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Many utilities still operate their back office information technology (IT) in separate âsilosâ that are poorly integrated. Now the electric power industry is turning its attention to creating the same kind of âenterprise classâ systems that have been popular in other industries for the past two decades. The Smart Grid build out will require many utilities to invest heavily in modernizing their back office operations â and as youâll learn in this section, some familiar names from the computing industry are offering high-power technologies custom-tailored for them.
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After updating you on Cisco and GE Smart Grid strategies in recent posts, today Jesse Berst zooms in on IBM, which heâs calling the Smart Gridâs first and only super integrator. Do you agree? Click inside for a quick look at Big Blue's far-reaching role in our ecosystem (and a chance to nominate IBM strategies you want to know more about). |
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Grid Net and Oracle are partnering to provide advanced distribution management systems and meter data management technology to support utilities' Smart Grid installations. The solutions are intended to enhance grid reliability and allow utilities to make smarter energy choices. |
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Echelon Corporation and Convergys Corporation, a global leader in relationship management, today announced a collaboration to develop integrated smart grid solutions based on Convergysâ highly scalable Smart CIS Solution and Echelonâs Networked Energy Services (NES) System, a leading advanced metering infrastructure solution. The software will be used to support next generation utility billing and customer energy management applications. |
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Over the next decade utilities will need powerful new capabilities to scale up all sorts of offerings for all sorts of customers in all sorts of service territories using all sorts of rate plans. Some refer to this array of services as âenergy happy hoursâ â and today Jesse Berst introduces two forward-looking companies with plans to host them. |
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Vertex, a leading provider of customer management services and technology to the utilities industry, announced that Chesapeake Utilities Corporation (NYSE: CPK) has selected its customer information system (CIS), eCIS+, to establish and implement uniform business processes and best practices across all of the organizationâs utility operations.
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The Utilities Telecom Council and Verizon Communications will conduct a study of the communications and IT needs of U.S. utilities. The outcome is intended to be a report detailing how utilities and the telecommunications industry should deal with critical infrastructure communications in the Smart Grid environment. |
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Until recently most utilities were an Internet backwater, according to security expert Andy Bochman. Utility IT folks and their technology consultants worked in relative obscurity. But those days are gone, and Andy says thereâs good reason why utility IT systems are under scrutiny today. Click inside for details. |
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Telvent, the IT company for a sustainable and secure world, announced today its partnership with Larsen and Toubro Ltd. to win a turnkey contract for Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Co. Ltd. to implement baseline data and information technology (IT) applications for energy accounting, auditing and IT-based consumer service centers for 95 towns in India. |
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Data management experts from Accenture answer questions from participants in our High Performance in Data Management webinar. In this segment: Is the IEC Common Info Model part of the DMTF CIM standards effort? |
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Data management experts from Accenture answer questions from participants in our High Performance in Data Management webinar. In this segment: How distributed do you recommend for data and analytics architectures? |
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Data management experts from Accenture answer questions from participants in our High Performance in Data Management webinar. In this segment: Why isnât a giant data warehouse a good option for managing meter data? |
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Data management experts from Accenture answer questions from participants in our High Performance in Data Management webinar. In this segment: What is the industry definition of SOA and EDA? |
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VentyxÂŽ, the worldâs largest private software, data and advisory services provider to the energy and utility industry, today announced the newest release of its Customer Suite customer information system (CIS)/billing software solution. The release includes additional support for advanced metering and many new features designed to expand utility clientâs revenue management capabilities, including credit and collections enhancements improving the ability to recover past due balances. |
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ABB, the leading power and automation technology company, today announced the release of ServiceGridSM, a comprehensive service solution which provides advanced support for the control system and connected assets for a smart grid-compliant network. |
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ABB, the global power and automation technology group, has agreed to acquire Ventyx for more than $1 billion from Vista Equity Partners to become a leading provider of software solutions for managing energy networks. |
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EMC Corporation the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced results of the new EMC-sponsored IDC study titled âThe Digital Universe Decade â Are You Ready? [1]â This fourth update to the groundbreaking Digital Universe data growth rate study measures and forecasts the vast amount of digital information created and copied annually and its implications for individuals and Information Technology professionals worldwide. |
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Convergys Corporation (NYSE: CVG), a global leader in relationship management, today announced the worldwide availability of Convergys Smart CIS Solutions, next generation billing and customer care solutions for the utility and energy markets. |
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The GE Field Force Automation (FFA) toolset that utilities rely on for optimizing field worker activities has earned GEâs ecomagination⢠status for the significant environmental benefits the solution delivers, GE announced today. |
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So you think you're ready for Smart Grid implementation? This paper from Power System Engineering may have you thinking twice. It illustrates the enterprise impact on a utility of implementing a Smart Grid system and the business need for establishing both project management methods and a Project Management Office (PMO). |
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What does the big Y2K scare at the turn of the century have in common with todayâs Smart Grid roll-outs? Security expert Andy Bochman recalls that perceived Y2K threats and remediation costs were used to justify new apps and the shuttering of older apps and systems. It became a catalyst for modernization and efficiency â and Andy believes that same âtaking stockâ drill could be a boon to utilities readying for the Smart Grid. |
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Telvent, the IT company for a sustainable and secure world, announced today it will be supplying its Distribution Management System (DMS) components for an advanced network control system planned by Hungarian power distribution companies EMASZ Halozati Kft Miskolc and ELMU Halozati Kft Budapest. This new network control system will serve nearly half of Hungaryâs electric consumers. Hungarian automation engineering company PROLAN, supported by Telvent, was awarded the project over other elite European competitors. |
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Entergy, a Fortune 500 company with 14,300 employees, produces and delivers electric power to 2.7 million customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. The company has captured trillions of records from its supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system and its more than 320,000 SCADA objects. To better extract value from SCADA data, the utility deployed a real-time data storage application, called Pegasus RDS, which was created by Microsoft partner Nobadeer Software. |
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This eight page white paper, intended for business decision-makers, is organized into two sections followed by a brief conclusion. The first section, The Networking Challenge, identifies many Smart Grid applications and assesses the individual and collective demands these applications place on a utilityâs communications infrastructure. The second section, Application Domain Partitioning for the Smart Grid, explains how utilities can employ various virtual networking and traffic management techniques to achieve a successful implementation. |
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As this overview discusses, primary drivers for selecting OSIsoft PI at CPS Energy were the ability to create custom displays easier, to retrieve data quickly and easily using common tools such as Excel, plus dissatisfaction with performance of existing historian and a desire to make use of the multiple interface capability (T&D EMS, Gas SCADA, Modbus, etc.) and to provide access to data for staff in corporate offices.
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Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL) today introduced the SEL-3610 Port Server, the latest addition to SELâs secure communications lineup. The SEL-3610 economically expands serial port availability and secures Ethernet access to serial products. |
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