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Blackstone Technology Group Proprietary and Confidential 9/2/2015

Trellis Overview

Trellis

About Blackstone

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9/2/2015 Blackstone Technology Group Proprietary and Confidential

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)

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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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ADDRESS

5051 Westheimer Rd., Ste 1925 Houston, TX 77056 PHONE/FAX

(713) 785-9995 ext. 14 (832) 725-2451 cell

Charles Costello Sales Representative

[email protected]

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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

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