Acorn Signs Constellation NewEnergy

Business Wire, Jan 8, 2009

HOUSTON -- Acorn, the preeminent resource for cost and profitability management solutions, has been selected by Constellation NewEnergy to enhance its customer profitability analysis. Constellation NewEnergy will utilize Acorn's market-leading Performance Analyzer platform for understanding the costs to serve, acquire and retain customers.

"Expanding our understanding of the profitability associated with each customer is essential to determine the appropriate level of service and pricing for customers," said Gabrielle Melka, CFO and SVP, Customer Supply Group. "Acorn Systems provides a comprehensive, cost-effective and manageable solution for addressing this, offers us results in the timeframe that best suits our needs, and has the domain expertise to ensure a successful implementation."

As Acorn's flagship platform, Performance Analyzer combines a powerful and flexible business modeling application with a highly scalable calculation engine and a user-friendly, web-based interface. Acorn Performance Analyzer delivers enterprise-wide performance measurement across every aspect of an organization's revenues, costs, net profits and resource capacity utilization.

"As an energy retailer serving thousands of businesses in North America, Constellation NewEnergy needs to survey a complex landscape when analyzing performance," said Alex Fernandez, President of Acorn. "Performance Analyzer will give them a roadmap of where they are making money and why, empowering them to make better strategic decisions, more efficiently service customers and ultimately positively impact their bottom line."

Constellation NewEnergy, a subsidiary of Constellation Energy, is a leading retail energy supplier serving commercial and industrial customers in North America. The company markets electricity and natural gas, delivering about 15,000 MWs of peak electric load and 360 billion cu. ft. of natural gas annually.

About Acorn

Acorn (www.acornsys.com) is the leading provider of profit improvement solutions for growing revenues profitably, reducing costs, and improving operational efficiencies. Over the past 12 years, Acorn has delivered profit improvement results for Global 2000 companies in the Financial Services, Retail, Consumer Products, Manufacturing, Distribution, Logistics and Services sectors. Utilizing a trademarked technology and proven methodology, Acorn reveals profit opportunities across the enterprise, including customers, channels, segments, products, vendors, and processes. Acorn's unique approach enables clients to make continuous, fact-based decisions to improve their bottom line and Earnings per Share (EPS), yielding over $5 billion in profit improvements and creating billions in new shareholder value.