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Innovating for the Future: The Energy & Utilities Project
Montgomery Research Inc. recently published Volume 8 of its Energy & Utilities Project, which focuses on how utility companies can innovate for the future. IBM authored a number of articles in the book that provide fresh thinking from a range of perspectives. Learn more now.
15 May 2008
Answering the call for improved customer operations
Today’s utility customers are better informed; environmental awareness is at an all-time high; and technical advances are enabling new solutions. Given these issues, better service will be the difference between keeping customers and losing them. This brochure explores why.
26 Mar 2008
Reduce utility bills and your carbon footprint at the same time
When it comes to energy, growing public concern for the environment and climate change is fueling a more engaged consumer. A range of innovations, including automated smart meters will give homeowners the power to make decisions and actively manage their energy consumption.
21 Feb 2008
Brochure: Powering an energy transformation: The Intelligent Utility Network from IBM
For utilities with an eye on cleaner, more reliable and efficient energy distribution, the Intelligent Utility Network (IUN) solution can transform the way you deliver and manage, analyze and use power. From changing the nature of the business to altering consumer behavior, IUN promises to transform the future of the power industry.
14 Jan 2008
Brochure: Advanced Meter Management from IBM lights way for utility companies
Timely collection, validation and verification of data provided by outdated meters can be costly and even logistically impossible. IBM is helping utilities to implement “smart” meters as a core component of a new intelligent utility network infrastructure, using digital technology. This brochure shows you how.
08 Jan 2008
Plugging in the consumer—Innovating utility
Historically, the relationship between utilities and consumers has been rather lopsided — utilities had the power, both literally and figuratively. But the confluence of climate change concerns, rising energy costs and technology advances leading to greater consumer involvement is now radically redefining that relationship.
12 Dec 2007
Geospatially enabled asset and service management
IBM Maximo® Spatial Asset Management is the first available solution that unifies the full functionality of industry-leading GIS and asset and service management products in a thoroughly modern architecture based on Java™, XML and Web services.
06 Dec 2007
Gartner, Inc. Magic Quadrant for power-generating company EAM software, 2007
For power-generating companies searching for enterprise asset management maintenance software solutions, Gartner analyzes standalone software products that solve asset management problems.
15 Nov 2007
Plugging in the consumer—Innovating utility business models for the future
Our recent surveys of 1,900 energy consumers and nearly 100 industry executives across the globe reveal major changes underway — a more heterogeneous consumer base, evolving industry models and a stark departure from a decades-old value chain.
12 Nov 2007
IBM asset and service management solutions white paper
This white paper shows how the IBM Maximo® software solution is the leading asset and service management software in the marketplace, through its highly flexible business components and technology architecture.
03 Oct 2007
International Power fuels growth with IBM Maximo asset management
Deploying IBM Maximo® worldwide provides economies of scale, global consistency and helps meet the business objectives of improved effectiveness and cost control.
30 Jul 2007
Innovation in Action: The Energy & Utilities Project
The seventh annual volume of thought leadership published by Montgomery Research International and IBM. Regulatory compliance. Balancing consumption with environmental concerns. These are some of the primary issues driving innovation in today’s energy and utilities industry.
11 Jul 2007
The key to economic expansion in utilities
Converging Market forces are driving utilities to seek new approaches and business models to operate with driving investment and innovation.
11 Jul 2007
The key to economic expansion in utilities podcast
Converging Market forces are driving utilities to seek new approaches and business models to operate with driving investment and innovation.
11 Jul 2007
Information is power: The Intelligent Utility Network
The intelligent utility network is now becoming a reality. More and more utilities are developing and implementing modernization strategies. Soon the intelligent utility network will be the standard model for all operators to meet.
11 Jul 2007
Information is power podcast
The intelligent utility network is now becoming a reality. More and more utilities are developing and implementing modernization strategies. Soon the intelligent utility network will be the standard model for all operators to meet.
11 Jul 2007
Asset management in the utilities industry
To achieve higher corporate performance—whether measured in terms of shareholder value, revenue growth, profitability or customer satisfaction, companies are adopting more sophisticated asset management approaches that make it possible to manage diverse and often widely dispersed assets with a single, more easily scaled and deployed system.
03 Jul 2007
Understanding the real risk for asset-intensive companies
There are some common misconceptions about the value, capabilities and deployment of ERP solutions in asset-intensive industries. In this white paper, these myths are discussed and demystified so that decision makers in these asset-intensive industries can better understand what the real risk is.
20 Mar 2007
Lower Colorado River Authority expands throughout Texas with IBM Maximo
IBM Maximo® asset management solution seamlessly manages the resources for four varied utilities and provides a fast, efficient mobile system for improved staff productivity.
23 Jan 2007
Achieve greater efficiency in asset management by managing all your asset types on a single platform
IBM Maximo® Asset Management takes the power, performance and possibilities of asset management to an entirely new level. Built on a single software platform, Maximo Asset Management delivers a comprehensive view of all asset types — production, facilities, transportation and IT — across your enterprise.
14 Dec 2006
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