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PrimeStone Newsletter
"Mission Critical Energy Solutions"
December 2010
Greetings!
Now that we are in December. There are many companies that begin to evaluate their year. Evaluate their performance internally and externally. Judge the good and the bad. What we can improve on as well as stream lining office process and cash flow.

There are two areas in my opinion that are always evaluated and studied the most. These two areas are cash flow / AR and customer service. Utilities, COOP's, and Municipalities are always asking me, how can an MDM improve these two areas?

Below I used some articles from our website to address these questions above. I hope that I can spark some interest in a way we can help you all streamline your bossiness' processes.

Regards,

Robert Akin
PrimeStone
bob.akin@primestone.com
913.945.1063

 "Cash Flow Means Everything!"

The PrimeRead Energy Suite exists for one and only one purpose. It is to facilitate the secure acquisition, verification, estimation, and editing (VEE), and archival of revenue data. If you think about it, this valuable data is essentially used for three purposes, revenue accountability, system operations, and regulatory compliance. Of these three, at least from the point of view of the utility, the most important has to be revenue accountability for without revenue accountability the modern utility would be out of business.

This is why the components of the PrimeRead Energy Suite have been architected to provide the utility with all of the metrics and functionality that a modern utility requires to guarantee their Cash Flow. The software reads the meters. It then verifies and cleans the data based upon the often complex business rules imposed by the utility, by the regulatory agency, or by both. Finally, it passes those verified and correct data to the utility's Billing System for bill generation. Why does it do this? So the utility can send out customer bills - bills from the most basic minimum residential usage to the multi-million dollar a month C&I billings that are so vitally important to most utilities.

The PrimeRead Energy Suite's real job, one of the most important jobs in the entire utility value chain, is to Guarantee the utility's precious Cash Flow. That's what PrimeStone does, that's what the PrimeRead Energy Suite does, and that's what we do better than anybody else.

Give us a call and see what all the buzz is all about. Call us and see how a modern Mission Critical suite of software solutions, the PrimeStone Energy Suite, can help your Modern Utility to improve your operational efficiencies and to improve your utility's Cash Flow.

"Utility Meter Communications is Mission Critical...
Put Your Trust in the Best... the
PrimeStone Energy Suite"

I'm sure that you all have asked yourselves these questions about your businesses and processes before. However, it is always good to ask them yearly:

1.) Is there anything more important to the health of your utility than guaranteeing your revenue stream?

2.) Could your utility afford the nightmare of losing communications with your Large Customer Billing and Intertie meters for even one day?

3.) Could your utility survive for even a couple of weeks without having a reliable communications and an Meter Data Management (MDM) system in place to cost effectively facilitate your meter reads?

4.) Can you afford to settle for unsupported and old technology in your Mission Critical Revenue Meter Interval Data Communications Software system?

5.) Can you trust your utility's precious Cash Flow to anything other than the best meter data management system available?

The obvious answer to all of the above is "No!" That's why for almost twenty years utilities throughout the world have been relying on the PrimeStone Energy Suite to fulfill this most important of Mission Critical utility requirements. PrimeStone's PrimeRead Energy Suite is a modern, integrated suite of software applications designed for one and only one purpose, is to facilitate Revenue Meter Interval Data Communications and data management.



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