Microsoft Power and Utilities Blog
The Microsoft in Power & Utilities blog discusses the emerging technological and economic challenges facing the global Utility industry and how Utilities can innovate through a strategy based on devices and services to transform and grow their business
Remembering Jon Arnold – a man larger than life itself
Written by: Larry Cochrane, Director of Industry Technology Strategy, Microsoft Power &...
Date: 05/28/2015
SUBNET selected to manage and secure BC Hydro’s distribution devices
As the smart grid continues its evolution, more and more Utilities are finding the need for a...
Date: 05/13/2015
Public webcast: Harnessing the power of big data through machine learning in Power & Utilities
Please join us for an exciting public webcast: Harnessing the power of big data through machine...
Date: 04/29/2015
Hannover Messe is upon us and we are so excited!
The Microsoft Team is counting down the minutes till Hannover Messe and we are so excited!...
Date: 04/11/2015
Improving customer service: From idea to app in six weeks through the Cloud
Western Power wanted to better inform their customers concerning upcoming maintenance and upgrade...
Date: 03/24/2015
Reimagining the Utility enterprise in a connected world at Hanover Messe
It’s hard to argue that the Power & Utilities industry is NOT in the midst of a...
Date: 03/18/2015
Azure Machine Learning helping the smart grid become smarter
We just published a new case study where partner eSmart Systems helps Utilities keep the lights on...
Date: 03/14/2015
Elevating water conscious with IoT and the cloud at the city of Breda
One of the foundations of modern society is its ability to deliver clean water and sanitation...
Date: 03/13/2015
Neudesic takes Smart Meter Analytics to the Hybrid Cloud!
Seems like a day doesn’t pass when we have yet another announcement about a key industry solution...
Date: 03/04/2015
King County, WA launches Smart Building Energy Tracking System
We have written before about the innovative work we have been doing with smart buildings with our...
Date: 02/26/2015
The General Availability of Azure Machine Learning and Smart Grid Management
We have written about of our Azure Machine Learning (ML) services many times before and up until...
Date: 02/18/2015
The January - February installment of the Microsoft Power & Utilities News
Welcome to our January - February installment of the Microsoft Power & Utilities News....
Date: 02/18/2015
Electric Network Designer Software heads to the Cloud
One of my favorite things about attending DistribuTech is meeting partners that are using our...
Date: 02/15/2015
AutoGrid Systems to Enable Utility and Energy Service Providers to Develop Smart Grid Analytics Applications on Microsoft Azure
Several years ago when we painted our vision of the emerging smart energy ecosystem and the...
Date: 02/10/2015
Transforming to a Digital Business
Transforming to a digital business is now considered a requirement for virtually every enterprise....
Date: 01/28/2015
The next evolution of Power BI: Transforming the business of business intelligence
We have written before about the incredible power of Power BI and how Power & Utility companies...
Date: 01/27/2015
Webcast Replay - The Innovation Challenge: Creating the 21st Century Utility
We had a great turnout for last Tuesday’s webcast on The Innovation Challenge: Creating the 21st...
Date: 01/18/2015
OpenText Excellence in Enterprise Procurement with Oracle EBS and Microsoft Office 365
We wrote in our last newsletter about OpenText’s support for Office 365. Now there’s a great video...
Date: 01/13/2015
Meet and engage with Microsoft and our partners at DistribuTECH
We are a proud sponsor again this year at DistribuTECH, the largest U.S. event that covers the...
Date: 01/11/2015
Webcast Replay - The Innovation Challenge: Creating the 21st Century Utility
We had a great turnout for last Tuesday’s webcast on The Innovation Challenge: Creating the 21st...
Date: 01/07/2015
Microsoft Business Predictions for 2015
Susan Hauser, our Corporate Vice President, Enterprise and Partner Group has posted our business...
Date: 12/17/2014
How Microsoft is evolving field services
In yesterday’s Daily PennEnergy Power Newsletter our video on how we are evolving field services is...
Date: 12/11/2014
The gold standard in enterprise cloud computing has arrived: Accenture and Microsoft launch new hybrid cloud platform to accelerate enterprise-wide adoption
As we continue to invest to deliver the industry’s most complete cloud for the global enterprise we...
Date: 12/08/2014
Featured Video: See how AGL is transforming the way they work
Lead story in the PennEnergy Power Newsletter for Dec 8th features the AGL Office 365 Story: AGL is...
Date: 12/08/2014
Webinar: Intelligent Buildings, Predictive Analytics, Fault Detection & Diagnostics: The Essentials to Achieving Energy Efficiency, Thursday, Nov 13th
Worldwide, buildings account for an estimated 40 percent of total energy consumption and contribute...
Date: 11/07/2014
Internet of Things
By now you probably have heard about the “Internet of Things” and its potential to change how we...
Date: 10/29/2014
Dutch water company Evides benefits from the OpenText and Microsoft Alliance
As a productivity and platform company a key part of our strategy is working with and...
Date: 10/28/2014
Improving customer satisfaction through Outage Maps
It’s no secret that Utility customers expect the power to be on at all times and most take for...
Date: 10/13/2014
Delivering on the promise of the Internet of Things
Internet of Things (IoT) promises vast opportunities, but the question we often ask is when...
Date: 09/29/2014
Carnegie Mellon Sees a Way to Cut Energy Use by 20 Percent with Cloud Machine Learning Solution
Last February we wrote about how Carnegie Mellon University improves operational efficiency, cuts...
Date: 09/23/2014
WEBCAST: Learn How the Internet of Things can deliver business value to Power & Utility Companies
The Internet of Things (IoT) promises vast opportunities, but the question we often ask is when...
Date: 09/19/2014
Protecting Customer Data in Our Cloud through Microsoft Azure
Last month we published guidance for IT Professionals looking to maximize the protection of their...
Date: 09/16/2014
Free Webinar: How to potentially save millions in operations cost each year with Asset Health
For asset intensive industries such as Power & Utilities, managing complex assets with an asset...
Date: 09/03/2014
How Microsoft buys Green Energy
Microsoft is committed to reducing our environmental footprint, and over the past two years we...
Date: 09/02/2014
British Gas goes Social with Yammer
The ways in which people connect and the speed with which they communicate is faster than ever...
Date: 08/24/2014
Microsoft Research demonstrates technology that can dramatically smooth motion in first-person videos
I often watch my son using his GoPro camera while snowboarding, surfing and power long...
Date: 08/12/2014
Reinventing productivity and platforms
Reinventing productivity and platforms is a broad trend we are seeing within the power and utilities...
Date: 08/04/2014
The emerging intelligent data ecosystem
Last month I was invited by one of our major customers in Europe to keynote their annual innovation...
Date: 07/26/2014
Itron looks to the cloud for analytics
We are excited with today’s announcement that our smart grid, water and cities partner, Itron, has...
Date: 07/14/2014
Harnessing the power of big data with cloud predictive analytics: Introducing Azure Machine Learning
Several weeks ago we pre-announced the public preview for Azure ML which we have been showing...
Date: 07/08/2014
Lincoln Electric System heads to the Cloud with Orbit!
We have highlighted the work we are doing with Schneider Electric and especially the Orbit solution...
Date: 06/14/2014