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Case Studies

EMC unites Scottish Water via document management Scottish Water, a publicly owned company, challenged EMC to help them cope with increasing customer correspondence and regulatory compliance.

Integrating mainframe applications and corporate portal with EMC Documentum applications to improve and streamline buisness processes Constellation Energy, the United States' largest competitive supplier of electricity to commercial and industrial customers needed to eliminate dual entry of information and a more secure process to transfer information from mainframe application to call center. In the face of these two tasks they asked EMC to help increase efficiency and while still maintaining its position as the country's largest wholesale power seller.

Oniqua Helps West Coast Transit Authority Fuel Savings and Drive Performance by Tuning Up Inventory, Accelerating Response Times and Putting the Brakes on Waste Oniqua was challenged to reduce inventory stock levels while maintaining 95%+ fill rates. This case study follows their path and reasons the customers chose Oniqua Analytics Suite.

SAS(r) Analytics Interactive Tour - Influence future outcomes through fact-based decision making. From data mining and text analytics to forecasting and operations research, your organization can grow with an analytics platform specifically designed to evolve your business and improve the bottom line. Take this interactive tour to find out more.

How VMware Virtualization Right-sizes IT Infrastructure to Reduce Power Consumption Rising energy costs and consumption in datacenters is a hot topic, whether you care about saving money, deploying new IT services, keeping the datacenter running or sparing the environment.

Whitepapers

Smart Data Diagnostics - Key to Information Accuracy for Utilities: This whitepaper presents an approach to help Utilities to follow a structured methodology to improve the data accuracy & get better prepared to face the challenges on this front.

Role of Systems Integrator in Smart Metering Implementation: Smart Metering has become the latest buzzword world over for all, including Governments, Utilities and Regulators owing to significant benefits achieved by its implementation.

The Road to Active Network Management This white paper analizes the Grid-Connected Distribution Generation and storage implimentations currently on the rise according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) � Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) AT&T addresses the many issues facing the Utilities industry, one of those issues being cyber security.

Deploying AMI Solutions: A Best Practices Approach This white paper is intended to help Utility customers plan their AMI deployment by adopting best practices. The paper outlines best practices around the design, deployment and operation of wirelessly enabled smart meters.

Maximize IT Efficiency and Resources Varolii helps IT groups leverage their existing technology with a low cost, fully-hosted communications solution.

AFTER THE DUST SETTLES Automated Customer Communications: Helping Utilities Manage in a Changing Environment With an aging infrastructure and workforce, increasingly restrictive regulatory environments, threats of terrorism, natural disasters and other issues, utilities face mounting challenges across a broad range of their operations. This white paper reviews how utilities in the US have begun working with on solutions to solve a range of operational challenges.

Network Security Overwatch Layer: Smarter Protection for the Enterprise This white paper provides an overview of network security threats and background on today's threat ecosystem, the impacts of these treats on enterprises and challenges that IT will be facing.

Cloud Computing: Making Virtual Machines Cloud-Ready Cloud computing has been compared to the early proliferation of electricity. Homes, businesses and towns did not want to produce or rely on their own source of power. The larger grid, controlled by power companies saved time and provided reliable electricity. Similarly, relying on cloud computing, enterprises can achieve cost savings, flexibility, and choice for computing resources. They are looking to cloud computing to expand their on-premise infrastructure, by adding capacity on demand.

How do you put 'Smart' into Smart Grid? White paper from SAS - With the advent of the smart grid infrastructure, including smart metering and demand response mechanisms, Utilities are challenged to find the best way to use the huge volumes of smart grid data to analyze and forecast demand. This paper offers views on the most effective ways to integrate, store, manage and analyze advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and smart metering data.

Information Is Power: The Intelligent Utility Network The intelligent utility network addresses the challenges of rising energy costs, aging infrastructure and increased demand for reliability by leveraging all of the benefits of automation and digitization.

Plugging Revenue Leakage in the Utility Industry Utilities are continuously under intense pressure from stakeholders to show improved corporate performance despite increasing costs, regulatory pressures and enhanced customer expectations.

Transitioning to Agile in an Agile Way: Amplifying Traditional Approaches with Agile Technology

Executive Content

Bringing Smart Meters to the Public In this Thought-leadership Series Interview, Elisabeth Brinton, Chief Business and Public Affairs Officer at the Sacramento Municipal Utility District talks about SMUD's plans to install 600,000 smart meters by 2012. Brinton outlines the advantages these meters will provide SMUD and the public, as well as the next steps toward smart grid implementation.

Digitizing As-Built Gas Utility Asset Data For GIS: Digitization involves migrating the existing asset data available in hard format to GIS. This migrated asset data is important to GIS as all the functionalities of GIS are woven around that.

Lull After the Storm: Disaster Management for Utilities. Good disaster management requires information that is accurate, current, timely, and quickly analyzed. Much of the information used for disaster management has a spatial dimension.