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Itron Supplies Smart Payment Solution to Electricidade e Agua da Guinee Bissau
Itron - Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI) announced today that Electricidade e Agua da Guinee Bissau (EAGB), the national power and water utility in Guinea-Bissau, has completed the implementation of Itron's electricity prepayment technology. more...
E.ON IT Embraces Convergys Smart Revenue Solutions across its Group
Convergys - Convergys Corporation (NYSE: CVG) announced today that it has signed a new group-wide Framework Agreement with E.ON IT. more...
Oracle Utilities Meter-to-Cash Applications Running on Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Demonstrate Unprecedented Throughput for 10 Million Interval Meters
Oracle - Oracle announced the unprecedented ability to process more than one billion records and generate 500,000 customer bills within an eight-hour nightly window using Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing, Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management and Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway - integrated using Oracle Application Integration Architecture and running on Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-2 and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud X2-2. more...
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BillingTree Enlists IP Commerce to Expedite Merchant Boarding Services
BillingTree - BillingTree, one of the nation's leading on-demand payment processors, has selected IP Commerce Inc., developers of the industry-leading open platform for commerce to assist with merchant boarding. more...
New Report from Aite Group Shows BillingTree as Key Player in Expanding Non-Cash-Payments Market
BillingTree - BillingTree, one of the nation's leading on-demand payment processors, has been featured in the latest report from the financial analysts at the Aite Group - Making Sense of the Global Non-Cash-Payments Market more...
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The Truth About The TXU Free Nights Plan

Blogger Photo By Holbert Janson - TXU's latest electricity rate plan (marketing gimmick) is designed to grab consumer’s attention. But for most people, it’s not likely more...

How Not to do a reform Programme - Test Case India

By Alok Misra - Electricity reforms and technlogy development in Utilities especially in India have been long due.Those utilities who have had an interacrtion more...

The Rise and Fall of RAPDRP - POWER SECTOR ReformProgramme

By Alok Misra - THis author produced two reports one for the Twisted Insulated Cable to stop the line tapping of Bare LT distribution more...

Technical losses and Missing Standards on Smart grid and metering etc In India- RAPDRP

By Alok Misra - Permitted technical losses in electrical distribution system design has been put at 16 % in India under the RAPDRP programme more...

Distributed Informatics and Plug and Play Smart Metering System

By Alok Misra - Using a Cy bernatic concept and copying a system the way utility is organized - 33/11 KV station being hub more...
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12 Bottom Line Improvement Ideas for 2012 for your Billing And Payment Channels

By Scott McCollum
Sott McCollum, President of BillingTree, one of the nation's leading on-demand payment processors, outlines 12 ideas that can help organizations improve their bottom line in 2012. more...
Filed Under Billing & Customer Care

Integrys Takes a Multi-Pronged Approach to Drive E-Billing Growth

By Mary Kay Wesolowski
Despite the fact that electronic bills, or e-bills, have been around for more than a decade, there is still a lack of consumer awareness about them. Many consumers lack insight into the availability of e-bills, more...
Filed Under Billing & Customer Care

How Technology Advancements in Smart Metering Can Enable Broader Socio-economic Changes

By Prosenjit Dutta
With the deployment of Smart Metering, Utilities now have an opportunity to explore the broader benefits that Smart Metering can result in. Of course, many utilities are currently in the process of leveraging their Smart more...
Filed Under Billing & Customer Care

EBPP Becoming More a Requirement Than an Option

By Harry Stephens
What a difference a decade makes. Just a little over ten years ago, many businesses remained uncertain that they really needed a Web site, and we might have remembered to check our email maybe two more...
Filed Under Billing & Customer Care

Things to Consider When Outsourcing Your Bill Print Processing

By James Jossie
As utility companies continue to evaluate ways to lower the cost to serve their customers, one of the questions that typically arise is: Should we outsource our "non-core" processing? more...
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