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- Xcel Energy is a holding company. As of Dec 31 2007, Co. directly owned four utility subsidiaries that serve electric and natural gas customers in...
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- Xcel Energy Rapidly Consolidates Core Financials for $15 Billion Corporate Entity
- Xcel Energy is the fourth largest combined electric and natural gas utility in the U.S. After combining its corporate legacy systems at the end of the merger in 2000, Xcel Energy needed a faster, more flexible ERP solution to consolidate its financials. An Xcel Energy evaluation team including representatives from...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Financials, ERP, Natural Gas, Xcel Energy, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Team Management, Hardware Upgrade, Telecom & Utilities, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Hardware
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- Xcel Energy Collaborates With IBM to Build Groundbreaking New Solutions
- Xcel Energy needed to deliver added shareholder value by leveraging technology to optimize core processes, develop new ones and increase customer responsiveness. Xcel Energy is teaming with IBM on new solutions that improve business processes with partners, help executives plan proactively and raise responsiveness to customers. Utility Innovation projects showed...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Xcel Energy, Business Structures, Operational Planning, Financial Accounting, Finance, Business Operations
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- Energy Lens (exe)
- To help businesses to save energy, Energy Lens makes it easy to analyze energy data in Excel. Businesses can save energy by using Energy Lens to identify waste and to monitor energy performance. By taking advantage of the interval energy data that's readily available to most businesses (e.g. half-hourly data,...
- Tags: Data Analysis, Performance, BizEE Software, Performance Management, Databases, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2008-01-25
- Managing Energy Consumption Costs in Desktop PCs and LAN Switches With Proxying, Split TCP Connections, and Scaling of Link Speed
- A growing expense and impact of the Internet is its energy use. Current estimates are that 2% of electricity consumption in the USA goes to powering the Internet. In Germany it is estimated that energy consumption by IT equipment will be between 2% and 5% in 2010. The 2% estimate...
- Tags: Desktop, LAN, PC, Information Technology, TCP, Energy, Desktop Computer, Internet, Tcp/Ip, Strategy, Networking, Management
- White papers 2005-08-25
- Global Warning: Optimization Strategies to Solve the IT Energy Crisis
- As business demand for server capacity continues to grow, the reality that energy is a finite and costly resource becomes apparent. With spiraling energy costs, energy constraints have become a critical factor in IT profitability and agility. In this webinar, speakers from Forrester Research and BMC® Software explore the scope...
- Tags: Strategy, BMC Software Inc., Data Center, Optimization, Information Technology, Data Centers, It Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, It service Management
- Webcasts 2007-01-11
- SAP Case Study: Suzlon Energy
- Suzlon Energy, is Asia's largest integrated wind energy company and among the world's leading players in the renewable energy industry. Suzlon Energy wanted proper control of operations and activities across locations and integrate business processes across departments. The challenge was better preparedness for future growth. The company also wanted to...
- Tags: SAP AG, Operational Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Tools & Techniques, Telecom & Utilities, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Management
- Case studies 2007-05-14
- Infrastructure Optimization Opens New IT and Business Possibilities for EDF Energy
- EDF Energy, one of the largest energy companies in the UK, employs over 13,000 people and supplies energy to approximately 5.5 million customers. After the utilities industry was deregulated and privatized in the UK four years ago, EDF Energy was formed from the acquisition of three separate companies. After these...
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Optimization, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Infrastructure Optimization, Strategy, Management
- Case studies 2007-09-07
- Home Energy Analysis System (exe)
- The Home Energy Analysis System enables you to record electricity, gas and water bills. Also enter your own meter readings to produce a detailed database. A range of graphs is produced showing cost, consumption and CO2 emissions by week, month and year. The effect of alternative energy sources can be...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Analysis, Energy, Home Energy Analysis System
- Software downloads 2007-06-11
- Images: Energy-saving sensors
- Scientists are working on sensors designed to harvest their own energy, in some cases converting mechanical into electrical energy.
- Tags: sensor, scientist
- Image galleries 2006-05-24
- Earth For Energy Review (exe)
- Earth For Energy Review is a comprehensive review for Earth For Energy with an abundance of information on how to generate your own power and wind systems, and save money on your power bill. This is also a must read for anyone thinking about getting Earth For Energy. This version...
- Tags: Earth, Crime Check Up
- Software downloads 2008-08-22
- ArchiTech (EXE)
- Use this powerful but easy to use program to do an accurate energy audit of your home or business. It pinpoints many effective ways to reduce your utility bills. There are sample projects and a free 100 page book BTU Bill's Guide to Energy Conservation to help you get the...
- Tags: Program, Construction, Healthcare, Financial Accounting, Finance
- Software downloads 2005-12-02
- AutoPower: Toward Energy-Aware Software Systems for Distributed Mobile Robots
- Autonomous robot systems have to manage their energy wisely in order to complete their missions. Typical approaches seek to conserve energy by energy-efficient motion or sensor planning. This paper puts forth a distributed systems approach to power management. Specifically, it develops and presents AutoPower, which is a model that characterizes...
- Tags: Software, Aware, Mobile, Energy, Robots, Emerging Technologies
- White papers 2006-01-25
- Energy Efficient Computing: HP - How Virtualization Helps
- In data centers around the world energy consumption is rising, & energy costs are a growing portion of IT budgets. The presenter of this webcast discusses how to use virtualization to be more efficient.
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Computing, Virtualization, Data Centers, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Data Management
- Webcasts 2007-01-01
- Energy Efficient Computing/HP: How Virtualization Helps
- In data centers around the world energy consumption is rising, & energy costs are a growing portion of IT budgets. The presenter of this webcast discusses how to use virtualization to be more efficient.
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Virtualization, Data Centers, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Data Management
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Photos: MIT Energy Conference talks money, coal, and 'Enertech'
- The third MIT Energy Conference attracts heavyweights in energy, while nurturing green-tech start-ups and students. by CNET News.com
- Tags: news, mit energy conference
- Image galleries 2008-04-17
- JouleSort: A Balanced Energy-Efficiency Benchmark
- The energy efficiency of computer systems is an important concern in a variety of contexts. In data centers, reducing energy use improves operating cost, scalability, reliability, and other factors. For mobile devices, energy consumption directly affects functionality and usability. The paper proposes and motivates JouleSort, an external sort benchmark, for...
- Tags: Data Center, Association For Computing Machinery, Data Centers, Productivity, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-06-14
- Optimizing Windows Vista Platforms for Energy Efficiency
- This paper enables system manufacturers and IT professionals to configure Windows Vista platforms for maximum energy efficiency. The techniques in this paper may be used to help extend mobile PC battery life and reduce energy operation expenses for desktop and server PCs. This paper explains how to evaluate system energy...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Energy Efficiency, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2007-05-01
- Intel Energy-Efficient Performance: Performance Made Energy Efficient Through New Technological Leaps
- The drive for more performance is relentless, but is now matched with a need for greater energy efficiency-performance made energy efficient. Intel is addressing this need by delivering unprecedented innovations in processor architecture, silicon, platform technologies, and software. These innovations are delivering superior performance in the most efficient ways to...
- Tags: Performance, Intel Corp., Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2006-09-01
- The physics behind the Death Star superlaser
- just lawsTheRealPauper"...it's only a matter of time before they're forced to realize that even those do not actually exist ... that there is not a speck of real stuff anywhere in the universe. All that exist is laws ? JUST beautiful laws. From those laws, we merely PRECIEVE that...
- Tags: Mikiel
- Discussion threads 2007-05-16
- is:energy Provides Complete IT Services Solution With BMC Remedy
- is:energy GmbH is one of Germany's leading complete IT service suppliers for the energy industry. The company wanted to implement an integrated incident, order, and asset management system. After searching for several vendors is:energy deployed BMC systems for its solution and implemented BMC Remedy Action Request System to meet their...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., IT Services, Information Technology, Remedy Corp., Is:energy, It Management, Asset Management, It service Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations
- Case studies 2006-10-01
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