Nine out of 10 IT staff and about two-thirds of managers and users say they are using social-networking technologies at work, according to a global study by Microsoft- and Accenture-owned services firm Avanade.

But according to ZDNet’s article on social collaboration, what most people take for social collaboration is just Twitter and Facebook, not Read More...

Last week, several of Entrance’s software consultants attended PNEC’s 17th Annual Conference, “Petroleum Data Driven Decisions for Higher Returns.” There were a number of interesting sessions covering how oil and gas companies can use data management to improve their bottom line. Entrance will cover a few of them over the next few weeks.

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At the P2 conference last week, I had the opportunity to chat with a land administration systems controller from an upstream company here in Texas about data management. Her company is in the process of divesting a number of assets, and her job is to look at the data related to those assets and determine Read More...

The Houston Business Journal posted an article yesterday about Barnett Shale owners suing Chesapeake Energy over mineral rights. The dispute involves 4000 acres of land, and “the complaint says Chesapeake allegedly violated lease agreements by underpaying on royalty payments from gas produced on the plaintiffs’ land in Tarrant and Johnson counties.”

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As a SharePoint consultant, I run into and fix bugs all the time. One of my recent custom SharePoint 2010 projects required the use of HighCharts.js​ and jQuery. I’d like to share how I fixed one bug that that caused jQuery to break in combination with VML, jQuery, IE 8, and SharePoint 2010. So let’s get started Read More...

This week, several of Entrance’s software consultants are attending P2′s ASCEND user conference to  go live with our “Frac Your Data” campaign for the energy industry. Yesterday I attended one of the sessions called, “The Power of an Enterprise Digital Strategy,” where we learned how taking control of your company’s assets and housing them where Read More...

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:

99% of America’s energy is now supplied domestically, Read More...

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 Read More...

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 Read More...

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 Read More...