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The Microsoft in Power & Utilities blog discusses the emerging technological and economic challenges facing the global Utility industry and how Utilities can innovate through a strategy based on devices and services to transform and grow their business

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2015 20

  1. Remembering Jon Arnold – a man larger than life itself
  2. SUBNET selected to manage and secure BC Hydro’s distribution devices
  3. Public webcast: Harnessing the power of big data through machine learning in Power & Utilities
  4. Hannover Messe is upon us and we are so excited!
  5. Improving customer service: From idea to app in six weeks through the Cloud
  6. Reimagining the Utility enterprise in a connected world at Hanover Messe
  7. Azure Machine Learning helping the smart grid become smarter
  8. Elevating water conscious with IoT and the cloud at the city of Breda
  9. Neudesic takes Smart Meter Analytics to the Hybrid Cloud!
  10. King County, WA launches Smart Building Energy Tracking System
  11. The General Availability of Azure Machine Learning and Smart Grid Management
  12. The January - February installment of the Microsoft Power & Utilities News
  13. Electric Network Designer Software heads to the Cloud
  14. AutoGrid Systems to Enable Utility and Energy Service Providers to Develop Smart Grid Analytics Applications on Microsoft Azure
  15. Transforming to a Digital Business
  16. The next evolution of Power BI: Transforming the business of business intelligence
  17. Webcast Replay - The Innovation Challenge: Creating the 21st Century Utility
  18. OpenText Excellence in Enterprise Procurement with Oracle EBS and Microsoft Office 365
  19. Meet and engage with Microsoft and our partners at DistribuTECH
  20. Webcast Replay - The Innovation Challenge: Creating the 21st Century Utility

2014 44

  1. Microsoft Business Predictions for 2015
  2. How Microsoft is evolving field services
  3. The gold standard in enterprise cloud computing has arrived: Accenture and Microsoft launch new hybrid cloud platform to accelerate enterprise-wide adoption
  4. Featured Video: See how AGL is transforming the way they work
  5. Microsoft Power & Utilities News
  6. Webinar: Intelligent Buildings, Predictive Analytics, Fault Detection & Diagnostics: The Essentials to Achieving Energy Efficiency, Thursday, Nov 13th
  7. Internet of Things
  8. Dutch water company Evides benefits from the OpenText and Microsoft Alliance
  9. Improving customer satisfaction through Outage Maps
  10. Delivering on the promise of the Internet of Things
  11. Carnegie Mellon Sees a Way to Cut Energy Use by 20 Percent with Cloud Machine Learning Solution
  12. WEBCAST: Learn How the Internet of Things can deliver business value to Power & Utility Companies
  13. Protecting Customer Data in Our Cloud through Microsoft Azure
  14. Free Webinar: How to potentially save millions in operations cost each year with Asset Health
  15. How Microsoft buys Green Energy
  16. British Gas goes Social with Yammer
  17. Microsoft Research demonstrates technology that can dramatically smooth motion in first-person videos
  18. Reinventing productivity and platforms
  19. The emerging intelligent data ecosystem
  20. Itron looks to the cloud for analytics
  21. Harnessing the power of big data with cloud predictive analytics: Introducing Azure Machine Learning
  22. Lincoln Electric System heads to the Cloud with Orbit!
  23. Microsoft is the only public cloud vendor to be named a Leader by Gartner for both PaaS and IaaS
  24. Ventyx Goin' Mobile with Mobile Worker and Mobile Inspector on Windows 8.1
  25. New success in protecting customer rights unsealed today
  26. ICONICS Introduces MobileHMI for Water on Windows 8
  27. Microsoft’s mobile and cloud solutions connect to the universe of data in SAP
  28. South West Water transforms customer service using Microsoft Dynamics CRM
  29. Ventyx Asset Performance Management Software goes to the Cloud!
  30. Energy Company Restarts Nuclear Reactors Faster
  31. Accelerate Your Insights
  32. NERC CIP Version 5: Compliance Support with Microsoft
  33. Schneider Electric Announces New Cloud-Based Software Development & Webinar Replay: “From Sustainability Strategy to Project Implementation”
  34. Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System: Leslie Lamport Receives Turing Award
  35. From Sustainability Strategy to Project Implementation: How Technology Can Get You There!
  36. The world really does owe a lot to Microsoft Trustworthy Computing
  37. Office 365: A snowball’s chance in hell?
  38. Carnegie Mellon improves operational efficiency, cuts energy consumption by 30% with Power BI and partner OSIsoft
  39. Dawn of a new day: Power BI for Office 365 is here!
  40. Our Super Bowl Story - Using technology to change lives and empower people
  41. Microsoft Power & Utilities Team at the Electric Light & Power Executive Conference and DistribuTECH this week
  42. New Zealand Power Company Improves Asset Management and Information Access
  43. Utility Week Achievement Awards and Power BI
  44. The Business Value of Smart Meters

2013 39

  1. Austin Energy and Schneider Electric are working together to implement an advanced distribution management system (ADMS).
  2. Rethinking Mobile Possibilities with Avanade's Windows 8 Enterprise Studio
  3. Microsoft Announces Enhanced Customer Data Security
  4. Windows 8.1 is a mobile OS
  5. Information At Your Fingertips
  6. Believe it or not: Bill Gates Unveiled Windows 30 Years Ago Today
  7. Goin' Mobile!
  8. Windows XP users six times more likely to be hacked
  9. Orbit - A Revolutionary Approach to Mobile Field Data Collection
  10. Schneider Electric Selects Microsoft Windows Azure as Preferred Cloud Platform for StruxureWare
  11. Redknee accelerates cloud-based billing adoption using Oracle’s mission-critical software on Microsoft’s Windows Azure
  12. Microsoft Cloud Achieves FedRAMP Status
  13. Project “GeoFlow” now called “Power Map”
  14. Ventyx Cloud Risk Analytics Solution to Help Energy Companies Improve Profitability and Mitigate Risks
  15. Windows Phone takes flight, literally at 35,000 feet!
  16. The touch revolution comes to a wall near you
  17. Schneider Electric launches Orbit: A devices and services solution for field inspections
  18. Welcome to the world of Power BI!
  19. Enabling smarter homes for everyone
  20. Microsoft Brings Smart Buildings to Seattle; and Residents in the French town of Issy-les-Moulineaux Trim Energy Use by 20 Percent When Given Real-Time Consumption Data
  21. Visualizing Information: “GeoFlow” for Excel delivers 3D data visualization and storytelling
  22. Blue sky thinking with O365
  23. It’s Time for the Next Wave
  24. Cloud Produces $1 Billion for Microsoft
  25. Webcast: Use of Gaming Technology and 3D Humans to Manage Worker Exposure to Radiation at Nuclear Plants
  26. Leveraging the Cloud Takes IT Support to the Post-Nick Burns Era
  27. How Microsoft Quietly Built the City of the Future
  28. How Windows Azure is Helping Manage Solar Energy Generation in Japan
  29. Schneider Electric unveils their cloud based “Orbit” mobile inspection solution
  30. Zpryme Forecasts Cloud Future for Utilities; Microsoft’s Flexibility Stands Ready
  31. Bill Gates Paraphrases Mark Twain’s “Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated”
  32. Mainstream Renewable Power Using Microsoft for Complex Business Project Management
  33. Free Webcast: How Anglian Water is driving a step change in utilization of structured and unstructured data to enable greater efficiency within core business processes
  34. Microsoft Global Utilities Virtual Summit
  35. Microsoft Recognized as Preferred Choice of Vendors, Best in Class for Cloud
  36. Microsoft Utility Partners OSIsoft and Schneider Electric Take Up the Integration Challenge
  37. Join Microsoft at DistribuTECH 2013
  38. Reflecting on the past and looking to the future
  39. Another Windows Store Industry Application: OpenText

2012 31

  1. Windows 8: So Simple
  2. A Day in the Utility Life: OpenText, SAP and SharePoint Work together for Enterprise Asset Management
  3. Solving Wind Intermittency Using Microsoft Technologies
  4. Managing the Utility Information Explosion Using Cloud-based Offerings from OpenText in Windows 8
  5. Utility IT Departments Take the Driver Seat for Cloud Services
  6. Surface's Electrifying Debut!
  7. Windows 8: Ready for Utilities
  8. Managing Content, the Microsoft Partner Way
  9. Orchestrated Movements, Safety Tracking A Part of Our Partner Offerings
  10. SQL Server 2012 Passes Another Benchmarking Test for Utility Application
  11. Another Partner looks to the Cloud: Telvent/Schneider Electric to Leverage Microsoft Azure
  12. When Security Isn’t the Last Consideration: How Microsoft’s Security Development Structures Apply to the Real-World with our Partner Itron
  13. OpenText Benchmark Trial for SQL Server 2012 Passes with Flying Colors
  14. OpenText Takes Solution to the Cloud
  15. Japan, A True Nation Class Laboratory
  16. CyberSecurity Performance Questioned; New Collaboration Agreement Seeks to Address
  17. Ferranti Computer Systems Dives into Big Data
  18. Smart Grid Cyber Security Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance
  19. The Power of Kinect for Industry
  20. Chinese Energy Utility Builds BI Solution to Improve Information Sharing and Efficiency and OSIsoft Gives Customers Self-Service Business Analytics Tools for Real-Time Data Using
  21. Releasing SQL Server 2012 to Help Customers Manage “Any Data, Any Size, Anywhere”
  22. Improving Carbon Footprint Management and Reporting with Better Analytics
  23. Cool Company: Switch Automation provides a cloud based platform for automation and energy management in homes, apartments and commercial buildings
  24. Improving Equipment Performance with Predictive Diagnostic Software
  25. Leveraging Big Data to improve Plant and Asset Performance
  26. OpenText Brings Business Process Solutions to Windows Azure
  27. Smart Grid Implementations Rises 25 Percent in the past year - but that’s not the full story
  28. Join us at DistribuTECH for “Creating a Real Impact for Our Partners and Customers with Microsoft SQL Server”
  29. Trustworthy computing at 10 Years => TwC Next
  30. Webinar this week - Smart Grid: Where Do We Stand? Thursday Jan 19th at 11:00AM EST.
  31. Microsoft at DistribuTECH: January 24 - 26, 2012

2011 46

  1. Smart Grid: Where Do We Stand?
  2. Convergys and Microsoft: Better Together
  3. Webcast Replay - The Future of Enterprise Utility Solutions
  4. Accenture, Avanade and Microsoft partner for life cycle management of DSM programs
  5. Join us for a Webcast on The Future of Enterprise Utility Solutions
  6. Integral Management of Public Space
  7. Partner Bentley Systems bets on Azure-cloud-based services for sustaining infrastructure
  8. Replay Now Available for Webinar: Driving Customer Success in the Smart Grid Era: Why the Time is Now for CRM
  9. Enterprise Content Management program fundamentally changes the way Hydro One manages its content and documents
  10. Productivity Future Vision (2011)
  11. Azure based public system helps light up ETSA Utilities' electricity network map
  12. Driving Customer Success in the Smart Grid Era: Why the Time is Now for CRM
  13. Database as a Cloud Service
  14. BTC Rolls Out First SERA Accelerator
  15. Avanade and Ferranti Partner to Deliver Solutions for Utilities
  16. Microsoft Global Utilities Summit Draws over 70 Senior Utility Executives; Launches Telvent Announcement
  17. Energy Distributor Showcases New Microsoft Online Services Contributions to Productivity/Cost Savings
  18. Getting Serious about Billing – The Ferranti-Microsoft Global Collaboration Agreement for Utilities
  19. OSIsoft Launches PI Coresight for Ad Hoc Analysis of PI System Data
  20. White Roof Does the Trick
  21. SharePoint 2010 Down Under in Australia
  22. Windows Phone 7’s Increasing Trajectory with Microsoft Partners
  23. Caring for Customers: A “Mashable Ecosystem” Model for Utilities
  24. The Egyptian Electric Utility and Consumer Protection Regulatory Agency chooses Microsoft Dynamics CRM to monitor complaints and service requests
  25. The Role of The Cloud in The Smart Grid
  26. Singapore Power Selects Telvent for Next Generation Utility Technology
  27. The Complexities of Substation Cyber Security
  28. Driving Productivity and Innovation with Bentley & Microsoft
  29. IHS and Enterprise Sustainability Management
  30. Consumerization of IT, but’s what’s next?
  31. Webcast(s) Replay: Itron - Microsoft Webcasts on Delivering Mission Critical Solutions for Utilities on SQL Server 2008 R2
  32. Itron-Microsoft Benchmarking Test Confirms Large Scale Meter Data Management Capabilities
  33. An inside look at MidAmerican's 273-day quest to transform its process and culture on the way toward making its software more secure using Microsoft's Security Development Lifecycle (SDL).
  34. Microsoft and Itron Webcast on Meter Data Management Benchmarking Results - May 3, 2011
  35. Microsoft and Toyota Pave the Way toward Smart Energy Ecosystem
  36. Rubbing Elbows with Presidents
  37. John Shaw of Mainstream Renewable Power speaking at the IDC Business Process Management and SOA Conference
  38. Microsoft Utilities Team Spreads Out to India, OSIsoft and Telvent User Group Conferences
  39. The Central Role of Cloud Computing in Making Cities Energy-Smart
  40. Survey Says: Smart Grid is More than a Fad Despite the Difficulties
  41. Alstom Power and Microsoft Step Up to Meet New Challenges
  42. Texas Sees Rolling Blackouts: Maybe Time for a Lesson in Danish
  43. Azure Helps Invensys Create Near Real-Time Energy Pricing Platform for Companies
  44. Microsoft Survey Highlights Cloud Movement Across the US
  45. “Go East Utility Software Company!”
  46. New Year, New Predictions

2010 39

  1. Microsoft, OSIsoft, and Mainstream Renewable Power Webcast Recap
  2. Central Maine Power Chooses Microsoft Partner Itron (with SQL Server) for Smart Grid Initiative
  3. Microsoft Launches Lync; Utility Knowledge Workers Benefit
  4. Telvent and Microsoft Announce Smart Grid Focus
  5. New Study Confirms Energy Savings Possible with the Cloud
  6. Join Microsoft, OSIsoft, and Mainstream Renewable Power for a Complimentary Webcast: "Creating an Adaptive Smart Grid Framework"
  7. Yoda Speaks
  8. NIST Collects New Group of Smart Grid Advisors
  9. Italian Town Succeeds in Using Wind Energy
  10. Enabling Efficient Crew Dispatch
  11. Global Partner Conference Sparks New Year for Microsoft in Utilities
  12. Peter Day’s World of Business BBC Radio Broadcast: Power Play
  13. Increasing Customer Intimacy Will Be Key Success Factor For Smart Grid
  14. Hohm in the House, Next Iteration
  15. All in a Day’s Work: Day Trips to London, Our Global Footprints, and Cool Software
  16. Intersections, Convergence, Connections: The Future of 21st Century Energy Usage
  17. Power & Utilities Group's Jerry Thomas Identifies Value of Windows 7 and Office 2010 for Utilities
  18. Microsoft Representatives Spread Out Across the World for Major Utility Conferences
  19. Utility Markets Down Under May Soon Offer Lessons for Utilities Worldwide
  20. Intelligent Utility Daily Publishes 2-Part Interview on Microsoft in Power & Utilities
  21. Microsoft’s Craig Hodges Keynotes OSIsoft User’s Conference
  22. News Story for The Microsoft Vision for Tomorrow’s Energy is Featured On Our Website
  23. Information Management Will Be Key to the 21st Century Utility Transformation
  24. A Vision for Cloud Computing Presented by Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO; Lessons for Power & Utilities Companies
  25. A Glimpse into the Future Of the Smart Energy Ecosystem
  26. Microsoft Power & Utilities Group in the Worldwide News
  27. Smart Energy Ecosystem One Mile Closer After Ford and Microsoft Announce Collaborative Effort
  28. Enspiria, as New Part of Black & Veatch, Expands Smart Grid Options for Utilities
  29. Let’s Call the Smart Grid What it Is: Disruptive!
  30. Principal Hohm Architect Offers Integration Interface Guidance
  31. Data, Data Everywhere: Is There a Way to Make Better Decisions?
  32. Bill Gates Talks Energy Miracles at TED2010
  33. More Microsoft Partners Grow Synergies: Bentley Systems Acquires Enterprise Informatics
  34. EnergyBiz Magazine Carries Letter about Knowledge Transfers for CIOs
  35. With Concerns about Water Scarcity Growing, IT Solutions Are Proving Themselves in this Industry as Well
  36. Austin Taking Significant Steps Toward Microsoft Vision of Future Energy Ecosystem
  37. Severn Trent Wins Utility of the Year Award; A Tribute to the Worldwide Water Industry
  38. GreenTech Media Offers Nice Affirmation of Blog Work
  39. Bill Gates Offers Thoughts on Energy Recalibration

2009 42

  1. OSIsoft and Microsoft Webcast on Smart Energy Reference Architecture
  2. Do More with Less: Asset Investment Planning Meets Windows 7
  3. Excess Power Generation Creates New Challenges for Utilities and Regulatory Bodies
  4. Hohm Usage Gets Boost from CBS News Story, Sacramento Municipal Utility District
  5. Microsoft and OSIsoft Present a Free Webcast on Smart Energy Reference Architecture
  6. Xcel Energy Customers Now Able to Manage Home Energy Consumption with Microsoft Hohm
  7. Microsoft’s Mundie is Focused on the World’s Energy Future and Encouraging Young People to Get Aboard
  8. Upcoming Webinar Discusses Risk, Efficiency and Compliance for EPC Projects, 11 November
  9. ESS-Enabled IHS Ready to Accept the Climate Challenge
  10. Addressing Societal Challenges
  11. Riding the Momentum Wave: Microsoft Delivers Hohm, SERA, Windows 7
  12. Microsoft Worldwide Utilities Group Releases Architecture Vision for Smart Energy Ecosystem
  13. Seattle City Light Ushers in New Era of Home Energy Management, Offers Microsoft Hohm to its Customers
  14. Microsoft Hohm Included in Wall Street Journal Story on Smart Grid
  15. More on Microsoft Products' Contribution to Sustainability
  16. Key Technology for Connecting the Integrated Utility of the Future Gets Even Better!
  17. Way Cool! StreamInsight Public Beta Now Available for Smart Grid Developers Interested in Managing and Gaining Insights into Data
  18. New Human Process Management Information Available on Our Web Site
  19. Power Engineering Magazine Publishes Microsoft View on the Future Energy Ecosystem
  20. New IDC Paper Focuses on Ability of Utilities to Handle New Torrents of Smart Grid Data
  21. Which Way to More Energy-Efficient Future?
  22. Microsoft Report on the 2009 National Town Meeting on Demand Response and the Smart Grid
  23. Cyber Attacks Demonstrate Why Smart Grid Will Require Best in Class Security; Microsoft Offers Security Development Lifecycle Paper
  24. Bridging the Gap Between People and Processes
  25. Hohm Rolls Out to Glowing Media Coverage
  26. Craig Mundie Unveils Microsoft Hohm, Our Home Energy Management Solution, at Major Utility Industry Event
  27. EMC Consulting Focuses on Smart Metering Interfaces with Microsoft Technology
  28. Dashboards Will Govern the Smart Energy Ecosystem of the Future
  29. Smart Grid Information – System Overload, Overcome with OSIsoft
  30. Microsoft's Anoop Gupta Meets at White House on Smart Grid
  31. Microsoft Partner ESS Makes Data Collection for EH&S More Efficient
  32. Areva and Microsoft Team to Tackle Smart Grid Integration Efforts
  33. Microsoft’s Mundie Appointed to U.S. Technology Council
  34. Energy Central Centers Story on Microsoft Smart Grid Approach
  35. Hydrogen Energy: The Lost Option?
  36. Microsoft and Partners Ready as U.S. Stimulus Plan Includes $11 billion for Smart Grid Investments
  37. Unified Communications at Power & Utility Companies Save Costs, Change Game
  38. Utilities Leveraging Virtual Earth for Data Visualization
  39. Avista Revamps Customer Experience, Prepares for the Future
  40. Why Microsoft is Involved in the Utility Industry’s CIM Discussion
  41. Recap – Microsoft Worldwide Power & Utilities Group Hosts CIM Users Group Meeting
  42. Compliance, Automated with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

2008 25

  1. Microsoft Hosting CIM Conference December 15 in Redmond
  2. Observations from the Itron Users’ Conference
  3. Joint Virtual Conference on the Intelligent Enterprise
  4. Home Energy Comes One Step Closer
  5. Financial Times – World Energy Council Summit: Investment Opportunities in Clean Energy Businesses
  6. Surface Computing Capabilities Demonstrated for the Plant
  7. Three Years Apart, Hurricane Gustav and Katrina Wrack Entergy
  8. Mobile Workforce Management Grows Stronger with Acquisition
  9. Surfacing new applications with Microsoft Surface
  10. Cyber security and critical infrastructure protection - Managing for success
  11. Keeping Wind Farms "Blowin' in the Wind"
  12. Microsoft Partner Conference Refreshes Power & Utility Industry Ideas
  13. Is the Aging Workforce a Good Thing?
  14. All You Can Eat Meter Data Management
  15. BI - Smart Utilities' Light Bulb
  16. Transforming the Utility Industry: The Transition from Task-Oriented to Information Workers
  17. Lost Power? Con Ed Tool May Help...
  18. Carbon Emission Management: Technology Systems Can Improve Customer Satisfaction and Employee Retention
  19. Interactive and collaborative visual communications system of the future...without the flirting!
  20. Geospatial Systems on Steroids – Part II
  21. Geospatial Systems on Steroids
  22. Tools for Business in the Flat World...
  23. Aberdeen report ranks Microsoft #1 in business value
  24. Welcome to the Microsoft Utilities Industries Blog!
  25. Welcome to the Microsoft Utilities Industries Blog!