Number of Members: 48 Telcom Members/Customers; 351 Utility Members/Customers Number of Employees: 495 Revenue: $69,072,099 98 percent of the Member Owners of CADP and NCDC vote to approve consolidation, paving the way for a plan of consolidation that would combine the two organizations and reengineer our software product offerings. Articles of incorporation for NISC are filed in the State of Colorado. Number of Members: 52 Telcom Members/Customers; 363 Utility Members/Customers Revenue:$71,464,368 New Product Releases: Application Service Provider September: The NISC Board of Directors approved NISC’s technology strategy and the iVUE business plan, establishing a 10-year product roadmap for our organization. Project Discovery, a $13 million software reengineering project, represents the most significant development initiative in the history of the two predecessor organizations. NISC launches a successful Membership Investment program as part of the iVUE business plan. NISC’s Commercial and Industrial product gains national marketplace acceptance. NISC breaks ground on a new 24,000 square-foot expansion at his Mandan campus, and purchases 37 acres of land in Lake Saint Louis, Mo., for future facilities expansion. Telecom End User Billing migrates off the mainframe. NISC’s Commercial and Industrial product gains national marketplace acceptance. (Currently known as NISC Utility Bill Pay) Number of Members: 54 Telcom Members/Customers; 365 Utility Members/Customers Revenue: $72,854,212 NISC for the first year, is ranked in the Top 100 Best Places to Work in IT by Computerworld Magazine. NISC launches the use of WebEx and Video Conferencing technology. NISC launches new graphical Payroll module as part of ABS. AMS converts all bill prints to DOC1 software. NISC launches E-Bill offering. Recognized by ComputerWorld as Best Places to Work in IT in 2002 Number of Members: 58 Telcom Members/Customers; 370 Utility Members/Customers Revenue: $78,388,305 New Product Releases: iVUE CIS/ABS Completed the first phase of the iVUE development initiative…. To design, develop and deploy the Consumer Information System and Subscriber Information System in a Java open architecture environment. Beta testing begins for iVUE SIS, iVUE CIS and iVUE Point of Sale. The first 1x ABS implementation – Central Indiana Power, IN Number of Members: 60 Telcom Members/Customers; 378 Utility Members/Customers Number of Employees: 537 Revenue: $84,326,201 New Product Releases: iVUE SIS/ABS NISC launches new internal training initiative for project management best practices. NISC signs a contract with Walmart to transition all of their 25,000 plus utility accounts to NISC for C&I processing. NISC begins construction on the new Lake Saint Louis facility and sells its two St. Peters, Mo., properties. Recognized by ComputerWorld as Best Places to Work in IT in 2004 Number of Members: 64 Telcom Members/Customers; 386 Utility Members/Customers Number of Employees: 554 Revenue: $92,625,704 New Product Releases: Disaster Recovery May: NISC moves its three Missouri locations into its new facility at One Innovation Circle, Lake Saint Louis, Mo. On July 20, NISC hosts a dedication ceremony and open house. NISC begins the $4 million rewrite of the Accounting and Business Solutions suite to Java. NISC launches the National IT Learning Center initiative. As part of this initiative, NISC developed the iVUE Certification program that allows of NISC software to achieve certification at the associate, professional and masters levels. NISC takes a leadership role in the NRECA Multispeak initiative, a protocol that has made great progress in facilitating the integration of many disparate technology pieces into an enterprise solution for NISC’s Membership. NISC develops and implements best practices of Project Management relating to software implementation as well as managing the life cycle of our products. Recognized by ComputerWorld as Best Places to Work in IT in 2005 Number of Members: 71 Telcom Members/Customers; 401 Utility Members/Customers Number of Employees: 572 Revenue: $99,721,174 New Product Releases: Payment Kiosk January: The NISC Board of Directors passes a resolution to add the protection of indemnification and defense to all present and future NISC licenses with its Members and Customers as a result of a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Emergis against NISC Member Flathead Electric Cooperative. NISC and its predecessor organizations, CADP and NCDC celebrate 40 years in business as an IT cooperative. NISC begins the Member Relationship Representative initiative by hiring representatives to facilitate positive and productive long-term relationships with Members. NISC establishes a Service Excellence initiative. Recognized by ComputerWorld as Best Places to Work in IT in 2006 Number of Members: 73 Telcom Members/Customers; 414 Utility Members/Customers Number of Employees: 668 Revenue: $107,350,619 New Product Releases : iVUE Mobile WorkForce NISC releases new iVUE E&O solutions: Mobile WorkForce, Scheduler, Staking and Mapping, and new iVUE E-Solutions. NISC, in partnership with Energy United Services, goes live with a Utility Management System pilot program for the United States Postal Service. NISC makes plans to add an unprecedented 80 employees within 12 months. NISC completes the most successful financial year in the 40-plus year history of NISC and its predecessor organizations. Recognized by ComputerWorld as Best Places to Work in IT in 2007 Number of Members: 78 Telcom Members/Customers; 426 Utility Members/Customers Number of Employees: 684 Revenue:$115,152,950 New Product Releases: iVUE ABS 2.X, iVUE Outage Management, iVUE Field-Edit Staking, iVUE Facilities Management, iVUE Trouble Management, NISC SmartTrack™, iVUE Scheduler NISC Board of Directors votes to add a new Associate Member classification, paving the way for non-traditional customers to participate in and benefit from the NISC Community. NISC brings to market a full suite of iVUE Engineering and Operations Solutions for both telcos and utilities in addition to the Java rewrite of our entire suite of Accounting and Business Solutions.  Fiscal 2008 marked the delivery of a vision: Delivering to market a complete iVUE Enterprise System on a single technical platform, a path no other vendor had ventured down.  400th implementation of iVUE ABS at North Star Electric, Baudette, Minn. 2008 Member Information Conference exceeds attendance expectations by drawing more than 1,500 attendees. The Brian Wolf National IT Learning Center conducts first Certification Ceremony for NISC employees. NISC AMS exceeds 10 million images between both locations for bills and Dqs, plus extra jobs such as checks and notices. AMS sets or were very close to setting new records in nearly every category of AMS ABS 2.x was the first product rewritten in JAVA/Oracle with zero legacy code and data structure released. The first 2x ABS implementation – Crawford Electric, MO The final 1x project making that product the most widely distributed in the NISC membership – McClure Telephone, OH Recognized by ComputerWorld as Best Places to Work in IT in 2008 Number of Members: 80 Telcom Members/Customers; 433 Utility Members/Customers Number of Employees: 760 Revenue:$118,818,704 New Product Releases: NISC Community™, iVUE Green Financial Milestones: Total revenue exceeds $115 million, representing a growth rate of 7 %. In 2009, NISC advanced our strong equity position to 33%, the highest level in our history. NISC employees participate in a comprehensive customer service training course, the first of its kind ever delivered internally. NISC initiates a configuration management database project to document product and service use by Members. NISC completes construction on the new $2 million, 13,000-square-foot Utility Bill Pay (UBP) building on the Mandan campus. Utility Bill Pay processes more than 1.2 million transactions for customers representing $3.5 billion in utility spend. The Telecom iVUE Mapping solution is installed at first Member site. Decommissioned NISC’s legacy product, Horizon Subscriber Information System.  All NISC Telecom customers operating on one platform. NISC enters into the Smart Grid arena with the launch of its Meter Data Management System initiative. The first implementation is at beta site, Minnesota Valley Electric in Jordan, Minn. Pathways, NISC’s new online training tool, is launched. NISC Board of Directors approves first international Member – Co-operative Synergies Inc., Canada. NISC conducts first ABS 2.x regional training event in Lake Saint Louis office. NISC conducts first iVUE Green beta implementation at Capital Electric, Bismarck. NISC Named Best Places to Work in IT by Computerworld for seventh year. NISC signs agreement with Google for its Smart Grid presentment solution. NISC launches a regional training and implementation initiative. The first regional implementation training event The first 100 implementation’s completed in record time (100 implementations in the first 18 months)– Delta-Montrose Electric, CO Implemented Flexible Work Arrangement Program Recognized by ComputerWorld as Best Places to Work in IT in 2009 Number of Members: 80 Telcom Members/Customers; 441 Utility Members/Customers Number of Employees: NISC has total of 788 employees (714 FT/PT and 74 PT/Temps/Interns). New Product Releases: Document Vault™, NISC CallCapture™, NISC Meter Data Management System, NISC SwitchTalk2™ For the fifth year running, NISC invests more than $20 million in Research and Development. NISC launches New Intelligent Mail Barcode project – now tracking nearly every piece of mail that is mailed from Lake Saint Louis and Mandan through our TrackMyMail website. This represents more than 5.5 million pieces of mail each month. June: NISC contracts to provide the new Meter Data Management product to 23 utility members, representing more than 500,000 meters. NISC adopts Situational Leadership Training for all NISC management staff During NISC’s 2010 fiscal year the Enterprise Division completed 130 ABS 2x implementations Rolled out Leadership Mentoring Program Recognized by ComputerWorld as Best Places to Work in IT in 2010