What Agility CIS does

Agility CIS (operating commercially as Tally Group) is a private specialist software provider founded in 1998, headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand, and structured as Tally Group Pty Limited (Australian proprietary company). It serves energy retailers, water companies, telecommunications providers, and adjacent infrastructure and resources customers across Oceania, North America, Japan, the Middle East, and India via 10 office locations. The company sells a vertically integrated utility-technology platform organized into four product groups — Tally Billing (cloud-native SaaS billing, CIS, and market gateway), Tally Acquire (customer lifecycle and acquisition campaigns), Tally Digital (cross-platform customer engagement), and Tally Customer (front/back-office operations) — plus specialized modules including Tally CDR (Consumer Data Rights compliance), BDR (Behavioural Demand Response), LDA (Load Disaggregation), CANDI (C&I energy portfolio), UCONX (sales acceleration), DSS (digital self-service), and TRUST (bill shock elimination). An Energy Operations System (EOS) is deployed specifically in North America and Japan. The platform manages 4M+ meter points across 55+ enterprise clients.

Revenue is generated primarily through recurring SaaS subscriptions to enterprise utility customers, sold via a direct enterprise field-sales motion ('Request a Demo'), with engineering and R&D delivered from Hyderabad and Bangalore and regional commercial teams across Auckland, Melbourne, Brisbane, Christchurch, Houston, Atlanta, Tokyo, and Dubai. Marquee customers include Iberdrola, Enel, Engie, Origin Energy, Snowy Hydro, Energy Australia, Alinta Energy, BHP, Marubeni, Contact Energy, CleanCo, and Sydney Airport. Growth has been pursued through a combination of platform expansion and inorganic moves — acquisitions of Webtools (November 2020) and Znalytics (June 2020), plus the Alinta Energy billing platform — and the company positions itself as enabling a new utility retailer to launch in weeks rather than months.

Name

Agility CIS

Legal name

Tally Group Pty Limited

Website

https://agilitycis.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1998

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Agility CIS (Tally Group) is a private SaaS provider of cloud-native billing, CIS, and market gateway software for energy retailers and utilities, serving 55+ enterprise clients managing 4M+ meter points across Oceania, North America, Japan, the Middle East, and India.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Utility Billing Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Customer Care, Billing & CRM for Gas Retail (CX, Retention, Collections) (EUAAADAH)

Keywords

• Utility billing software
• Customer information system
• Energy retail platform
• Market gateway solutions
• Demand response software

Headquarters

HQ city

Auckland

HQ country

New Zealand

HQ region

Oceania

Offices10 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. SaaS Billing Platform Subscription: SaaS-based billing platform with subscription recurring revenue model. The company provides cloud-native utility technology solutions on a subscription basis to energy retailers and utility companies.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

Agility CIS (also known as Tally Group) develops and licenses a suite of cloud-native SaaS products — Tally Billing, Tally Acquire, Tally Digital, and Tally Customer — that together form a customer information system (CIS) and market gateway platform for energy retailers, utilities, and embedded network operators. The platform covers the full retail energy lifecycle: customer acquisition (sales, onboarding, contracting, credit vetting), billing and settlement, digital engagement, demand response, load disaggregation, and consumer data rights (CDR) compliance. Its Energy Operations System (EOS) is deployed in North America and Japan for settlement and wholesale market participation.

Product overview

Tally Group (operating as Agility CIS) provides a unified utility technology platform with four core product groups: Tally Billing (SaaS-based billing, CIS, and market gateway), Tally Acquire (customer lifecycle management and sales acceleration), Tally Digital (cross-platform customer engagement tools), and Tally Customer (front/back office operations). The platform supports 55+ global clients managing 4 million+ meter points across residential, commercial, and industrial segments. The product portfolio includes specialized solutions for Consumer Data Rights (CDR), demand response (BDR), load disaggregation (LDA), embedded networks, and C&I energy portfolio management. The platform is cloud-native and enables new utility retailer launches within weeks.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Tally Billing: Accurate, scalable, SaaS-based billing, CIS and market gateway platform.
• Tally Acquire
• Tally Digital
• Tally Customer

Products and services

• Tally Billing

Named customers14 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability1 record

Feature10 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Oracle Utilities: Oracle Utilities (formerly Oracle Opower/NISC) offers a broad suite of CIS, MDM, analytics, and customer-experience solutions to global electric, gas, and water utilities. It competes head-to-head with Agility CIS in larger utility deals and represents the dominant incumbent in the same buyer budgets.
• Salesforce Industries Energy Cloud: Salesforce's Energy Cloud (built on Vlocity) delivers cloud-based CRM, customer engagement, and CIS-adjacent functionality for utilities. It overlaps with Agility CIS's Tally Digital and Tally Customer modules and is increasingly cited in utility CX procurement alongside traditional CIS vendors.
• SAP for Utilities (IS-U / S/4HANA Utilities): SAP's IS-U and S/4HANA Utilities solutions provide CIS, billing, and ERP functionality to large multi-commodity utilities worldwide. As a broad enterprise software incumbent, SAP competes with Agility CIS particularly in larger, multi-region utility accounts seeking integrated ERP + CIS stacks.
• Itron (including Silver Spring Networks): Itron is a global smart-metering and utility network provider with an expanded grid analytics and edge intelligence portfolio. While more focused on AMI and MDM, it competes for adjacent utility wallet share — particularly the meter-data and grid-edge intelligence categories where Agility CIS offers Tally LDA.

Direct peers

• Hansen Technologies: Hansen Technologies is an Australia-headquartered software vendor that provides CIS, billing, and customer engagement solutions to energy, water, and communications utilities. It is the most direct comparable to Agility CIS in terms of vertical focus, customer overlap in Australia/NZ, and billing-centric product suite.
• Open International: Open International provides end-to-end CIS, billing, and CRM software for utilities, with strong presence in Latin America, the Middle East, and other emerging retail-energy markets. It is comparable to Agility CIS in targeting deregulated retail energy markets and in offering bundled billing-plus-CX platforms.
• Fluentgrid: Fluentgrid is an India-headquartered IT solutions provider focused on utility billing, CIS, and smart-grid applications for electricity, water, and gas utilities. It is a comparable vertical SaaS peer with similar product breadth (billing, MDM, consumer engagement) and serves a partially overlapping customer base.
• Uptime Energy (formerly Uptime Solutions / Tieto Energy Utilities): Tieto (now part of TietoEVRY) Energy Utilities provides CIS and billing software to Nordic and European energy retailers. It is comparable as a vertical SaaS vendor serving deregulated retail energy markets with similar billing, CIS, and customer engagement functionality.

Emerging players

• Power Factors: Power Factors provides a renewable energy asset performance management platform that integrates with utility billing and operations workflows. It overlaps with Agility CIS in serving utility-scale renewable operators and in integrating operational data into customer-facing systems.
• EnergyHub: EnergyHub provides a DER management platform (demand response, load management, smart thermostats) for utilities and is a partial comparator to Agility CIS's Tally BDR (Behavioural Demand Response) module. It is more specialized and US-focused, but competes for the same utility demand-response wallet.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A2 records

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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