The result of in-depth surveys and interviews with utility CIOs, the report is a real-world overview that (1) increases your understanding of your marketplace and the important changes that have occurred over the past year; (2) gives you the information you need to align your product and business development efforts to marketplace needs; (3) for vendors, allows you to position your company - your advertising, marketing and sales messages - far more effectively against your competition; and (4) for utilities, provides a high-level perspective on key business and technology issues. These benefits are all acutely more pertinent with today’s movement towards intelligent enterprises.

The IT Performance Management Report covers this vital discipline that utilities want in the current economic climate: improved efficiency and demonstrable ROI from tightly managed Information Technology.

This essential study addresses the big question facing utilities – where to begin in complying with new Cyber Security standards (CIP-002-1 to 009-1), which will impact all utilities to some extent. Additional importance became evident when NERC was certified as the Electric Reliability Organization (ERO) on July 20, 2006.

The result of in-depth surveys and interviews with utility CIOs, the report is a real-world overview that (1) increases your understanding of your marketplace and the important changes that have occurred over the past year; (2) gives you the information you need to align your product and business development efforts to marketplace needs; (3) for vendors, allows you to position your company - your advertising, marketing and sales messages - far more effectively against your competition; and (4) for utilities, provides a high-level perspective key business and technology issues.

One of the hottest topics in utilities is enterprise solutions - Enterprise Resource Planning and Asset Management, GIS, Work Management Systems, Business Intelligence and Outage Management. The potential market is enormous with over $2 billion in expenditures planned over the next three years. Once again, Warren Causey has made a thorough investigation of this complex market, surveying hundreds of utilities of all sizes. The result: this new report; an insightful, comprehensive analysis of the enterprise solutions market.