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----------------------------------------------------------Permission is granted for the below article to forward,reprint, distribute, use for ezine, newsletter, website,offer as free bonus or part of a product for sale as longas no changes a Gone are those times when the companies and the organisations didn't need a hi-tech system to handle them. Owing to the considerable increase in the business sector and thus, an enormous increase in the complexity of the organisational struc
The first land management software packages became available in the late 1970's. These systems were built on IBM mainframes or the AS400 platform. Throughout the years, these systems died off and gave way to PC based software that utilized systems like Clipper and dBase. These PC based systems were wonderful because they did not require a large investment in hardware and allowed smaller companies to utilize land management software.As PC land management software continued to evolve, the quality and competition of products increased. Systems built in Microsoft Visual Basic became prevalent and stole much of the market share from older systems. Because of the large penetration of Visual Basic into custom software development, many users were used to the standard VB look-and-feel that was used in custom Visual Basic projects.As the Internet revolution began, land management software began to evolve with it. The Oil and Gas Industry are slow adopters of new technology, but by the early 2000's, web-based packages were on the market. These early systems were built by Oil and Gas professionals who saw the need for the software, but they were not software development professionals. Because of that, many of these early web-based software packages were not as polished as a professional software company would create.As web technology became adopted in the Oil and Gas industry, more web-based competitors emerged. These new systems were built by professional software companies who placed emphasis on ease of use, workflow, and user experience. They also placed a focus on the communication aspect of land management and how the Internet could be utilized to deliver real-time updates from the field offices back to headquarters.At this juncture in time (circa 2011) we see land management software becoming more intelligent and providing more complex features and focusing more on decision making tools for executives. Online mapping, once a luxury, is now a requirement in a web-based system. Many systems are also incorporating complex parsing routines to take legal descriptions, both quarter calls and metes and bounds, and generate polygons directly from those. Also, the GIS systems are attempting to handle the mapping of 3D separation of tracts and leases caused by vertical Pugh Clauses, a very challenging endeavor.The Oil and Gas Industry seems to be moving away from smaller field brokers towards larger "mega-broker" firms. Because of this, land management software is having to evolve. Adding in complex customizable workflow functionality allows these firms to configure the software to fit their processes. With as many as five or six different employee roles (e.g. landman, title agent, leasing agent, land tech, lease analyst, project manager) touching every tract or lease, it's important to know when a handoff is occurring and what task needs to be completed next.The future for land management software is bright. The industry has recovered from the Great Recession and large leasing projects are back under way and these projects will continue to need sophisticated software to keep them under control. The number of available software packages has grown in number and the increased competition has caused rapid improvement in many systems, which is great news for anyone looking for land management software.
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