New England Gas Company awards one year contract to Core Energy Solutions

Deal to allow for the enhancement and support of mission critical LDC Transaction Management software

Houston, TX (PRWEB) January 14, 2004 --Core Energy Solutions LLC (CES), a premier provider of high quality, cost-effective, and efficient software solutions and services, today announced the signing of a one year contract with New England Gas Company (NEGASCO), a division of Southern Union Company (NYSE:SUG). The agreement calls for CES to provide enhancement and support services to the LDC Manager software used by NEGASCO to account for gas usage and bill its customers.

The decision to select CES is based on the recognition of the total business and technical knowledge combined with our commitment to providing quality solutions" said Firoz Jhaver, founder and partner at CES. NEGASCO needed to ensure that business processes and billing times were not hampered by malfunctions in the software or user errors. By utilizing CES, they will have the support needed to continue smooth operations of their business software and processes. CES e-business expertise was an added attraction for NEGASCO leveraging it for web-enabling certain aspects of the business. CES will provide the above mentioned services from its offices in Houston to the NEGASCO offices located in Providence, Rhode Island.

About Core Energy Solutions LLC
Core Energy Solutions LLC is a premier software and services provider focused on delivering high quality, cost-effective, & efficient solutions to its customers. The company has just released its HeadStart.NET(TM) 2.0 product which is built using the .Net framework from Microsoft®. CoreCentral.NET(TM) 2.0, an integrated contracts and global counter-party management solution, is due for release shortly. CES employs business and technical expertise to deliver a wide range of solutions which include e-commerce, wireless applications, enterprise application integration (EAI), customer relationship management (CRM), custom application design and development, maintenance and support of leading energy transaction management packages, business intelligence, and web-based decision support systems. More information about the company may be obtained at their web site http://www.core-energy.com or via e-mail to info@core-energy.com

HeadStart.NET and CoreCentral.NET are trademarks or registered trademarks of Core Energy Solutions LLC. All other product and company names and marks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners and are mentioned for identification purposes only.
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