EnergyCAP Enterprise vs. FASER Feature Comparison Guide

Bill Tracking

Track any type of utility bill (any commodity, energy or non-energy)

Yes

Yes

Track any level of bill details (taxes, various charges, KW demand)

Yes

Yes

Bill entry screen layout looks like actual bill

Yes

Yes

Bill entry screen shows past history with tables and graphs

Yes

Yes

“Fat finger” tests to catch obvious keying errors (select bill entry “audits” from a list of 40+ available tests)

Yes, user-defined

Yes, fixed

Provisions for complex unbundled/deregulated accounts with multiple vendors

Yes

Partial

Rate schedules can recreate and verify accuracy of bills, wizard to easily create simple to complex rate schedules

Yes

Yes

Bill audits to spot potential problems

Yes – User-defined

Yes – Adjustable

User-defined work flow process for optional supervisor approval of bills

Yes

No

Bill ‘Batch Entry’ with batch control totals

Yes

Yes

Flexible interface with A/P systems; use EnergyCAP as a “smart” front-end to the bill payment process

Yes

Yes

Scanned image of each bill can be retrieved and viewed

Yes

No

Tracks Interval Data (15-minute ‘raw’ data from large electric meters)

Yes

No

Budgets – Create and manage multiple budgets, print reports

Yes

Yes

Submeter Readings – establish reading routes, enter readings manually or via upload  of data from RouteStar or text file

Yes

Yes

Simple or complex formulas to split usage and costs in shared facilities using Virtual Meters:  example:  Split electric bill to two agencies 60%-40%

Yes

Yes

Assign costs to submeters and virtual meters via rate schedules

Yes

Yes

Tenant and customer/reimbursable account billing using rate schedules

Yes

Yes

EDI 810 bill entry – Electronic Data Interchange formats accepted as well as CSV flat file for bill import

Yes

Yes

Accrual functions for month and year-end accounting needs

Yes

No

Organizational Structure

Total flexibility for regions, departments, divisions, units, sites, etc. No limits on levels or complexity

Yes

No, fixed structure

Unlimited number of buildings, meters, accounts, vendors

Yes

Yes

“Treeview” interface to easily navigate within organization

Yes

No

User-defined fields for building, meter, account, vendor data

Yes

No

Unlimited number of user-defined “groups” of meters or buildings for reporting

Yes

No

Data importer allows new user to easily lay out entire structure (accounts, meters, buildings, etc) in Excel and import to EnergyCAP.

Yes

No

Security & Access

Login requires user name and password

Yes

No

Variable levels of user access (view only, view & edit, etc)

Yes

No

User access can be limited to specific buildings, depts., etc

Yes

No

No limit on number of users

Yes

Yes

Reports

PowerViews – Exclusive EnergyCAP feature!  Instant charts, continuously updated, of cost, use, unit cost and current year vs. last year

Yes

No

Over 250 available reports

Yes

No, limited number

Reports use Crystal Reports engine

Yes

Yes

Crystal Reports can be used to design new reports

Yes

Yes

Report settings can be saved as Favorites

Yes

No

Many reports can be packaged into batches; one click runs many reports

Yes

No

Flexible options for filtering report data

Yes

Yes

Reports can be exported to many file formats

Yes

Yes

Reports can be directly emailed (no prior export required)

Yes

No

Special export formats designed specifically for Excel

Yes

No

Deployment

Standalone version for a single PC

Yes

Yes

LAN client-server version using Microsoft SQL Server

Yes 

Yes

Web-based with browser client

Yes

No

Web-based with ‘rich’ Windows client (port 80, no ODBC)

Yes

No

Specialty Features

Scanned image of each bill can be retrieved and viewed

Yes

No

Tenant and reimbursable account billing using rate schedules

Yes

Partial

Weather normalization using tried and true statistical techniques first pioneered by the EnergyCAP development team in 1983.

Yes

Yes

Cost Avoidance – Measurement & verification of savings in accordance with U.S. Dept of Energy and industry standards.

Yes

Yes

Loadshape manager creates normalized load profiles – benefits electric procurement process, helps ensure the best possible quotes/bids

Yes

No

Rate/Tariff analysis compares your rates with alternatives

Yes

Yes

Production tracking – occupancy, production, etc

Yes

Partial

Electric interval data features:  import via CSV or MV-90 format, charting, analysis, application of rate schedule to range of dates

Yes

No

Issue Tracker – track and manage meter and bill related issues

Yes

No

Custom Spreadsheets – design a spreadsheet of bills or bill line item details

Yes

No

Greenhouse Gas emissions & Green Energy credits tracking & reporting; complete web-based library of conversion factors for CO2 equivalencies.

Yes

No

ENERGY STAR benchmarking interface stores and distributes building attribute data to ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager and receives energy efficiency ratings back. 

Yes

No

Energy supply contract tracking and administration

Yes

No

Email report publisher automatically distributes reports to lists of recipients per your schedules and filter options.

Yes

No

Move-In Utility Vacant Expense Recovery™ for multifamily operators – tracks new resident utility account cut-over “violations” and helps you recover what’s due.

Yes

No