In a growing company, keeping track of burgeoning HR documents can be a hassle. With SharePoint, it doesn’t have to be! THE CLIENT Our client is a mid-size E&P company with stakes in many…
Read MoreLast 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…
Read MoreGetting their application under control put one client back in the black. THE CLIENT Our client specializes in pipe unloading, handling and installation for the oil and gas industry. Because they…
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 MoreThe Face of Your Company Nowadays, almost every business has launched an application or app of some sort. Customers log in for a number of reasons, like purchasing products or checking on the status…
Read MoreHere are Entrance,we're not quite as clever as Google with their new "Google Nose." But we do like to have a little fun in the spirit of the day. One of our developers colluded with a manager at the…
Read MoreLack of integration can cause work outside of contract, audit scrambles and more. Get clean today! THE CLIENT Our client explores and produces oil and natural gas. Headquartered in Houston, they…
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 MoreYesterday, I started sharing a list of five strategies for successful data management from the Harvard Business Journal's article "Why IT Fumbles Analytics." Their main point is IT staff will…
Read MoreThe Harvard Business Review (HBR) wrote about data and information management in their January/February 2013 issue in an article called, "Why IT Fumbles Analytics." Their insights on how to move…
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 MoreEntrance recently completed the envision phase of a project that will lead to implementation of SharePoint 2013 for a local energy focused insurance company. We wanted to share how some of the new…
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 MoreMaximize Efficiencies and Stay Connected with Custom Software Businesses in the Upstream sector deal with a diverse set of challenges across departments from geology and geophysics through…
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 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 MoreInfoPath is key to getting clean, useful information from users into SharePoint. Your valuable information can easily be gathered at a granular level with InfoPath forms, and SharePoint can then…
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 MoreA Case Study in Custom Dashboards and Portals As a cutting edge emerging technology company, our customer wanted to make an impression on the market when it unveiled its new real-time rock property…
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…
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