AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Acumera – the leader in Trusted Connection Services for retail organizations – today announced that its Fuel Connections Service, a remote connections and monitoring service designed to improve fuel inventory and compliance management for fuel marketers and wholesale distributors, has been selected as a finalist in CSP magazine’s 2013 Retailer Choice Best New Product Contest.

“This program is particularly special to us because it demonstrates that our products are truly making a difference in our clients’ businesses.”

Driven entirely by retailer nominations and votes, the CSP Retailer Choice Best New Product program recognizes new products and services in the c-store industry that demonstrate innovation, uniqueness and groundbreaking advancement in their categories. The top three finalists in each category were selected based on the number of nominations received from retailers operating in the convenience channel.

“With hundreds of new products released in the technology-software/services category every year, we are honored that Fuel Connections Service has been recognized as one of the best,” said Acumera’s Vice President of Sales and Marketing Tom Yemington. “This program is particularly special to us because it demonstrates that our products are truly making a difference in our clients’ businesses.”

To learn more about the finalists and vote on the winners, visit www.cspnet.com/2013bestnewproductsfinalists between September 3 and October 4, 2013.

About Fuel Connections Service

Acumera’s Fuel Connections Service is a freestanding solution for fuel marketers to remotely monitor and receive reports about fuel inventory at company-owned and at customer sites via the AcuVigil™ Dashboard. Marketers can also securely pull fuel inventory and alert data into proprietary in-house and third-party fuel management systems. As a part of this service, marketers and retailers can receive text and email alerts to enhance store operations and monitor issues, such as outages, water in the fuel or low fuel inventory levels.

Designed with convenience store operators and fuel marketers in mind, Acumera’s Fuel Connections Service provides reliable access to ATG fuel levels, environmental data, and water alarms via the AcuVigil Dashboard and via third-party fuel management systems and services, such as TelaPoint. For more information about Fuel Connections Service, stop by booth #3913 at the NACS Show in Atlanta, October 12-15, or visit www.acumera.net/docs/newsrelease_fuelconnections_06may2013.pdf.

About Acumera

Founded in 2002, Acumera provides Trusted Connection Services to multi-site merchants, specializing in the reduction of headaches caused by network management and security issues. Customers are free to focus on running their businesses because Acumera actively manages their networks and provides unparalleled visibility and remote management capability. Acumera gets customers’ stores, network clients and devices securely connected and keeps them connected. In addition to network status, merchants have real-time insight into key operational measures, such as fuel inventory levels and environmental and food safety temperatures. As a result, Acumera customers say they love their network. To learn more, visit Acumera on the web at www.acumera.net.