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Trellis Overview
Trellis
About Blackstone
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About Blackstone
Corporate Information
Founded in September 1998
Privately held global IT services and solutions firm
Headquartered in San Francisco, CA
Offices in Denver, Houston, Washington DC
Stability: 17+ years of stable and profitable results
Resources: Employs 275+ people
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Partial Client List
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Communications
CenturyLink
AT&T
BellSouth
DirecTV
SAVVIS
Sprint Nextel
SureWest
COX
Time Warner
Verizon
Virgin Mobile
2Wire
Energy
DTE Energy
Pacific Gas & Electric
Tokyo Gas
Chevron Pipeline
BP Pipeline
EnLink Midstream
Gaz Metro
FPL
ONE Gas
California ISO
Xcel Energy
ABB Group
ERCOT
Financial Services
VISA
Fifth Third
Salle Mae
Union Bank
BECU
ARVEST
Aozora Bank
Fireman’s Fund
Moody’s KMV
Wells Fargo
Government
Dept of Homeland
Security
Dept of Defense
White House
Communications
Agency
Dept of Commerce
Dept of Energy
Dept of Justice
Transportation
Security
Administration
U.S. Army
Healthcare
Availity
CareFirst BCBS
Caremark
HCA Healthcare
Humana
ManorCare
McKesson Medical &
Surgical
Owens & Minor
PerkinElmer
Tyco Healthcare
Pharmaceutical
Sanofi Aventis
McKesson Pharma
Abbott Laboratories
Bristol-Meyers
Squibb (OTN)
Delivery Credentials
Blackstone is a qualified Delivery Partner
Over 300+ technology projects since 1998
Project size from $50K to $25M
Project duration from 2 to 30 months
Project Methodology is at Blackstone’s core
Reference-able on-time and within budget project delivery
SDLC Methodology, Waterfall, Agile, CMMI Level 2 and 3
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Sign Off Sign Off Sign Off Start Contract Think Configure Build
Deploy
Project Change Management
Iterative Releases
Iterative Development
Upgrade
Support ROI
Trellis
About Trellis
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Trellis – True Web Solution
A Comprehensive solution for Asset Owners and Operators
Current Gathering
Processing
Pipeline
Storage
Hub
Utility
Expansion LNG
NGL
Liquids
Power
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Trellis Facts
Business Expertise
Team members involved in deregulation since 1992
WGC NAESB Board and Executive Committee member
Investment
Over 300,000 hours have been put into development
$30M+ invested with strong roadmap and new investment
Results
30+ Modules to choose from
Manages $600M+ transport revenue for our customers
Manages 1bcf+ of trades per day on one of the largest hubs
Transports 5bcf+ per day
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Trellis Platform Highlights
Compliance NAESB compliant
SOX compliant
User Experience Dashboards for real-time information display
User driven configuration and settings
High performance and automated processes
Asset modeling for throughput maximization
Robust standard and ad-hoc reporting
Advanced Technology Open and secure integration
Modern Flexible and Cloud Architecture
Modular and Configurable Platform; scale over time
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Trellis Evolution
History
Lessons learned since 1994 have been incorporated into the Trellis platform
300,000+ Hours have been invested in the development of Trellis since 2007
Blackstone will continue to innovate and invest in Trellis
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Trellis Business Features and Functions
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Customer & Contact Management
Contract Management
Rate Schedule Management
Counterparty Credit and
Risk Exposure
Nominations, Confirmation, &
Scheduling
Processing, Measurement &
Allocation
Inventory/Imbalance Management, Trading & Cash
Outs
Billing, Prior Period Adjustments, & Invoicing
Contract & Agreement
Management
Contractual Obligation Enforcements
Energy Content Management
Title Transfer, Aggregation, &
Dis-Aggregation
Demand Forecasting and Weather
Information Posting, Notices & Notifications
Capacity Constraints and Allocation
Meter Management, Measurement & PDA Allocation
Supply Planning and Optimization
Customer Choice & End User Transport
Capacity Release and Assignment
Curtailment EDI, Auto Nomination
Cloud/On-Premise/Web - Open Source Java, Oracle
Security & User Management
Web/Mobile/Tablet, Reporting and Business intelligence
Pipeline Configuration (Physical and Logical)
Trellis Integrations
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Operational
Planning and
Control
Operator
Confirmation
via EDI
Corporate
Credit and
Risk System
Corporate
Website /
Information
Posting
Corporate
Business
Intelligence
Billing, CIS,
General
Ledger
Market
Indices
Forecast &
Weather
System
SCADA Measurement
System
Credit/Exposure
Trader Control
Non Secure
Website Data
Warehouse
Physical
Flow/Constraints
Operator
Confirmation
Meter Reads/
Adjustments Gas Quality
Measurement Demand
Forecast
Index Prices
Billing
Determinants /
GL Data
• ESB
• Web Services
• XML
• Flat File
• DB Link
• EDI
Trellis Technology DNA
Open Standards-based (JEE, JPA, HTML/CSS)
Vendor Neutral Platforms
True Web-based Solution (non Citrix; IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome)
Flexible Configuration-Based Architecture
Installable as standalone application or Integrated into existing SOA infrastructure
Rich User Interface featuring AJAX controls for enhanced user productivity and efficiency
Utilizes open-source technologies and frameworks (Spring, Hibernate, Quartz)
Scalable Horizontally and Vertically; Virtualization and Cloud Computing Option
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Application Server ( JEE Compliant )
Secure
Proxy (Web Server)
Database ( Oracle )
Data
Access (JPA,
Hibernate)
Configuration-Based Architecture ( Spring Framework )
Business
Services ( POJO )
Report
Services ( Vendor-
neutral API)
Rich User
Interface ( MVC, AJAX
)
Load
Balance
Plug-in
Authentic
ation
Services
Persistent
Storage
Database
Interfaces
EAI
Services ( SOA, Web
Services,
Other)
Trellis Platform Configuration Options
Configuration Driven By Asset Size and Complexity
Trellis Lite: Simple
Trellis Standard: Medium
Trellis Enterprise: Large
Trellis Custom: Custom/Unique
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Trellis Implementation Options
Four Implementation Options
On-Premise: Perpetual License at Client’s Data Center
Hosted: Perpetual License at Blackstone’s Data Center
Cloud SaaS ST: Dedicated Single-Tenant at Blackstone’s Data Center
Cloud SaaS MT: Shared Multi-Tenant at Blackstone’s Data Center
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Firewall Firewall
Load Balancer Load Balancer
Application Server Application Server
Database Server Database Server
SAN Data Store
Web
Firewall
Load Balancer
Application Server
Database Server
SAN Data Store
Web
Why Clients Selected Trellis?
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Trellis
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www.bstonetech.com B T
ADDRESS
5051 Westheimer Rd., Ste 1925 Houston, TX 77056 PHONE/FAX
(713) 785-9995 ext. 14 (832) 725-2451 cell
Charles Costello Sales Representative
ccostello@bstonetech.com
www.bstonetech.com B T
ADDRESS
150 California St. 9th Floor San Francisco, CA 94109 PHONE/FAX
(415) 837-1400 ext. 112 (415) 350-4356 cell
Rakesh Agrawal Executive Vice President
ragrawal@bstonetech.com