Itron - Itron Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI) announced today an agreement with Panasonic Computer Solutions Company (NYSE: PC) to deploy its fully-rugged Toughbook® 30 notebook as a part of Itron’s industry-leading mobile collection solution, offering electricity, gas and water utility customers greater dependability and affordability in collecting their meter reads. more...
Ness Technologies - Ness Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: NSTC and TASE: NSTC), a global provider of information technology solutions and services, announced today that it has won – together with other companies – a tender to implement and test SAP systems at Israel Electric Corporation (IEC). Ness also won a tender for training and deployment of these systems. This is an expansion of an SAP deployment and implementation project completed by Ness for IEC a few months ago. The project is valued at tens of millions of Israeli Shekels. more...
HP (Hewlett-Packard Company) - HP today announced Big Rivers Electric Corporation, a Kentucky-based electric generation and transmission utility, signed a $27 million, eight-year technology and applications services agreement designed to help stabilize technology costs and enable future growth with a standardized enterprise resource planning (ERP) and workplace computing environment. more...
Five9, Inc. - Five9, Inc., announced today an industry-first Cloud Computing Platform for Call Centers that enables building native software integrations between Five9 on-demand call center software and other enterprise software applications. more...
E Source Companies, LLC - According to the latest E SOURCE benchmark results for the performance of North American utility web sites, the top-rated U.S. more...
Accenture - Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and UniStar Nuclear Energy (UNE) have extended their agreement to design, build, operate, and maintain the 'Galaxy' IT platform, capable of supporting the data needs of nuclear energy facilities. more...
Sprint Nextel - For many years, Sprint (NYSE:S) has been supplying embedded CDMA & iDEN based communication technologies for a variety of machine to machine (M2M) applications within the energy and water industries. more...
Psion Teklogix - Psion Teklogix Inc. (LSE: PON.L), a global provider of mobile computing solutions, today announced an upgrade to its world-class device management software, Mobile Control Center (MCC), which enables customers to manage their Psion Teklogix and non-Psion devices remotely, more efficiently and economically. The new MCC version 6.03 will be available for purchase in July. more...
Sierra Energy Group - Energy industry veteran and former utility CIO Bart Thielbar has joined Sierra Energy Group (SEG), a division of Energy Central. more...
CIBER, Inc. - CIBER, Inc. (NYSE: CBR) announced today that it has signed a three-year help desk outsourcing renewal contract with Ameren Corporation. As part of the renewal, CIBER will provide help desk services for the firm’s information technology infrastructure. CIBER has been contracted to help Ameren reduce cost and increase efficiency. more...
By Bart Thielbar
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By Kate Rowland
- Today’s GreenBeat 2009 conference in San Mateo, California, brought together venture capitalists, analysts, electric utility executives and smart grid solutions more...
By Kate Rowland
- Back in September, I had the opportunity to meet with Thomas Ligocki, the president and CEO of Clevest Solutions Inc. more...
By Warren Causey
- The headline above actually was written by Vijayasekar Rajsekar, senior project engineer at AREVA T&D, Redmond, WA, on Linkedin, another more...
By Warren Causey
- There is a fascinating press release out of California (where else) that is headlined: “Arresting new think tank study concludes: more...
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