by Daniel Smith | Aug 12, 2015 | BI & Reporting, Blog
When most people hear “big data,” they think “big money.” And they’re right. There are big costs associated with switching to a distributed data analytics system, especially in the oilfield. It’s not unusual for operators to collect and mine data from new discoveries...
by Daniel Smith | Aug 6, 2015 | BI & Reporting, Blog
Part 3 of 3. When you think of big data analytics, do you think, “big money?” If so, you’re not alone. It’s expensive to set up big data analytics solutions, especially in the oilfield. In earlier posts, we’ve described the challenges and problems oil and gas...
by Daniel Smith | Aug 4, 2015 | BI & Reporting, Blog
Part 2 of 3 When you produce oil and gas for a living, where do you look? Where it’s always been, hiding in plain sight. In an earlier post, we described the business and IT challenges (and attendant gloom) that oil and gas producers face and how larger reserves can...
by Daniel Smith | Jul 31, 2015 | BI & Reporting, Blog
The global energy industry is running out of easy-to-produce oil – the challenges in exploration and production are cutting into the industry’s profits. Combined with the recent nine-month slide in crude prices, these two factors have spurred many conversations...
by Shikha Kashyap | Mar 31, 2015 | Blog
Big Data and the technology needed to process it have come to the oilfield. Like seismic software and visualization tools, data analytics and sensors interpret and transmit data generated in the oilfield. But this time, the volume and variety of the data are larger...
