12. June 2009 by admin.

As technology advances, new opportunities emerge for revenue that were not considered when the billing system was selected.  A Washington County sewer utility found a way to get rid of some of its most troublesome pollutants: sell them to gardeners.  Clean Water Services installed a system at its Durham treatment plant that pulls phosphorus and ammonia from sewage waste and processes them into fertilizer pellets that are then sold to nurseries. The system, which began operating last month, is the first of its kind in the United States, and it’s drawing some big-name attention.  Let’s hope their billing system can handle it.

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12. June 2009 by admin.

Software-as-a-Service is touted as the Next Big Thing.  But can the delivery channel (the Internet) cope?  In his recent article “The Internet sky really is falling“, the president of Nemertes Research argues that “For service providers, the Internet is about to become a lot more expensive to deploy and operate; for users, the Internet is about to become a lot less reliable and a lot more expensive (and balkanized). It gets worse: There’s no clear fix. Next-generation Internet projects have come and gone over the years, with little real success. Several projects are underway, but they’re nowhere near complete — and there’s no consensus that any of them will actually work”.

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