It’s the Operators Dummy!

It has been a busy spring at QOS… maybe too busy. It may seem strange to some but we haven’t been in Calgary a lot. We have been in the areas where our product is used, in the field. Sales and installs are up from where we were last year at this point and last year was a record year!

On top of that, this spring we did the unthinkable, we decided to do a serious sales and marketing push. For the first time in our 15 year existence we have a dedicated sales team and so far it’s going great. Seminars, webinars, partner conferences and tradeshows are new to us but we’re figuring it out.

The best part of ’08 so far has been that we’ve now seen what else is out there.

Take it from those who know, there is a lot of software development around syncing with production databases but very little thought being put into the user interface and hardware solutions. All software would be accepted readily if it was being used by developers. The problem is that it isn’t being used by developers. It has to be used by operators to work.

There is a reason that the Quick Collect FDC software withstands both acquisitions and production accounting software migrations – operators use it and operators like it. It gets their data in and their attention onto more important parts of their day – that’s the secret.  

Quick Collect was designed by an operator, with over 30 years field experience, and over the last fifteen years we have done our best to just not mess it up. We are pretty sure gas wells, oil batteries, compressors haven’t changed then why would the way operators record data change?

All we want to do is save you time and money. The secret to that is keeping it simple.  
Quick Collect is used by the operators. It’s been in the field forever. It works and it gets the data in. Yes we’re excited about incorporating a SQL database to the backend of the product – deployment this fall – but we are not messing with a good thing – the famous Quick Collect user interface will not change. It is accepted at the field level and we know that because, put simply, we’ve had beers with the operators that use it.

See you at the shows,

Angus