Utility.com Enhances Proprietary UtilityOne Technology Platform; Products from Kana, Oracle, Portal and Vitria Augment Infrastructure.Business Editors ALBANY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 17, 2000 Utility.com (www.utility.com), the world's first Internet utility Software used to search the Internet. See Archie, Gopher, Veronica, WAIS and Web browser. company, announced today that it has integrated technology from world-class providers Kana Communications, Oracle Corporation, Portal Software Portal Software was founded in 1985 as Portal Information Network, one of the first ISPs in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was founded by John Little. The company offered its own interface through modem access that featured Internet email. and Vitria Technology to enhance its proprietary UtilityOne(TM) technology platform, enabling UtilityOne to support millions of customers. UtilityOne is an information technology (IT) and Internet infrastructure platform for utility services that supports marketing and provisioning of multiple utilities over the Internet. UtilityOne serves Utility.com's electricity and Internet customers across the country as well as its eUtilities Program partners. The recently announced eUtilities Program is the first business-to-business alliance between an online utility provider and traditional utility companies. "We're proud of the capabilities of UtilityOne and excited by the addition of new, well-known technology products that will help us support many more customers and programs," said Chris King For other persons named Chris King, see Chris King (disambiguation). Christopher Donnell King (born July 24 1969 in Newton Grove, North Carolina) is an American professional basketball player, most notably for the NBA. , 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. and founder, Utility.com. "UtilityOne enables us to perform all the tasks necessary for effective, customer-friendly e-commerce for multiple utility services, including enrollment for one or more utility services; a single bill for energy, telecommunications and other services; customer choice of billing date; and customer care for multiple products." UtilityOne includes proprietary software and hardware as well as technology from Kana Communications for eBusiness SystemTM; Oracle, Oracle8i(TM); Portal Software for Infranet(R) customer management and billing; and Vitria for ebusiness infrastructure software. Together, these technologies are capable of supporting millions of future Utility.com customers. "The ability to bring energy and telecommunications providers together to serve consumers in a combined manner is a win for the consumer," said David Fowler David Fowler may refer to:
Portal's Infranet is the industry's only comprehensive real-time customer management and billing platform that supports complex, multiservice Internet business models. Infranet's comprehensive real-time technology delivers a true-transactional business infrastructure that enables service providers to rapidly bring new services to market, implement a wide range of value-added services and manage subscriber growth. "Robust functionality and flexibility, at the core of Infranet, are ideally suited for Utility.com," said Steve Sommer Sommer is a surname, from the German and Danish word for the season "summer". It may refer to:
Vitria's ebusiness platform will link the Utility.com Web site to a variety of internal billing, customer care, customer information and accounting systems, providing Utility.com customers with access to detailed information. Vitria will also enable Utility.com to bond electronically with its key partners and suppliers, enabling automatic, real-time exchange of information and transactions. These electronic bonds will leverage a variety of business-to-business e-commerce standards including 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. and EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) The electronic communication of business transactions, such as orders, confirmations and invoices, between organizations. Third parties provide EDI services that enable organizations with different equipment to connect. . By automating the flow of information and transactions across the entire value chain, Vitria will enable Utility.com to reduce the time and costs associated with delivering discounted utility services to consumers online. "Automating the exchange of XML-based transactions between trading partners' systems over the Internet is the key to optimizing the insurance supply chain," said Dale Skeen Dale Skeen is Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Vitria. He was also co-founder of TIBCO Software. He has some contribution to distributed systems. He invented the distributed publish-subscribe communication mechanism and Three-phase commit protocol. He received his Ph.D. , founder and chief technology officer, Vitria Technology. "Vitria's ebusiness platform will allow Utility.com's eUtilities Program partners to establish relationships with Utility.com quickly and at relatively little expense." About Utility.com Utility.com (www.utility.com), the world's first Internet utility company, is redefining utilities to include a range of energy and telecommunications services for consumers and small businesses. Named the Best-Performing Utility Web Site in the World by Andersen Consulting, Utility.com will offer services including electricity, gas, telephone and Internet access as well as advanced services such as Digital Subscriber Line See DSL. (communications, protocol) Digital Subscriber Line - (DSL, or Digital Subscriber Loop, xDSL - see below) A family of digital telecommunications protocols designed to allow high speed data communication over the existing copper telephone lines between end-users and (DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary ) and Internet telephony. Utility.com is putting the $500 billion energy and telecommunications industry online, delivering convenient services with affordable pricing through proprietary technology. Utility.com is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. that was founded in 1998 by energy and Internet industry experts, including idealab!, the innovator behind such companies as eToys, GoTo.com, PETsMART.com, CitySearch, tickets.com and NetZero. About Kana Communications, Inc. Kana Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : KANA) is a leading provider of integrated e-business solutions, delivering a broad range of world-class, web-architected e-business and interaction applications with a modular, flexible, and scalable platform for both Internet and Global 2000 companies. Kana develops both customer facing and enterprise facing solutions across multiple communications channels enabling e-businesses to compete and succeed in today's customer-driven economy. For more information about the company, please visit Kana's Web site at http://www.kana.com. About Portal Software Portal Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: PRSF PRSF Presidio of San Francisco (US National Park Service) PRSF Peoples Republic of San Francisco ) is building business infrastructure for the Internet. Based in Cupertino, Calif., Portal is the leading provider of customer management and billing software for Internet and emerging, next-generation communications services. The company's real-time solution enables service providers to manage customers, support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services and collect money. Portal's customers include US WEST, Qwest Communications, Inktomi, Covad, Deutsche Telekom's T-Online, Telenor Mobil AS, Juno Online, France Telecom and Demon. Information about Portal and its products can be found at www.portal.com. About Vitria Vitria Technology, Inc. (www.vitria.com), is a leading ebusiness platform provider, Vitria's ebusiness platform, BusinessWare(R), automates mission-critical business processes across the extended enterprise, reducing time to market, shortening lead times, lowering operating costs, and increasing customer satisfaction. Vitria is a publicly traded company publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. (Nasdaq:VITR VITR Vitria Technologies (stock symbol) VITR Visible and Thermal Infrared Radiometer ) based in Sunnyvale, Calif. For more information, call 408/212-2700, or send e-mail to info@vitria.com. Oracle is a registered trademark and Oracle8i is a trademark or registered trademark of Oracle corporation. |
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