Data Management for Oil and Gas: More is (Almost Never) Better
Management of proliferating data 90% of the world’s data has been generated over the last two years. As a result, data management has become increasingly complicated. Nowhere is this truer than in the upstream industry, where the pace of Shale drilling has more than doubled in recent years.
Agile and Custom Software: Getting the Most from Your Money Part 3
Agile and Custom Software: A Love Story Earlier this summer, I started blogging about how Agile methodologies can help your company get the most from custom software. For part three of this series, I will share a success story from one of our clients.
SharePoint Consultant Troubleshoot: Fixing Workflow Not Found Exception
SharePoint Consultant & New Workflow Manager Installations The SharePoint consultant team needed to remove a Web Front End (WFE) from a SharePoint farm for development reasons, but afterwards we noticed that workflows stopped working. To remedy this, I decided to just re-install Workflow Manager on the main WFE. Though this is not normally a recommended practice, […]
Energy Software and Production: Three Reasons to Commit Today
Energy Software and Optimizing Production Amidst reports that Texas production has grown to account for 34.5% of total US figures, energy software is becoming more important for drilling optimization than ever.
SharePoint Consulting: Three Reasons to Care About Internal Site Branding
SharePoint branding: What it is, and why you should care This past week, Entrance’s SharePoint Consultants upgraded our site to SharePoint 2013. We are looking forward to trying out some of the new capabilities that 2013 will provide us! I wanted to take a few minutes to talk about one awesome option in the SharePoint […]
Data management and E&P: What is a Well
Data Management and Improving Production A few weeks ago, Entrance sponsored the Professional Petroluem Data Management Association’s (PPDM) lunch here in Houston on the topic of, “What is a Well?” The speaker, from Laredo Energy‘s Information Systems group discussed some of the difficulties that his company experienced as they used data management to move from exploiting […]
SharePoint Consulting: Three Timeline JS Tips
Recently, I started a SharePoint consulting project for a customer where the requirement was to create a timeline that showed dates for the same project milestones (Implementation, Configuration, Point-to-Point Testing, Close Out) spanning across different teams (Team 1, Team 2, etc.). These dates and teams are stored in a SharePoint calendar list. The customer needed […]
Tableau Consulting: Online Version Released
Tableau Online: Moving to the Cloud Today, Tableau announced a move to a cloud version of their business intelligence services. According to an article in the Seattle Times, “Tableau is pitching its cloud version as being easier and more flexible for companies to deploy. It doesn’t require software installation and is accessible via most browsers on PCs and […]
Community Sites in SharePoint 2013
Our SharePoint consultants are still learning new things about SharePoint 2013 every day as we begin to implement this platform. One of the hottest new features of SharePoint 2013 is Community sites. What is a Community site and how does it differ from a Team site?
Data Management: Becoming a Good Consumer
The Harvard Business Journal published a great article about data management from an upcoming book called, “Keeping Up with the Quants,” by Thomas Davenport. The main premise of the article is that many businesses have shown that they are not comfortable with data, and as a result they make bad decisions. “Companies need general managers […]
Entrance Software Consultants: Getting Involved in the Community!
Entrance’s software consultants are part of a number of organizations, including Lifehouse, the YMCA, and a robotics educations program. Our president, Nate Richards is also a long standing member of the Houston chapter of the Entrepreneur Organization (EO).
Custom Software: Tracking Pipeline Damage for Oil and Gas
Releases (or leaks) are very important to pipeline companies. Common causes for these leaks are equipment damage, both internal and external corrosion, manufacturing failures, and natural hazards like shifting land. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) is responsible for releasing reports regarding pipeline releases or leaks. As a result, […]
Energy Software: Leading Indicators, Lagging Indicators, and Safety Compliance
When it comes to safety for oil and gas, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the intricacies. A culture of safety needs to filter throughout your organization, and this involves having a plan for how to accomplish this.
Agile and Custom Software: Getting the Most for Your Money Part 2
I started a series a few weeks ago about Agile methodologies, and how many end users are uncomfortable with what the end result of a custom software project will be. This week I’d like to cover how software planning is different when it comes to Agile, and how this plays out in your favor.
SharePoint: Gamification and Utilization
When it comes to migrating systems, it can be difficult to get employees engaged in the process. For one major oil and gas company, a new logistics system presented a particular challenge because employees needed to be aware of changes in order to maintain current levels of safety and regulatory compliance.
Data Management: How do data cubes fit into your business?
I’ve covered data cubes in a previous three-part series on business intelligence, but I wanted to spend some time explaining how they play into data management and your ability to find the answers you need.
What is a software audit?
One of our software consulting offerings to our clients is a software audit, but this term may not mean a whole lot to you. I’d like to share some thoughts on what an audit is, and why you might want to consider one if your business owns proprietary programs or custom software applications.
Custom Energy Software: Following Pipelines from Cradle to Grave
We recently posted a news item about improvements to a custom software application that we developed for a client involved in the midstream service industry. They manage joints of pipe from cradle to the grave, and we recently released two new modules that has extended their tracking ability even further. Milling: Getting in from the […]
SharePoint Consultant Tips: Office 365 Service Update & SharePoint Online
Office 365 had a service update in April (2013) that had some impacts on SharePoint Online. Here are several of the impacts:
Entrance Enhances SpreadBoss Towards Cradle-to-Grave Pipe Tracking
Last year, we announced the completion of SpreadBoss, a custom software logistics support tool that allows thousands of joints of pipe to be tracked, providing customized inventory reports and creating a pipeline status history database. Entrance and TG Mercer have pushed the ability to track joints of pipe from cradle to grave that much further with the […]
