Utility Manager™ Server
Reduce Your Utility Costs and Consumption with LPB Software Solutions
Overview
The Utility Manager™ Server is an enterprise-level software application that provides an efficient way to process and pay utility bills, and to track the usage and cost of energy, as well as other utility services for your entire organization.
Utility Manager Server provides you with the information you need to take charge of your utility usage and costs. The software helps you understand, analyze and compare usage at multiple sites, evaluate billing and rates from your utility providers, and streamline your payment process.
Efficiently Process and Pay Utility Bills
Cost Effective – Utility Manager Server can substantially reduce the cost of processing your utility bills. The software design has been refined over the course of the past 15 years to eliminate unnecessary keystrokes and to provide flexible invoice data import functions that can dramatically reduce data entry costs.
Accurate – Capturing accurate data on hundreds or thousands of utility bills a month can be challenging. Utility Manager Server automatically identifies a variety of billing problems and data entry errors with a comprehensive set of validation checks, audit reports, and batch data entry controls. The software highlights excessive usage and cost, incorrect meter readings, duplicate bills, incorrect rates, and a variety of other potential error conditions.
On-Time – Utility Manager Server can help reduce or eliminate late fees and shut-off notices by identifying overdue and missing bills.
Easily Share Utility Information
Flexibility – Utility Manager Server is designed to meet the needs of a variety of user groups within your organization, including accounting, facility management, and energy management. Although these users may have different skill levels and data requirements, the software provides quick and easy access to just the information they need, without a lot of information they don’t.
Availability – Utility Manager Server makes utility consumption and cost data readily available throughout your organization. Any user with a connection to your organization’s network, can easily access the information they need. Utility Manager Server can be paired with our web-based reporting tool, Utility Manager Online to provide secure access to information via the internet using a standard web browser.
Security - Access to the Utility Manager Server database is controlled by a system of login names and passwords. Individual users may be granted access to specific program functions.
Other Features
Forecasting & Budgeting – Utility Manager Server enables you to easily create, update, and manage utility forecasts and budgets based on current and historical costs and usage.
ENERGY STAR Certification – As an ENERGY STAR® Partner, LBP Energy Management has years of experience working with the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) energy performance rating system. Utility Manager Server facilitates the certification and benchmarking process with an automatic data upload to the ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager system.
Carbon Emissions – Many businesses and government agencies are participating in programs aimed at reducing energy use and emissions. Utility Manager Server provides you with a set of reports to support your efforts to understand and manage your organization’s greenhouse gas emissions. These reports quantify the CO2 emissions that result from your consumption of energy, identify opportunities for reduction, and measure reductions over time
Utility Manager Server Capacity
- Supports tracking of all utility services, including electricity, natural gas, propane, steam, water, sewer, refuse, and recycling.
- Tracks over 5,000 sites.
- Tracks over 50,000 accounts or meters.
- Tracks over 5,000 vendors.
- Stores an unlimited number of years of historical data.