Many vendors, such as
Assistly, DropBox, JigSaw, LinkedIn, Pivotal Labs, Skype, and hundreds
more, use the 'freemium' pricing approach. These vendors offer an
internet-based software application that is free and designed for
widespread adoption. This note highlights two, Noesis Energy and Energy
Deck, that bring this approach to energy management software.
These vendors generate
revenue from customers that choose to pay for additional features. This
approach provides customers with a way to use a product for free
(often for years) before purchasing more advanced features.
This popular approach has now come to energy management software, which is one part of the Groom Energy Enterprise SmartGrid framework,
a framework that allows energy managers to understand the
interoperability of hardware and software systems for visibility,
control, and management integration for enery of a single or multiple
sites.
Noesis Energy and Energy Deck
are two start-ups we have been following that are using a fremium model
for software products that help companies with visibility and
management integration. Neither product actually controls equipment or
devices.
Other vendors, such as
EnergyCap and Hara, also offer limited-time, free trials, but neither
offers a free version that can be used for years.
Noesis Energy
Founded in Austin, Texas in 2011 by serial entrepreneur Scott Harmon, Noesis Energy
raised $14.5 million in venture financing. Noesis Energy has been in
beta this summer with a free set of services, and plans to eventually
offer premium services this fall. Free services include software tools,
such as facility energy tracking by building; project tracking and
information services, such as a database for energy-efficiency
incentives; benchmarking information; and best practices. Premium
services include advanced energy analysis and financial models, for
which pricing has not yet been announced.
Energy Deck
Before founding U.K.-based Energy Deck,
CEO Benjamin Kott spent five years at Google. Now he's bringing the
Google approach to software application design and customer adoption to
energy management. The free version of the product enables small and
medium-size organizations (and even residential users) to track energy
use for one building and up to three meters. Other features include
project tracking and benchmarking. Pricing is shown on the website and
is based on the number of buildings, meters, projects, as well as other
factors. The initial pricing level starts at $45 per month.
Each of these vendors
offers promising software products to help facility and energy managers
better understand and reduce energy costs.
3 comments:
These are really some good quality software products which will in turn give you good services.
Yes its true. Its best and useful energy management software. This type of software provide best services and facility for our work.
Agreed that energy management software is very useful. My company has tried using a number of different IT management solutions over the past few months to meet our energy monitoring needs. So far it looks like AssetCentral is doing to the best job for us.
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