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To: axial who wrote (17853)	11/17/2006 4:26:11 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

"Software as a Service" [Saas] in Construction November 15, 2006 \| Blog of Don Fornes Fornes is the CEO of RiverGuide riverguideinc.com , a website dedicated to helping construction businesses research and select software. Don runs RiverGuide from Big Sky, Montana. His background includes eleven years as a Wall Street analyst in New York and software company executive in Silicon Valley. He can be reached at don@riverguideinc.com or 415-516-1769. He writes: --- Today I am posting the first of what I hope will be a number of roundtable discussions with technology leaders in the construction software marketplace. I've edited this discussion down to a "blog-size" post, but the full transcript is available on RiverGuide for Construction Software, here: tinyurl.com (or, more directly for the pdf, here: tinyurl.com ) The topic today is Software as a Service (SaaS). If you are not up on your tech acronyms, SaaS refers to a new software model where the software application is used through a browser over the Internet. The actual software code and database are maintained in a central location by the software vendor. Customers typically pay a monthly or yearly subscription for use of the software. Our roundtable includes executives from four firms that are pioneering the use of SaaS in the construction industry and enjoying good success. Continued at: enr.construction.com ------

To: axial who wrote (17853)	11/18/2006 1:13:55 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

[Electric Power Grid] Industry in Dire Straits, Group Says - as it lays out inspiration for power system of the future Source: Platts Electric Utility Week With efforts aimed at changing the transmission grid from the top down not having had much success, a new group is taking a bottom-up, customer-driven approach to what it sees as a need for nothing less than transformation. The aim is a power grid for the increasingly digital future, which demands far more than simply keeping the lights on. The Galvin Electricity Initiative is focused on developing what it terms the perfect power system, which would provide electricity with significantly more reliability than the current system and give consumers greater control over their own energy use and costs than they have today. A digital society demands a more reliable grid, with sensors that anticipate and avoid interruptions or disturbances that cost the economy $150 billion each year, according to the initiative. Named for former Motorola CEO Robert Galvin, the effort examines what will drive future electricity needs and concludes that increased power quality will be a priority. Continued at: web.hermesemessenger2.com@fttx.org&ScheduleID=471&IssueID=189&FileName=http://web.hermesemessenger2.com/tfg/public/newsletters/present/ISSUE189/article343.html&ArticleID=343 ------