Optiron

Optiron Corporation is the leading Web-enabled business-to-business Application Service Provider (ASP) of next generation billing and customer relationship management solutions to the deregulating energy industry.

Through its feature product, the Readi System® (Retail Energy Automated Data Integration), Optiron uses the power of the Internet to deliver advanced software solutions that enable its clients to conquer competition in the estimated $270 billion deregulating energy markets. Beyond energy markets, Optiron's unique approach to system design makes the Readi System a powerful billing and customer care tool for solving the complexities inherent in the water, telecom and cable industries.

The Readi System is the foremost tool for billing and customer care solutions for non-utility products and services also. As a result, Optiron is the only true facilitator of the desired convergence of consumer markets that crosses all utility commodities and non-utility products and services. With Readi, the entire customer relationship is managed within one integrated system solution allowing our clients to become leaders in their energy-related industries by our unique approach to:

• one-to-one marketing with customers, including targeted up-selling and cross-selling
  
• maximizing internal efficiency in delivering electronic bill presentment and payment and customer query on usage patterns and account status.

Developed in early 1998, the Readi System has been licensed by Optiron Corporation to three major customers: a Pittsburgh-based $1 billion gas utility; First Energy, Inc., a Canton, Ohio-based $6 billion electric utility; and CNG Retail Services Corporation, the retail marketing affiliate of Consolidated Natural Gas Company (CNG), an $8 billion natural gas utility.

The principals of Optiron have over 35 combined years of energy-related experience and 25 combined years of technology development experience. We are pioneers in developing and implementing cost-effective information management solutions, client/server-based applications, and project and resource management. With such stellar energy and general business expertise leading the effort, and with a best-in-class product, Optiron is positioned to be the undisputed leader in providing Web-enabled retail billing and customer relationship management solutions across all consumer-focused industries.