FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
City of Santa Rosa, California
Selects Advanced Utility Systems to Implement CIS Infinity
SANTA ROSA, CA and TORONTO, CANADA. September 12, 2008
- Advanced Utility Systems Corporation (Advanced), a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Harris Computer Systems (Harris) is pleased to announce
the City of Santa Rosa has recently signed with Advanced to implement
CIS Infinity® to enhance the City’s customer service and
customer programs.
The City of Santa Rosa is now Advanced’s 14th customer in
the state of California. As the seat of Sonoma County, the City
of Santa Rosa has a population over 150,000 and is located 55 miles
north of San Francisco. The City provides water and wastewater services
to its 52,414 customers and bills on a monthly cycle.
Patty Kutches, Revenue Operations Supervisor, notes, “After
an extremely thorough evaluation of numerous CIS products, the City
of Santa Rosa determined CIS Infinity to be the most complete system
on the market. It meets our needs in the critical areas of functionality,
flexibility and cost. We are looking forward to a long and successful
relationship with Advanced Utility Systems.”
The City conducted a comprehensive selection process with the aid
of consulting firm, Westin Engineering. Westin, the City and Advanced
worked together from scope of work development through contract
negotiations.
“We are very excited to welcome the City of Santa Rosa to
the Advanced family”, mentions Steve Hammond, General Manager
for Advanced. “The state of California holds the largest conglomerate
of Advanced customers across North America. The City of Santa Rosa
will further our focus in this region and we believe Ms. Kutches
and staff will contribute greatly as a CIS Infinity user to our
regional and annual user group meetings.”
Implementation of CIS Infinity is set to begin over the next several
weeks.
For more information on Advanced and CIS Infinity® please visit
our website at www.advancedutility.com.
About Advanced and Harris
Advanced is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Harris Computer
Systems that provides Customer Information and Billing solutions
exclusively to utilities and municipalities. Harris is a leading
provider of financial management and Customer Information Systems
(CIS) software solutions. Since 1976, Harris has focused on providing
feature-rich and robust turnkey solutions to all levels of local
government as well as public power and water markets throughout
North America. Harris' focus is on creating long-term relationships
with our customers and ensuring that we meet the changing needs
of our customers over time. For further information on Harris Computer
Systems, please visit our website at www.Harriscomputer.com.
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