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Are You Playing Hide-and-Seek with Your Data?

How You Manage Information Can Either Increase or Reduce Your Risks

In the energy sector, it's common for companies to have amassed mountains of paper over the years, whether through acquisitions or ongoing business operations. Searching for, reporting on, and interpreting this information can be slow and painful. Making fast, informed project decisions while verifying and processing file data is even more challenging. Moreover, a lack of transparency into agreement expirations and contract obligations puts companies and projects at risk.

This is the unfortunate reality of data storage today. As the amount of data increases, so does the time your teams spend searching for it. It’s hidden in storage rooms, computers, and desks. And once you’ve tracked it down, you’re dealing with various formats. This makes it extremely difficult to secure, manage, and consume. Digitizing your information not only organizes it and makes it easier for your stakeholders to access, but it also secures your sensitive information.

So, What’s Holding You Back?

You have an overwhelming amount of data, and questions like these are flooding out:

  • Who has the expertise to organize it?
  • What resources can we allocate?
  • Where do we even begin?
  • When will we have time for this?
  • How do we develop an effective system?
  • ...and so on.

Yes, the Benefits of Digitization Are Worth It

Digitizing your data offers numerous benefits beyond just organization and security:

  • Enhanced Collaboration
    Digital data can be easily shared and accessed by team members, regardless of their location. This fosters better collaboration and faster decision-making.
  • Improved Compliance
    With digital records, you can ensure compliance with industry regulations and standards more efficiently. Automated alerts for contract renewals and expirations can help you stay ahead of deadlines.
  • Cost Savings
    While the initial investment in digitization might seem high, the long-term savings in terms of reduced storage costs, improved efficiency, and minimized risk of data loss are substantial.
  • Environmental Impact
    Reducing your reliance on paper not only saves physical space but also contributes to environmental sustainability by decreasing paper consumption and waste.

You’re Not Alone, There’s Help Out There

If you've got storage rooms full of paper land agreements and project files, you can maximize their value by improving how you store them.

It may seem like an expensive undertaking but not doing it will cost your organization even more over time. When you factor in the labor and expertise needed to do it internally and then compare it to the costs of outsourcing, you’ll wonder why you even hesitated. Here are some tips when researching service providers:

  • Search for providers with expertise related to your needs.
  • Look for providers who can handle all the various formats your information is in, whether it be paper, maps, or digital files.
  • Find out if they utilize modern technology, such as AI-enhanced OCR.
  • Make sure they can deliver your data so your stakeholders can access it easily, but your IT can secure it, such as a centralized cloud-based library.
  • Find out their full scope of services to elevate your data needs, such as digitizing your maps and providing additional data sets to enhance decision-making.

Change the Game and Move Towards a Digital Future

Embracing digitization is not just about keeping up with the times; it's about transforming how you manage and leverage your data to drive better business outcomes. By partnering with the right service providers, you can ensure that your information is not only secure and accessible but also optimized for strategic decision-making. Don't let your valuable data remain hidden and underutilized. Migrate from paper to polygons.

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Pandell and Whitestar provide a full suite of financial and land acquisition, management, and geospatial data solutions that enable renewables, utilities, natural resources, and pipeline companies to efficiently plan, track and manage their business operations more efficiently.

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✅ Eliminate paper-based processes
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Centralizing your data saves time, reduces mistakes, and eliminates duplicates, ensuring everyone works with accurate, up-to-date information.

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Find us at stand P34, stop by to say hi! 👋 We’re looking forward to hearing about your different land management challenges, and how we can support your renewable energy projects.

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AI can be a game-changer

We like to find the easiest way to do things without sacrificing quality.

In our Pandell Leadership Webinar series, “AI for Smarter Land Records & Quality Data,” we learned how our Land Records team took tens of thousands of PDFs and used AI to find out if there were missing first pages.

The first page is very important because that's your indexing page. It contains the basics such as grantee dates, the legal description, and location.

It would have taken hours for someone to manually go through the documents. Within minutes AI discovered 5300+ missing first pages.

Without AI the project would have taken much longer to finish, delaying the customer access to its organized and searchable library.

AI automated our repetitive and time-consuming work, so we could focus on the things that required human judgment.

How do you see AI changing the game in the energy sector?

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As always, we had an amazing time exhibiting at #NALTAConference this week! We loved reconnecting with everyone and sharing more about our integrated land solution. Congratulations to our winner of the Turtlebox Speaker, Bailyn Salsbury with Civitas Resources! 😎

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Lunch with the CEO!🍔

The Calgary office enjoyed a great lunch with CEO Matthew Hirst, complete with burgers and a lively, engaging conversation.

It's not everyday you get a chance to connect with leadership in such a casual setting! Thanks for the visit, Matt!

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We are looking forward to exhibiting at #NALTAConference next week in sunny Miami! And celebrating NALTA's 40 years of helping lead the growth in the land and title industry! Be sure to stop by our booth and learn how to sink your toes in our integrated land solution.

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