Engineering Software Development for Pipeline Engineering Services

Entrance incorporated the engineering logic from the exisiting Excel applications into the production of two new Windows applications. Each housed specific calculations and logic for assessing stress that were vital to producing a successful product.

As Entrance developed the applications, we worked closely with the in-house engineers to ensure that our results matched those they were currently receiving from the Excel applications. Learnings from these tests were applied so that users could easily confirm reliability and perform quality assurance (QA) on results going forward.Read More

Tax Compliance for Pipeline Services

Entrance rewrote the code for a field ticket management solution that our client had sent overseas, which was not working out well.

As a response to their tax compliance needs, one module to the program calculates sales tax for each engagement based on which materials needed to be taxed, and if so, how much, based on the county or region.

This addition helps eliminate the risk of manual calculations that can leave stones unturned. It also makes tax management a markedly less tedious job to complete. Considering that taxes must be handled on an almost daily basis, the impact of easing that process has been huge.Read More

Electronic Field Ticketing

Our pipeline construction client uses a highly customized piece of software to track work and generate bills to clients. Prior to Entrance, our client was required to manually print a summary of every work ticket and send the summarized statement of work to their clients for approval. Once the work was approved, the client manually created an invoice using Excel, printed it along with several thousand pages of supporting evidence, and sent it to the customer for payment.
The client needed a solution that would store scanned images of supporting documentation and allow employees to quickly and efficiently record that information in a digital format. The system needed to be aware of our client’s unique work tracking and invoicing methods, and needed to integrate tightly with their existing accounting and a new customer portal being developed at the same time.Read More