Energy and Utilities

Research Meeting Findings

• Findings: 'Blue Collar' MRO Sourcing Is a Key EAM Element
  7 April 2008

Featured Research

• Measuring Utility Metering: Metering Technology and Best-Practice Survey
  2 May 2008
• Management Update: Top 10 Business Trends Impacting the Utility Industry in 2008
  1 April 2008
• Post-Merger Energy Risk Management and Reporting: A Data Warehouse Approach
  14 April 2008
• Cost Cutting in Utilities Can Be Supported Through Asset Investment Planning Tools
  8 April 2008
• Technology Investments for Water Utilities and Local Government
  4 April 2008
• Management Update: Top 10 Technology Trends in the Energy and Utility Industry, 2008
  3 April 2008
• ETRM Applications: End-User Recommendations, 2008
  3 April 2008
• Cost Cutting in Utilities Can Come From Better Asset Management
  2 April 2008
• Cost Cutting in Utilities' Customer Service Provisioning Area
  31 March 2008

Supply

Energy trading, energy generation, market operations and associated business processes

• Magic Quadrant for Power-Generating Company EAM Software, 2007
  21 September 2007
• MarketScope for Natural Resources Asset-Intensive ERP Suites, 2007
  21 September 2007
• Generation Enterprise Asset Management Conversion and Interfacing
  14 May 2007
• After ERP, Generating Companies Should Look to Work and Asset Optimization
  1 June 2007

Delivery

From field service to design and maintenance of the energy grid

• Future Developments in Utilities Mobile Workforce Management
  19 November 2007
• Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Asset Management for Transmission and Distribution, 2007
  21 September 2007
• Magic Quadrant for Outage Management Systems, 1H07
  27 March 2007
• GE Energy Plans Applications on Oracle Spatial Instead of on Smallworld GIS
  27 March 2007

Retail

Customer contact, information and billing processes

• Measuring Utility Metering: Metering Technology and Best-Practice Survey
  2 May 2008
• Automated Metering Infrastructure Security: Achilles' Heel of the Intelligent Grid?
  21 December 2007
• Customer Service Provisioning Cost in Utility Industry
  21 December 2007
• Cross-Industry Momentum Determines Project Better Place's Impact on Electric Car Adoption
  28 November 2007
• Advanced Metering Infrastructure, Part 2: Solution Providers
  1 November 2007
• Energy Technology Consumerization: Impact on Utility OT and IT
  15 May 2007
• Advanced Metering Infrastructure, Part 1: Business, Regulatory and Technical Considerations
  28 September 2007
• Magic Quadrant for Utilities Customer Information Systems, 1H07
  11 June 2007
• SAP Utilities Conference Builds Bridges Between IT and Operations
  19 April 2007
• Energy Technology Consumerization: The Quest for Lean and Green
  16 May 2007

Cross-Functional

• Cost Cutting in Utilities Can Be Supported Through Asset Investment Planning Tools
  8 April 2008
• Technology Investments for Water Utilities and Local Government
  4 April 2008
• Cool Vendors in Energy and Utilities, 2008
  28 March 2008
• DistribuTECH 2008 Confirms That AMI and Intelligent Grids Are Gaining Popularity in Driving Utility Performance
  18 March 2008
• Key Issues for the Energy and Utilities Industry, 1H08
  10 March 2008
• The Rise of the Machine in Enterprise Asset Management
  19 December 2007
• North American Electric Utility Companies Must Comply With NERC CIP 2-9: What You Need to Know Now
  21 November 2007
• New Electricity Production Technologies Spark Control Concerns
  24 September 2007
• Utilities Have Ecosystems; Vendors Have Biospheres
  5 July 2007
• Energy Technology Consumerization: The Quest for Lean and Green
  16 May 2007
• Energy Technology Consumerization: Impact on Utility OT and IT
  15 May 2007
• SAP's Industry Value Network for Utilities: Pre-cut Pieces to the Puzzle
  10 July 2007
• Consolidation of the Utility Application Market Reduces Customer Options
  7 June 2007
• User Survey Analysis: Upstream Oil and Gas Industry, North America, 2006
  5 June 2007

Magic Quadrants

Which vendors are leaders, visionaries, challengers or niche players

• Magic Quadrant for Outage Management Systems, 1H08
  28 March 2008
• MarketScope for Energy and Utility Geographic Information Systems, 2H07
  17 October 2007
• Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Asset Management for Transmission and Distribution, 2007
  21 September 2007
• Magic Quadrant for Power-Generating Company EAM Software, 2007
  21 September 2007
• Magic Quadrant for Utilities Customer Information Systems, 1H07
  11 June 2007
• Magic Quadrant for Outage Management Systems, 1H07
  27 March 2007

Hype Cycles

The wave of the future — or just hype? Gartner Hype Cycles show the difference

• Hype Cycle for Utility Industry Operational and Energy Technologies, 2007
  3 July 2007
• Hype Cycle for Utility Industry IT and Business Processes, 2007
  2 July 2007