Blogs

Do you ever check that your backups are really there?

06/12/2011
A couple of weeks ago Iron Mountain polled 1,200 DM staff regarding data recovery as ...

Health, safety and security of offsite physical data storage – is your company protected?

30/11/2011
There are multiple and extensive EU and US legislation, certification, regulations, p...

Change Management for EIM initiatives - is it a special case?

25/11/2011
On the whole, people don't like change. Apart from an enlightened few, new EIM (DM/RM...

EIM Trends 3: Capturing value from the confluence of an evolving digital culture and new technologies

31/10/2011
In the previous two blogs, we considered the evolution of a new kind of user, and the...

Spatial IM in Engineering

22/09/2011
  GIS in Engineering is used to show engineers where the pipeline is.  CA...

Managing information and not just technology

23/06/2011
Our clients often ask about the discipline of Information Management and how that dif...

EIM Trends 2: Keeping up with evolving content and devices

23/06/2011
In the last EIM Trends blog, we looked at the changing nature of the user - more digi...

Transforming data into valuable information

31/05/2011
When does energy data become valuable information? How do information suppliers and p...

EIM Trends 1: ‘Digital natives’ shaping the way we use IM systems

18/05/2011
While looking at holiday photos on an LCD TV recently, we paused the slideshow to tak...

Assessing Ageing Assets

18/04/2011
Ageing assets: or should that be elderly assets? Do you have elderly parents in your...

What has Information Management to do with North Sea Asset Ageing?

07/09/2010
Are you aware of the latest HSE review plan? Key Programme 4 (KP4) came into effect o...

IT - Innovation Technology?

03/08/2010
So, how often do we work with client IT departments who are running at full tilt just...

Exploiting real-time drilling data

26/07/2010
Real-time data capture from drilling rigs is becoming common. WITSMLTM (Wellsite Inf...

The Case for a Vendor-Neutral Master Well Database in the Upstream E&P Oil and Gas industry

22/06/2010
Why is it - that E&P companies struggle with the quality of well data? Why is it ...

Why is it hard to improve information management with some upstream disciplines?

17/06/2010
Despite improvements in information systems, definition of detailed standards and pro...

The People Issue in IM – Learning from Knowledge Managers

13/05/2010
Views from IQPC’s Knowledge and Information Management for Oil and Gas – ...