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Rodger Smith, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Utilities, writes about how advanced distribution management can bridge the grid modernization chasm.

Oracle's Brad Williams discussed how ADMS capabilities will allow utilities to simulate the optimal solution with the fewest number of switching operations needed to relieve an overload condition.

Highlights results from a recent Oracle study revealing utility executives' plans for smart grid investment.

Highlights the future of smart grid technology customer service and includes input from an expert roundtable including Guerry Waters, vice president of industry strategy, Oracle Utilities.

Highlighting that Oracle and Grid Net will work together to deliver advanced distribution management systems and meter data management technology to support utilities' smart grid deployments. The release includes comments from Bradley Williams, vice pres

Highlighting the Oracle OpenWorld conference on September 19 - 23, 2010 at Moscone Center in San Francisco. The release notes that Oracle OpenWorld brings utility executives together to share new ways to leverage Oracle applications, technology and syste

Highlighting that GasTerra implemented four solutions from the Oracle Utilities family to increase speed in aligning its IT systems and to better support its business requirements. The article notes that GasTerra chose to implement solutions from Oracle

Highlighting the most discussed topics at DistriubuTECH 2011. The article includes comments from Linda Jackman, vice president of product strategy and management, Oracle Utilities regarding unstructured analytics. The article also includes comments from

Highlighting Bastian Fischer, vice president and general manager, EMEA, Oracle Utilities' opinions of business opportunities and hurdles facing the smart grid industry. The article notes that electric cars will emerge as a "killer application," capable o

Highlighting that utilities need to think of smart grid projects in terms of process change management. The article notes that data warehouse and business intelligence applications support process change management. The article also includes comments fr

Highlighting that Infosys Technologies and Oracle announced the completion of a transformation program incorporating the implementation of Oracle Utilities Network Management System at Seattle City Light. The article notes that the implemented Oracle sol

Highlighting the future of demand response and energy efficiency and how it may be dependent on the quality of the interface we build between the customer, utility and the grid. The article includes insights from the "Reaching the End Users - Revolutioni

Highlighting the Smart Grids Middle East 2010 conference presenting the smart grid from three perspectives: technological, commercial and regulatory. The article notes that Oracle helps utilities support smart grid and smart meter implementations through

San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) has selected Oracle's Primavera Contract Management for $4.6 billion water system improvement program. SFPUC chose Oracle's Primavera Contract Management based on document CMIS functions, overall functiona

Oracle Utilities improves GasTerra's operations with a single unified system. The unified Oracle system has simplified GasTerra's IT architecture, eliminating complex, hard-to-maintain system interfaces and making it easier to manage basic tasks such as s

The Nov. 12 edition of Business Green includes the following interview with Oracle Utilities' Rodger Smith. The article discusses how Smith ended up in his current position, his personal interest in sustainable development, green technologies that will revolutionize the global economy and more.

The December issue of University Business includes an article highlighting the myths and realities of open source and its use on campus. The article includes comment from Cole Clark, global vice president of education and research, Oracle, who debunks multiple myths. Cole notes that often higher education institutions turn to open source when there are already mature commercial applications with robust systems to meet their needs. Cole explains that an open source application that's newer and relies on the power of community might not have had the time to catch up with commercial software's level of development. The article also notes that Oracle has utilized open source for the types of benefits that wider collaboration can bring. Cole notes that using open source makes Oracle's products better, and development has taken significant leaps forward because of it. Cole concludes the article with feedback on how institutions should move forward when considering open source solutions.