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9/19/2011

Featured Articles » Standards Critical for Smart Grid Success » With $13M in Funding and New C-Level Executives, the Current Group Plans Expansion » RheinEnergie to Deploy 30,000 Smart Meters in Cologne Service Territory » AlertEnterprise Offers NERC Compliance Solution to Support Move to the Smart Grid » $4.5 Million Smart Grid Platform Planned for Eastern Nebraska   Sponsored By: AT&T The U.S. is on a mission to transform the way consumers manage energy consumption, and utilities are certainly paving the way. For the latest on how the smart grid is fueling the modernization of the nation's energy grid, as well as the change in how utilities manage and measure energy data and usage, check out the Smarter Utility community, sponsored by AT&T.   Top Stories » Ignorance a Major Roadblock to Smart Grid Implementation: AESP Survey » GE Energy Launches Retrofit Power Systems for Telecom Infrastructure » SEI Updates 'Smart Grid Maturity Model' and Seeks New Partners » Constellation Energy Upgrades VirtuWatt App for Commercial Energy Management   From The Expert Corner September 13, 2011 SAP Announces New Solutions Built on SAP HANA Platform By Laura Stotler TMCnet Contributing Editor SAP (News - Alert) AG has rolled out two new solutions built on the company's in-memory computing platform, SAP HANA. The SAP Smart Meter Analytics software and the SAP COPA Accelerator software were announced at the company's SAP TechEd 2011 event in Las Vegas. The SAP HANA platform is enabling SAP to renew its existing applications while also offering a new class of applications. The new products were developed by SAP product and design teams that worked in close collaboration with the company's customers. They used design-thinking principles that work from the end user's needs backwards. The applications were designed to give customers insight into "big data," enabling them to leverage large amounts of information for analysis, planning, forecasting and simulations in a natural way versus traditional time-consuming, sequential approaches, which may be rigid. The new solutions are part of the SAP BusinessObjects Strategic Workforce Planning application, which was announced at the end of last year... Read More    Featured Videos Interview with Rainstor    Featured Resources » Build smart metering solutions with IBM Informix TimeSeries » Informix TimeSeries Video   TMCnet's Blogs » Myriad of Mobile ALM Advantages According to DeviceAnywhere's Leila Modarres » The Banker Speaks   Featured Channels » Smarter Utility - ATT » Renewable Energy » Wind Power   Visit smart-grid.tmcnet.com for the Latest Smart-Grid News and Information   Sign Up For FREE    |    Visit Smart-Grid Site    |    Free Magazine Subscription   Advertise With Us   General advertising Info: Click here      Contact Us   Company Directory    |    All Editors' Info   Become a TMCnet columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet Web site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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