Why MultiSpeak?
MultiSpeak is important to both the user and the vendor communities.
For utilities MultiSpeak offers the following advantages:
- Integration streamlines business processes, improving employee efficiency and reducing costs. MultiSpeak makes it easier to achieve a high level of application integration.
- Integration, facilitated by MultiSpeak, makes it possible to provide more timely and more accurate customer service.
- Minimizes the need for expensive and maintenance-intensive custom interfaces.
- Enables utilities to focus on “best-of-breed” software without the fear of lack of integration.
- Reduces the deployment time and risk in purchasing new automation applications.
- Reduces the cost and hassle of changing from one application to another of the same type or upgrading to a new version of the same type of software.
For software vendors MultiSpeak has the following advantages:
- Minimizes the need for developing multiple interfaces with other vendors’ software, thus reducing time spent in developing and maintaining custom interfaces.
- Reducing interface development and maintenance efforts releases programmers to improve existing products or develop new offerings.
- Eliminating the need for custom interfaces reduces complexity and time to market for new products.
- Standardizing integration reduces support headaches.
- Increasing the willingness of utilities to invest in new applications by helping assure them that integration problems are minimized.