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Case Studies

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

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.