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
Microsoft is the only public cloud vendor to be named a Leader by Gartner for both PaaS and IaaS
We want to highlight a recent blog post by Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President with our Cloud...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 06/05/2014
Ventyx Goin' Mobile with Mobile Worker and Mobile Inspector on Windows 8.1
We are very excited about our partner Ventyx’s announcement last week on the availability of Mobile...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 06/03/2014
New success in protecting customer rights unsealed today
As we move to the Cloud there are concerns around our position on government pressures regarding...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 05/29/2014
ICONICS Introduces MobileHMI for Water on Windows 8
One of the great things about Windows 8 is its ability to change the way we work from an industry...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 05/28/2014
Microsoft’s mobile and cloud solutions connect to the universe of data in SAP
Big news today as we announce an extension of our partnership with SAP that’s focused on giving...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 05/19/2014
South West Water transforms customer service using Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Here’s a great new case study from one of our water customers in the UK, South West Water. In...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 05/15/2014
Ventyx Asset Performance Management Software goes to the Cloud!
Yesterday in Orlando, Ventyx announced that their industry-leading asset performance software is now...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 05/07/2014
Energy Company Restarts Nuclear Reactors Faster
Every year, nuclear power plants must shut down to refuel and perform maintenance on its reactors....
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 05/02/2014
Accelerate Your Insights
If you missed our CEO Satya Nadella talk last week on how to drive your business in real-time, from...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 04/22/2014
NERC CIP Version 5: Compliance Support with Microsoft
I remember back in the late days of Y2K preparation when the U.S. Department of Energy approached us...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 04/17/2014
Schneider Electric Announces New Cloud-Based Software Development & Webinar Replay: “From Sustainability Strategy to Project Implementation”
Several years ago we formalized our global partnership with Schneider Electric and it’s been a...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 03/31/2014
Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System: Leslie Lamport Receives Turing Award
We at Microsoft were very excited last week when we found out that the Association for Computing...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 03/26/2014
From Sustainability Strategy to Project Implementation: How Technology Can Get You There!
Here’s a webcast on the intersection of sustainability and technology from a project implementation...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 03/20/2014
The world really does owe a lot to Microsoft Trustworthy Computing
When I joined Microsoft to run its Power and Utilities business almost ten years ago I realized that...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 03/14/2014
Office 365: A snowball’s chance in hell?
One of the conversations I routinely have with customers is about Office 365 which is our...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 02/24/2014
Carnegie Mellon improves operational efficiency, cuts energy consumption by 30% with Power BI and partner OSIsoft
No need to write a long introduction to this hot off the press case study. It’s just the tip of the...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 02/12/2014
Dawn of a new day: Power BI for Office 365 is here!
Today, we announced that Power BI for Office 365 – our self-service business intelligence solution...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 02/10/2014
Our Super Bowl Story - Using technology to change lives and empower people
In yesterday’s Super Bowl (annual championship game of the National Football League, the highest...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 02/03/2014
Microsoft Power & Utilities Team at the Electric Light & Power Executive Conference and DistribuTECH this week
The Microsoft Power & Utilities team along with many account and partner teams are in San...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 01/27/2014
New Zealand Power Company Improves Asset Management and Information Access
In our conversations with customers we routinely have a discussion about improving information...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 01/18/2014
Utility Week Achievement Awards and Power BI
Last month I spent a week visiting customers and partners in the UK. December is always...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 01/08/2014
The Business Value of Smart Meters
The deployment of smart meters worldwide continues to accelerate and we have seen estimates of over...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 01/03/2014
Austin Energy and Schneider Electric are working together to implement an advanced distribution management system (ADMS).
Excellent case study article in Smartgridnews on Austin Energy’s quest to build a smart utility and...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 12/18/2013
Rethinking Mobile Possibilities with Avanade's Windows 8 Enterprise Studio
Avanade's Windows 8 Enterprise Studio is at the forefront when it comes to building touch...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 12/08/2013
Microsoft Announces Enhanced Customer Data Security
Yesterday, we announced three important new steps our company is taking to protect customer data: ·...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 12/05/2013
Windows 8.1 is a mobile OS
Excellent article on the work that we have done to make Windows 8.1 a significant advancement in...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 11/26/2013
Information At Your Fingertips
Next week I will be attending and speaking at the OpenText Enterprise World event in Orlando. The...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 11/16/2013
Believe it or not: Bill Gates Unveiled Windows 30 Years Ago Today
I have always been a bit of a technology historian having grown up testing vacuum tubes and stepping...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 11/11/2013
Goin' Mobile!
Most readers of this blog know that Mobility has become a widely recognized megatrend—alongside...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 11/02/2013
Windows XP users six times more likely to be hacked
Check out the USA Today article and video interview with Tim Rains, director of Microsoft...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 10/31/2013
Orbit - A Revolutionary Approach to Mobile Field Data Collection
We have written before about Schneider Electric’s Orbit solution for field inspections here and...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 10/18/2013
Schneider Electric Selects Microsoft Windows Azure as Preferred Cloud Platform for StruxureWare
We are delighted Schneider Electric has selected the Windows Azure as their preferred cloud platform...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 10/16/2013
Redknee accelerates cloud-based billing adoption using Oracle’s mission-critical software on Microsoft’s Windows Azure
A couple of weeks ago at Oracle OpenWorld 2013, Lucas Skoczkowski, CEO of Redknee, joined Microsoft...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 10/09/2013
Microsoft Cloud Achieves FedRAMP Status
In a quiet press release, Microsoft has announced what may be one of the most significant milestones...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 10/06/2013
Project “GeoFlow” now called “Power Map”
We’ve written about our project “GeoFlow” before and it’s amazing 3D visualization capabilities for...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 09/26/2013
Ventyx Cloud Risk Analytics Solution to Help Energy Companies Improve Profitability and Mitigate Risks
In today’s complex world I often wish I could predict the future. Even with my access to enormous...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 09/22/2013
Windows Phone takes flight, literally at 35,000 feet!
Naturally, I am big fan of the Windows phone. It really is easy to use, easy to see things (my baby...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 08/22/2013
The touch revolution comes to a wall near you
This week I was invited to participate in a customer event concerning innovation. My presentation...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 08/22/2013
Schneider Electric launches Orbit: A devices and services solution for field inspections
We wrote back in April about the work Schneider Electric was doing on a new field inspection...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 08/12/2013
Welcome to the world of Power BI!
At our annual Worldwide Partner Conference several weeks ago we announced a new offering that builds...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 07/23/2013
Enabling smarter homes for everyone
Back in 2006 when we were working on the ideas that eventually turned into Microsoft Hohm, we saw...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 07/19/2013
Microsoft Brings Smart Buildings to Seattle; and Residents in the French town of Issy-les-Moulineaux Trim Energy Use by 20 Percent When Given Real-Time Consumption Data
I want to highlight a couple stories that highlight how the cloud and big data are being used to...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 07/11/2013
Visualizing Information: “GeoFlow” for Excel delivers 3D data visualization and storytelling
One of my favorite books during my career in computer science was Edward R. Tufte’s Envisioning...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 06/06/2013
Blue sky thinking with O365
A quote from the CIO: “Office 365 was a compelling solution for AGL's business that seemed to...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 05/28/2013
It’s Time for the Next Wave
Microsoft has just published the Smart Energy Reference Architecture SERA v2.0, after many months of...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 05/08/2013
Cloud Produces $1 Billion for Microsoft
We couldn’t help but beam brightly when we saw this headline the other day in the Seattle...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 05/02/2013
Webcast: Use of Gaming Technology and 3D Humans to Manage Worker Exposure to Radiation at Nuclear Plants
We have written before about the Kinect effect and how it is spurring innovation in industry and...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 04/21/2013