Filling the gap created by rapidly evolving markets

Structure’s Market Solutions Group has supported over 100 market participants through nearly a dozen market implementations and redesigns. We have learned that one of the biggest challenges that companies have encountered within the evolving ISO/RTO markets is the creation of new business processes that are not supported by Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software products. Structure’s Software Solutions group was created for the specific purpose of delivering niche custom solutions to fill these gaps for our clients.

Structure has worked with numerous ISOs/RTOs, T&D utilities, and power trading organizations to prototype, design, and deliver custom applications tailored to their IT infrastructure and to address these specific gaps.

Our Software Solution group, in concert with our Market Solutions Group Experts, can help you:

• Integrate your ISO/RTO data feeds with your ETRM, scheduling, optimization, EMS, settlement, allocation, and reporting applications.
• Define, implement and optimize custom, complex reports and operational dashboards using source data from relational and time-series databases.
• Build your data warehouses. We can collect and integrate disparate data into a cohesive and meaningful format to help better inform your decision makers.
• Develop and support custom applications to meet business needs where COTS products are not yet available.
• Extend the capabilities of your IT department on either a temporary or long-term basis.

How Structure Can Help

Custom Solutions

• Custom Solutions to fill gaps in the industry due to fast-moving regulations, market changes
• Custom extensions/bolt-ons to existing software packages
• Expertise in leading development and database technologies

Integration

• ISO/RTO integration
• Integration outwards-ETRM, credit, GL, analytics tools, others
• Data Warehousing integration

Reporting

• Custom reporting to meet complex demands
• Cross-system reporting capabilities
• Crystal Reports/SQL reporting services

Long Term Support

• Help control your operating costs by offering fixed-fee maintenance and long-term support of our custom applications
• Performance upgrades to custom solutions – eliminating the need to train in-house resources

How Structure is Different

From the start, Structure has recognized that industry experts need to define the solution, and technology experts need to build the software. That is how Structure operates – we combine the business expertise of our Market Solutions Group to create your IT roadmap, to identify the gaps, and to define the solutions with the technology expertise of our Software Solutions group to build and support the solutions.