FIS and Oracle Enhance Utility Billing Experience
November 12 2024 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Key facts
- FIS and Oracle collaborate to enhance billing and payments
capabilities for the utility industry, which includes electricity,
gas, water and other essential services.
- FIS BillerIQ solution running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
(OCI) will give utility customers the flexibility to manage their
utility bills with features tailored for their financial
needs.
Global financial technology leader FIS® (NYSE: FIS) is today
announcing a collaboration with Oracle to bring enhanced billing
and payment capabilities to Oracle’s utility customers. The FIS
BillerIQ solution running on OCI will enable the roll out of
electronic bill delivery and provide a seamless, end-to-end
experience from meter consumption to payment. This collaboration
aims to enable money to flow efficiently and securely while in
motion, offering customers the flexibility and assurance they need
in managing their utility bills. Oracle manages billions of utility
customer bills annually.
Despite their high costs and inefficiencies, 75% of
organizations still use paper checks for bill payments. With
BillerIQ running on OCI, customers can gain an intuitive bill
delivery and payment solution that makes accepting digital payments
simple and secure. This comprehensive suite helps meet the diverse
financial needs of utility customers across industries like
electricity, gas, and water. Offering multiple payment options
including ACH, credit, debit, Realtime Pay, and digital wallets,
BillerIQ enables seamless payment experiences. This gives end
consumers the flexibility to manage their utility bills with
features tailored for their financial needs.
“The utility sector has historically used traditional payment
methods. However, with smart meters and digital payment
technologies like mobile banking and e-wallets, consumers now
expect to pay bills digitally. The inefficiencies and fraud risk of
paper checks add to the challenges faced by the utility industry,”
said Seamus Smith, group president of Global Automated Finance,
FIS. “Collaborating with Oracle, we’re aiming to digitize the
sector, offering greater customer convenience in bill payments
while helping utility companies stay competitive. This aligns with
our vision to unlock financial technology to the world and enable
money to flow freely and efficiently while in motion.”
“Our goal is to simplify the payment process for utility
customers,” said Mark Hura, executive vice president of North
America Cloud Infrastructure at Oracle. “FIS, a global financial
technology leader, chose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for its
superior price-performance, global reach, and non-blocking
networks. With our extensive experience in the utilities sector, we
understand the importance of reliability, security, and providing a
seamless user experience.”
OCI provides price-performance advantages as well as security
capabilities that are built in, on by default, at no extra charge.
With OCI, enterprise applications like BillerIQ can easily migrate
to the cloud and take advantage of ultra-low latency networks,
flexible infrastructure, microsecond latency clusters, and complete
instance isolation for higher security and performance. With
Oracle’s distributed cloud, customers can deploy OCI’s 150+ AI and
cloud services across public, dedicated, and hybrid cloud
environments, anywhere in the world. In addition, Oracle Cloud is
available in more locations than any other hyperscaler, with 85
cloud regions live and 77 planned.
BillerIQ delivers smart, intuitive billing and payment
technology to make accepting digital payments simple and secure. It
is a fully hosted secure and compliant SaaS Platform, which allows
businesses to deliver bills and accept payments through a variety
of digital channels on a simple configurable setup. BillerIQ helps
businesses lower operational costs, improve efficiency, and enhance
customer satisfaction through advanced configurability, ease of
integration and advanced capabilities.
For more information on FIS BillerIQ, please visit:
www.fisglobal.com/products/automated-finance.
About FIS
FIS is a leading global provider of financial services
technology solutions for financial institutions, businesses and
developers. We improve the digital transformation of our financial
economy, advancing the way the world pays, banks and invests. We
provide the confidence made possible when reliability meets
innovation, helping our clients run, grow and protect their
business. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, FIS is a member
of the Fortune 500® and the Standard & Poor’s 500®. FIS is
incorporated under the laws of the State of Georgia as Fidelity
National Information Services, Inc., and our stock is traded under
the trading symbol "FIS" on the New York Stock Exchange. To learn
more, visit www.fisglobal.com. Follow FIS on Facebook, LinkedIn and
X (@FISGlobal).
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For More Information Kim Snider, 904.438.6278 Senior Vice
President FIS Global Marketing and Communications
kim.snider@fisglobal.com
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