Allegheny Energy Supply Upgrades Excelergy Advanced Business Package in Less Than 48 Hours.Business/Technology Editors LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 25, 2001 Rapidly and smoothly transitions customer accounts into Excelergy Advanced Business Package Version 4.4.0 Excelergy(R) Corporation reported today that Allegheny Energy Allegheny Energy (NYSE: AYE) is a traditional public utility based in the Pittsburgh suburb of Greensburg. It services communities in Western Pennsylvania, Western Maryland, Northern West Virginia, Northwest Virginia. Supply successfully upgraded to the latest version of the Excelergy Advanced Business Package(TM) in less than 48 hours. Allegheny Energy Supply is the unregulated Adj. 1. unregulated - not regulated; not subject to rule or discipline; "unregulated off-shore fishing" regulated - controlled or governed according to rule or principle or law; "well regulated industries"; "houses with regulated temperature" 2. generating subsidiary of Monroeville, Pennsylvania-based Allegheny Energy Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AYE). "Before Excelergy, the industry norm for major product upgrades was several months and thousands of costly employee-hours," said Lennie Davis, manager of operations for Allegheny Energy Supply's retail sales business. "Today, Excelergy's product is so easy to use and maintain that we completed the upgrade ourselves within a matter of hours over a weekend. This dramatically lowers the cost of ownership for us." The Excelergy Advanced Business Package is a single, highly scalable software platform that automates and manages mission-critical business processes such as customer acquisition, billing, customer care, forecasting and settlement. Enhancements included in Version 4.4.0 enable Excelergy clients to more efficiently handle the collaboration requirements in new jurisdictions, to more quickly and flexibly manage critical business transactions, and to streamline the automatic disposition of errors and exceptions. "This success story from Allegheny Energy Supply is the latest example of the bottom-line results our clients consistently achieve: improved revenues and cash flow from quicker new market entry, more efficient and accurate billing, and superior customer service quality," said Bill Mahoney Bill Mahoney (born June 23, 1936 in Peterborough, Ontario) is a former Canadian ice hockey coach. He was head coach of the Minnesota North Stars from 1983 to 1985. External links
Excelergy's high performance software products combine dynamic office collaboration, straight-through processing straight-through processing The direct exchange of cash and securities. Straight-through processing is a major objective for cross-border transactions that are generally much more costly to settle compared to domestic transactions. , and actionable Giving sufficient legal grounds for a lawsuit; giving rise to a Cause of Action. An act, event, or occurrence is said to be actionable when there are legal grounds for basing a lawsuit on it. business intelligence to enable clients to accelerate revenues, increase productivity, deliver superior customer and business partner service, reduce costs, and improve cash flow. About Allegheny Energy Supply Allegheny Energy Supply develops, owns, and operates electric generating facilities and supplies and trades energy and energy-related commodities in selected domestic retail and wholesale markets. More information is available at www.alleghenyenergy.com. About Excelergy(R) Corporation Excelergy is the world's first provider of open co-action software products - putting "action" at the heart of "collaboration" - to meet restructuring restructuring - The transformation from one representation form to another at the same relative abstraction level, while preserving the subject system's external behaviour (functionality and semantics). market needs worldwide. Excelergy delivers open co-action through three core product lines: Excelergy eXACT(R) for inter-company collaboration, the Excelergy Advanced Business PackageTM for intra-company business process management, and Excelergy Energy TradingTM for straight-through processing of wholesale energy business processes. These products are based on an open, object-based, Web-architected, native XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. technology platform. Excelergy's North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. headquarters are located in Lexington, MA, with its European European emanating from or pertaining to Europe. European bat lyssavirus see lyssavirus. European beech tree fagussylvaticus. European blastomycosis see cryptococcosis. headquarters in Bristol, England and its Asia-Pacific operations based in Melbourne, Australia. More information is available at www.excelergy.com. |
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