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5 Ways Using SherWare Helps During The Oil Slump

If you’re reading this, you’ve been affected by the oil & gas industry slump. There’s a glut of oil & gas in the world markets and the prices have plummeted. This affects everyone. Especially so if you’re a small oil & gas producer or work for one. We understand. We’ve been in business for over […]

ABC123: Passwords are ruining your software security

Last week we discussed how to beef up your software security to avoid data breaches in your own office. One thing we glaringly left out was how much of a danger passwords are to cyberscares like Heartbleed in 2014 – a security bug that left around half a million of the Internet’s secure web servers […]

Three Ways to Beef Up Your Accounting Software Security

Have you been hearing about all the cyber attacks happening at major corporations this year in the news or had to cancel your credit card because of the recent credit card hack at Target? These big cyber scares can mean serious problems for customers across the country – but did you know there are security […]

Why price is irrelevant when purchasing software

If you were to look around at all the marketing in our world today, you might be inclined to think that price is all that matters to make a sale. After all, why else would our inboxes be full each morning with special offers, one-day only sales and heavily discounted items we may have been […]

5 Tips For Making Sure Your Data Converted Successfully

Having your data converted from one oil & gas accounting system to another can be either a joy or a pull-out-your-hair experience. Once the data is converted you must do some checking to make sure that it converted correctly before operating the new software as your production system. Here are 5 things that must be […]

Does anyone still use disks to install software? Should you?

Remember the days when you’d anxiously await the arrival of your new software installation CD so you could finally get started on your new software? While some companies still rely on install disks for their software I see it eventually going away. Companies that still use install disks sell them in a retail environment, because, […]

5 Best Oil & Gas Blogs to Follow

Does catching up on current events that aren’t promoted on your Facebook newsfeed or highlighted on the the radio seem like a luxury? Blogs are where I usually turn to to decompress, but honestly, the oil and gas industry doesn’t have many interesting bloggers right now. Instead, here’s a list of the top five sites […]

What your personality can tell you about how you’ll handle a software switch

Why is it that some people handle change better than others at work? One of the most common questions we get at SherWare is how hard will it be for someone to switch their software? Which means the underlying question is: how much change is this going to be for our office? Change is inevitable, […]

Death by Spreadsheet

Does the following describe you? You own an oil and gas operating company and to save money you or someone else has setup an elaborate spreadsheet to track your oil and gas disbursements. You’ve spent hours setting up this spreadsheet and have duplcated the sheet for each well you operate. You have the steps memorized. […]

Oil & Gas Accounting 101 – Joint Interest

Due to the capital intensive, high-risk nature of developing oil and gas properties, companies routinely combine their capital and knowledge in joint operations to share the cost and reduce risk. These sharing arrangements usually involve the transfer an operating interest or non-operating interest by one party to another in exchange for a contribution to the […]

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