CS WEEK CONFERENCE 40
Leveraging a Mobile Application to Boost Online Self-Service Karen Jeans
Manager, Customer Care Support & Admin Union Gas
Agenda Welcome
Company Overview Customer Channels and Trends MyAccount Usage and Trends
Self-Service Trends and Outlook Impact and Challenges MyAccount Mobile
Proposed Enhancements & Future Considerations Q&A Union Gas | 2
The Power of Our Growing Portfolio Connecting the largest diverse markets with growing supply
Natural Gas Transmission Pipe: 19,000 mi Natural Gas Storage Capacity: ~300 Bcf Natural Gas Gathering Pipe: 70,000 mi Crude Transmission Pipe: 1,700 mi NGL Transmission Pipe: 1,500 mi SE Gas Processing Capacity: 3.7 Bcf/d 4Q14 DCP Gathered and Processed: 6.7 Tbtu/d 4Q14 DCP NGLs Produced: ~450 MBbl/d Distribution Pipe: 39,900 mi Union Gas Retail Customers: 1.4 million
Gas storage facility Gas processing plant Propane terminal NGL storage Shale gas formations Crude storage Major oil pipeline terminal
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Union Gas • Major Canadian natural gas storage, transmission and distribution company based in Ontario • Over 100 years of experience and safe service to customers • Dawn storage facility – largest underground storage facility in Canada • Dawn Hub, one of the top-5 physically traded hubs in North America
• Assets of $7 billion, ~1.4 million customers, ~2,200 employees
Retail Customers
1.4 million
• One of Canada's Top 100 Employers 2011-2016
2014 Pipeline Throughput
1.2 Tcf
Distribution Pipe
64,200 km / 39,870 mi
• A Spectra Energy (NYSE: SE) company
Storage Capacity
157 Bcf
Transmission Pipe
4,811 km / 2,988 mi
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Customer Channels and Trends 2500
Thousands
2000 Live Agent
1500
IVR Self-Serve Email
1000
Online Transactions Paper Correspondence
500
0 2011
2012
2013
2014
2015 Union Gas | 5
Union Gas Customer Demographics 30% 25% Union Gas Franchise Population of Ontario
20%
15% 10% 5% Age
0% 19-34
35-47
48-53
54-60
61-67
68-74
75-84
85-94
Percentage of Union Gas customers age 51+ is higher than that within the overall province Union Gas | 6
Growth in MyAccount 2,500,000
2,000,000 MyAccount Active Profiles
1,500,000 1,000,000
Online Transactions
500,000 0 2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
30.5% of Union Gas customers receive Paperless bills Union Gas | 7
MyAccount Mobile Entry Points • Email prompts increasingly important to MyAccount usage
UG Website
21%
• Visits to corporate website are declining
16%
2011
UG Email
36%
2012
61%
2013 2015
37% of our Paperless customers receive their gas bill as an email attachment
MyAccount
27% 37%
0%
50%
100% Union Gas | 8
MyAccount Customers’ Internet Usage 15%
DESKTOP LAPTOP
39%
MOBILE DEVICE
24%
ALL THE ABOVE
By Income 22%
100% 90%
25%
80%
36%
45%
40%
70% 60%
36%
50%
29%
40% 30%
21%
20%
24%
18%
15%
11%
< $40K
$40K TO $60K
$60K TO $80K
0%
21% 20% 22%
20%
20% 10%
51%
19% 18% $80K TO $90K
11% >$90K
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MyAccount Customers’ Internet Usage – by Age 100% 90% 30% 80%
27%
40% 49%
50%
49%
70%
11% 15%
60%
ALL THE ABOVE
MOBILE DEVICE
50% 40%
19%
34%
15%
40%
35%
33%
LAPTOP DESKTOP
30% 21% 20% 31%
11%
10% 9%
5%
25-34
35-44
0% 18-24
13%
15% 45-54
20%
55-64
28%
65+
Desktop computers have a limited life Union Gas | 10
Landline Trends and Outlook
Source: StatCan Residential Telephone Service Survey, 2013
Younger population as well as lower income population has highest use of cell phones Union Gas | 11
Impact and Challenges • Out-bound calling for collections and emergencies are less effective and will continue to decline • Email and text communications will become primary contact methods
• Mobile application must be robust and seamless and also consistently refreshed to keep up with changing devices • Information traditionally residing outside MyAccount is being overlooked Customers with a higher propensity for contact with the utility are not reachable by traditional methods
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MyAccount Mobile Patterns and Trends • 13% of all logins to MyAccount are through the mobile application • 87% of MyAccount users own a mobile device that can access the Internet
• Top Three Features Accessed in MyAccount Mobile: – Account Summary – Bills & Payments – Usage Overview
• Top Three Transactions completed in MyAccount Mobile: – Payment Arrangements – Payment Notifications – Submit a Meter Read
Frequent visitors of MyAccount have a higher overall impression of Union Gas Union Gas | 13
MyAccount Mobile • Implemented in February 2015 • Mobile application that automatically detects mobile devices
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Proposed Enhancements and Future Considerations • Modify registration and password requirements to increase ease of use • Simplify “multi-step” transactions like moves and service order bookings to work seamlessly on a mobile platform
• Gather and maintain customers’ preferences for communication methods • Establish text communications • Add a “take a picture” option for submitting meter readings by Mobile MyAccount customers will shift to electronic communications for all activities by the end of 2016
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Karen Jeans Manager Customer Care Support & Administration Union Gas Limited | A Spectra Energy Company 50 Keil Drive North | Chatham, ON N7M 5M1 Tel: (519) 436-4579 Email:
[email protected]