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- Xcel Energy Rapidly Consolidates Core Financials for $15 Billion Corporate Entity
- Xcel Energy is the fourth largest combined electric and natural gas utility in the U.S. After combining its corporate legacy systems at the end of the merger in 2000, Xcel Energy needed a faster, more flexible ERP solution to consolidate its financials. An Xcel Energy evaluation team including representatives from...
- Tags: oracle corp., financials, erp, natural gas, xcel energy, enterprise resource planning (erp), team management, hardware upgrade, telecom & utilities, enterprise software, software, management, hardware
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- Xcel Energy Collaborates With IBM to Build Groundbreaking New Solutions
- Xcel Energy needed to deliver added shareholder value by leveraging technology to optimize core processes, develop new ones and increase customer responsiveness. Xcel Energy is teaming with IBM on new solutions that improve business processes with partners, help executives plan proactively and raise responsiveness to customers. Utility Innovation projects showed...
- Tags: ibm corp., xcel energy, business structures, operational planning, financial accounting, finance, business operations
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- News to know: Mozilla; Windows Server; LinuxWorld; Apple
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Talking Firefox security with Mozilla's Window Snyder Mary Jo Foley: What's next for Windows Server Microsoft finalizes SQL Server 2008 TechRepublic: 10 questions and answers about Microsoft Live Mesh Dancho Danchev: Today's...
- Tags: google inc., larry dignan, microsoft windows server, server, apple inc., mozilla corp., linux, phishing, smart phones, service-oriented architecture (soa), cyberthreats, microsoft windows, operating systems, unix, open source, software, security, spam and phishing, consumer electronics, personal technology, web services, enterprise software
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- The electric car is here, and your neighbor may be driving it already
- The electric car is here, and your neighbor may be driving it alreadyTalk about Polution!!There's is no form of transportation MORE polluting than an electric car. Why people are so thrilled with them....They use power which is produce primarily by COAL!!!The coal-fired electricity has to be transmitted which costs...
- Tags: car, electric car
- Discussion threads 2008-08-06
- Oracle: Gimme an L. Gimme an I. Gimme an N-U-X
- Enterprise software giant Oracle is at LinuxWorld this week, positioning itself as head cheerleader for widespread adoption in the Enterprise. In addition to a keynote speech that discussed Oracle's position around Linux, as well as details of its own deployment, there were two announcements issued today. The...
- Tags: data center, oracle corp., linux, data centers, unix, operating systems, open source, software, storage, hardware, data management, sam diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Paris for President: Energy crisis solved
- Paris for President: Energy crisis solvedActually...[i] "Only problem with Paris’s solution: any production from offshore drilling won’t kick in for five years..."[/i]Unfortunately, this shows an ignorance of how gas prices are arrived at. While production from those sources won't arrive in the markets for five years, the prices will...
- Tags: hilton hotels corp., energy crisis
- Discussion threads 2008-08-06
- The data center cost conundrum
- The other day I stumbled across a BusinessWeek slide gallery that shows the comparative cost of the five lowest cost data center towns in the US. Not being an expert on these matters, I passed the baton to my Irregular friend Vinnie Mirchandani who understands these...
- Tags: data center, san francisco, new york, boyd, data centers, storage, hardware, data management, dennis howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Northern lights: Count Anchorage among one of the latest LED cities
- The city of Anchorage in Alaska, notoriously gloomy in the winter months, will spend approximately $2.2 million to retrofit 16,000 municipal roadway lights (about one-quarter of all streetlights) with LED fixtures. The deal is one of the latest projects to emerge from the LED City program,...
- Tags: light-emitting diode, engineering, heather clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Paris for President: Energy crisis solved
- Slightly off-topic but call it proof that YouTube still has a role to play in politics. Always ready to ride a publicity wave, Paris Hilton has responded to John McCain's famous ad juxtaposing Barack Obama with Hilton and Britney Spears with an "ad" of her own, posted on the Funny...
- Tags: offshore, paris, advertisement, hilton hotels corp., john mccain, barack, outsourcing, it operations, business operations, outsourcing & subcontracting, richard koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Don't trust Google with your data
- Don't trust Google with your dataNo, I don't trust Google BUT...I trust Google more than I trust me. There is a bigger chance that I'll lose my own data than Google will. I don't have the energy nor do I choose to spend the money to constantly backup all of...
- Tags: backups, cloud computing, google inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-06
- Will the $12 computer pwn the $100 laptop?
- Will the $12 computer pwn the $100 laptop?Will it pwn the XO? No, and here's why...the XO and what MIT is cooking up here serve two totally different purposes and audiences. The XO is for teaching children how to collaborate, create content, and learn with a computer. MIT's proposal will...
- Tags: productivity, laptop computer, cherrypal c100, computer, $100 laptop
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- Holy cow, Batman, it's a Platinum-level green data center!
- Ever heard of Advanced Data Centers out of San Francisco? Well, you're about to, since the corporate hosting services company apparently is the first company to earn a Platinum Pre-Certification for a data center under the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program for rating...
- Tags: data center, bob seese, data centers, storage, hardware, data management, heather clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- News to know: Vista x64; Apple; Phishing; Facebook
- Notable headlines: Jason Perlow: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Windows Vista Ed Bott: You've got Vista x64 questions, I've got answers Jason O'Grady: Apple drops iPhone 2.0.1 software (updated 3x) Infinite Loop: Steve Jobs:...
- Tags: facebook, microsoft windows vista, apple inc., intel corp., vyatta, mauku, phishing, service-oriented architecture (soa), sales strategy, cyberthreats, microsoft windows vista (longhorn), spam, security, spam and phishing, web services, enterprise software, software, sales, operating systems, microsoft windows, larry dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Are lower oil prices the death knell for cleantech energy?
- Are lower oil prices the death knell for cleantech energy?Yes!... well you asked!
- Tags: cleantech energy, clean technology
- Discussion threads 2008-08-04
- Are lower oil prices the death knell for cleantech energy?
- We've been watching oil prices drops during recent weeks. You and I and our fellow Americans are drivng fewer miles. And then the Chinese shut down many of the Beijing-area industries to keep from choking Olympic athletes on particulates. They are even rationing auto driving: odd license plates...
- Tags: clean technology, natural gas, energy, natural gas production, telecom & utilities, harry fuller
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Social media and 'green': two fashion trends to avoid
- Social media and 'green': two fashion trends to avoidDell HellHey, Dennis. I really like the folks who are behind the social media effort at Dell, but I can't agree with you more here. I blogged about this precise issue last fall. http://tinyurl.com/DellHellRE: Social media and 'green': two...
- Tags: social media, dennis
- Discussion threads 2008-08-04
- News to know: iPhone Dev Camp; So long computer science; Intel
- Notable headlines: Andrew Mager: Touring iPhone Dev Camp 2 Live: Day 2 from the iPhone Dev Camp 2 Hands full? Get the iPhone arm Video: Spectrum ZX game montage Dion Hinchliffe: Enterprise cloud computing gathers steam ...
- Tags: apple iphone, comcast corp., yahoo! inc., computer science, broadband, computer, intel corp., robots, corporate governance, digital cameras, federal government, monitors & displays, broadband internet, network technology, emerging technologies, business operations, corporate law, consumer electronics, personal technology, government, hardware, components, telecommunications, networking, larry dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- e!Sankey pro (exe)
- e!Sankey pro is a software to easily create Sankey diagrams. A Sankey diagram is a directional flow chart where the width of the arrows is proportional to the flow quantity. Sankey diagrams are a useful way of visualizing material flows, energy or costs. If you are a chemical, environmental or...
- Tags: pro, quantity, supply chain, quality, microsoft excel, business operations, microsoft office, office suites, software
- Software downloads 2008-08-04
- phpMyApplication (rar)
- phpMyApplication helps beginner - advanced Web developers to create required tables and manage data of their Web site or Web based application (data, image, and file) in easiest and fastest way. It also allows Web developers to mix or include phpMyApplication.php with their own scripts to create more automated and...
- Tags: web developer, web, web-based application, programming, media technology development, phpmyapplication, web technology, channel management, web site development, cloud computing, marketing, internet
- Software downloads 2008-08-04
- Amplifier-Loudspeaker Matching Formula (xls)
- In terms of power, we compare the power of amplifier watts by the power handling capacity watts of the loudspeaker. Power capacity of the loudspeaker is measured by watts but actually the power of a speaker is measured by sound production capacity, which is measured by decibel dB. dB does...
- Tags: speaker, loudspeaker, watt, nonamehifi high end audio, db
- Software downloads 2008-08-04
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