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The Future Role of ICT in Meeting Operational Challenges in Energy Utilities: Shifting by Degrees to a Modern World

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business management

Overview Energy utilities are operating in an environment where significant market and operational challenges exist. The deployment and implementation of appropriate Information Communication Technology (ICT) solutions plays an intrinsic role in meeting these challenges. The key take-away points of this whitepaper are market dynamics are shifting as a result of merger and acquisition activity, government policy and changing consumer behavior, considerable ongoing debate regarding climate change and the role that technology can play to positively adjust this, etc.

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Publisher	Datamonitor	File Format	PDF
Date Published	September 2008
Format	White Papers
Topics	Business Management

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Business Analytics and Optimization for the Intelligent Enterprise

Based on our survey of 225 business leaders worldwide, we found that enterprises are operating with bigger blind spots and that they are making important decisions without access to the right information....

Publisher:
IBM

Tags:
diagnostics and analysis

Enterprise mobility: connecting to a world of opportunity

Benefits of enterprise mobility span the business-to-employee (B2E), business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) spectrums. Enterprise mobil-ity can improve an organization's productivity, optimizelogistics operations, enhance customer relationships and streamline supply chain...

Publisher:
IBM

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access technologies

The business value of Web 2.0 technology.

Publisher:
IBM

Tags:
broadband

HP print solutions and 3M

Publisher:
Hewlett-Packard (HP)

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multifunction peripherals

Harnessing the Power of Location Intelligence in the Public Sector

Throughout the world, public services today are under pressure. The current economic climate, where tax receipts are naturally suppressed, provides very serious funding challenges. Moreover, in good times and bad, increasing regulation...

Publisher:
Pitney Bowes

Tags:
data mining - analysis

Inside offshoring: Job losses and the backlash

If you start shifting them to Asia, that comes down. We put the key points in the jobs and backlash debate to the main Indian IT companies and Indian IT trade body Nasscom while travelling around Bangalore, Hyderabad and New Delhi.

Channel:
Offshoring
Tags:
unions,
offshoring,
jobs

Re:Viewing 2004: The security industry

During 2004 it appeared as though a switch was flicked and awareness created as to the approaching obsolescence of box-shifting mentalities. But few in the industry think writing the system off as 'less secure' represents more than a very basic...

Channel:
Security Strategy

Don't let IT damage your M&A success

Given the integral role IT now plays in business operations, it's no wonder it can be a deal breaker in merger and acquisition talks. There is therefore a lot to play for if a merger or acquisition can create synergies and/or economies in this area.

AMD to buy ATI for $5.4bn

According to S&P's statement: "We will meet with management to assess the effect of the acquisition on AMD's financial profile, the near-to-intermediate-term changes in the graphics chipset industry dynamics, and the company's longer-term position...

Channel:
Desktops
Tags:
chip,
ati,
amd

Google proposes global privacy standard

Google will take its message to the public through a virtual debate it plans to open on YouTube soon, and it will participate in meetings in Montreal on Sept.with global privacy commissioners and in Washington, D.C.in October, Fleischer said.

HP close to buying EDS for $12bn

If (the merger) does go through we're going to end up with an HP that looks a lot like Carly wanted it to look. Not all customers need a battleship to deliver their IT services," Forrester analyst Paul Roehrig points out.

Channel:
IT Outsourcing
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hp,
hurd,
compaq,
eds

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