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Interesting article in USA Today about Microsoft and Harrah's unveil high-tech interactive bar table (see: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2008-06-12-microsoft-harrahs-casino-table_N.htm ) Harrah’s Entertainment is using a high-tech interactive...

Utility executives know implicitly that consumers judge their company by the amount and meaningfulness of the Utilities' community outreach and conservation programs. What’s been difficult to measure is just how much value is created by such efforts and...

As a follow-up to the blogs on Geospatial Systems on Steroids, there is a posting concerning the iFactor Virtual Earth solution at Consolidated Edison of New York on the NY Times Blog site. The title is: Lost Power? Con Ed Tool May Help (if Your Battery...

I was at an executive briefing this week in Europe for one of the largest Utilities in the world. During a presentation concerning the “New World of Work,” I turned to the Group CIO of the Utility and asked him this question: “How many of your company...

Utilities and other companies are no strangers to geographic information system technology as it is part of their resource management, asset management, environmental impact assessment and emergency planning and response operations. Utilities have been...

In a previous blog I discussed how geographic information system technology is reshaping certain utility industry operations. Another area where we are seeing a ton of activity in is merging GIS data with the Virtual Earth web based mapping application...

The software industry is continually challenged by the need to convert data into useable information and several years ago that challenge took shape in the form of dashboards – graphical representations of key information that was being generated by various...