The Customer Magazine 1|2010
Need to Get Users Excited About Software
Following its new mantra of solutions with instant value, SAP is transforming itself to be faster and more customer-oriented. SAP Spectrum talks with Jim Hagemann Snabe to find out how the company aims to achieve this.
Touching Lives With Technology
Some of the people who work the phones for Deutsche Post DHL’s human resources hotline are blind. Along with special resources for the visually impaired, they use the SAP ERP Human Capital Management solution to carry out their daily tasks.
Grabbing the Tiger by the Tail
The financial crisis, the drive toward internationalization, and SAP Enterprise Support services were three topics weighing heavily on the minds of SAP user companies in Japan last year.
15.09.2009
Saving Energy with an iPhone
By: Konrad Buck
From 2010, smart meters will be compulsory in Germany and will give the opportunity to use the iPhone or Blackberry to monitor energy.
Smart metering with the iPhone (photo: Frank Völkel)
With the introduction of smart metering, the German energy market will be facing a radical shakeup. Smart meters provide detailed data about consumption and use. This data can be refined and sent to customers using output management software – and can thus put utility companies on track to more sales and greater profits.
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Starting next year, utility companies in Germany will be required to provide electronic meters for electricity and gas. From 2010, the devices will be compulsory in all new buildings and in buildings that have been completely modernized. By 2020, 80% of all German households should be equipped with smart meters.
Protecting the environment
Behind this move is the German government’s climate change package II, which aims to increase energy efficiency and promote renewable energy. Currently, utility companies are trying out the new technology in projects such as the E-Energy beacon project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. In six model regions, the parties involved are testing smart grid infrastructures in which the energy supply system is digitized and optimized.
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