Andersen Consulting and Silicon Energy Forge Global Marketing Alliance -- Andersen Consulting to Provide Key Integration Services; Takes Investment Position in Silicon Energy.Business Editors ALAMEDA Alameda (ăləmē`də, –mā`də), city (1990 pop. 76,459), Alameda co., W central Calif., on an island just off the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay; settled 1850, inc. as a city 1884. , Ca. & DETROIT--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 25, 2000 Silicon Energy and Andersen Consulting See Accenture. today signed a global marketing alliance to deliver integrated, Web-based Enterprise Energy Management (EEM EEM Electronic Engineers Master (commodity codes) EEM Energy Efficient Mortgage EEM external elastic membrane (cardiology) EEM Enterprise Energy Management ) solutions to energy service providers and commercial and industrial customers. EEM solutions provide customers more efficiency and cost savings for energy use and procurement. Andersen Consulting and Silicon Energy will work cooperatively to market and deliver EEM solutions to Andersen Consulting's current worldwide client base. As a Silicon Energy preferred integration provider, Andersen Consulting will provide customers with its management consulting Noun 1. management consulting - a service industry that provides advice to those in charge of running a business service industry - an industry that provides services rather than tangible objects , as well as system and business integration services for EEM solutions. In addition, Andersen Consulting is licensing Silicon Energy's software to showcase in its North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. Utilities' Solution Center in St. Petersburg, Fla. The Utilities' Solution Center is Andersen Consulting's development center for utility industry solutions as well as the focal point focal point n. See focus. for the capture, storage and dissemination dissemination Medtalk The spread of a pernicious process–eg, CA, acute infection Oncology Metastasis, see there of Andersen Consulting's utility industry knowledge capital. Andersen Consulting also plans to utilize Silicon Energy's EEM solution to optimize energy utilization costs across a selection of their office locations throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . "Andersen Consulting's alliance with Silicon Energy will enable energy companies to provide high value-added additional services, such as EEM solutions, to their customers in the expanding energy industry," said Andrew Glassberg, partner in Andersen Consulting's Utility Practice. "Additionally, Silicon Energy's technology will allow large-scale commercial and industrial customers to have access to more powerful and cost-effective energy management tools to help optimize the consumption and procurement of one of the key drivers of their variable costs." As part of the agreement, Andersen Consulting will be a new investor, joining previous investors in the $20 million strategic investment round that Silicon Energy closed last month to fund expansion of sales, marketing and engineering efforts for its leading EEM software products. The addition of Andersen Consulting's investment of $3 million brings the strategic investment round total to $23 million. Allan Schurr, vice president of marketing and business development for Silicon Energy, said, "As one of the leading international management and technology consulting firms Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a , Andersen Consulting provides the most advanced business process management, strategic, system and business integration services available on the market. Andersen Consulting's leading market position creates even greater opportunities for Silicon Energy's accelerated expansion." About Andersen Consulting Andersen Consulting is an $8.9 billion global management and technology consulting organization whose mission is to help its clients create their future. The firm works with clients from a wide range of industries to bring about far-reaching change by aligning their people, processes and technology with their strategy. Andersen Consulting has approximately 65,000 people in 48 countries. For more information visit http://www.ac.com. About Silicon Energy Silicon Energy Corporation, the global leader in Enterprise Energy Management (EEM) solutions, is a privately held technology company based in Alameda, Calif. Silicon Energy's product suite is a powerful business-to-business EEM application that reduces energy by optimizing energy management and procurement across an enterprise. Silicon Energy allows real-time assessment and intelligent control over enterprise-wide energy usage as well as comprehensive reporting and monitoring capabilities through a Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . In addition to its software, Silicon Energy hosts Application Service Provider (ASP)-based energy management services that are more cost effective and quick to deploy for utilities and enterprises. Silicon Energy also offers professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. designed to provide ongoing support to its installed base. For more information visit http://www.siliconenergy.com |
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