Energy and Utilities

News Analysis

• eMeter Buy Strengthens Siemens Smart Grid Profile
  8 December 2011

Featured Research

• Euro Crisis: Issues and Recommendations for Electric Utility IT Functions
  13 January 2012
• Euro Crisis: Key Questions CEOs and CIOs Should Ask Each Other
  29 December 2011
• Ensure Your IT Strategy Is Ready for a Euro Crisis
  23 December 2011
• Managing the Fallout of Energy Trading and Risk Management Vendor Mergers and Acquisitions
  21 December 2011
• The Euro Crisis: Four Scenarios and How CIOs Can Prepare for Them
  20 December 2011
• Innovation Insight: Metering Innovation Powers Energy Grid Transformation via Information Infusion
  15 December 2011
• Implications of IEA World Energy Outlook for Utility IT Functions
  12 December 2011
• Five Guidance Steps for Acquiring Operator Training Software
  12 December 2011
• Strategic Reliability Road Map: Level 3, Preventive Maintenance
  8 December 2011
• Energy and Utility EAM Client Reference Survey, 2011
  8 November 2011
• Case Study: U.K. Utility Engages Consumers in Tackling Renewable Intermittency
  26 September 2011

Supply

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

• Predicts 2012: Economy and Energy Sustainability Guide Energy Utility Agenda
  10 November 2011
• Magic Quadrant for Power Generation Enterprise Asset Management Software
  30 September 2010
• Storage Solutions for Renewable Energy: A Critical Component in the Realization of Energy Policy
  24 September 2010
• Smart Grid Survey: What Utilities Want and Where They Think They Can Get It
  21 September 2010
• Renewable Intermittency: The Issues and Recommendations for IT
  18 June 2010

Delivery

From field service to design and maintenance of the energy grid

• Strategic Reliability Road Map: Level 3, Preventive Maintenance
  8 December 2011
• Renewable Intermittency: Get Serious With Weather Data
  9 December 2010
• Magic Quadrant for Delivery Utility Enterprise Asset Management
  30 September 2010
• Using a Pattern-Based Strategy in Utility Reliability Assessments
  27 September 2010
• Historian Software and the Smart Grid: Questions and Misconceptions
  29 June 2010

Retail

Customer contact, information and billing processes

• Magic Quadrant for Utilities Customer Information Systems
  9 June 2010
• Ventyx Acquisition Will Add IT to ABB's OT
  10 May 2010

Cross-Functional

• Euro Crisis: Key Questions CEOs and CIOs Should Ask Each Other
  29 December 2011
• Euro Crisis: Issues and Recommendations for Electric Utility IT Functions
  13 January 2012
• Managing the Fallout of Energy Trading and Risk Management Vendor Mergers and Acquisitions
  21 December 2011
• The Euro Crisis: Four Scenarios and How CIOs Can Prepare for Them
  20 December 2011
• Implications of IEA World Energy Outlook for Utility IT Functions
  12 December 2011
• Five Guidance Steps for Acquiring Operator Training Software
  12 December 2011
• Case Study: U.K. Utility Engages Consumers in Tackling Renewable Intermittency
  26 September 2011
• Cloud-Based Energy Trading and Risk Management Won't Take Off Until Legacy Issues Are Addressed
  21 September 2011
• Strategic Reliability Road Map: Level 2, Time-Based Maintenance
  16 September 2011
• Smart Grid Architects Aim for System-of-Systems Advantage
  12 September 2011

Magic Quadrants

Which vendors are leaders, visionaries, challengers or niche players

• Magic Quadrant for Meter Data Management Products
  20 December 2011
• Magic Quadrant for Delivery Utility Enterprise Asset Management
  7 November 2011
• Magic Quadrant for Power Generation Enterprise Asset Management Software
  7 November 2011
• Magic Quadrant for Utilities Customer Information Systems
  15 June 2011
• MarketScope for Outage Management Systems
  8 June 2011
• MarketScope for Advanced Distribution Management Systems
  29 March 2011
• MarketScope for Energy and Utility Geographic Information Systems
  22 March 2011
• Magic Quadrant for Energy Trading and Risk Management Platforms
  18 March 2011

Hype Cycles

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

• Hype Cycle for Solar Energy, 2011
  29 July 2011
• Hype Cycle for Utility Industry Operational Technologies, 2011
  26 July 2011
• Hype Cycle for Emerging Energy Technologies, 2011
  26 July 2011
• Hype Cycle for Smart Grid Technologies, 2011
  25 July 2011
• Hype Cycle for Utility Industry IT and Business Processes, 2011
  21 July 2011

Vendors

• Energy and Utility EAM Client Reference Survey, 2011
  8 November 2011
• Cool Vendors in Energy and Utilities, 2011
  27 April 2011
• Cool Vendors in Solar Energy, 2011
  19 April 2011