Rochester, NY- February 5, 2008 - Montana-Dakota Utilities Co., a division of MDU Resources Group, Inc. and a leading provider of gas and electric service in the Northern Great Plains, has awarded Blue Heron Consulting Corporation a contract to be their prime system integration partner to implement Oracle® Utilities Customer Care & Billing (CC&B) product.

Blue Heron Consulting Corporation is the value integration company in the utility industry that provides customers with world-class systems integration and organizational change management expertise at affordable rates. MDU’s selection of Blue Heron and Oracle Utilities CC&B enables the utility to meet a strategic objective to replace multiple aging legacy CIS systems with one cost effective, functionally rich, centralized state-of-the-art system.

Blue Heron provides objective, high-quality CIS/CRM integration services to the utility industry and specializes in the installation, maintenance and enrichment of Customer Information Systems (CIS). The company has over nine years of experience installing, maintaining and upgrading Oracle® CIS products. It serves both investor-owned utilities and municipalities and has experience with all major utility service types: gas, electric, water, waste water, solid waste, cable/broadband and telecommunications.

“We’re very pleased Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. selected Blue Heron Consulting and Oracle to achieve its strategic goal to replace aging legacy CIS systems with one centralized state of the art system. MDU’s selection of Blue Heron further demonstrates that utility customers, both large and small, can literally save millions of dollars by choosing value integration services over traditional system integration options. The paradigm shift and inertia for affordable CIS replacement projects is well underway!” said President and Chief Executive Officer, Stephen Northrup.

For more information about Blue Heron Consulting Corporation services visit www.blueheron-consulting.com.

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