Ameren Corporation
"Our traders can view information and determine quickly whether it makes sense to increase production at a plant, or whether it’s going to be possible. It helps them be faster and more focused." Randy Allen, Technical Architect, Ameren Corporation
British Energy Trading & Sales
"By adopting the Microsoft toolset, we have control that we never had before. The aim is to ensure that the IT landscape is no longer a constraint to stop these changes from being supported in a timely manner." Nick Browne, IT Integration Manager, British Energy Trading & Sales
Constellation Energy
Constellation Energy supplies energy products and services to wholesale, retail, commercial, industrial, and governmental customers in the United States and Canada. Based in Baltimore, Maryland, the company owns a diversified fleet of generating units located throughout the United States, and is among the leaders pursuing the development of new nuclear plants in the United States. Having expanded rapidly over the past few years, Constellation Energy outgrew its Microsoft® Exchange Server 2003 environment and experienced slow delivery times and frequent outages. The company decided to upgrade to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007. Constellation Energy is taking advantage of richer features, such as built-in clustering and replication. Using the innovative solution, the company plans to reduce administration costs and improve e-mail performance.
Edipower
"The server situation used to be critical. Today, with Hyper-V, we’ve provided the business with a uniform, high-performing IT infrastructure that is easy to manage and maintain." Gianluca Fusco, Information Systems Manager, Edipower
Edipower
"With Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office System, we are increasing the quality of our IT service. We're using them to enhance the efficiency of all our businesses, IT management, production, and sales processes." Massimo Pernigotti, former CIO, Edipower
Elektrodistribucija Beograd
"We needed a partner that could identify specific pain points and provide the best solution, and help us own it without a big maintenance bill … we’re very pleased with our experience with Microsoft and Smart." Goran Prelic, Head of Information and Technology Directorate, Elektrodistribucija Beograd
ENMAX
"Today we have a real time view into our power distribution capacity. If there is an issue we can instantly drill down to see what the problem is, prevent down time and save money." Todd Driediger, Sr. Engineer, ENMAX Power Corporation
Entergy
"Pegasus gives us the ability to examine data on a regional or state level, or drill right down to the historical performance of a single device, all without seeing any delay in the delivery of the data." Paul H. Cassingham, Manager of Application Management for the Transmission Business Unit at Entergy
Exelon
"Using SQL Server to analyze our AMR data is giving us the information we need to work smarter, with a much more precise model of what is happening with our power distribution." Glen Pritchard, Consulting Engineer, Meter Reading Techologies, Exelon
Georgia System Operations Corporation
“The Open Text system provides the tracking information that we need for the CIP standards. And it’s provided more tools than we had access to before, such as the ability to see previous versions if we need to. We are now able to meet the compliance requirements for our documents.”Kellie Elford, System Analyst, Georgia System Operations Corporation
Loudoun Water
"We looked at the trends and decided that Windows Vista offers enhancements that make it a wise investment for the future." Andy Krapf, Supervisor of Instrumentation and Controls, Loudoun Water
Metito
"We found that the seamless integration of Nortel and Microsoft solutions provide a unified communications solution that is just not available from any other technology provider." Naseem Ul Haq Zaki, Chief Information Officer, Metito
MidAmerican Energy Company
"Office Communications Server 2007 really fits with our ‘green’ initiative." Philip Krenc
Vice President, Information Technology, MidAmerican Energy Company
OSIsoft
Microsoft Partner OSIsoft helps Metro Vancouver analyze and integrate their data.
Powerco
"We’ve saved a significant amount of money, almost $390,000 per annum, in migrating from Oracle to SQL Server. We’ve been able to save on rack space, reduce hardware, maintenance and licensing costs and have created numerous efficiencies through simplifying the server environment." Huw Griffiths, Infrastructure Manager,
Powerco
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
"We've been able to reduce the 40 hours a quarter spent auditing identity credentials to as few as 10 hours…. This … enables us to spend more time strengthening our security infrastructure." Richard Condello
Director of Business Services and Information Security, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
SCANA
"We don't have the luxury of allowing projects to take weeks or months anymore; we must finish them in days or even hours. BizTalk Server 2006 R2 supports an IT model that makes this speed and agility possible." Mike Sorrells, Infrastructure Analyst III, SCANA
Sempra Energy Solutions
"Our developers can spend more time writing code that solves our business problems and less time building the plumbing pieces that don’t relate directly to the problems at hand." Jeff Stewart, Senior Integrator/Developer, Sempra Energy Solutions
ScottishPower
"With Microsoft technology, ScottishPower has a great environment for management of its transmission network, which is fit for the 21st century. Ultimately, there is also better service for the customer ensuring we keep the lights on round the clock." Stephen Doherty, Real Time Systems Support Section Head, Grid Systems Operations, SP EnergyNetworks
Towngas
"With SharePoint 2007, we are empowering our people to respond instantly in an emergency, to collaborate more effectively, and to streamline and reinvent processes for continuous improvement." Susanna Shen, Head of IT, The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited
TransAlta
"With our outsourced solution, we weren’t getting the information we required to successfully support the business of TransAlta." Kent Farries, Manager, Infrastructure Architecture, TransAlta
Transelectrica
"The technologies in Windows 7 give us the ability to improve our networking capabilities—this is important with so many branch offices." Sorin Marinescu, IT Director, Transelectrica
Vostokgazprom
"Today, we have a better understanding of how to automate the gas recovery and treatment process, and we can obtain the information that we need for making management decisions." Nikolay Markov, CIO, Vostokgazprom
Yello Strom Energy
Determined to offer more innovative solutions to customers, Germany-based energy supplier Yello Strom used the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 development system to build online services that help customers track and control energy consumption in their own homes.