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…
Read MoreOur customer is one of the world’s leading logistics companies. They provide supply chain solutions, and specialize in global integrated solutions. Currently they are ramping up relationships with…
Read MoreIn a recent feature in the Independent Petroleum Association of America's (IPAA) Winter 2013 magazine covering oil technology, one of the key points highlighted is that although oil and gas companies…
Read MoreEvery year, Gartner creates a report reviewing major market and industry trends for Business Intelligence and Analytics. This year Tableau was listed as a leader for the first time in their magic…
Read MoreAs a software consultant, I am always learning novel ways to create dashboards and data visualizations that provide value to my clients. SharePoint 2013 provides a valuable framework for surfacing…
Read MoreThis is week three of a series covering the different components of a business intelligence solution. Get caught up on part one, covering data integration, and part two, covering data cubes and…
Read MoreI started a series last week on what a business intelligence solution should look like. Part one covered integration and the data warehouse. This week, I'd like to cover data cubes and…
Read MoreLeveraging SharePoint's powerful tools within your company can result in big payback in the areas of business collaboration, process management, document management and workflow. If your current…
Read MoreOne of our most successful projects is for a client called TG Mercer. We created a pipeline logistics system for them that automates the tracking and management of their inventory for its entire…
Read MoreThere are many different technical frameworks available for implementing a business intelligence solution, all offered by a variety of vendors. In a general sense though, there are three overarching…
Read MoreWe're glad you're interested in Oil and Gas Business Intelligence! Download our planning kit here. If you’d like more information, please visit our Knowledge Base or request a…
Read MoreOil and Gas Software Surfaces Your Information Assets The energy industry is changing rapidly, and as a result, many companies like yours are looking to keep up and get ahead with oil and gas…
Read MoreWe've talked a bit lately about key performance indicators (KPI) and how they can be used internally to measure things like customer retention, capital expenditure, loan loss, refinery capacity and…
Read MoreI took notice yesterday of a release by Gartner stating that 30% of businesses will be be monetizing their information assets by 2016. FierceBigData also highlighted in an article covering the…
Read MoreWhen it comes to making informed decisions these days, it really is about surfacing the right subset of information at the right time, with the right purpose. We all know that Business Intelligence…
Read MoreWe were pretty excited about the launch of Windows 8, and as a proof of concept we took publicly available well data and used it to create an application that shows how an energy company might be…
Read MoreThis has been a great year for Entrance. Here are our top ten accomplishments: 1) Entrance product SpreadBoss featured in Pipeline and Gas Journal The software solution has become a…
Read MoreOver the past six years, Entrance has worked for a large midstream services company to develop a field ticket management system. Previous to the system, the client billed their customers based on…
Read MoreEvery day your company produces lots and lots of information, and yet most managers feel like they don't have the insights they need. Advanced business intelligence, with either custom reporting…
Read MoreMaster(ing) Data Management for Better Decision Making June 19th, 12:00 pm, Location TBA As small companies grow into bigger ones, their data inevitably accumulates, often in systems and databases…
Read MoreWhen we think about BI, typically what we’re trying to do is to focus managers’ time. The reason we want to focus their time is because we want to change the conversation they are having to the…
Read MoreBusiness Intelligence can be a boon to businesses of all sizes, but BI solutions come at a cost. There are both tangible costs—like the cost of procurement, development and implementation of the…
Read MoreSign up for a business intelligence consultation today, and let our consultants help you understand your goals and needs for accomplishing a successful BI implementation. You can also download our…
Read MoreImplementing a business intelligence solution may seem daunting. But it doesn't need to be! Get started with these four steps: [caption id="attachment_5517" align="aligncenter" width="576"] Find…
Read More"Over 35% of the company's wells produced more than 1,000 boe/d in Q3" EaglefordShale.com reported this week that Chesapeake Energy has recently seen a huge growth in production rates for 2012.…
Read MoreSharePoint is all about integration. After all, it integrates your office documents, business data, day-to-day processes and employees in one searchable, navigable location. But to SharePoint…
Read MoreWorkers in the oil and gas industry deal with masses of data every day. If there is no central repository for data, what often happens is that information is shared and stored via email. During a…
Read MoreEntrance attended the Oil Comm conference recently and one of the big topics of discussion surrounded how to manage data even as it proliferates more and more every day. During the keynote, “The…
Read MoreFor many of the new clients we see coming in these days, one of their top questions is, "Can you build us a web portal?" There are a lot of good reasons why web portals are a big deal. For one thing…
Read MoreKey performance indicators are metrics that let you know how your business is doing. Most people are collecting this information already somewhere within their company. But generally it is not broken…
Read MoreToday, Entrance's president Nate Richards presented a session for The Entrepreneur's Institute (TEI), "Measuring Success: Executive Dashboards." The hands-on workshop covered key performance…
Read MoreCompliance is a big word. For the next couple weeks we'll be posting a series on compliance as a solvable information problem in Oil and Gas. Everything from safety, tax, engineering, contracts,…
Read MoreLast week, I covered the pressing need for the oil and gas industry to start implementing data management to gain operational efficiencies and extract more value from all their assets. This week,…
Read MoreEntrance employee Kyle recently presented a webinar on the work we are doing for our client, KIPP. KIPP is a national network of charter schools serving low-income students and families that…
Read MoreWhat's special about BI for Oil and Gas? Everyone who works at an oil and gas company is focused on collecting, storing, analyzing, interpreting, or consuming some form of data. And unlike other…
Read MoreA Case Study in Process Efficiency and Business Intelligence Our client is a Norwegian-owned producer of oil and gas located in Houston, Texas and based out of Oslo, Norway. With more than 80…
Read MoreNot all Business Intelligence is created equal, and there's no simple plug and play solution. The key to impactful business intelligence dashboards is understanding and connecting your information…
Read MoreNate Richards, President of Entrance, presented a case study on lease compliance at the conference, "Managing Regulatory and Legal Issues in Shale Plays" in Houston, Texas. Nate shared the…
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Read MoreExxonMobil Development Company President Neil Duffin spoke at the Rice E&C forum this evening in Houston, Texas, focusing on managing today's changing regulatory environment and choosing oilfield…
Read MoreOur Lease Compliance White Paper explains how to: Mitigate Risks – Manage lease compliance intelligently with early warnings and custom reports. Reduce Oversights – Get an at-a-glance…
Read MoreBusiness intelligence, put simply, is any technology item that intelligently provides actionable information for business purposes. The phrase encompasses a range of software platforms and…
Read MoreWhen I received a notification that Robbins & Myers and National Oilwell Varco had announced a merger, it seemed like perfect timing to talk a bit about Mergers and Acquisitions from a data…
Read MoreUsing Linear Data for Ad-Hoc Decision Making In E&P information about an asset is usually set up to flow directionally as that asset moves from being an identified prospect through to drilling…
Read MoreA Case Study in Ticketing Systems Enhancements Entrance Software launched a custom SharePoint implementation with ticketing systems enhancements for a national network of charter schools serving…
Read MoreA Case Study in Software Modernization and Actionable Intelligence Our client specializes in renting equipment, re-renting third party equipment, and managing clients’ equipment inventory. Our…
Read MoreEntrance just launched a custom software solution that integrates GPS tracking with the information systems our client already has in place in order to improve equipment-use efficiency! Our client…
Read MoreGrowing a business is challenging. What used to work in the ramen days with two people in your garage suddenly doesn't work anymore as the company grows. Understanding what drives your productivity…
Read MoreWe've all seen it before: by the end of the week, you're left wondering where your time went. Even with lots of reports coming in, urgent questions from others in the organization are still hard to…
Read MoreRisks are a part of daily life in the oil and gas industry. And because they are many, varied and unpredictable, software product companies cannot keep up with industry needs. We specialize…
Read MoreExtend business intelligence capabilities to your company's employees to help them make more informed decisions using SharePoint business intelligence features, including the business data catalog,…
Read MoreUsing Data to Control Risk Are you tracking well production data in Excel and a succession of Access databases? Where do you put information from drilling logs, production numbers, well logs…
Read MoreConnecting the field to the corner office is one of the oil and gas industry's prime concerns. While there is a vast amount of information available, it is not always communicated in the right place…
Read MoreStop Wasting Time Looking for Valuable Data When it's time to generate a report or your boss asks you a question related to metrics, does it take minutes or hours to come up with the answers you…
Read MoreAnswering Your Most Pressing Questions with Data Management The business world if filled with an overwhelming influx of information. As you go about daily business, you probably have asked something…
Read MoreCustom Software Designed to Save Time and Frustration Do you find yourself performing lengthy and repetitive tasks such as copying and pasting or importing and exporting accounting data and…
Read MoreLeverage Unused Tools If your workplace is anything like those of most companies we know, SharePoint implementation, if it has occurred at all, has consisted so far of installing the software and…
Read MoreAt a recent industry breakfast, a panel of speakers from Embridge, TerraFina, Plains All American, and the Bauer College of Business discussed their perspectives on both the boom and the coming…
Read MoreCustom Software and SharePoint Consulting for Oil and Gas Software is an unsung hero when it comes to the Energy Market and the Oil and Gas Industry. Custom software plays a key role at crucial…
Read MoreBringing business intelligence and process efficiency together to eliminate busy work. Entrance Software frequently encounters patterns in the software that we are asked to write. Every case is…
Read MoreSoftware by Osmosis I'm not Entrance's typical employee. I love technology, but don't consider myself technical. Ask any of our programmers – I’m the canary in the mine here. If there’s a way…
Read MoreSQL Server Reporting Services is an amazing tool which creates feature-rich reports customized to match business and user needs. With a little time and effort, SSRS can become a viable tool at your…
Read MoreWhy Business Collaboration is kinda a big deal: No matter what industry we find ourselves in, we can all benefit from collaborating with other people in our business, whether those people are…
Read MoreReliable, accurate, verifiable Business Intelligence is key to making good decisions as a business. Ideally at the strategic level, the information you live and breathe on is lower-level data…
Read MoreBusiness intelligence with military tactics. The most important aspect of taking action is tracing the follow-through, measuring the result and then creating an efficient and effective feedback…
Read MoreIf you’re at work and you’re getting things done, then chances are you have a lot of windows open on your desktop. You probably have an instance or two of Excel open, each with a few different…
Read MoreI’ve always been a lover of all things technology related, but in 2006, when I first learned about SharePoint, drive for efficiency with technology became an ever increasing part of my life. This…
Read MoreEvery company has ‘that guy’ who you go to when you need information about ‘x’. But then ‘that guy’ moves on and suddenly a wealth of knowledge goes with him. Good companies have…
Read More"We react to what's in front of us, whether it truly matters or not." Tony Schwartz, Harvard Business Review Blog. Know what is most important, and keep that front and center at all times. Your…
Read MoreYour data at-a-glance and flagged for action with SharePoint 2010. You’re busy. The faster you can make informed decisions, the better. Every moment you spend poring over charts and numbers is a…
Read MoreBeat the competition with Custom Applications and SharePoint 2010. If you look at the way you gather and maintain information about your business, and it involves multiple users entering data by…
Read MoreFast, good decisions can make or break your company. If you don’t have actionable data all the way down the line, then your business processes are inefficient, and you are losing money. Your…
Read MoreAs a SharePoint consultant, there’s no way I can overstate the power and value of setting up a business intelligence solution in SharePoint 2010. Being able to both visualize business data and make…
Read MoreEntrance Software just successfully launched a customized Sharepoint Kit that will help take students at KIPP further. KIPP is a national network of charter schools serving low-income students and…
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