Partners
Industry Partners
Erie Thames Services
Erie Thames Services is a leading provider of hosted Back Office Solutions for utilities, tailoring the NorthStar products to meet the individual needs of each of their customers for CIS, FIS and OMS solutions. With their detailed understanding of the Ontario electricity market and the needs of LDCs to overcome market challenges, ETS continues to expand and improve its service offering and product suite. The ETS customers enjoy Best in Class Solutions and Services at very cost effective price points. Erie Thames' strengths lie with their people as well as their partnerships with companies such as NorthStar.
Olameter Inc.
Olameter is a leading, independent meter service company in North America, currently servicing 3 million meters located across 130 communities. NorthStar chose to partner with Olameter to offer a full range of telemetry and back-office systems to utilities (electric, gas, water), including billing, AMR, data collection, aggregation and automated site management services.
Application Partners
Cognos
Cognos, the global leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, provides world-class Business Intelligence and enterprise planning software and services to help companies plan, understand and manage financial and operational performance. NorthStar supports the Cognos 8 BI platform enabling delivery of managed reporting for consistent, fact-based decision-making.
Dataprose Billing Solutions
DataProse Billing Solutions and NorthStar have partnered to provide statement printing and mailing services. DataProse's exceptional service provides our clients with an improved method of distributing billing statements, saving them time and money.
Loris Technology, Inc.
Incorporated in 1980 and a NorthStar Computer Systems partner for many years, Loris Technologies Inc. is a leading innovator in the development of document imaging and document management software systems-helping clients, big and small, compete more effectively in a global market place. Loris has an extensive number of deployments with NorthStar users, addressing needs such as e-billing, customer service, finance, purchasing, compliance and general document archival and management-most featuring two-way integration with the NorthStar software platforms.
Tele-Works, Inc.
Tele-Works, Inc. provides interactive voice and fax services powered by the Internet and web-based technologies to leverage evolving online services. A partnership between NorthStar and Tele-Works, Inc. provides a tight integration between your back-office processes and all points of customer contact.
NowDocs
To meet the demands of organizations for powerful and cost effective document delivery solutions, NowDocs offers a flexible suite of products which integrate into both modern and legacy systems alike. From banks to government, hospitals to school districts, manufacturers to distributors, our clients rely on the standard of quality NowDocs has pioneered in secure and intelligent document delivery, high volume printing, secure check systems, and electronic forms.
System Partners
Better Results, Inc.
Better Results provide products and services to the multi-value database community. The NorthStar / Better Results relationship offers desktop integration and connectivity tools, system conversions, and application development tools.
Four J's
Four J's Development Tools is a leading provider of development tools and deployment infrastructure for traditional, e-commerce and wireless business applications. Our partnership with Four J's provides a Business Development suite (BDS) that facilitates the delivery of our current graphical user interface.
IBM
NorthStar has partnered with IBM to provide information management solutions that are open, scalable, manageable and fully extensible. One solutions being the IBM Informix® Dynamic Server (IDS)-the best-of-breed, general purpose, mission-critical OLTP database for e-business and the Informix Standard Engine (SE), a UNIX®, Linux and Microsoft® Windows®-based embeddable database server.
AudioTel
RemitPlus, a division of AudioTel Corporation, has partnered with NorthStar to provide a remittance processing software solution designed to capture checks and coupons for automatic deposit. It's perfect for city and government offices, but that's not all. RemitPlus also credits customer payments, archives check images, updates accounts receivable and batches all checks electronically using a server-based module that deposits directly to the bank. This check scanning solution eliminates most key entry, potential errors and speeds cash flow. Simply put, it's like bringing the Bank Teller in-house.
Online
Online is the Utility Industry's only "Total Solution" for the prevention and recovery of bad debt. With their proprietary Exchange data, the ONLINE Utility Exchange is the overwhelming choice of utility companies nationwide providing them with new applicant screening, Red Flag compliance, and credit risk and bad debt management solutions.
And, while most credit screening companies stop after the application is generated, the ONLINE Utility Exchange goes a step further. Their ONLINE Collections service leverages the Exchange data to achieve industry-leading recovery rates.
CollectorSolutions, Inc.
CSI, a preferred NorthStar partner, is an eBusiness company specializing in the processing, management and reconciliation of ACH (eCheck) and Credit Card transactions. Backed by a renowned customer service team, CSI's proven PCI compliant technology suite enables customers to execute rapid-to-market deployment cycles resulting in enterprise ePayment applications that are complete, correct, and reliable.
For inquiries, please contact Robert Cothran
robc@collectorsolutions.com
866 756-6041
Paymentus
Paymentus is a preferred next generation bill payment service provider for NorthStar Computers. Paymentus Corporation provides industry leading simplicity and innovation for enterprise bill payments supporting utilities and government. The Paymentus Real-Time Bill Payment platform is the most comprehensive, enterprise bill payment solution providing integrated online, IVR, auto-pay, agent-assisted, home banking and mobile payment channels, with no upfront or ongoing costs. Please contact Albert Yi, ayi@paymentus.com for more information.
Aegisys
Aegisys offers business integration services to the growing ExclusiveNET NorthStar community which forges the Aegisys redundant Data Centers to your location anywhere there is an Internet connection making it appear as if they are in the "next room". Aegisys empowers your business with infused HOT SITE Disaster Recovery, real-time support with 24x7x365 LIVE monitoring services, database performance management and virtualized hosting for the diverse NorthStar software offerings through their secure 3rd party audited green networks.
For more information on how Aegisys' comprehensive IT services can deliver dedicated or supplementary remote support and service solutions DIRECT to your enterprise, please contact Ken Hayes or Rick Beyers or visit Aegisys at http://northstar.aegisys.com.
