SharePoint Online is Slow! 5 Ways to Improve Slow Performance Issues
Here are the top five reasons that you may notice your SharePoint Online is slow, or that your environment is running slower than expected… 1. Structural navigation: This is the most common and has most impact on performance. The Structural Navigation functionality generates hierarchical navigation by dynamically crawling through the SharePoint site. This could mean […]
Using Data Management to Drive Business Objectives
At the 19th International Conference on Petroleum Data Integration, Information and Data Management, there was a striking common theme regarding the need to achieve strategic business objectives from data management initiatives. Many presenters touched on this topic, if not focused their entire presentation around it, including Noah Consulting, EP Energy, ConocoPhillips and CLTech Consulting. Matt […]
SharePoint 2016 Features & Enhancements
What is in the pipeline for On-Premise SharePoint 2016? Earlier this month Microsoft announced new SharePoint 2016 features and enhancements to a packed house of several thousand attendees at the Ignite conference. With the 2016 on premises version scheduled to be released Q2 2016, some distinct outlines of the finished product are starting to take […]
PNEC Data Management Conference Recap: The Role of IT in Data Management
At the 2015 PNEC data management conference for the oil and gas industry, one of the themes addressed by multiple presenters was the relationship between IT and the business. In particular, Chris Josefy and Omar Khan from EP Energy hit on three key areas that resonated with me in their presentation entitled “The Case for Transforming […]
Facebook’s Key Competitive Advantage: Purpose-Built Software
Facebook’s prominence in the technology community rivals that of its more established peers. So what’s the CIO’s role at a company that’s already as cutting edge as Facebook? In this recent Wall Street Journal article, Facebook CIO Timothy Campos says ensuring workforce productivity is his paramount concern; everything else is subordinate. Tim Campos, CIO at Facebook, believes […]
SharePoint Server Roles for the Upcoming SharePoint Online 2016 Release
Microsoft Ignite 2015 Highlight Bill Baer, Microsoft Technical Product Manager and Certified Master presents “What’s New for IT Professionals in SharePoint Server 2016” at Microsoft Ignite 2015. In typical SharePoint deployments, SharePoint servers typically serve a dedicated server “role”, depending on which features have been enabled. For example, Web Front End and App servers are […]
Creating Contour Plots in Spotfire for Drilling Optimization
Utilizing contour plots in Spotfire to simplify drilling plans With custom contour plots in Spotfire, drilling engineers can change the values of any two independent parameters (X & Y axes) to find the combination of those values that produce the best results for a third (Z). In this case, we look at the combination of […]
New Developer Tools for Office 365
Lessons learned from Ignite 2015: Microsoft is trying to enable cloud development Microsoft has recently released new developer tools for Office 365. These advancements make development of an Office 365 customization faster, easier, and cheaper to implement. For customizations that span multiple Office 365 applications, a unified endpoint makes the authentication process much easier while connecting […]
How Does Software Age?
Software applications age over time like any business asset. Unlike tangible assets, such as physical equipment, software deprecation tends to be less easily identifiable or well-defined. Old software tends to “fly under the radar” in businesses, and as a result the associated risks and opportunities are not addressed in a timely manner. Ultimately, all software […]
Office 365 Infographic: Oil & Gas Industry Adoption
Wondering if it’s time to move your oil and gas enterprise to the cloud? We’ve put together a helpful Office 365 infographic to help you understand adoption trends in the oil & gas industry. Microsoft Office 365 lets you invest more capital into your wells and less on IT infrastructure. Imagine a world where you don’t […]
Is Your SharePoint Farm Ready for Kim Jong Un?
If you play a part in managing or administering SharePoint at your company, the Sony hack might be more frightening to you than any movie released this year. The hackers looted Sony’s network and released sensitive employee information, confidential intellectual property, and even embarrassing emails. You don’t have any of these on your servers, do […]
Is Your SharePoint Farm Ready for Hackers?
If you play a part in managing or administering SharePoint at your company, the Sony hack might be more frightening to you than any scary movie they’ve released. The hackers looted Sony’s network and released sensitive employee information, confidential intellectual property, and even embarrassing emails. You don’t have any of these on your servers, do […]
Self-Service Analytics for Accounting & Finance
Chances are, business intelligence is on every accountant’s Christmas list this year. The energy industry of 2015 is shaping up to be a world of slim margins and fast turnaround to allow producers, distributors and marketers to maximize the effect of their smaller capital budgets. Accounting and finance departments will feel this pressure unlike any […]
Self-Service Analytics for Finance and Accounting
Chances are, business intelligence is on every accountant’s Christmas list this year. The energy industry of 2015 is shaping up to be a world of slim margins and fast turnaround to allow producers, distributors and marketers to maximize the effect of their smaller capital budgets. Accounting and finance departments will feel this pressure unlike any […]
Why can’t you just tell me how much it’s going to cost?
[vc_row parallax=”1″ padding=”custom-padding”][vc_column][vc_column_text]If you’ve ever engaged a vendor on a software development project, the vendor probably gave you an “estimate.” You may ask, “Why can’t the vendor just give me a pricing schedule or a firm quote?”
5 Key Takeaways from TIBCO NOW
The Entrance BI Practice was well-represented at this year’s TIBCO NOW conference, which featured keynote presentations by disruptive thought leaders like VC legend Marc Andreessen, TIBCO Founder and CEO Vivek Ranadive and bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell. Five things stand out in my mind as I look back upon the week so far:
Entrance Experience: Day 1 at TIBCO NOW
When it comes to Data Visualization, there is no bigger or more significant gathering than the TIBCO NOW annual event. Whether you are a partner, user, or just a data scientist, this was the place to be for the latest TIBCO Spotfire product developments and usage best practices. As a new TIBCO silver partner, Entrance was […]
Conference Recap: PIDX Fall 2014
Standards as Value Creators in Oil and Gas I attended the PIDX International US Fall Conference last week in Houston where the theme was “How Standards Accelerate the Realization of Value in Oil & Gas.” A variety of speakers gave presentations around this topic by presenting real world examples, including Entrance’s President Nate Richards. I […]
There Will Be Bugs! | Application Development Blog Series
Best practices for minimizing the impact and mitigating costs associated with fixing software bugs First of all, let’s clear something up: what is a bug? A bug is a flaw in software that results in the application not functioning as intended, and is something that is theoretically preventable.
Entrance featured on the cover of the Houston Chronicle
Entrance employees featured in Houston Chronicle cover story as experts on the growth of tech in the oil & gas industry. Read the full article at the Houston Chronicle.
