US electricity and gas utility, Niagara Mohawk, has purchased a Tadpole-Cartesia geographic information system (GIS) for its field engineers. Niagara Mohawk's engineers will use the Conic GIS software with portable computers to collect customer...
Ecommerce transactions accounted for $36m of the European utilities' business last year, according to a report from Frost & Sullivan. However, utilities are not embracing the internet as quickly as counterparts in other industries.
Wireless devices, computer systems integration and emerging international markets are among the keys to a recovery for the tech industry, according to market research firm IDC. This included discussions of utility computing, tech products for the...
Quite often, according to Frost & Sullivan, this is because integrating legacy systems on numerous sites is just too complicated to justify the risk. The worrying aspect is that there don't appear to be that many full implementations happening...
For example when integrating line-of-business applications, if a company makes changes to the back-end system they could end up breaking the chain. Portlet standards will come to play a significant role in portal implementations starting in 2005...
Enterprise Grid Alliance has elected to establish a separate organisation to tackle issues regarding grid deployment in the enterprise," the group said on its website. With our pragmatic approach focusing on the enterprise, EGA is uniquely...