When It Comes to MMbbl vs. Mbbl, You Can’t Be Too Careful
Fun fact! MMbbl and Mbbl can mean the same thing. Our writing team was recently working on a whitepaper and needed to pull some statistics about oil production volume. We noticed that, in some of the sources we used, “Mbbl” was used to represent thousands of barrels. In others, “Mbbl” referred to millions of barrels. In still others, millions of barrels was w...
August 27, 2018 READ MORE
Six Benefits of Written Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
From training and hiring to work policies and procedures, Standard Operating Procedures -- or SOPs -- help companies stay organized, operate smoothly, and ensure that employees understand how to accomplish their assigned tasks. But here’s one thing we’ve learned from more than a decade of working with companies of all sizes: Even though nearly all companies have som...
August 21, 2018 READ MORE
How to Prepare Your Content Before Migrating to a Digital Asset Management System: Part Two
Your files are inventoried and you know exactly which ones you’ll migrate to your DAM solution, but there is one more thing you need to do: optimize that all-important metadata so your system will function as you need it to. Let’s start by defining what metadata is and talk about why it’s so important to the functionality of DAM. What is Metadata? Metadata ...
August 14, 2018 READ MORE
How to Prepare Your Content Before Migrating to a Digital Asset Management System: Part One
If you’re thinking about migrating to a digital asset management (DAM) system, you likely have one key goal: to centralize your content so that it’s more easily retrieved, edited, and shared. And DAM is the ideal solution for many organizations. But before you migrate, it pays to do some preliminary work so that your content is ready to be transferred. We’ll talk a...
August 11, 2018 READ MORE