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Finding Answers in Your Data

As energy marketers automate their operations with sophisticated back office software, they accumulate reams of data that contains essential truths about their operations. With business intelligence (BI) software, companies can explore and parse their dat…
As energy marketers automate their operations with sophisticated back office software, they accumulate reams of data that contains essential truths about their operations. With… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/finding-answers-your-data/

Use Data to Spot and Solve Problems

Energy marketers can derive important information about their businesses from the data they collect, according to software CEOs who specialize in fuel delivery.
Energy marketers can derive important information about their businesses from the data they collect, according to software CEOs who specialize in fuel delivery. Gary… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/use-data-spot-and-solve-problems/

Atlas Reporting Delivers Business Intelligence

Energy marketers can improve company performance with Business Intelligence (BI) software that collects and analyzes data.
Energy marketers can improve company performance with Business Intelligence (BI) software that collects and analyzes data to deliver insights that support sound decision making,… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/atlas-reporting-delivers-business-intelligence/

BI: The Past, the Future, and Living in the Now

Gurus want us to live in the now, so why are we always nostalgically ruminating on the past and vehemently prognosticating the future? Worse yet, why do people often have incorrect memories causing them to make bad predictions? “That marketing campaign th…
Gurus want us to live in the now, so why are we always nostalgically ruminating on the past and vehemently prognosticating the future? Worse yet, why do people often have… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/bi-past-future-and-living-now/

Monitors Enhance Fuel Delivery

Remote tank monitoring has become a very handy tool for many fuel dealers. Sure, it’s a great tool to monitor your customer’s tank levels and usage, but the real value may be the savings from more timely deliveries. Tank monitoring adds a whole new dimens…
Remote tank monitoring has become a very handy tool for many fuel dealers. Sure, it’s a great tool to monitor your customer’s tank levels and usage, but the real value may be the… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/monitors-enhance-fuel-delivery/

Forecasting Deliveries

Energy marketers who want to improve delivery efficiency without a large investment in software can integrate degree-day forecasting into their delivery scheduling with a subscription service from Degree Days Online.
Energy marketers who want to improve delivery efficiency without a large investment in software can integrate degree-day forecasting into their delivery scheduling with a… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/forecasting-deliveries/

Special K-Factor

Better delivery forecasting is what’s for breakfast
Better delivery forecasting is what’s for breakfast Are you eating runouts for breakfast, short deliveries for brunch, and partial fills for an afternoon snack? Do your employees… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/special-k-factor/

Tank Data Helps Company Compete

Long Energy uses monitors to support commercial delivery
Long Energy uses monitors to support commercial delivery An Albany, N.Y.-based energy marketer is using remote tank monitors to help them succeed in the competitive arena of… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/tank-data-helps-company-compete/

Less Is More

How remote monitoring can reduce delivery expenses
How remote monitoring can reduce delivery expenses As fuel delivery grows more competitive, marketers increasingly reach for technologies that can help eliminate waste and reduce… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/less-more/

ADD Systems Users Learn Together

ADD Systems recently held its User Conference at Disney’s Boardwalk Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Oil & Energy caught up with ADD Systems President Bruce C. Bott to discuss the event.
Software provider convenes users for education and feedback ADD Systems, a provider of software solutions for energy marketers, recently held its User Conference at Disney’s… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/add-systems-users-learn-together/

Five Ways Software Supports the Service Team

When information flows easily to and from the field, business processes improve
When information flows easily to and from the field,  business processes improve   An energy company is a borderless organization. It’s true you have departments and jobs and… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/five-ways-software-supports-service-team/

Extending the Data Network to the Truck

ADD Systems offers fuel retailers the ability to manage and communicate fuel delivery data from the delivery truck to the back office and out to the customer.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Onboard computing can open a host of business improvements, including reduced delivery costs and enhanced customer service. Oil & Energy recently spoke with ADD… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/extending-data-network-truck/

Eleven Benefits of Real-time Mobile

It’s 2014. Aren’t we supposed to be in flying cars by now? Aren’t all delivery drivers and service technicians supposed to be using real-time connected mobile devices? Maybe. But investing in mobile technology for an entire fleet is still a large enough p…
It’s 2014. Aren’t we supposed to be in flying cars by now? Aren’t all delivery drivers and service technicians supposed to be using real-time connected mobile devices? Maybe. But… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/eleven-benefits-real-time-mobile/

Google Learns to Listen

Google is taking Internet search in a new direction that is changing the way marketers connect with prospects via the Google search engine.
‘Hummingbird’ algorithm rewards high-value content worthy of shares and retweets   Google is taking Internet search in a new direction that is changing the way marketers… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/google-learns-listen/

Revamp Your Receivables

AROUND FOUR YEARS AGO, SOS XTREME Comfort, of Tuxedo Park, N.Y., decided to partner with AVATAS Payment Solutions, of Newton, Mass., to gain assistance in their receivables process. Like many heating fuels companies, SOS had grown into the habit of extend…
AROUND FOUR YEARS AGO, SOS XTREME Comfort, of Tuxedo Park, N.Y., decided to partner with AVATAS Payment Solutions, of Newton, Mass., to gain assistance in their receivables… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/revamp-your-receivables/

‘Squeeze the Tube’ for Your Customers

You know how when a tube of toothpaste starts getting low, you squeeze the tube to get the last little bit of toothpaste out? It was easier to do back when the tubes were metal, because you could roll them up and really get that last little drop. Today th…
You know how when a tube of toothpaste starts getting low, you squeeze the tube to get the last little bit of toothpaste out? It was easier to do back when the tubes were metal,… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/squeeze-tube-your-customers/

New SMS Requirements Are Just Common Sense

THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION’S (FCC’s) new rules on business-to- customer text messaging might send a chill up your spine, but compliance is easier than you might think.
THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION’S (FCC’s) new rules on business-to- customer text messaging might send a chill up your spine, but compliance is easier than you might… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/new-sms-requirements-are-just-common-sense/

Propane Tank Locks Deter Theft and Unauthorized Fills

Lock America offers two types of propane tank locks to help marketers discourage unauthorized fills and prevent tank theft.
Lock America offers two types of propane tank locks to help marketers discourage unauthorized fills and prevent tank theft. Frank Minnella, CEO of LockAmerica, said the company… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/propane-tank-locks-deter-theft-and-unauthorized-fills/

Make Your Numbers Count

Does it feel like the margin for error in your business keeps getting smaller? If so, you’re not alone.
Does it feel like the margin for error in your business keeps getting smaller? If so, you’re not alone. The world we knew even 10 years ago is gone. In its place, we wake up every… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/make-your-numbers-count/

Hedge Insite Helps Fuel Marketers See Ahead

Hedge Insite is a risk management tool that helps fuel marketers peer into the future and evaluate their hedging positions and improve profitability. Oil & Energy recently caught up with Hedge Insite’s managing partner Richard Larkin to learn more about t…
Hedge Insite is a risk management tool that helps fuel marketers peer into the future and evaluate their hedging positions and improve profitability. Oil & Energy recently… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/hedge-insite-helps-fuel-marketers-see-ahead/

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