https://www.landboss.com/blog/feed.xml en-us Blog entries from members of the Landboss staff regarding new features, usage tips, and more for our oil and gas land and lease management software package. https://www.landboss.com/img/feed.png https://www.landboss.com/blog/feed.xml Wed, 06 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://www.landboss.com/blog/our-new-map-viewer/ Our map viewer control has gotten old, so we leveraged Leaflet, an open source javascript map viewer control to bring our mapping feature into the 2020's. Wed, 06 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://www.landboss.com/blog/generating-lease-documents-in-seconds/ The Make Forms feature in Landboss is a powerful feature that allows you to quickly generate lease documents like offer letters, lease agreements, and more, with just a few clicks. Sat, 29 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://www.landboss.com/blog/new-year-new-site/ The Landboss website was overdue for a facelift, so after several weeks of work, we're happy to usher in the new year with the fresh new design that you are enjoying now. Fri, 31 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://www.landboss.com/blog/new-mapping-features/ Customers can now print the maps from Landboss and tracts will be colored by lease status. In addition, we added a zoom to feature which makes it a snap to zoom to a specific STR. Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT https://www.landboss.com/blog/professional-landman-certifications/ If you are a landman looking to advance your professional credentials, the most logical solution is to become certified. Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT https://www.landboss.com/blog/oil-and-gas-mapping-with-esri-arcview/ A couple of weeks ago, after careful consideration, we made the decision to switch mapping servers from Autodesk's Mapguide to Esri's ArcView. Mapguide is a fine product and the feature to cost ratio is great, but we have outgrown it's capabilities and are in need of something more robust. Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT https://www.landboss.com/blog/mineral-management-software-from-landboss/ A lot of time has gone by since my last blog entry and it seems like it was travelling by plane. We’ve been hard at work improving our flagship product Landboss as well as getting our upcoming mineral management application, Mineralboss, ready for release, which is what I’d like to tell you a little bit about in this post. Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT https://www.landboss.com/blog/landman-salaries-how-much-do-landmen-make/ Perhaps one of the most appealing aspects of a landman job is the amount of money a landman can make. Landman salaries, when compared to the salaries of other professions, are relatively high. Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT https://www.landboss.com/blog/how-to-become-an-oil-and-gas-landman/ So you have taken an interest in becoming an oil and gas landman. The only problem is where do you start? If you have done some research, you may have found that the internet contains very few clear landman resources. Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT https://www.landboss.com/blog/the-different-types-of-land-professionals/ Land professionals come in all sorts. Many people think that a landman is the all-in-one resource for negotiating mineral rights. In some instances that may be true, but the average landman requires the help of many other land professionals. Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT https://www.landboss.com/blog/hello-world/ An applicant with lesser experience and a properly constructed resume will have better odds of landing an interview than a better qualified candidate with a poorly constructed resume. Thu, 05 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT https://www.landboss.com/blog/our-simplifile-integration/ Several weeks back we finished integrating Simplifile's e-Recording service with Landboss. This new service addition allows users of Landboss to file their leases using Simplifile's electronic service. Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT https://www.landboss.com/blog/weekly-releases-and-the-road-forward/ The past month has seen a huge increase in activity here at LANDBOSS, including demos, free trials, and paying customers. The list of user-requested features has gotten quite long, however, so we've decided to begin pushing out weekly updates instead of larger, monthly releases. Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT https://www.landboss.com/blog/coming-in-v1.10-sample-data/ One of the concerns we've heard with LANDBOSS is that it can sometimes be a challenge to tell how certain features work without at least a decent amount of data in the system. Of course we have a spiffy data import tool that can quickly get your real data into LANDBOSS, but before that task is completed a new account can feel barren, maybe even a little lonely. Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT https://www.landboss.com/blog/raod-to-nape/ For those that are unfamiliar, NAPE is a large oil & gas industry expo in Houston. This year's will be held Feb 11-12, and we're currently working full-tilt to get some very cool features implemented by then. Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT https://www.landboss.com/blog/introducing-the-lease-activity-dashboard/ After talking with some landmen I discovered that it is fairly common for them to be periodically called out of the field in order to report what they have been working on to their managers. Two things occurred to me after learning this. Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT https://www.landboss.com/blog/chain-of-title-landman-software-and-you/ It has been a couple of weeks since my last post but trust me when I say that the wait was worth it. Between eating too much turkey and a major testing cycle, I took pity on those poor landmen that must run title and redesigned one of the useful tools in LANDBOSS. Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT https://www.landboss.com/blog/upcoming-release-landboss-1.02/ Today LANDBOSS version 1.02 entered the QA (Quality Assurance) phase, with a tentative release date of 12/4/2009. Version 1.02 contains far more than 1.01 did, hence the reason it took longer to finish. Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT https://www.landboss.com/blog/data-security-with-landboss/ Although Cole talked about it briefly in this post, I thought I'd dedicate this week's post to how we can back up our claim that your data is secure when using LANDBOSS. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT https://www.landboss.com/blog/lease-management-with-landboss/ With so many different things to worry about when actively acquiring leases in a prospect, managing lease paperwork is the last thing you need to worry about. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT https://www.landboss.com/blog/relax-and-let-landboss-generate-your-reports/ Creating reports can be difficult and time consuming, but as we all know, they are absolutely essential. We can't do without reports, so we have made them as easy as possible with LANDBOSS. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT https://www.landboss.com/blog/future-of-land-management-software/ LANDBOSS is a land management software package for the oil and gas industry. Typically, land management software has been very expensive and is usually desktop software, not web software. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT https://www.landboss.com/blog/navigating-your-oil-and-gas-company/ Aargh mateys! As you know, the oil and gas industry is fiercly competitive and dare I say it, at times more than a little cutthroat. Don't worry though, your favorite pirate ship captain "Devil" Dave is looking out for you. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT https://www.landboss.com/blog/search-quickly-using-quicksearch/ For this week's entry, I'll be showing you a new useful feature that will allow you to quickly jump to a Lease or Tract without having to go to the search page first. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT https://www.landboss.com/blog/landboss-mapping-tooltips/ I am working on adding tooltips. What does that mean you may ask? Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT https://www.landboss.com/blog/tracking-oil-and-gas-lease-activity/ Halloween is one of my favorite holidays and so I have decided to start out this week's blog with a scary story. Not too long ago and not very far away, there was an oil company named Inefficient Oil. Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT https://www.landboss.com/blog/landboss-mapping-tract-coloring/ I have just finished the basics for a big feature in mapping. When you have uploaded a shapefile to represent your tract it will be colored in based on the tract’s lease status. Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT https://www.landboss.com/blog/party-import-status-update/ When creating a feature, most of the time we'll leave it in a very rough state while we discover the ins-and-outs of how it will work. Once we have that decided on exactly how it should work we go back through and "polish" the feature until we're happy with the quality. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT https://www.landboss.com/blog/landboss-mapping-print-to-pdf/ Hello, this is my first blog post so let me take a sec to introduce myself. I have been programming/fixing computers since I can remember. I started programming in classic ASP and now find myself in the wonderful world of asp.net. Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT https://www.landboss.com/blog/landboss-v1.01-and-beyond/ Though it is quite clear in the application itself, I don't think it's been mentioned here- LANDBOSS version 1.01 was released on 10/8/2009. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT https://www.landboss.com/blog/fun-with-landboss/ Being a software developer, aka a "computer guy" in Oklahoma has naturally led to many projects in the oil and gas industry, but LANDBOSS has been the most fun. Hi, I'm David and I'm one of the developers of LANDBOSS. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT https://www.landboss.com/blog/data-import-feature-preview/ Since the official launch of LANDBOSS, we have had many requests for the ability to take the data from the system they currently use and easily get it into LANDBOSS. A reasonable request, to be sure. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT https://www.landboss.com/blog/hello-from-blake/ Hello, my name is Blake Anderton, and welcome to my first post here at the LANDBOSS blog! Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT https://www.landboss.com/blog/online-land-management-software-vs-offline-land-management-software/ Most oil and gas land software packages you'll find are still built using desktop software (i.e. installed software). However, the rest of the software industry has embraced the web and software applications of all kinds have been re-created as online, browser-based software. Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT