Corporate CIO Staffs Are Confused About Interoperability, And They Are Not Alone!

Rik Drummond, CEO and Chief Scientist, Drummond Group Inc.

The software purchasing community requires interoperable products in their networks, value and supply chains that install easily to begin intercommunicating with other like products in a straight forward manner. This frequently is not the case even with products that call themselves interoperable, and this may costs the organization hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional IT expense.

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    Telvent - 5/8/08

    Telvent (Nasdaq: TLVT), the IT company for a sustainable and secure world, has been chosen to upgrade the control and monitoring system at Alcoa-Yadkin Power Generating Division with an OASyS DNA electric supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) solution. The Telvent system was selected to improve operational control of remote generation facilities and provide security of critical operating information.
  • 2008 Telvent Miner & Miner User Group Conference Yields Value for Attendees and Sponsors

    Telvent Miner & Miner - 5/2/08

    Telvent Miner & Miner (TM&M), hosted its 7th annual User Group conference February 19-21, 2008, in Fort Collins, Colorado. A record 330 registrants, representing more than 87 electric, gas, and water utilities from around the world and 28 TM&M business partners, attended demonstrations of ArcFM™ enterprise GIS solutions, case studies of user implementations, and user feedback forums.
  • Delaware Electric Wins Powel's 2008 Innovation Award

    Powel, Inc. - 4/29/08

    Powel, Inc, an industry leader in providing field operations software applications to utilities worldwide, awarded Delaware Electric Cooperative the 2008 Powel Innovation Award at Powel's Annual Users Group meeting in Chaska, Minnesota, April 21, 2008. Each year, Powel's user community, including users, developers, and utilities, gathers to share information about mobile work management, learn new software functionality and gain exposure to a number of software and hardware partners during the three day meeting. Jesse M. Spampinato, Engineering Supervisor of Delaware Electric Cooperative was there to receive the award.
  • Centrica Energy Deploys Endur for Energy Trading and Risk Management

    OpenLink Financial Inc. - 4/29/08

    Centrica Energy (CE), the division responsible for managing all upstream assets within Centrica PLC, the FTSE 100 energy company, has implemented Endur, OpenLink's (www.olf.com) market- leading energy trading and risk management (ETRM) system in a delivery partnership with The Structure Group. CE will use Endur to manage traditional front, middle and back-office functions for complex power and gas contracts, as well as positions in coal, emissions, oil and weather products across its integrated energy operations in the UK and Europe.
  • SmartSignal and General Physics Join Forces to Deliver the Performance Intelligence Needed to Achieve Record Availability and Efficiency

    SmartSignal Corporation - 4/29/08

    At the 2008 SmartSignal Summit in Chicago, SmartSignal Corp., a leader in maximizing worldwide industry equipment performance through predictive technologies and General Physics Corporation, a global provider of sales and technical training, e-learning solutions, management consulting, and engineering services announced today that they have signed an agreement to further enhance business performance for power generation companies by combining the best practices of both organizations.

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