily drilling report is a twenty-four hour report of all key events that took place on a drilling rig. How is it important to us? The daily drilling report keeps office workers and all other parties concerned up-to-date on a well’s progress. It also provides the necessary information for evaluating field […]
Oil and Gas Software: Decision Making and Forecasting
Oil and Gas Software and the Accuracy of Decisions Oil and gas software can be one key to integrated, well structured, well defined IT systems. Data support utilizing an oil and gas specific framework leads to intelligent decision making and a reduction in overhead. Case study: Oil and Gas Business Intelligence Framework Data access, forecasting […]
Data Management Problems: Data Cleansing
Data Management and Quality Many processes in data management affect the quality of data in a database. These processes may be classified into three categories, such as processes that add new data to the database and those that manipulate existing data in the database. The remaining category includes processes such as data cleansing that reduce […]
Four Reasons to Consider Software Consulting
Software Consulting and the Right Team During our ongoing discussion on quality and custom software, Entrance’s software consulting team recently covered what we bring to the table for our clients. As a buyer, you may have wondered why you should hire an outside programmer versus building an internal team. What follows is a four great reasons why […]
SharePoint Dashboards: Three Reasons to Build Your One-Stop Shop
Surfacing Vital Information with SharePoint Dashboards Your Sharepoint dashboard is similar to the dashboard in your car; it contains all the information that is pertinent to your oil and gas operation so you can easily and quickly find what you need. If you haven’t set up your dashboard, it is important to contact a Sharepoint […]
Business Intelligence Deployment Misconceptions
Deploying Business Intelligence Business intelligence, also commonly referred to as BI throughout the industry, is a piece of technology that allows a business to obtain actionable information that they can then use throughout their day to day operations. While business intelligence solutions certainly have their fair share of advantages, it is also important to realize […]
Software Selection: Assessing Business Drivers
Software Selection and Your Business Making good choices during the software selection process is critical to your business. Whether you go with an off-the-shelf product, a custom application, or something in between, the investment in time and resources means that your company will be using that software for years to come. We started a series […]
Entrance Software Consulting Team Celebrates 10 Years
Happy Birthday to Entrance On December 16th, the Entrance software consulting team will be celebrating ten years of business. During that time, the company has moved to progressively larger offices, shifted focus to serving the oil and gas industry, and grown to be 60 plus people. Entrance started out with only a couple of employees […]
What is a well casing?
Well casing A well casing is made up of a series of steel tubes placed in an oil or gas well as the drilling and completion process moves forward. There are five different types of well casing: Conductor Casing, Surface Casing, Intermediate Casing, Production Casing, Liner String How it’s important to us Casings are used […]
SharePoint Consulting: Library and List Thresholds
SharePoint Consulting Best Practices Our SharePoint consulting experts have recently run into some problems with SharePoint library and list thresholds that we have been trouble shooting. We’re sharing some of the best practices that we’ve developed as a result to save other users out there some of the trouble!
Oil and Gas Software: Real-Time Information Improves Collaboration
SCADA and Oil and Gas Software Providing upstream SCADA information systems with near real time field metrics using oil and gas software is essential to the efficient management of shale gas exploration and development. Rapid, informed response to fast changing dynamics across multiple upstream sites requires reliable source data capture and quick availability.
Custom Software Delivers: Ten Reasons Your Project May be Value Challenged
Bringing Value to Custom Software The past few weeks, Entrance’s custom software consultants have been in an ongoing discussion about producing quality final products that give our clients value. This week, I’d like to share a few things to look out for during a project that might indicate that it is value challenged.
What is Viscosity?
Viscosity Viscosity is a measure of a fluid’s resistance to flow.
What is a Fault Trap?
Fault Trap A fault trap is a type of structural hydrocarbon trap formed as a result of a shift of rock along a fault line.
Mergers and Acquisitions Outlook for Oil & Gas: Integration a Key Hold-up
Mergers and Acquisitions for 2014 The Rice Energy Finance Summit promotes forward-looking discussion on important energy issues, like mergers and acquisitions, and facilitates relationships in this business sector through the exchange of information and ideas.
SharePoint Workflows for Upstream Energy Companies
SharePoint Workflows Some companies may not realize it, but tools like SharePoint workflows are becoming more and more vital to managing a thriving business. Gone are the days of managing tasks through slips of paper or written work orders.
Data Management for Oil and Gas
Keeping Up With Data Management Data management involves handling data throughout its life cycle in addition to the infrastructure upon which it resides. The amount of data that oil and gas companies generate is continually growing, as is the infrastructure upon which that data resides.
