Providing electricity and water services to more than 360,000 customers in Jacksonville and parts of three adjacent counties, JEA must produce nearly five million bills, process approximately four million payments, respond to almost 1.5 million telephone calls and perform half a million field services at customer locations annually. Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing helps JEA effectively and efficiently manage this high volume of billing and service transactions.

"Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing exceeded our expectations for performance in just the first few days of production," said Marlene Murphy-Roach, vice president of customer relationships, JEA. "Early results indicate that the deployment was, by all standards, successful and our users are adapting rapidly to the new system. The partnership between our business and technology teams as well as BearingPoint - our management and technology consulting partner - and Oracle has proven to be a successful model for our future customer information system upgrades."

Accelerating Billing Processes and Improving Customer Service
The largest community-owned utility in Florida and the eighth largest in the United States, JEA is committed to providing customers with prompt and accurate billing, as well as superior service. With Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing, JEA is now able to balance cash drawers every day at the end of a shift within minutes. With Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing, customer service representatives now have a 360-degree view of their customers - allowing them to more quickly and effectively track, manage and resolve customer queries.

Because it is standards-based, Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing also integrates well with JEA's field service application, improving visibility into real-time customer data and allowing JEA to reduce the duration of customer outages.

Also, by using Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing, JEA was able to leverage the application's rich out-of-the-box functionality, restructuring nearly all of the features created by more than 300 baseline customizations in the company's legacy system. This allowed JEA to eliminate the expense and maintenance of several auxiliary applications including the cashiering and loan billing programs, as well as limit the need for additional costly customizations.

"JEA has a long-standing commitment to providing outstanding service to its growing customer base," said Quentin Grady, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Utilities. "Our best-in-class customer information system is designed to help leading utilities like JEA deliver on service objectives by improving visibility into customer data and processing payments more quickly - while at the same time, reducing IT costs. We look forward to continuing to build our partnership with JEA as it leverages our application suite to realize new efficiencies and enhance performance across the entire organization."

About Oracle Utilities
Oracle Utilities delivers the proven software applications that help utilities achieve competitive advantage, business performance excellence and a lower total cost of technology ownership. Oracle Utilities integrates industry-specific customer care and billing, network management, work and asset management, mobile workforce management and meter data management applications with the capabilities of Oracle's industry-leading enterprise applications, business intelligence tools, middleware and database technologies. Oracle Utilities enables its customers to adapt more nimbly to market deregulation, meet ever-evolving customer demands, and deliver on commitments to environmental conservation. For more information, visit http://www.oracle.com/industries/utilities.

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