Trellis
Drive Operational Efficiencies While Maximizing Pipeline Throughput
Natural Gas energy service providers that operate pipelines, storage, gathering and/or distribution assets operate in an ever-changing and increasingly complex energy delivery business environment. In addition to ensuring full regulatory compliance, these providers are under constant pressure to provide the most accurate and transparent service possible to all market participants. To make their task even more challenging, they are expected to do all of this while maintaining system integrity, driving ever-greater operational efficiencies and maximizing throughput and revenue realization. Many of these energy providers are currently managing their critical business assets and transactions in excel spreadsheets or on disparate IT systems built on antiquated technology platforms. These systems are costly to maintain and are rarely integrated with all of the dependent systems. As a result these providers often find it cost prohibitive and difficult to introduce new products and services, enforce on-going regulations and standards, maintain system integrity, and solve day-to-day operational issues.
TRELLIS is the one integrated business solution that allows energy service providers to drive operational efficiencies and achieve greater revenue potential through its built-in suite of integrated business processes. Whether the energy service provider operates a gathering facility, or a storage facility, or a complex matrix of pipelines (interconnects, hubs, multiple storage and gathering facilities, and more), or perhaps it operates directly as a Utility or LDC, TRELLIS provides a comprehensive solution that allows these providers to manage the full spectrum of their complex business and ensure regulatory compliance with ease, efficiency and surety.
Built upon well established, proven, web-based Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) technology – robust scalable, enterprise, open standards – the TRELLIS platform can be deployed on the existing IT and SOA infrastructure of any organization, and it can be easily adapted to fit within their overall corporate IT strategy.
With TRELLIS, energy service providers can manage their business operations smoothly and efficiently, provide consistent, accurate and reliable service to their customers, and effortlessly adhere to FERC/PUC regulations and NAESB standards. Several other key benefits are:
A single platform that serves all market participants such as traders, schedulers, shippers, customer service representatives, etc. and allows for the streamlining of operations through integrated business process along with greater business transparency and consistency.
An easy-to-use, self-serve, web-based interface makes entering information easy, empowering customers to make better, more informed decisions. Real-time information and timely notifications ensure customers are satisfied with the TRELLIS experience.
Automated nomination, confirmation, scheduling and actualization processes along with configurable, data-driven algorithms are applied to maximize throughput and revenue potential.
TRELLIS allows for the configuration of multiple aspects of the energy delivery business, which significantly reduces time to market as providers look to grow their business by offering new products and services to the market place.
TRELLIS puts energy service providers at ease by implementing business rules that support FERC/PUC regulations and NAESB standards.
The single integrated and open standard platform reduces your long-term hardware, software costs, as well as any ongoing IT operations and maintenance needs.
TRELLIS is an integrated, automated and comprehensive software solution that allows energy service providers to utilize a single platform to manage their business. Robust features built on solid foundational characteristics ensure that not only all aspects of business are supported, but that they are supported in the most reliable, consistent, and optimal manner possible.
TRELLIS allows providers to manage customers, contracts agreements, nominations and run automated confirmation and scheduling, as well as track and trade balances and imbalances on one single technology platform. As a result, providers can produce critical reports, efficiently manage products and operations, accurately manage accounting and actualization, and produce multiple billing determinants from that single integrated platform. To further benefit the providers, TRELLIS incorporates a smart transaction processing engine that not only supports NAESB standards, but it also processes transactions to maximize pipeline throughput and revenue potential.
TRELLIS incorporates a real-time, secure, web-based, self-service portal for various market participants such as traders, schedulers, operators, shippers, customer service representatives, and more. Enhanced and robust features within the portal provide full transparency into critical data and empower customers to make timely and accurate decisions, resulting in dramatically increased customer satisfaction.
