Microsoft Power and Utilities Blog

“LURED by the potential to rapidly scale IT systems during times of peak customer demand, one South Australian company is taking its first steps into the world of public cloud computing”. This is a quote from the article titled Public system helps light...

Today is an exciting day. Our Microsoft Global Utilities team is gathered in Redmond with more than 70 executives from worldwide utility companies, partners and systems integrators discussing the future of the Smart Grid and reviewing case studies that...

The Smart Energy Reference Architecture Program includes the notion of creation of “accelerators” to speed solution deployment and realize SERA alignment values. SERA Accelerators also reduce partner and customer risk. The accelerator program derives...

Productivity Future Vision (2011) When we at Microsoft think about the future we think about how people will get things done at work, at home and on the go. Five to ten years from now how will people create and share content; collaborate across teams...

We are very pleased to announce a webinar with our Global Dynamics CRM partner Convergys and Five Point Partners’ Strategy, Research & Advisory (SRA) practice . Five Points will discuss the results of their recent Utility survey where 81 percent of...

Utilities are faced with many challenges from an information management perspective. We often hear CIOs talk about the tsunami of data that comforts them in the smart Utility age. Stories are common place concerning the uncontrolled information growth;...

The cloud probably ranks right up there with the Smart Grid in terms of confusion to what it is and what it means for businesses and consumers. You hear about it on TV, radio and folks like me talking up the virtues of the cloud and how it transforms...

Several weeks ago we wrote about the Ferranti-Microsoft Global Collaboration for Utilities . Last week our partners Avanade and Ferranti announced their partnership to deliver innovative enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions, based on the Microsoft...