NSTAR Powers Operational Efficiency with Data Integration Solutions from Ascential Software
December 13 2004 - 8:30AM
PR Newswire (US)
NSTAR Powers Operational Efficiency with Data Integration Solutions
from Ascential Software Ascential QualityStage and Ascential
DataStage Help Energy Delivery Company Improve Business Performance
WESTBORO, Mass., Dec. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ascential
Software Corporation (NASDAQ:ASCL), the enterprise data integration
leader, today announced that NSTAR (NYSE:NST), Massachusetts'
largest investor-owned electric and gas utility, is using Ascential
Software enterprise data integration solutions for projects
involving customer and geographic data quality and an enterprise
data warehouse. These IT initiatives have helped NSTAR improve
customer satisfaction levels by generating rapid service outage
analyses. In turn, NSTAR can provide timely outage information to
customers. NSTAR is an energy delivery company primarily engaged in
the transmission and distribution of energy. The company serves
approximately 1.4 million customers in Massachusetts, including
approximately 1.1 million electricity customers in 81 communities
and 300,000 gas customers in 51 communities. Ascential
QualityStage(TM) is the foundation of NSTAR's data quality
management infrastructure. With Ascential QualityStage, customer
location information is transformed into reference data for
dispatchers to analyze when addressing service outages. Dispatchers
use this transformed data to view customer calls on a graphical
overlay of NSTAR's distribution network, and provide customers with
more information on where the problem is occurring and how long it
will take to restore power in the affected areas. NSTAR uses
Ascential DataStage(TM) to transform data and build its enterprise
data warehouse to support the information needs of the entire
company. This includes standardizing customer address information
and generating data metrics for executive analysis. By leveraging
the Ascential Software solution, the company maintains accuracy,
consistency and trust in its data across the organization, so
business decisions are made in confidence. "Reliability and cost
are the most important factors when it comes to meeting the needs
of our customers," said Mannie Goldberg, director, Data Resource
Management, NSTAR. "With the Ascential Software data integration
solution, we have succeeded in faster identification of outage
areas, helping decrease operational costs and increase customer
satisfaction." "Consolidation and globalization in the utilities
industry drive companies such as NSTAR to continue to improve
information sharing and establish reliable data processes," said
Thracy Varvoglis, executive director of industry solutions at
Ascential Software. "By partnering with Ascential Software, NSTAR
has developed a repeatable data quality process that will be
realized across the organization." Ascential QualityStage, a core
component of Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite(TM), provides a
powerful framework for developing and deploying data investigation,
standardization, enrichment, probabilistic matching and
survivorship operations. For use in transactional, operational, or
analytic applications, in batch and real-time, the same services
are seamlessly deployed to facilitate data validation, cleansing or
master data entity consolidation for customers, locations and
products. Ascential DataStage, another component of Ascential
Enterprise Integration Suite, enables companies to tightly
integrate enterprise information, regardless of the sources,
targets and timeframes. Whether an organization is building an
enterprise data warehouse to support the information needs of the
entire company, building a "real-time" data warehouse, or
integrating multiple source systems to support strategic business
systems such as CRM, SCM, ERP, BI/analytics and e-business,
Ascential DataStage helps enable the success of enterprise data
integration initiatives. About NSTAR As Massachusetts' largest
investor-owned electric and gas utility, NSTAR has been
transmitting and delivering electricity and natural gas for more
than 100 years. We serve nearly 1.4 million residential and
business customers in over 100 Eastern Massachusetts communities.
NSTAR's regulated subsidiaries have more than 3,200 employees.
NSTAR transmits and delivers electricity to more than one million
customers in the City of Boston, and 80 other communities in
Eastern and Central Massachusetts. NSTAR also delivers natural gas
to more than 300,000 homes in 51 communities. For more information
about NSTAR visit http://www.nstaronline.com/. About Ascential
Software Ascential Software Corporation (NASDAQ:ASCL) is the leader
in enterprise data integration. Customers and partners worldwide
use the Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite to confidently
transform data into accurate, reliable and complete business
information to improve operational performance and decision-making
across every critical business dimension. Our comprehensive
end-to-end solutions provide on demand data integration
complemented by our professional services, industry expertise, and
methodologies. Ascential Software is headquartered in Westboro,
Mass., and has more than 3,000 customers and partners globally
across such industries as financial services and banking,
insurance, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, consumer packaged
goods, telecommunications and government. For more information call
1-800-966-9875 (508-366.3888 if calling from outside the US or
Canada) or visit the Ascential Software website at
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and decision-making, the ability of Ascential Software's products
to provide a powerful framework for developing and deploying data
investigation, standardization, enrichment, probabilistic matching
and survivorship operations; the ability of Ascential Software's
products to facilitate data validation, cleansing or master data
entity consolidation for customers, locations and products and the
ability of Ascential Software's products to integrate enterprise
information, regardless of the sources, targets and timeframes. The
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DATASOURCE: Ascential Software Corporation CONTACT: Chas Kielt of
Ascential Software Corporation, +1-508-599-7256, ; or Mary Keith of
Porter Novelli, +1-617-897-8281, Web site:
http://www.ascentialsoftware.com/ http://www.nstaronline.com/
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