Entrance Unveils “Frac Your Data™” Campaign at P2 Energy Solutions Conference
Houston Software Consulting Promotes Data Management and Integration for Texas Energy Companies At this week’s P2 Energy Solutions conference, ASCEND 2013 in San Antonio, Entrance reveals its new “Frac Your Data” campaign to promote data management for energy companies. Nathaniel Richards, President and CEO of the Houston software consulting firm, will share insights and strategies with ASCEND 2013 […]
Oil and gas software & energy independence
We recently ran across a video from BP that shared a number of interesting facts about America’s energy future. Due to technology improvements like hydraulic fracturing and the addition of oil and gas software, the US has experienced huge booms in production, particularly when it comes to shale gas. As a result:
SharePoint 2013 – Task App (List)
What to Love and What to Hate (Or at least be annoyed at) Ok, I’m a big fan of SharePoint. I’ve been drinking the cool aid for years and have been super excited to be deploying SharePoint 2013 both internally and for our early adopting clients. As I’ve started using the solution I have noticed […]
Performance Monitor & Profiler: Entrance Software Consultants on Tuning SQL
In the past few weeks, Entrance’s software consultants have been focusing on SQL server tuning as part of an internal lunch and learn series. Last week we covered how maintenance plans can be used to improve database performance. This week, I wanted to share some interesting tools that can help us identify SQL commands or […]
Lean Concepts in Oil and Gas: Using Data to Refine Processes
As we’ve discussed in a previous post, hydraulic fracturing has become a repeatable process that more and more resembles a factory assembly line. The challenge, however, is to find ways to use data or oil and gas software to optimize these plays and make them profitable. As I was preparing for a presentation on complex […]
SharePoint 2013 Application Almost Complete
For the past few months I have been working on and blogging about SharePoint 2013 and new functionality that allows safer code development as a result of client-side code and SharePoint applications. To prove out this functionality, we decided to put some time into developing an app for performance evaluations that we will both use internally and […]
Oil Production in Eagle Ford Sets Records: Where does oil and gas software come in?
The San Antonio Business Journal released some interesting numbers today. “Oil production in the Eagle Ford Shale was up 74 percent in February compared to one year ago to set an all-time high.”
Nathaniel Richards presents “Avoiding Lease Jeopardy in Shale Plays” to Energy Businesses at HAPL Workshop
At this week’s Houston Association of Professional Landmen Technical Workshop, Entrance President and CEO Nathaniel Richards will share insights from his energy software consulting practice with Houston’s active Landmen community. With over ten years of experience developing strategies for the oil and gas industry, Richards will help Landmen avoid losing leases due to decentralized information […]
Top Ten things you did not learn at SharePoint Saturday: Part 2
Last week, I started a list of the top ten things you didn’t learn at SharePoint Saturday, like better site retention and using metadata to improve the user experience. Now for the other five:
Five Entrance software consultants passed Microsoft certification exams
In order to become Gold certified with Microsoft, a company is required to have a certain number of Certified Solution Experts. Five Entrance software consultants have made strides recently towards completing certification by recently completing a number of exams, including: Programming in HTML 5 with JavaScript and CSS3 Implementing a Data Warehouse with SQL Server 2012 Query […]
SharePoint Consultant Tip: Removing “Revert to Template”
I received a “Revert to template” notification bar recently when I modified an aspx page in SharePoint Designer. It was rather frustrating trying to get rid of this without clicking “Revert to template” and the blog posts I found on the subject gave instructions on using Javascript to hide notifications.
SQL Software consultant best practices: SQL and Maintenance Plans
Maintenance Plans and Software Consultants Last week, we shared part one of our internal lunch and learn series led by our software consultants covering SQL Server tuning. This week’s session covered best practices for improving SQL performance. I’d like to specifically focus on maintenance plans and how utilizing them results in a better performing database.
Top ten things you did not learn at SharePoint Saturday
SharePoint Saturday in Houston was a great event, but it did not cover a lot of the latest and greatest things we can do with SharePoint 2013. So I’ve created a list of the top ten things I think SharePoint users should care about that were not covered at SharePoint Saturday.
SharePoint 2013 Applications
A few weeks ago, I discussed some new developments related to SharePoint 2013 that have made custom SharePoint implementation and development much safer. To build on that topic, there is another way to safely customize your SharePoint environment besides client-side code. Another way, which seems to be the wave of the future for SharePoint, is […]
Rapid expansion of touchscreen-enabled notebooks could be good for Windows 8
A research firm focused on the display supply chain, NPD DisplaySearch, recently predicted “a rapid expansion of the touchscreen-enabled notebooks over the course of the year. Last year, the company estimates that touchscreens were present on only 3 percent of notebooks sold, but it expects this number to grow to more than 12 percent during the […]
Entrance Consultants Attend SharePoint Saturday
This past Saturday Entrance took part in the Houston SharePoint Saturday. We had a booth at the event because we are always looking for great SharePoint consultants! Several members of our team also attended the event to participate in some of the sessions. Presentations at the event covered a range f topics, including getting executive buy-in […]
It’s time to re-evaluate oil and gas software to keep up with regulations
In the April Oil and Gas Journal, an interesting article entitled ‘Tempering the Revival with Regulation,’ discusses changes as a result of the surge of activity in West Texas. “With new levels of drilling…across the state, energy regulators want to ensure rules can keep up.”
Software Consultant Best Practices: SQL Databases & Indexing
Software Consultants Sharing SQL Knowledge As we’ve mentioned before, Entrance recently started a lunch and learn series where our software consultants share custom software development best practices with their teammates. We are currently doing a three-part series on SQL Server tuning and I wanted to share some of that discussion here.
Oil and Gas Software the Key to Optimizing Drilling
In an article from Oil and Gas Journal’s April edition entitled, ‘Permian production pushes U.S. crude output to 15-year high,’ the author discusses the huge increases in production from September 2011 to September 2012, ” Texas production increased by more than 500,000 b/d, largely due to the rise in drilling in the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas […]
Visual Studio 2012 update 2 released
Visual Studio 2012 update 2 was released yesterday and it contains a variety of new features that I thought might be notable to some of you. In particular:
