GasPro - Business Functionality Overview : Data Management Solutions Corporation (DMS), developer of the GasPro Solution has been providing successful business technology to companies in the Gas Industry since 1993. The developers of GasPro are experienced professionals in creating pipeline systems for several major pipeline companies. GasPro is the culmination of understanding all aspects of the gas industry and providing an easy to use interface to improve efficiency in managing and marketing gas transactions. GasPro provides real time, seamless processes that were previously done in spreadsheets or paper.

The GasPro System provides a tremendous amount of of business functionality designed to assist personnel involved in the process of Trading, Scheduling, Tracking, Accounting For and Reporting Gas Transactions.

This Unsurpassed Level of Success and range of functionality provides DMS the confidence to guarantee new clients successful results and tremendous benefits to their business. DMS products provide truly seamless, user-friendly solutions from deal capture through financial statements and management reporting.

GasPro Modules

Source Information -Provides a "Dashboard" presentation for the critical components in managing your transactions. more

Physical Market -A Comprehensive Set of Processes Designed to Manage All Your Gas Transactions. more

Financial Market -The Proven Solution for Managing Risk that Maintains a Direct Tie to the Physical Books. more

Controls/Compliance -Preventative, Detective and Corrective Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance. more

Accounting -Advanced Functionality to Record, Control and Analyze Every Transaction. more

Reports -GasPro offers comprehensive reporting tools to create everything from ad-hoc reports to variances and credit limits. more

GasPro Components

Legal Entities - A consolidated location for storing all information regarding 3rd Parties including corporate billing information, contacts, banking information, business types, and reference numbers.

Locations - A single reference location for all information pertaining to the pipelines, including Points, Groups/Mids/Zones, Matrices and Tariff information.

Contracts - A powerful, yet easy to use, tool for tracking every type of gas related contract ( including Purchases, Sales, GISB/NAESB, Linked Purchases, Exchanges, Transports, Storages, OBA's, and Imbalances ). Allows you to track your MDQ's, Demand and Commodity Charges, Injection/Withdrawal/In-Place charges and to set up any specialized Billing Information and Notes.

Categories - A specialized tool to allow for User-Defined groupings of data that can be used to create company specific cost reports.

Accounts - This section allows User-Defined GL Accounts for Financial Reporting ( Assets, Liabilities, Expenses, Revenues and Equity ) to be created that are FERC compliant.

Account Links - Create User-Defined linkages to determine into which accounts various transactions and transaction types will fall. This gives you the ability to define splits based on LE, Contract, Point, Color, Type, Rate, Component, Action, Service, etc. It also gives you the ability to split to multiple accounts based on percentages.

GasPro Administration

Graphical Displays
Provides several pre-defined graphical displays of supply/demand/transport/storage volume activity and position. Allows you to develop your own configuration of information that is important to your business. All graphical displays are real-time through the last transaction refresh.

Drill Down
All graphs and reports have the ability to perform drill-downs to view the detailed information behind every aspect of the report.

Custom Alerts
Set limits and alarms that notify you of situations that are relevant to your business objectives and goals.

Limits
Real-Time Credit Limit and Trader Limit displays with drill-down functionality and the ability to set and monitor these various limits.

Password Administration
Capability to change user passwords.
User defined number of failed access attempts before blocking user login.
User defined minimum password length and security level.
User defined expiration time-frame.

User Security
System administrators control the user access rights on a functional area level.
User can be given rights to multiple portfolios or companies.

System Wide Defaults
Various selections used to customize system default functionality.
User can be given rights to multiple portfolios or companies.

Administrative Reports
Includes audit reports related to user access security.