Excelergy(R) Scores Just Shy of First Place in UtiliPoint(R) Deregulated CIS Vendor Rankings.LEXINGTON, Mass. -- Excelergy[R], a leading provider of billing and customer care solutions for power and gas companies participating in deregulated retail markets, was ranked number two in a new UtiliPoint[R] survey and analysis of CIS Cis (sĭs), same as Kish (1.) (1) (CompuServe Information Service) See CompuServe. (2) (Card Information S vendors serving deregulated retail energy markets. Excelergy scored 259 out of 360 points, just one point behind first place SAP[R]. Vendors were ranked on the basis of reputation, industry focus, market share, channels partners, customer satisfaction, functionality, integration, and product support. Unlike past CIS vendor studies from other leading analyst firms, the UtiliPoint analysis provided separate rankings for vendors serving companies in deregulated versus regulated energy markets. "Retail energy companies with customers in deregulated markets have different strategic and technology issues than energy providers in the regulated space," said Jon T. Brock brock n. Chiefly British A badger. [Middle English brok, from Old English broc, of Celtic origin.] , Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of UtiliPoint International. "Flexibility, open architecture, easy configuration and lower-cost maintenance and support all affect the energy retailer's cost to serve and ability to compete." "We are pleased that Excelergy's dedicated focus on solutions for competitive retail energy markets has resulted in such high scores in the UtiliPoint study," said Excelergy CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Stu Young. "We remain committed to our customers in deregulated markets and will continue to provide them with software applications that will help them increase market share and lower the cost to serve their customers." About Excelergy([R]) Excelergy is a world leader in high performance software solutions that optimize the customer care and billing processes in competitive energy markets. Excelergy software provides a complete "straight-through-processing" transaction management platform that automates customer acquisition and care, customer switching, pricing, contract execution, billing and complex billing, and wholesale energy transaction management and settlement. Excelergy software is built on an open, object-oriented, Web-centric, 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 architecture. Excelergy's world headquarters are in Lexington, Massachusetts Lexington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 30,355 at the 2000 census. The town is famous for being the site of the opening shots of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first engagement of the American Revolution. , with EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Refers to that region of the world. For example, one might see products packaged differently for the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific markets. headquarters in Waardenburg, The Netherlands. More information is available at www.excelergy.com. |
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