As a result of the deregulated energy market structure and operating regulations, the company was dependent upon external sources, primarily the regulated utilities, for the bulk of its customer operations information. Information such as customer usage, billing amounts, payments, energy profiles, even who their customers were, was ultimately determined by the utility.
The company needed an Account Data Repository to gain control and utilization of their data to enable day-to-day operations and to provide business intelligence/decision support on an on-going basis.