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CONTACT INFORMATION
Systems & Software
www.systemsandsoftware.net
Kathleen Pulling, Public Relations
Kathleen.Pulling@systemsandsoftware.net
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Systems & Software
Continues Dynamic Expansion Of Customer Base & Success Within
Water, Gas & Electric Utilities Arena
COLCHESTER, VT, April 25, 2006 – Systems
& Software, Inc. (S&S), a leading provider of customer information
solutions (CIS) that empower electric, gas and water utility companies,
is pleased to announce that it has successfully launched its enQuesta
CIS software solutions and completed installation for several customers
in the water, gas and electric utilities sector. In addition to
improving the level of customer service, the successful implementations
have helped multiple S&S customers achieve a myriad of results
ranging from increased customer satisfaction, billing accuracy and
transparency, to significant cost savings and increased revenues.
“S&S is committed to delivering bottom line results to
our diverse portfolio of utility customers through our unique solutions
and industry-leading enQuesta software,” said Burt Willey,
President and CEO, S&S. “The recent round of successful
implementations and upgrades represent a continuation of that commitment
and strategy to build upon the success as we rapidly continue our
expansion across the utilities arena.”
“Working with S&S and implementing the enQuesta software
has already allowed us to add approximately 2,000 new service accounts,
add an additional $4 million revenues per year, and significantly
improve our bottom line,” said Ali Salemohamed, Systems Integrator,
The City of Minneapolis Public Water Works.
Another successful S&S customer, South Coast Water District’s
IT Manager Byron Black noted, “Our project was implemented
in only six months and was on time and in budget. It’s the
best CIS implementation that I’ve ever been involved with.”
Specific highlights and results include:
The City of Minneapolis Public Works successfully
implemented S&S’ storm water billing solution, which
resulted in an additional revenue stream, 2,000 new service accounts,
and an additional $4 million in revenues.
Massena Electric ’s implemented both enQuesta,
S&S’ innovative software solutions, and Automated Meter
Reading (AMR). The AMR conversion was completed in eight weeks,
which resulted in immediate financial and savings benefits including
reduced meter reading costs upwards of $150k per year, and the
ability for Massena to better leverage staff time and resources
to help improve other areas of business.
Montgomery Water Works & Sanitary Sewer Board implemented
S&S’ WebConnect – a state-of-the-art self service
solution that provided Montgomery’s customers with 24 hour
access to their account information via the Internet. The results
of the WebConnect, enQuesta and ACH implementation were immediately
apparent as customers flocked to the new features. Montgomery’s
credit card revenues increased more than 57 percent.
“We haven't even formally advertised the new offering
to our customers and the payments made through WebConnect are
increasing dramatically and daily. The implementation of this
offering has already significantly enhanced overall customer satisfaction
and simultaneously appreciated the benefit of a single vendor
(S&S) support for both their CIS and Web solution.”
-Charlene Wachs, Assistant General Manager, Montgomery Water Works
and Sanitary Sewer Board
South Coast Water District turned to S&S’
experienced team to assist them with an immediate implementation
of a CIS solution that provided the flexibility to incorporate
the newly demanded billing rate structure. The new structure was
implemented in less than six months and as a result, protected
the company against losing hundreds of thousands of dollars in
revenues.
“Moving customers away from expensive sales and service
channels such as call-centers to far more cost-efficient means
such as the Web, email, and interactive voice response systems
is much more profitable for our utility customers. Software applications
such as self-service are therefore likely to continue to be on
the rise. S&S is well positioned to fully capitalize on this
market development and continue to be the CIS solution provider
of choice for the utility sector,” said Mr. Willey.
About Systems & Software
Systems & Software, Inc. (S&S) delivers a proven, scalable,
and configurable Customer Information System (CIS) to leading municipal
and investor-owned water, wastewater, refuse, gas, and electric
utilities. S&S empowers utilities through its enQuesta software
suite, which offers advanced customer information features, billing,
meter management, revenue management, customer Web self-service,
electronic bill payment and presentment, field services management
and GIS, and business intelligence and reporting. S&S supports
customer care operations totaling in the millions of transactions
per month throughout North America. More information about Systems
& Software, Inc. is available at www.systemsandsoftware.net.
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