Telvent: When the lights go out, SQL Server is working to turn them back on!

Telvent’s Responder Outage Management Solution (OMS) reduces outage time for customers from power outages. Outages may result from adverse weather, aging power infrastructure, and energy constraints. Responder OMS significantly improves the dispatch and management of crews over prior systems. Responder OMS builds on the functionality of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 to provide the business intelligence platform for best of breed data integration. Responder OMS uses the full range of features: SQL Server Integration Services, SQL Server Reporting Services; and SQL Server Analysis Services.

What are the key factors behind the choice of SQL Server 2008 R2?

  • Lower total cost of Ownership -- this is critical for utility companies
  • Scalability and Performance
  • Multidimensional online analytical processing capabilities
  • Intregrations of Microsoft BI solutions with utility companies existing environments for transmission and distribution

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