Due to market dynamics and economic conditions, oil & gas businesses - as well as related midstream,downstream & service companies - are seizing M & A opportunities and right-sizing their operations. The outright sales of subsidiaries & business units, as well as carve-outs of certain business lines and assets, are on the upswing. What are the key issues likely to arise as a transaction progresses,as well as effective practices for deal planning & execution? Read Deloitte's point-of-view on this topic to gain insights into recent trends in the oil & gas industry and ways to position part of your business for divestiture or carve-out.

Overview of the benefits to utility companies of accepting credit and debit cards and processing recurring payments.

Overview of the benefits of accepting credit and debit cards for utility payments.

Just as the advent of the Internet represented a new dawn in personal
connectivity and communication, the smart grid infrastructure, including smart
metering and demand response mechanisms, is replete with potential benefits
for the utilities industry.

Download the Data Requirements for Advanced Analytics, to discover how your organization can use advanced analytics to discover relationships, predict the future and adapt to change.
This report will help you:
Understand the difference between reporting and analysis, and the unique data requirements involved in each practice.
Move past the simple design of a data warehouse for online analytic processing, and expand to fulfill the data requirements for advanced analytics.
Adjust your data management practices, including data integration and data quality, to fit the needs of an analytic database.

Learn how you can maximize return on enterprise assets – reduce costs, manage capital expenditures, and improve asset utilization and maintenance. The SAP Service and Asset Management solution provides end-to-end, integrated functionality to help you achieve superior enterprise asset management.

Learn how SAP AMI Integration for Utilities makes customer meter data automatically and instantly available to back-end systems supporting customer management, billing, and analysis. This integration enables cost-effective customer service, market efficiency, and optimized revenues and demand management.

This report will discuss how to:  Drive customer satisfaction and behavior with powerful demand side management  Implement flexible but reliable and efficient processes to increase your ROI while leveraging the existing infrastructure  Leverage billing, CRM and AMI to communicate with customers proactively in real time  Become more agile to meet future regulations and trends

Wonder how advanced meter infrastructure (AMI) can help utilities innovate cost-effective business processes for sales and customer service and facilitate market efficiencies and automate data exchanges? The SAP NetWeaver technology platform and service-oriented architecture can support your AMI implementation.

Learn how the SAP for Oil & Gas solution portfolio provides functionality that gives fuel marketers and distributors visibility into their distribution network, integrates customer information, and automates processes to improve efficiency, forecast accuracy, and adaptability.