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
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Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 03/10/2009
Unified Communications at Power & Utility Companies Save Costs, Change Game
Unified communications are moving to the forefront of business operations at power and utility...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 02/24/2009
Utilities Leveraging Virtual Earth for Data Visualization
We have written before about Power & Utility companies using Virtual Earth to improve their...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 02/15/2009
Avista Revamps Customer Experience, Prepares for the Future
With all the buzz about the Smart Grid these days, anticipated customer service challenges have...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 02/15/2009
Why Microsoft is Involved in the Utility Industry’s CIM Discussion
My last blog entry described what happened at our CIM Users’ Group Meeting last month but at a more...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 01/29/2009
Recap – Microsoft Worldwide Power & Utilities Group Hosts CIM Users Group Meeting
Following up on a previous blog, Microsoft’s Worldwide Utilities Group hosted a meeting of the...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 01/16/2009
Compliance, Automated with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
Utilities are facing unprecedented levels of regulatory compliance in an increasingly fast-moving...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 01/06/2009
Microsoft Hosting CIM Conference December 15 in Redmond
It’s probably an understatement to say that we live in a time of significant change. This is...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 12/05/2008
Observations from the Itron Users’ Conference
A couple of weeks ago, the Power & Utilities team attended the 2008 Itron Users’ Conference in...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 11/13/2008
Joint Virtual Conference on the Intelligent Enterprise
Tune in Wednesday, Nov. 12 from 9:30am-6:30pm ET to a free virtual conference with Microsoft and CIO...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 11/05/2008
Home Energy Comes One Step Closer
At the IDC Energy and Utilities Forum in Milan a couple of weeks ago I offered a presentation on the...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 10/04/2008
Financial Times – World Energy Council Summit: Investment Opportunities in Clean Energy Businesses
Last week I visited London to speak at the Financial Times – World Energy Council Summit for...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 09/27/2008
Surface Computing Capabilities Demonstrated for the Plant
I’ve written two previous blog posts about Surface computing here and here but I’d like regular...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 09/19/2008
Three Years Apart, Hurricane Gustav and Katrina Wrack Entergy
Our hearts go out to the people of New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Houma, and Lafayette, and the countless...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 09/03/2008
Mobile Workforce Management Grows Stronger with Acquisition
Reliable electricity supply is a key part of achieving prevalent “Smart Energy,” a term which the...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 08/28/2008
Surfacing new applications with Microsoft Surface
Today’s Boston Globe contains a brief article about Microsoft Surface and its application for...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 08/13/2008
Cyber security and critical infrastructure protection - Managing for success
To say that Utilities are meeting the challenges of a difficult age is probably the understatement...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 08/12/2008
Keeping Wind Farms "Blowin' in the Wind"
In our last Blog we talked about WW Partner Conference and the investments Microsoft is making with...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 07/28/2008
Microsoft Partner Conference Refreshes Power & Utility Industry Ideas
Every summer we at Microsoft go through a rejuvenating process at the end of our fiscal year (June...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 07/24/2008
Is the Aging Workforce a Good Thing?
There’s been a lot of concern over the Big Crew Change in the Power & Utility sectors over the...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 07/14/2008
All You Can Eat Meter Data Management
Nearly every utility knows they are moving toward the day when customer meters will provide the...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 07/09/2008
BI - Smart Utilities' Light Bulb
The software industry is continually challenged by the need to convert data into useable information...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 06/25/2008
Transforming the Utility Industry: The Transition from Task-Oriented to Information Workers
I was at an executive briefing this week in Europe for one of the largest Utilities in the world....
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 06/20/2008
Lost Power? Con Ed Tool May Help...
As a follow-up to the blogs on Geospatial Systems on Steroids, there is a posting concerning the...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 06/14/2008
Carbon Emission Management: Technology Systems Can Improve Customer Satisfaction and Employee Retention
Utility executives know implicitly that consumers judge their company by the amount and...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 06/13/2008
Interactive and collaborative visual communications system of the future...without the flirting!
Interesting article in USA Today about Microsoft and Harrah's unveil high-tech interactive bar table...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 06/13/2008
Geospatial Systems on Steroids – Part II
In a previous blog I discussed how geographic information system technology is reshaping certain...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 06/09/2008
Geospatial Systems on Steroids
Utilities and other companies are no strangers to geographic information system technology as it is...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 06/05/2008
Tools for Business in the Flat World...
Memorial Day in the US has just drawn to a close. It’s the day that commemorates U.S. men and women...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 05/27/2008
Aberdeen report ranks Microsoft #1 in business value
In a recent release Aberdeen, a leading provider of fact-based research and market intelligence that...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 05/26/2008
Welcome to the Microsoft Utilities Industries Blog!
My Name is Jon Arnold and I am the Microsoft WW Utilities Industry Managing Director, one several...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 05/16/2008
Welcome to the Microsoft Utilities Industries Blog!
My Name is Jon Arnold and I am the Microsoft WW Utilities Industry Managing Director, one of four...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 05/16/2008