powercloud and GridX Partner to Offer Advanced Billing and Pricing Analytics Solutions to the Utility Industry

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  • Partnership Streamlines Meter-to-Cash Process and Enables Customers to Have a Complete Understanding of the Financial Impact of Making Clean Energy Decisions

ALPHARETTA, Ga., May 04, 2022 – powercloud, the cloud CIS billing software for the energy and utilities industry, today announced their newest powercloud partner, GridX, Inc., the leading enterprise rate platform provider to modern utilities and energy technology companies.

Utilities are increasingly turning to Time-of-Use (TOU) rate plans to aid in their decarbonization efforts. To maximize the impact of these variable rates, they need to be able to quickly define and implement programs, deliver education on their benefits and bill customers based on their individual usage. GridX quickly analyzes millions of data points to determine the bill impact of participating in a TOU rate plan in dollars and cents and has been used to implement some of the most complex rates at the largest utilities in the U.S., including PG&E, SCE, PSEG Long Island and Consumers Energy. By providing an integrated solution, GridX and powercloud enable utilities to quickly implement new rates with an easy hand-off to the powercloud billing system without maintaining two pricing catalogs.

“For utilities, products and cost components are getting more complex and the speed at which they are being asked to implement them is increasing,” stated Steven Dawson, VP & Country Manager, powercloud.” With GridX, business users, with no technical experience, can model, test and validate tariffs, rates and programs. Direct integration with the powercloud billing system means the work only need be completed once, and this is a huge benefit for these users.”

The GridX enterprise rate platform includes integrated rate and cost analysis to enable customers to find the best rate plan that fits their needs. With an entire suite of applications to manage the complete utility product life cycle, it includes rate design, marketing outreach, enhanced customer care, and key account management.

“Utilities are facing growing regulatory mandates that require more complex options and business models, which are required to help achieve decarbonization goals,” said Scott Engstrom, Chief Customer Officer, GridX. “This partnership enables them to upgrade their Meter-to-Cash processes and reduce operating costs with cross-platform automation that is easy to maintain and enhance. Our advanced analytics enhances the CIS function by reducing the time needed to roll out TOU plans from months to weeks and ensures a seamless billing process on the back end.”

Simplification of the IT architecture is supported by the powercloud billing platform through open APIs, allowing utilities to easily connect to additional services and functionalities by 3rd parties. Both the powercloud and GridX solutions run on Amazon Web Services (AWS) globally.

powercloud and GridX will showcase the integrated solution at the CS Week Conference beginning May 3 this year in Phoenix, AZ.

 

About GridX, Inc.

GridX, Inc. partners with utilities and energy suppliers to transform their businesses and accelerate the clean energy transition. The company’s Enterprise Rate Platform helps these organizations to develop new products and business models to achieve their clean energy goals; quickly operationalize new offerings in their billing and settlement processes; and better engage with their customers for broader program adoption. GridX’s platform is used by leading utilities, retail energy suppliers and energy ecosystem OEMs to serve more than 19 million homes and businesses. For more information, visit gridx.com .

 

 

Energy cooperative Prokon relies on powercloud

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  • Big bang migration sets the pace of change
  •  Agile processes in the backend guarantee more flexibility

(powercloud, Offenburg, May 03, 2022) With almost 40,000 members, Prokon is Germany’s largest energy cooperative. Everyone can become a member of the joint venture, invest in wind farms and thus support the transition to better climate protection – an outstanding example of those innovative business models that have been structurally changing the German energy market for several years. At the same time, Prokon has been active in the market as an independent energy supplier since 2013 and supplies around 33,000 customers with self-produced green electricity. In addition, there are other offers such as electricity for commercial customers and biogas for end users. The latter has been implemented in the entrepreneurial backend with the aid of powercloud since the start of 2021. The cooperative has now also changed its billing processes for green electricity for end consumers – since March of this year, this control has also been carried out with the help of powercloud.

As Frank Kalliora, Head of Energy Trading at Prokon, explains, the new solution replaces the in-house software development that was previously in use at the cooperative and had reached its technological limits: “Our green electricity offer of 100 percent wind energy has been very successful on the market for years. However, there is considerable potential that we are not yet exploiting; for example, creating new products based on the existing system proved too complex. To accomplish this, we need a backend that enables flexible and automated processes. powercloud can now guarantee us this level of quality. There is also a cooperative approach: With the aid of the powerApp store from powercloud, we can integrate the expertise of various service providers into our own solution and precisely tailor the whole system to our needs. That convinced us.” For example, based on this system, Prokon uses iXenso’s output management for customer communication, the powerData IntegrationLayer, as well as work digital’s solution “Start Service”. The associated automation of processes in the energy economy ensures better speed and decreased workload for the cooperative.

It is also interesting to have a look at the processes surrounding the billing conversion at Prokon, because private electricity customers’ data were transferred to the new platform as part of a large “big bang migration” in March. So, everything was migrated “in one fell swoop” – mind you, this was only about five months after the start of the electricity project in November last year. The migration process was accompanied by powercloud partner Natuvion. The company specializes in the transformation of data to new platforms. As Zoran Petrovic, Managing Director and Chief Growth Officer at powercloud, explains: “When we implement our solutions, we always rely on a teamwork of specialists who support us with their expertise. The method of operation is tried and tested, works completely smoothly, and ensures speed in many specific areas. Overall, we are very pleased to be able to support Prokon’s innovative business model in this way, because we see ourselves as facilitators of an innovative energy future. Prokon’s offer fits perfectly with this.”

 

About Prokon

With almost 40,000 members, Prokon Regenerative Energien eG is the largest energy cooperative in Germany. The company’s particular focus is on generating and supplying renewable-energy-based electricity in close proximity to the citizen.

Prokon was founded in 1995 and can call upon more than 25 years of experience in the renewable energy sector, the most recent six of which have been as a citizens’ cooperative. Today, the development, planning, and implementation of onshore wind farms, as well as their subsequent technical and commercial management, are among Prokon’s core competencies, as is supplying private household customers with green electricity nationwide. Prokon currently operates around 70 wind farms in Germany, Poland and Finland, with a total capacity of almost 800 MW. For more information visit: www.prokon.net

 

 

powercloud Partners with ACI Worldwide to Amplify Bill Payment Experience for Utilities Customers

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  • powercloud CIS Billing System Integrated with ACI Speedpay Drives More Bill Payment Options for Utilities

ALPHARETTA, Ga., May 03, 2022 – powercloud, the cloud customer information system (CIS) and billing software for the energy and utilities industry, today announced a partnership with ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), the global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software. The pre-integrated ACI Speedpay and powercloud CIS Billing system enhances the customer experience by providing utility companies with a cloud-based billing, payment and bill presentment solution out-of-the-box.

The combined solution benefits the utility company by providing a tightly integrated end-to-end CIS with electronic bill presentment and payment solutions. It also gives consumers the billing, payment and communications options they want, whether emerging payment methods such as Apple Pay, PayPal, and Google Pay, or cash payments made in-lane at one of thousands of retail locations. Paying with a mobile wallet is a popular option, with nearly half (49 percent) of consumers saying they would consider paying a bill this way, according to the latest ACI Speedpay Pulse Study.

“As powercloud is a German company, and with the majority of Germans paying their bills via direct debit, integrated payment options were not previously critical. With our recent entry into the U.S. market, having other payment options built into our solution quickly became a priority. As we began looking for a partner, we wanted to work with the best and ACI has dominated in this space with an industry-specific payment solution – ACI Speedpay – for the utilities industry.” stated Steven Dawson, VP & Country Manager, powercloud.

The partnership between powercloud and ACI also enables utility companies to be innovative in the payment options they offer to their customers. Future payment options include pre-pay options that allow consumers to pay as they use. Pre-pay options are attractive to end users because it allows them to manage their money and become smarter about how they use their energy.

“As powercloud makes their entry into the US market, ACI will be its first payments partner in providing utilities companies with a cloud-based billing, payment and bill presentment solution,” said Sanjay Gupta, head of biller segment, ACI Worldwide. “The combination of ACI Speedpay and powercloud will provide utilities companies with the broadest array of payment options and channels to pay, making it easier for consumers to pay their utility bills in the way that best suits them.”

powercloud and ACI will be exhibiting at the CS Week Conference May 3-6 at the Phoenix Convention Center in adjoining booths (318 & 319). They will also be co-presenting a session at the conference: “From Cash to Crypto: Future Proof Your Payments Operation” on May 4.

 

About ACI Worldwide

ACI Worldwide is the global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software. Our proven, secure and scalable software solutions enable leading corporations, fintechs, financial disruptors and merchants to process and manage digital payments, power omni-commerce payments, present and process bill payments, and manage fraud and risk. We combine our global footprint with a local presence to drive the real-time digital transformation of payments and commerce.

 

powercloud and NET2GRID announce Partnership

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  • Integrated CIS Billing System with Meter Data Analytics improves Customer Engagement for Utilities

 

ALPHARETTA, Ga., April 12, 2022 – powercloud, the cloud CIS billing software for the energy and utilities industry, today announced a partnership agreement with NET2GRID, the leading AI provider of energy insight and predictions based on smart meter data of all granularities. The integrated solution will enable utility companies to increase customer satisfaction, lower cost-to-serve and open up new revenue stream opportunities.

The powercloud platform combined with NET2GRID’s capabilities empowers utilities to turn meter data into value, for customer engagement as well as customer intelligence and demand forecasting. NET2GRID’s services powered by unique AI models have proven to drastically reduce the cost to serve. At the same time, customer intelligence is increasing the conversion rate on marketing campaigns and giving support agents a 360 view of their customer. Finally, NET2GRID’s forecasting services can support advanced grid planning and forecasting due to the growing penetration of residential solar and electric vehicles.

“By providing next best actions to the customer and the call center agents, new personalized services and non-commodity products that add real value can be offered to customers. All this can be invoiced within the same billing platform – by using powercloud,” In addition, NET2GRID will be offered as part of powercloud’s Appstore and offers another example of how powercloud is transforming the Energy Ecosystem into our core CIS/Billing platform, stated Steven Dawson, VP & Country Manager, powercloud.

The powercloud/NET2GRID solution will also make it easier for customers to foresee upcoming challenges and solve those themselves instead of calling service agents. This is not only easier and typically faster for the customer, but it can also mean a reduction of service calls by up to 60% for the utility company.

“Integration with the powercloud CIS system enables each utility company to avoid huge integration costs which improve time to market and reduce the need for IT resources. Our pre-integrated solution in the cloud provides greater IT security and delivers an out-of-the-box experience to energy players in the US and Europe,” said Bert Lutje Berenbroek, CEO, NET2GRID.

This is all supported by the next generation billing platform of powercloud through open architecture and API-driven processes, allowing utilities to easily connect to additional services & functionalities by 3rd parties. Both the powercloud and NET2GRID solutions run on Amazon Web Services (AWS) globally.

powercloud and NET2GRID will showcase the integrated solution at CS Week beginning May 3 this year in Phoenix, AZ. The two companies will also exhibit at other major Energy conferences including DISTRIBUTECH 2022, Dallas, TX in May; and E-world 2022, Essen, Germany in June.

 

About NET2GRID

NET2GRID is an AI company which empowers energy retailers to become energy transition leaders by unlocking value from smart meter data. Our mission is to accelerate the energy transition. We provide the most accurate residential energy insights and predictions thanks to our unique know-how in collecting and analyzing smart meter data of all granularities. Our services are used by energy suppliers worldwide. Our clients include E.ON, EDP, EDF, and ENI. We have offices in the Netherlands, Greece, USA and Germany.

 

 

powercloud and Dazerolab announce partnership

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  • European Collaboration
  • Dazerolabs ‘OnBoarding Funnel’ will be part of the powerApp Store 

 

(Offenburg & Principality of Monaco, 9 th March 2022). Cloud software provider Dazerolab and powercloud are cooperating to strengthen the efforts towards a more sustainable and wise energy world. OnBoarding Funnel (OBF) – Dazerolab’s cloud platform for sales process digitisation – will add to powerclouds billing solution the capabilities to enable energy and water companies worldwide in offering to their customers next-gen, stunning and tailor-made purchasing experiences on every channel of acquisition.

 

The new partnership uses digital technologies to transform operations and increasingly creates new sources of competitive advantage. This approach significantly reduces all costs related to onerous IT product selection processes and the development of complex integrations. In this context, OnBoarding Funnel will be part of the powercloud powerApp Store as a specialised sales and client onboarding application, ready to use, allowing companies to quickly set up and implement a cost-effective, efficient, and fast onboarding sales environment. Plus, the partnership will bring good news also in the long-term, by solving the issue of the always rising cost-to-serve. Thanks to the collaboration between OnBoarding Funnel and powercloud, energy supply companies will be perfectly equipped to face future increasing price pressure. This flexibility is ensured by standardised and automated processes that work with greater speed: while OnBoarding Funnel brings flexibility and speed of execution in the sales process, powercloud includes all the “meter-to-cash” business processes and the data necessary for the energy industry engine room. This combination allows the redesign of the operational and commercial infrastructures in a new completely digital and customer-oriented form. This means that reliability, speed, and convenience remain at an excellent level, and costs are reduced.

 

“We are particularly pleased to join powercloud’s effort to innovate the energy and water market worldwide,” says Fabio Asselle, Co-Founder & CEO @ Dazerolab “We share the same values, vision and long-term approach. We aim to transform the challenges that water, electricity and gas companies are encountering into strategic advantages by leveraging on Onboarding Funnel, our next generation sales digitisation platform that drives customers purchasing experience to excellence, ensuring to companies flexibility, scalability and a low code personalisation approach in a data-driven and compliance aware environment”.

 

“OBF delivers fast and accurate onboarding processes bringing a next-gen approach to the sales funnels, that is a perfect fit for our strategic approach to be the platform for the energy companies in their digital transition. This additional application, delivering a fast, easy to use, tailored sales and onboarding environment add to the powercloud ecosystem the ability to deliver to end-users a friendly and smooth experience, and to energy companies an efficient, manageable, multi-channel sales process management. This is what makes OnBoarding Funnel a good fit for our powerApp Store” says Zoran Petrovic, Managing Director and Chief Growth Officer powercloud “Together, we would like to help utilities involve and attract customers in the coming years, with a long-term attitude, being flexible both solution and resource-wise.”

 

About OnBoarding Funnel

OBF covers end-to-end proposal lifecycle from creation to subscription and management on:

  • digital self channels (website)
  • assisted digital channels (outbound and inbound call centres, chat, assisted web)
  • physical channels (agents, key accounts, stores)

Also, it helps automate commercial back-office operations and interaction with grid operators, supplying directly into powercloud ready-to-bill contracts.

OBF adoption could drive business benefits like:

  • average 5€ per contract of reduction on cost-to-acquire;
  • average 15 minutes reduction of call-centre operator time for each proposal;
  • 50% reduction in loss on teleselling due to missed confirmation;
  • convert up to 30% of inbound calls in sales opportunities (new business);
  • accessibility of a web contract to up to 90% of the customer base.

 

About Dazerolab SARL

Dazerolab is specialized in building native cloud software for the digital transformation of energy and water companies. Since 2017 they have developed cutting-edge projects and solutions from their main HQ in Monaco, together with a close-knit network of international collaborators. Among their products, there is OnBoarding Funnel, the digital onboarding cloud platform for the utility world that accelerates sales and simplifies the commercial back office.

 

 

powercloud and KloudGin Announce Partnership to Advance Digital Transformation Efforts for Energy and Utilities Industry

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(powercloud, Alpharetta, Ga., March. 01, 2022) – powercloud, the world’s fastest growing CIS/billing system in the energy and utilities industry, today announced a partnership agreement with KloudGin, the only combined field service and asset management software solution.

 

powercloud and KloudGin join forces to enable the energy and utilities industry to dramatically improve operational efficiencies between the back office, field technicians and their customers. The KloudGin combined EAM and FSM platform, together with powercloud processing and billing service offerings, will help energy and utility companies reduce the cost to serve their customers and improve the customer experience.

The KloudGin and powercloud platforms were both originally developed as native cloud solutions, eliminating much of the headaches that result from legacy applications adapted to the cloud. Both platforms run on Amazon Web Services (AWS) globally.

“More than ever, optimizing work and asset performance is imperative to eliminate back-end redundancies and increase operational efficiencies of energy and water delivery systems. As the industry addresses historic challenges and explores alternative revenue streams, KloudGin, in partnership with powercloud, will lead the way to digital transformation,” said Vikram Takru, Co-founder & CEO, KloudGin Inc.

“KloudGin and powercloud will provide an overall better experience for service agents, field service and the end customer through data collection, automated communication, and real-time access to information.” said Steven Dawson, Vice President & Country Manager for powercloud North America. “Working together with KloudGin, we can now collect more data to empower the field workers and bring in more automation when and where they want it.”

Dawson stated, “KloudGin will be offered as part of the powerApp Store and exemplifies how powercloud is transforming the industry by integrating Field Service, Work and Asset Management into our core CIS/Billing platform.”

KloudGin and powercloud will showcase the alliance to North American utility professionals during an upcoming Webinar on April 21st. Hosted by TMG Consulting, the webinar will present several use cases between the customer and back-office using Automation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to seamlessly enrich the customer experience.

 

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About KloudGin, Inc.

KloudGin, Inc. is the only combined one-cloud industry-focused field service and asset management solution that automates work management processes, enables customer self-service, and increases worker productivity. KloudGin’s solutions unlock new revenue streams and business models for operations with complex mobile workforce, asset management and field service requirements. KloudGin connects customers, employees, sub-contractors, and assets with AI-powered access to information on any device. For more Information visit the  KloudGin Website.

 

 

Success in the tender for Thüga’s major project

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With powercloud, BTC and Klafka & Hinz as technology partners, Accenture is developing a new billing platform for the energy industry.

It is a project without parallel: In January, the Thüga Group began a Europe-wide tendering process for its billing solution Thüga-Abrechnungsplattform (TAP) intended for suppliers, network operators and meter operators in the energy sector. Thüga is Germany’s largest cooperative network of municipal energy and water providers with more than 100 municipal utilities in the group. The consulting firm Accenture has now been awarded the contract to develop and roll out TAP as the general contractor and has brought on board powercloud, BTC and Klafka & Hinz as its technology partners. powercloud and Accenture have already been working together for years. This intensive cooperation was one of the pivotal considerations in Thüga’s decision and could also be applied to similar platforms in other European countries. With around 15.5 million metering points right now, TAP is considered one of the largest IT projects on the market.

The platform is designed to set a new standard in the energy sector. A total of 38 municipal utilities and energy utilities have chosen to use TAP. The solution offers customers competitive services at economical prices based on the pay-per-use model. Just like powercloud, the system is a modular software-as-a-service platform built on a cloud architecture and sets new standards in terms of technology. This means users will be able to select the elements they need from the modular system.

On the platform, powercloud acts as the core system that handles financial processes for all market roles in the energy sector, including billing, receiving payments, managing payment reminders and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements placed on market communication. TAP can help make billing processes in the commodity sector especially efficient and largely automated – with correspondingly lower costs. In addition, powercloud will manage all master data and take account of all regulatory changes in the market to relieve users of the burdens of laborious adjustment processes. With the help of powercloud, the new platform can also reduce the time-to-market of new products in the energy sector.  Other features include network usage management and contract management.

The platform is a response to the fact that many energy utilities are struggling with the same challenges, which necessitate fresh new approaches. For example, the increasingly complex regulatory requirements on the calculation of feed-in remuneration have pushed the billing solutions of many network operators to their limits. Increasing competition, along with growing pressure to invest due to legal regulations, has also forced energy utilities to intensify their cost-cutting. Using common platforms and services presents a significant opportunity for these companies.

One major challenge for TAP is that it must meet a wide range of needs of both large and small companies. As a standardized machine room of the energy sector, powercloud is particularly well suited to tackle this task. The well-established solution is already used by many companies of all scales and sizes – ranging from start-ups to DAX companies.

To highlight the potential of such a platform, powercloud worked with Accenture, BTC and Klafka & Hinz to offer a series of webinars during the tendering process. For example, the webinars illustrated the meter-to-cash process for all customer groups, market roles and product categories and also demonstrated what intelligent automation of mass processes can look like in the complex interaction between billing and energy data management.

powercloud is proud to be a part of this mega IT project for the energy sector. Clinching the project is a major milestone in company’s history.

 

 

powercloud and connectAI automatically provide optimal customer communication

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  • Integration of the CAIA omnichannel contact center solution from connectAI into the powercloud powerApp Store
  • AI-supported personalization and automation of utility companies’ customer services
  • Self-learning platform process standard use cases and enable rerouting of exceptional cases

 

(powercloud, Offenburg, 11/29/2021) – For utilities, customer communication is a core element of customer loyalty and differentiation within the highly competitive energy industry. At the same time, though, the effort it takes to process all customer queries personally and promptly poses a complex challenge for customer services. As of now, the integration of the CAIA omnichannel contact center solution by connectAI offers users of powercloud an automated but nevertheless personalized service for standard customer processes.

This includes, for example, automated processing of inbound cases such as messages related to meter reading, billing requests or changes to addresses and bank details. CAIA provides support for this using AI-based communication with customers on all channels via voice assistants, email, chat, messaging or document scanning. CAIA can also be used for outbound communication, for example for creating personalized offers for respective customers. In addition, the solution allows call center agents to intelligently route exceptional cases. CAIA currently supports English and German. Other languages can be added as needed.

Users of CAIA in powercloud particularly benefit from the seamless integration with powercloud as “one system of truth” and the smooth interaction of both solutions. Functions such as recording calls and transcriptions as well as saving the results of decisions enable seamless tracking – while ensuring the required data protection at the same time.

Utilities are able to considerably lower their customer service costs using CAIA. Georgios Gergianakis, CEO of connectAI, also stresses the numerous advantages that CAIA offers the individual customers: “For their part, utility customers have the freedom to take care of their concerns and needs, individually, proactively and efficiently, at any time and through the communication channel of their choice. CAIA not only allows utilities to offer exceptionally efficient customer service but also an extremely high level of service.

Thayabaran Thanabalasingham, Head of Partner Sales at powercloud, considers the integration of CAIA to be an important building block for powercloud’s holistic approach: “powercloud unites reliable processing and billing with the possibility of launching new business models on the market quickly. We always keep the end customer firmly in focus during the further development of our platform and the selection of partners. CAIA, as a continuously learning platform for proactive, personalized and automated customer care on all communication channels, is ideal for this approach.”

 

About connectAI

connectAI is an ultra-modern, AI-based omnichannel solution that focuses on providing intelligent and automated communication to customers of large companies. We are a highly innovative and international company headquartered in Germany offering state-of-the-art B2B solutions. Our sophisticated artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms create digital assistants that support our customers’ customers through call center automation, chat, email processing, letter recognition, etc. The created digital assistants are constantly learning on the job and improving all the time. While doing so, we enable seamless integration into existing IT environments and continually improve to meet new service standards.

 

 

powercloud forms strategic alliance with Advizzo

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  • Platform powered by behavioural & data science

 

(powercloud, ALPHARETTA, GA, November 23, 2021) – powercloud, the world’s fastest growing billing system in the energy and utilities industry, announced today a partnership agreement with Advizzo, one of the nation’s top behavioral analytics and data companies for utilities.

This new alliance will bring Advizzo platform together with powercloud’s service offerings as it seeks to help North American energy and water companies unlock new sources of value creation and deploy new user experiences towards decarbonization. Advizzo is widely recognized by leveraging Behavioral Sciences to transform multiple dimensions of customer data—such as energy and water consumption, demographics, and user interactions—into deep, accurate and actionable insights.

“While energy and utility companies say that they are charting a path for the future, their back-of-office operations are stuck in neutral,” said Steven Dawson, Vice President & Country Manager for powercloud North America. “Working together with Advizzo, powercloud is charting a course to put more power in customers’ hands, when and where they want it.”

Dawson said that Advizzo will be offered as part of powercloud’s powerApp Store, and offers another example how powercloud is transforming the industry by integrating behavioral data insights into existing utility workflows.

“powercloud embraces the same principles of innovation and Behavioural design-thinking ahead, as we are both focused on digitally transforming how utility companies and their customers access data insights,” said Julien Lancha, Chief Customer Officer of Advizzo. “Advizzo constantly evolves with partners who share our vision of redefining utilities’ customer experience. We find new ways of working together to drive more sustainable growth for everyone.”

Dawson said that Advizzo and powercloud will introduce its alliance more detailed to North American utility professionals during it’s upcoming Webinar in January, serving the electric, gas and water/wastewater utility sectors. The webinar will showcase efficiencies and innovations that have helped energy and water companies across Europe optimize their financial resources. It will give a view of what companies in the United States should expect to experience next. Don’t miss this opportunity and register to our upcoming webinar soon.

 

 

About Advizzo (www.advizzo.com)

Advizzo is one the fastest growing behavioral science SaaS company worldwide. Advizzo transforms the way customers think about their energy and water consumption, and helps utilities reduce carbon emissions. Advizzo is currently processing billions of data points and serves almost 3,000,000 households globally whilst enabling customer-led engagement to meet a wide spectrum of decarbonization challenges. With significant experience in both utility and software industries, the founders sought to combine Data Science, Cloud Computing and Behavioral Science to solve water and energy issues faced by utility companies. Our vision: We believe in a world where everyone can use their data better to consume the energy and water they need more sustainably, as well as reducing their Carbon footprint. Our mission: We use Behavioral Science to enrich people’s lives, using insights from their own household data through their energy and water providers. This will change the way people think and behave towards electricity, gas and water consumption.

 

 

powercloud announces strategic partnership with Gorilla

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  • New B2B partner for German SaaS platform
  • Calculate prices for industrial and commercial customers in seconds
  • Solution will be part of the powerApp Store

 

(powercloud, Offenburg, 01/11/2021) – The new collaboration between powercloud and the Belgian company Gorilla aims at a powerful B2B solution for utilities: The partners want to jointly develop a new powerApp for the powerApp Store, with which utilities can significantly improve their B2B positioning.

 

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“The timing for this collaboration is ideal,” explains Ruben van den Bossche, founder and CEO of Gorilla. “On the one hand, we see a turbulent market, which increases the pressure on utilities to act. On the other hand, powerful technical solutions are now available to manage and evaluate large data streams. Many business processes can be optimized in this way. This is exactly what we are doing with our SaaS platform, which performs complex calculations at top speed and without errors. Our goal now is to seamlessly integrate this solution into powercloud as a co-product.” As a result, users will benefit from a whole bundle of Gorilla features. They range from meter data management and short- and long-term consumption forecasts to post-calculation and pricing of new products. The latter is done, for example, on the basis of comprehensive industry and internal data sources. The enormous computing power behind Gorilla is impressively demonstrated by their portfolio evaluation solution: To calculate the market development of a utility’s product portfolio, the system can evaluate the data from 100,000 electricity meters in a few minutes – and then create an accurate recosting and forecast for the next five years.

Overall, Gorilla has an impressive track record. The intuitive SaaS platform is used by utilities in the UK, New Zealand and Australia. The specialists always aim to connect their solution to industry-specific systems such as powercloud – where large streams of data occur that can be turned into sustainable business value and success if they are comprehensively analyzed and their use automated. “We are very confident that with the new solution we can sustainably improve the positioning of utilities in the market”, explains Thayabaran Thanabalasingham, Head of Partner Sales at powercloud. “At the same time, we are adding an important component to the functionality of powercloud. Together, we will be able to offer comprehensive B2B solutions in the future, covering both back-end data processing and front-end functions for customer communication.”

 

About Gorilla
Gorilla provides data-driven solutions for pricing, forecasting, and portfolio reporting to enable automation and unparalleled control over margins, risks and costs. The technology is focused on adding long-lasting flexibility, speed, and performance, with the ability to handle large volumes of data and allowing the customer to utilise data and algorithms in flexible ways. Offering solutions for both residential and industrial markets, Gorilla is one of powercloud’s first powerapp partner for the B2B market.

 

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