Company Profile | October 3, 2000

Stoner Associates, Inc.

Stoner Associates, Inc.
Stoner is a premier provider of energy and water delivery network performance knowledge solutions and the full range of services necessary to implement those solutions in an integrated or standalone application environment.

Our internationally acclaimed simulation, optimization and forecasting products integrate with GIS, SCADA and other core enterprise platforms to help clients achieve their business vision.

SYNERGEE AND SOLVER ELECTRIC SOLUTIONS
Stoner's Electric solutions center around the SynerGEE Electric software application, as well as the Stoner Electric Solver. SynerGEE® Electric allows you to analyze and optimize your distribution system, including radial and meshed networks. This advanced family of power system management application modules calculates balanced and by-phase load flows, current flows, voltage drops, losses, loading of lines, equipment, switches and protective devices. It also addresses radial, looped and network systems. You can model Delta and grounded systems with special attention to electric and magnetic coupling between conductors and to earth. Regulators, capacitors, generators and other devices have detailed controllers designed to reflect real-world devices. SynerGEE is the only software in the world that is capable of modeling wandering laterals.

SynerGEE provides the features of the most advanced power system analysis software available along with the ease and familiarity of a Windows-based operating system. With the help of add-on modules, SynerGEE's functionality grows as your needs expand.

Stoner's Electric Solver allows you to have the same simulation solver that SynerGEE uses as a Microsoft Component Object Model (COM)-compliant component. The Stoner Solver empowers you to integrate our internationally acclaimed simulation capability into your geographic information system (GIS), or other enterprise system, and access it just as if it were that system's native functionality.

BUSINESS PROCESS MATCHING
Applications built on the Solver are the perfect match for energy and water companies requiring their professionals to work more flexibly and collaborate more actively. The end-to-end business process matching flexibility that they provide meets the varying simulation requirements and preferences of planning, design and operations professionals. The Solver facilitates timely creation and communication of essential delivery network performance knowledge to business and technical decision-makers at all business process points and in all functional areas, enterprise-wide.

THE POWER OF COM
By adhering to the COM specification, the Solver is ready out-of-the-box to interoperate with other COM-compliant applications and components. This facilitates the integration of applications from multiple vendors to speed development, lower integration costs, improve deployment flexibility, quickly adapt systems to business change and lower maintenance costs.

SOLUTIONEERING SERVICES FOR YOUR OPERATIONAL AGILITY
Our Solutioneering® practice provides a full range of services needed to create high value, end-to-end business solutions. One of our greatest assets is a staff of highly qualified and experienced professionals. This team of professionals, with its proven track record, is available to you. We can quickly focus significant expertise on your specific needs. All of this uniquely prepares us to partner with you in tackling a wide range of short-term, small-scale to long-term, enterprise-wide business solution requirements.

We can work closely with you from the moment you identify your business and technical needs. Early and active involvement allows us to fully leverage our talents, expertise and experience on your behalf.

Stoner's internationally recognized software development team provides custom applications as well as its traditional commercial-off-the-shelf software. We specialize in combining off-the-shelf and custom software components from multiple vendors into one ready-to-run business solution. These custom applications are frequently integrated with GIS and other enterprise-wide systems. And, when your situation requires, we can supplement your staff with on-site professionals dedicated to your business.

There is no substitute for the blend of skills, expertise and experience our engineering professionals can apply to your needs. From asset and customer data development to transient hydraulic consulting and online modeling system development, this technical team is ready for your most difficult engineering challenges. This same team can support you in litigation and other formal hearings before governmental, judicial and regulatory agencies.

All of us at Stoner are dedicated to supporting your productive use of the business solutions we develop for you. This continuing relationship is a hallmark of the partnerships we have with our clients. It also represents a key to assuring that you realize the benefits possible from your business solution investment.