Avoiding IT Landmines During Mergers & Acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions are an inevitable side effect of the current business climate in oil & gas. You know that it’s not a question of if, but when oil and gas companies will sell or purchase...
View ArticleThe North America Prospect Expo (NAPE)
The North America Prospect Expo, better known as NAPE is the world’s largest E&P (upstream) expo. NAPE provides a marketplace for the buying, selling and trading of oil and gas prospects and...
View ArticleBusiness of Software 2012
We’re gearing up for another engaging, entertaining and actionable conference in 2012 and gathering the secret thing that makes Business of Software amazing – brilliant people who want to share ideas...
View ArticleManaging Regulatory and Legal Issues in Shale Plays
Mitigate the Risk of Non-Compliance and Potential Litigation by Comprehending Evolving Regulations Nate Richards will be speaking on Data Management for Royalty Compliance; a Case Study in Risk...
View ArticlePDI Royalty Conference
Entrance sponsored the 2012 PDI Royalty Conference in Dallas, Texas in October. With royalty compliance growing on the minds of land owners and oil companies, and lease provisions becoming ever more...
View ArticleMaster(ing) Data Management for Better Decision Making
June 19- As small companies grow into bigger ones, their data inevitably accumulates, often in systems and databases that are not connected. What used to work for managing 20 wells simply doesn’t scale...
View ArticleLuncheon: Better Business Intelligence with TIBCO Spotfire
Does your organization waste an inordinate amount of time looking for information you know that you should have, because it’s either altogether inaccessible or bottlenecked by manual reporting and...
View ArticleLuncheon: Software Modernization for Oil & Gas Services
Is it time to update your aging software? Do you have an old piece of software that is getting difficult to maintain, update, or use? Join us for a complimentary lunch seminar in downtown Houston with...
View ArticleLunch Seminar: Better Customer Web Portals (Sep. 25)
Luncheon Topic: Tips for Building a Better Customer Web PortalWhen: Thursday, September 25, 2014, 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.Where: III Forks Restaurant in downtown Houston, TXWe use customer portals every...
View ArticleIs it time to switch to electronic field ticketing?
There seems to be a general consensus around the oil & gas industry that we need to move from paper to electronic field ticketing in order to improve the accuracy and speed of information from out...
View ArticleLuncheon: Budget Management Analytics
Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2015 Time: 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. III Forks Restaurant 1201 San Jacinto St. Houston, Texas 77002 This event is now over, but if you would like to learn more about this...
View ArticleLunch Seminar: IT Trends to Watch in 2016
FREE LUNCHEON Key I.T. Trends to Watch in 2016 What’s coming in 2016? How will CIOs respond? Thursday, December 10, 2015 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Get up to speed on the key IT trends in digital...
View ArticleSharePoint Saturday (Houston)
Entrance is a proud sponsor of this year’s SharePoint Saturday in Houston, Texas. SharePoint Saturday is an educational, informative and lively day filled with sessions from respected SharePoint...
View ArticleIs 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...
View ArticleInfographic: Office 365 and SharePoint Online Adoption 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 have to worry about upgrades or managing servers and network...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleCreating 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...
View ArticleSharePoint 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...
View ArticleFacebook’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...
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