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Microsoft Power and Utilities News – January 2016 Installment

LarryWelcome to our January 2016 installment of Microsoft Power & Utilities News. I hope you all are having an amazing start to this new year.

Microsoft’s Çağlayan Arkan, General Manager of Worldwide Manufacturing and Resources, was recently a featured speaker at Energy Mexico 2016. Discussions at the event centered on how recent historic reforms to the Mexican energy sector have been generating big opportunities in the market over the last few years. Mexico’s energy sector is booming, with the opening of the hydrocarbons and gas and electricity markets, as well as the introduction of new legal and regulatory frameworks. These have all been key in helping Mexico attract new national and foreign investments that will continue to enhance the country’s economic growth. You can go here to learn more about the event.

A few months back, we told you about the solutions that Schneider Electric, Intel, and Microsoft have been collaborating on to optimize mobility solutions to enable field worker productivity. Now we’d like to introduce a new set of solutions specifically optimized for utilities. We have partnered with Schneider Electric and Intel to deliver new mobility solutions that will bring agility to your operations and empower your employees with the ability to do more—anytime, anywhere. You can check these out here.

As todays’ disruptive technology is changing organizations and even entire industries, we have launched a new self-assessment tool to help enterprises like yours continue to innovate. Our Dare to Disrupt tool helps today’s leaders determine their organization’s readiness to embrace disruptive technologies, based on McKinsey Global Institute’s Disruptive Technologies: Advances that will transform life, business, and the global economy. I encourage you to try the tool today.

We also have just launched a new white paper that outlines 10 benefits of capitalizing on your data with IoT and advanced analytics to unlock new potential in your business. Improving processes, pursuing new product and service opportunities, and improving customer service are just some of the ways organizations are gaining a competitive edge with a combined IoT and advanced analytics strategy. Go here to learn more.

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There’s more news below, so please enjoy!

Sincerely,

Larry Cochrane, Director of Industry Technology Strategy

Microsoft Power & Utilities

 


AccentureAccenture: What do cloud advances mean for the future of the utilities industry?

It’s a matter of time before the utility industry completely transforms. Moving forward, the boundaries of traditional service silos will continue to blur, and the value chain will fundamentally change as new business models and integrated services emerge. Accenture shares how the digital utility is transforming for value and growth.

 

Field OneField One: Three Quick Tips to Improve Agility in the Field

Boosting agility in the field is one of the most important factors on an administrator’s to-do list. You need to be able to take stock of revisions in regulations, customer demands, industry standards and the fast-paced, always-new world of technology. What are some of the best ways to stay on top of these quickly changing factors? To be in the know and one step ahead of the game, field service technology is a must.

 

intelligent cloudHow to transform data into intelligent action with Microsoft’s intelligent cloud

For more than a decade, Microsoft has been building an open, flexible, trusted cloud platform to help businesses leverage the power of their data. And it continues to make it easier and easier to address the new and emerging scenarios in Power and Utilities with the introduction of the Cortana Analytics Suite and the Microsoft Azure IoT Suite.

 

 

AAGLGL leads cloud innovation in Utilities

As energy alternative products, markets, regulations, and customer needs continue to evolve at a faster rate, the industry must be able to proactively listen to consumers, and become more agile and insight driven, reacting at consumer and community speed. One company who is not only responding to, but leading such a transformation, is AGL Energy Limited (AGL), one of Australia’s largest energy retailers. And read how AGL and Accenture recently collaborated to deliver a sophisticated digital platform that strengthens AGL’s presence in the online world.

 

Georgian Water and Power reaches out in new ways with Microsoft Dynamics AXGWP

Georgian Water and Power (GWP) is a leading company on the water supply market of Georgia and South Caucasus. The company provides high quality service to the population of Tbilisi, as well as to state organizations, industrial and commercial objects. New management of the 6 companies, including Georgian Water and Power (GWP), Rustavi Water Company (RWC) and Mtskheta Water Company (MWC), owned by Georgian Global Utilities (GGU), introduced advanced management system Microsoft Dynamics AX.

 

SelenexSenelec finds cost-effective and secure answer to improve operations

After major internal restructuring, Senelec needed a more cost-efficient and time-saving software. The existing on-premises software was limiting the company’s operations with limits on mailbox size and limited ability to work remotely. With the help of Microsoft Premier Support Services, the company moved to the cloud, and the results include better internal communication, improved storage access, and increased productivity.

 

AzureLibelium collaborates with Microsoft to accelerate Internet of Things solutions

Libelium has joined Microsoft Azure Certified for Internet of Things (IoT), ensuring customers get IoT solutions up and running quickly with hardware and software that has been pre-tested and verified to work with Microsoft Azure IoT services. Libelium sensor networks based on Waspmote sensor nodes and Meshlium Internet gateways power projects in the industrial IoT, smart agriculture, energy monitoring, and for environmental and industrial control.

 

HMIApril 25-29, 2016: HANNOVER MESSE, Germany

HANNOVER MESSE is the world’s most important industrial show. With the leading trade fairs taking place in parallel, the event covers a wider range of themes and exhibits than any other event: R&D, industrial automation and IT, industrial supply, production engineering and services, as well as energy and environmental technology. Microsoft will showcase how we can help manufacturing & resources companies prepare for Industry 4.0 by transforming their businesses with new technologies like cloud computing, IoT, and more. We will share additional information soon.

 

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