Our Energy Chooses SoftSmiths

Houston, TX. – December 18, 2009 – SoftSmiths, Inc., a leading energy software solutions and services company, today announced that Our Energy, a retail electricity provider (REP) serving all deregulated electricity areas in Texas, selected SoftSmiths ERCOT Forecaster, a Software-as-a-Services (SaaS) forecasting application for ERCOT REPs.

Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Our Energy services residential, commercial and industrial customers. The SoftSmiths ERCOT Forecasting services will help Our Energy streamline the forecast process and reduce the time spent on data gathering, analysis and administration, thereby improving efficiency and accuracy.

Based on SoftSmiths’ proven SoftSmiths Market-ERCOT platform, SoftSmiths ERCOT Forecaster is an easy-to-use Software-as-a-Services (SaaS) forecasting application that enables REPs to automatically download and present ERCOT Forecast and Backcast information in user-ready format. Users can compare Forecast and Backcast data with settlement level load extracts. SoftSmiths ERCOT Forecaster allows users to set up ‘What If’ scenarios based on different customer profile counts and export data into Microsoft Excel for additional analysis.  

SoftSmiths’ Software-as-a-Services (SaaS) delivery model provides an automated, web-based environment that helps customers to simplify implementation, accelerate time-to-market and gain ongoing processing efficiencies, while requiring minimal IT support.

About SoftSmiths

SoftSmiths, Inc. delivers critical electronic energy trading and operations solutions and services that enable energy industry participants to enhance profitability and reliability in the competitive marketplace. SoftSmiths' proven solutions and in-depth knowledge of the industry's business practices allow its customers to automate manual processes, eliminate redundancies, and increase business visibility across the enterprise to allow faster decision making and more informed decisions, thereby improving profitability, operational efficiencies and cash flow. The company has been successfully delivering e-business solutions to energy service companies since 1997.

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Website:  www.softsmiths.com

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