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or in enterprise-wide applications were UCM is being
used to centrally collect data and provide reports to
geographically distributed end users.
Report generation is as easy as navigating to your
APOGEE GO for InfoCenter Suite URL, and selecting
an existing report template and report date range.
This information is submitted to InfoCenter Suite’s
server and a report is displayed for review (see Figure
7).
Figure 7. APOGEE GO for InfoCenter with the UCM.
Tenant Billing
For commercial property owners, the ability to allocate
costs more equitably than square footage and to
distribute common area costs is a reporting challenge.
In applications where blended (or average) costs are
accepted for tenant billing, Utility Cost Manager
supports the computation of tenant bills, similar to
departmental cost allocation applications described
above in Cost Allocation. Blended cost allows you to
include all factors of a utility bill and redistribute it as a
function of consumption.
Budget Tracking
As deregulation of the utilities begins to affect
traditional fixed rates and more companies try to
manage costs and track consumables against
budgets, the need for tracking utility costs becomes
more significant. Utility Cost Manager can facilitate
budget tracking through its Allocation Reports that
include a Fiscal-Year-To-Date (FYTD) field for both
consumption and costs of each utility.