SAP Cloud Solutions for Utilities
IntroductionManage your people, money, customers, suppliers – even your entire business – in the cloud with the most comprehensive cloud computing portfolio on the market. Seamlessly integrate with...
View ArticleElectric Mobility: The Tipping Point for the Smart Grid
April 17-19, 2013, Copenhagen, Int. SAP Conference for Utilities -Less emissions, more energy efficiency combined with innovative service offerings – these are the main advantages of Electric Mobility....
View ArticleDesign Thinking at IUC April 17-19 Copenhagen
Imagination is more important than knowledge, as knowledge is limited, imagination I can draw from. Albert Einstein The reason I like this quote is because we tend to downplay imagination, especially...
View ArticleWhere my docs at?
We read a lot, word documents, power points, pdfs and so on. At the office desk, we stare at a large computer screen connected to the company network. Then we leave and keep reading, the same...
View ArticleManaging the Energy Revolution with SAP AMI Integration for Utilities
Most utilities use robust meter, network, and customer service infrastructures designed to support processes and systems for well-defined work routines and functions. For example, they use conventional...
View ArticleIt’s the perfect time to finally get serious about providing great customer...
Having worked with many utilities over a timespan of more than 15 years, I find that utilities indeed have made great strides in better communicating with their customers. For example, Utilities have...
View ArticleCould Tesla become another Apple?
Don’t look now, but EVs may be here to stay and Tesla Motors appears to be leading the way… Tesla Motors recently announced that it had sold 4,750 new units in the first quarter 2013, which exceeded...
View ArticleTop 10 Reasons Utilities and Energy Companies should attend 2013 Sapphire...
I have been going to Sapphire since 1994, and each year it just keeps getting bigger and bigger and more interesting with the announcements and adoptions of new technologies, For anyone that has never...
View ArticleManaging the Energy Revolution
Revolution is U.S. television series that takes place in a post- apocalyptic dystopian future. A new technology is developed by the U.S. Department of Defense to disarm opponents in the battlefield....
View ArticleConsumer Engagement as a Strategic Competitive Advantage
World Class Consumer Engagement The Australian Retail Energy Market is fiercely competitive with rising prices (primarily due to increased network charges) and switching rates up to 30%. So engaging...
View ArticleSAP HANA Cloud (for Utilities) - What Fits Your Purpose?
IntroductionWhile researching our SAP Cloud offering to make it tangible for our Utilities customers, I found it rather challenging to understand the capabilities and boundary condition for each...
View ArticleMeter Reading Process Performance in IS-U
This post is a framework to contain my experience in attempting to leverage higher performance in BAU tasks under a rapidly increasing data load. In my environment, we are entering a phase of...
View ArticleShifting to the next level in engagements: from a tactical software provider...
For a week large Energy Companies invest time and allocate resources to host SAP colleagues to perform a joint exercise named “high level application roadmap”: which are Companies expectations, what...
View ArticleData Migration Process for IS-U
In this post I will share my experience on the Migration process performed for Electricity and Gas Data, using Emigall tool-set for Utilities. I will walk through the road map we followed during the...
View ArticleHow small does the required effort need to be to run an experiment if in the...
How about a click and your PayPal® information to get access to a leading revenue assurance software running on HANA in the Amazon Cloud followed by a few steps to upload your data which you can then...
View ArticleDesign Thinking for Utilities - A mini trial at the 2013 International...
David Moyer (Global Service Portfolio lead for Industries) and Maurizio Cattaneo (Global Energy & Natural Resource Hub Lead for Utilities) conducted a very successful mini-Design Thinking session...
View ArticleWhat do SAP Utilities and the number seven have in common.....?
Seven appears to be a universally lucky or holy number. Monty Python would define seven as the number after six, but before eight. There are many terms that include the number seven: seven wonders of...
View ArticleYou Opinion Matters - What are Your Cloud Expectations?
The Utilities industry is one of the most important industries for which SAP offers comprehensive business solutions. As the software industry shifts to new innovations and delivery models, Cloud...
View ArticleNextGenerationEAM – What’s this all about? ( Mobilize - Part Three )
In our last installment of NextGeneration EAM we spoke about the concepts of visualization. The power of images over that of words and how visualizing is more effective in most workers minds. In this...
View ArticleData, Data Everywhere… but Not a Byte To Eat?
As the game clock wound down to the last few seconds in the National Basketball Association (NBA) Finals Game 6, the San Antonio Spurs were poised to take home their fifth championship in recent years....
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