Rapidly fluctuating costs along with an ever increasing volatile market are making it more important than ever for energy companies to operate at peak efficiency. Continuous acquisitions and mergers mean more data and more integration points for an energy company to stumble on.
More than ever, energy companies have to be efficient and flexible when it comes to processing outside data, even in the face of shrinking IT budgets. These days, it just makes a lot more sense to leverage an outside software partner that specializes in data integration solutions.
Efficiency
Data coming from outside is usually not speaking the same language. Nevertheless, the data must be imported and must be made to conform to existing systems and this means it must be processed. This processing is often manual, consuming valuable employee time. Astera can help by providing a platform to assist in this type of processing. Using Astera’s data integration platform, your energy company can automate many of these tasks:
- Create reusable data mappings that can be used to import large volumes of customer data (e.g. excel sheets) without the need for custom macros or scripts.
- Quickly create new mappings and data flows when a new account comes into the picture.
- Schedule acquisition of client data behind the scenes and have the next day's pipeline ready before anyone gets to work.
Flexibility
With all of the turmoil in energy markets today, what was a good idea yesterday is not so today and thus changes need to happen quickly. These changes are especially painful if IT is your company’s bottleneck. Having a meeting and waiting a month for IT to program an update to the system is not good enough. Astera can help by providing your company with a meta-data driven approach that takes small changes to data specifications out of the programmers’ hands and, in most cases, makes them available with a few clicks of the mouse. By reducing the lag time from specification change to production, your company can realize a single, centralized system where business decisions can be made in near real time.
Customers
"With Centerprise, we were able to save a lot of time and resources."—Ning Luzviminda., Aquisitions dept. lead for a world-wide energy corporation. Read more about how Astera was able to help this customer.