September 20, 2024

Scale, Scope, Speed: What the acquisition of Alinta Energy’s mass market billing platform means for Tally Group

Tally Group recently signed a deal with one of Australia’s largest energy retailers, Alinta Energy to acquire their mass market billing platform, CORE.

Tally Group recently signed a deal with one of Australia’s largest energy retailers, Alinta Energy to acquire their mass market billing platform, CORE.

Tally Group CEO, Andrew Duncan.

The technology agreement and acquisition of CORE is the culmination of a significant amount of collaboration and due diligence by Alinta and Tally.  The deal represents a significant and immediate leap in capability for our retail eco-system and positions us extremely well to deliver on our short and medium term growth ambitions.

A single platform solution for every segment

With CORE integrated into our world-leading Tally solutions we can now offer best of bread complex billing and new energy services combined with CORE’s market leading employee experience, workflow, regulatory and governance framework.  We believe no other software provider globally can offer the scope and depth that our eco-system offers in a single platform.  

Global acceleration

CORE is a huge accelerator in terms of the impact we can have on the global energy market. We have in-house among the deepest collective energy expertise in the industry, and we have taken learnings from Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and North America to develop our services across different markets. Our enhanced mass market capability positions us strongly to start offering our advanced capabilities around the world.

Enhanced client delivery

The combination of Tally and CORE gives us a huge boost in several areas that are critical for our clients, such as compliance and regulatory management at scale. This, with the combined benefits of cost to serve reduction, rapid new energy innovation and complex billing solutions, means we can align our development with client needs, helping them achieve their targets. Because ultimately, it's not about us.  It’s about our clients and their customers.”

Strategic partnership for the future of energy

What all of this means is we are now wonderfully placed to support our energy industry clients to evolve for the market transition more quickly -essential as the transition gathers speed. We are investing alongside our clients to ensure we are not only delivering the basics better than any other supplier, but we’re ready to enable the innovation they need, right now.

We know what we’ve got and we’re ready to go

The existing Tally eco-system combined with CORE will see us immediately able to offer a globally best-in-class solution to energy retailers. Our focus is to be the best in the world at what we do, in turn expediting the energy transition and helping our clients hit their targets, whether they be related to customer numbers, cost to serve, speed to market of new digital services or something else.  

We’re excited about this significant milestone for Tally, but more excited about what this will deliver to our clients and the energy industry at large. If you’re an energy retailer looking for limitless scale with a world-leading technology solution, let’s talk.

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