Press Release
Urjanet Utility Data Service Earns Top Product of the Year Award from Energy Manager Today
Distinguished panel of judges recognizes Urjanet for its unique ability to automatically acquire disparate bill data from thousands of utilities worldwide
ATLANTA — November 30, 2015 — Urjanet – the company that makes the world’s utility data easily accessible and usable – today announced that Urjanet Utility Data Service received a Top Product of the Year Award in the Energy Manager Today Awards. Urjanet Utility Data Service is considered by judges to be an exemplary product for its innovation and ability to solve the fundamental challenges associated with utility data acquisition, often the first step in managing energy consumption and environmental impacts.
One judge asserted, “Urjanet’s platform really solves the problem of handling a large amount of utility data. Energy managers can forget about manually collecting utility invoices and keying them in manually, which can be long and tedious. I see this as a great transition in the billing and energy analysis space.” Another added, “Urjanet’s innovative platform collects and delivers thousands of utility data points worldwide by combining disruptive technology, which can be employed by energy solutions providers and industries for energy management.”
The Energy Manager Today Awards is a program recognizing excellence in products and services that provide companies with significant energy management benefits.
A panel of independent judges from Accenture, CapitalOne, City of Alexandria VA, COX Enterprises Inc., General Motors, MUFG Union Bank, IBM, Skidmore Owings & Merritt, US Department of Health & Human Services, USG Corporation, and Wellborn Cabinet Inc. selected the winners.
“Urjanet’s winning the Top Product of the Year Award from Energy Manager Today is yet another testament to the company’s ability to drive innovation and provide first-class products to the market,” remarked Bob Bittner, Senior Manager of Partnership Development at Dude Solutions, one of Urjanet’s customers.
With rapid advancements and a continuous rate of change in the field, energy professionals have an increasingly difficult time selecting products to help their companies increase energy savings and improve energy performance. The Energy Manager Today Awards help companies select the right products, which have been vetted by experts and that are based on the latest innovations and technological advances.
“We were impressed by both the number of submissions and the caliber of the entries in this first year of the Energy Manager Today Awards. The winners showed an amazing variety in the way energy reductions and savings can be achieved. Energy management is a cutting-edge field in which to be operating today; the winners here prove that innovations are opening up vast new areas of potential for improvement, and that companies are capitalizing on those opportunities in exciting and impressive ways,” says Paul Nastu, publisher of Energy Manager Today.
Urjanet Utility Data Service is an automated, cloud-based data subscription service that provides bill data from over 2,600 utilities. The service provides firms with a single source of billing data that scales across thousands of accounts over many geographic territories globally. Urjanet Utility Data Service integrates seamlessly with most third-party business and energy management applications.
ABOUT ENERGY MANAGER TODAY
Energy Manager Today is the leading daily trade publication keeping corporate executives – those responsible for procuring and managing energy – fully informed. The publication includes daily news stories written by in-house staff writers and editors, a daily email newsletter sent to an extensive opt-in email list, webinars, research reports, videos, podcasts, a white paper library, an awards program, and other content geared toward energy directors and managers. It is published by Business Sector Media.
ABOUT THE ENERGY MANAGER TODAY AWARDS
In its first year, the Energy Manager Today Awards recognize excellence in products/services and projects that provide companies with energy benefits and increase the bottom line. Scores were determined by a panel of independent experts actively working in the field of energy management.
ABOUT URJANET
Urjanet’s mission is to provide the world with easy access to automated utility data. Our cloud-based platform connects directly to utilities to seamlessly acquire and normalize disparate utility bill and interval data. The processed data is delivered directly to industry-leading business applications.
Public and private organizations across the world use Urjanet data to achieve sustainability goals and reduce energy consumption and cost. Urjanet is rapidly becoming the global standard for utility data and powers applications from the leading energy and sustainability solutions providers.
Urjanet is a privately-held company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. For more information, visit https://urjanet.com.
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Urjanet Contact:
Adam Bowers
Marketing Communications Manager, Urjanet
adam.bowers@qa.urjanet.com
(774) 226-9377