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Genscape Launches Customizable Natural Gas Portal; Traders Streamline Daily Processes with Consolidated Notices & Maintenance Events

Louisville, KY (PRWEB) May 21, 2013

Genscape’s new Natural Gas Portal consolidates hundreds of maintenance and notice events from electronic bulletin boards (EBBs) to help natural gas traders streamline their daily processes and stay informed of unavoidable events impacting the market. Genscape collects notices from over 200 pipelines that are fed into the Portal within minutes of their availability on the pipeline websites. In addition, Genscape provides maintenance events for over 70 major interstate pipelines.

Genscape’s gas analysts evaluate every aggregate maintenance event and add value by categorizing the events by date, severity and market impact. These events are then delivered via the Portal providing the ability to customize the pipelines of interest and download the customized list to various calendars. The portal also houses historical data for use in benchmarking and forecasting.

“As a former trader I understand the frustrations the industry has with notice and maintenance events. These notices are difficult and time consuming to break out into individual events and are often not contained in the notice section of a pipeline EBB. Genscape’s Natural Gas Portal makes it easy for traders, schedulers and analysts to not only pull these events on-demand, but to customize the platform and view only what is relevant to them,” says Genscape’s Senior Natural Gas Analyst, Andy Krebs.

Notice and maintenance information is provided in a user friendly, searchable format with the option to save search queries for repeat use and view results in calendar format. Genscape’s analysts provide maintenance impact assessments in a standardized format that allows the user to search for maintenance events that are most likely to impact their day-to-day operations. The Portal also has priority statuses assigned to notices, allowing users to search for only the critical notices affecting them. Maintenance search results can be exported to Microsoft Outlook calendar, Google Calendar, or iCal so that users can set up daily alerts.

The Portal delivers on-demand access to Genscape’s North American Basis Reports. The daily Basis Reports profile sixteen distinct regions across North America, tracking natural gas supply, demand, storage, imports and exports. Each report provides advance notice of natural gas price movements, daily commentary, and real-time alerts. Subscribers of Genscape’s Natural Gas Basis Reports and Portal receive direct access via email, instant message or phone to the experienced traders and analysts who maintain the Portal.

For more information or if you are interested in a free trial of Genscape’s new Natural Gas Portal or the Basis Reports, please visit: info.genscape.com/gas-portal-press.

About Genscape

Genscape is the leading global provider of energy information for commodity and financial markets. Utilizing patented technologies and proprietary algorithms, Genscape provides accurate & timely data on capacities, flow and utilization for all major energy commodities. With thousands of sophisticated energy monitors strategically deployed all over the world, Genscape is unique in its ability to measure and collect energy market fundamentals. These “measured actuals” are then transmitted to clients in real-time or near real-time. Genscape clients often gain first-mover advantage and increased market transparency to better optimize their positions. For more information, please visit: http://www.genscape.com

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AV Programming Associates Releases Their First Book Entitled Our Code: History, Practices and Processes of AVPA

Carlsbad, CA (PRWEB) April 01, 2014

AV Programming Associates, Inc. (AVPA) today announced the release of their first book, entitled Our Code: History, Practices and Processes of AVPA. The self-published book is a collection of stories, lessons learned, business best practices and historic insights. After more than thirteen years as President of AVPA, Matthew Grisafe wrote Our Code as a means to illuminate the company’s history and provide a backdrop to AVPA’s current processes and thinking.

“The lessons we’ve learned over the years are applicable to nearly all small businesses, not just Crestron programmers or those in the professional audiovisual industry,” said Matthew Grisafe, President of AVPA. “Some of the topics covered include the founding of AVPA, our experience launching a new venture on September 11th, 2001 and some of the attitudes we believe a successful business should maintain.”

“We employ well-established processes, and customers often ask why we stick to them. We’re obviously not perfect, but we know what works and how to avoid pitfalls as we navigate projects. The book hopefully provides a context for those processes, a background that helps people understand how we got where we are, and where we’d like to go moving forward. Almost every chapter includes a personal story that explains some of the challenges we’ve faced. We avoided being preachy, but the book offers insights that should be relevant to small business owners of all types. In that way, I expect Our Code may be both an interesting and useful read for a broad audience.”

To learn more about Our Code, and to download the complete PDF, please visit http://www.avprogramming.com/our-code.

About AV Programming Associates

AV Programming Associates, Inc. is an independent programming company specializing in Crestron programming services and associated design support. Founded in 2001 and based in Carlsbad, CA, AVPA is known nationwide as a premier Crestron Service Provider (CSP) / Crestron Authorized Independent Programmer who delivers versatile control systems programming and user interface solutions for all markets. The company has developed applications for nearly all environments from elegant digital signage and CEO conference rooms to media rooms, whole house automation, houses of worship and command and control centers. For more information, visit the AVPA website at http://www.avprogramming.com.