OpenInvoice was not built to talk to your ERP. Armely built the bridge.
Energy companies use OpenInvoice to manage AP and invoicing. Almost none of them have clean integration between OpenInvoice and their internal systems. Sage Butte Energy fixed that.
Does this describe your AP reporting?
- AFE reporting requires manually pulling and reconciling invoice data from OpenInvoice
- Vendor billing inconsistencies create data errors you only find during audit
- Finance cannot search invoices by the fields that matter to them
- ERP has no visibility into invoice images or supporting documents
- Compliance risk grows every cycle because the data does not reconcile cleanly
What Armely built for Sage Butte Energy
Sage Butte Energy is a private equity-backed E&P company in Denver with assets in the Powder River Basin. Their authorization for expenditure reporting was unreliable because OpenInvoice data had no path into their ERP.
Armely built data pipelines into SQL Server, a secure self-hosted API to retrieve invoice images in real time, a web application for searching invoices on any field, and Power BI dashboards for complete AFE reporting.
No duplication. No manual pulls. Documents remain in OpenInvoice, while the API retrieves them on demand.
At a glance
| Before | After |
|---|---|
| OpenInvoice data not connected to ERP or internal systems | Custom data pipelines extract and load invoice data into a SQL Server warehouse |
| Vendor billing practices created inconsistent data across invoices | Data harmonization layer standardizes all invoice metadata on ingestion |
| AFE reporting was inaccurate due to fragmented, unstructured invoice data | Power BI delivers a true AFE expenditure view at any point in time |
| Invoice search was limited to OpenInvoice's native search only | Self-hosted web app allows users to search any invoice on any field in near real time |
| ERP had no visibility into invoice images and supporting documents | Secure API connects ERP to real-time invoice images from OpenInvoice |
| Document duplication risk from storing files outside OpenInvoice | Documents remain in OpenInvoice and are retrieved on demand through the API |