Formed in 1948, Efacec, the largest Portuguese Group in the field of electricity, employs around 4,800 people and has a volume of orders that already exceeded 1,000 Million Euros, being present in more than 65 countries.

    Energy Solutions
            Transformers
            High and Medium Voltage Switchgear
            Service
    Engineering Solutions and Services
            Engineering
            Automation
            Maintenance
            Environment
            Renewable
    Transport and Logistics
            Transport
            Logistics

Efacec's strategy, focusing on International market, as well as important investments made in Innovation and New Technologies Development, backed by the resources of Efacec traditional technology led the Group to a position at the forefront of the Portuguese Industry and overseas markets.

Further information is available on the Web at: www.efacec.com.

Gridata develops emerging technologies at the edge of the grid, where the production and delivery of electric energy meets the consumer.  The consumption of energy is accompanied by increasingly detailed data about that consumption, from sensors, utilities, third parties, and consumers themselves.  Our technologies allow consumers to unlock knowledge from that data and understand the cost of their behavior, and then participate in programs that reduce those costs, including social, environmental, and financial.

Gridata capabilities include:   consulting support for standards development, data modeling, and system design and architecture;   OEM software development for third parties launching next-generation consumer products and appliances;   test harness development for emerging compliance processes;  integration of modern sensor networks to computing platforms;    and custom data management and analytics development for residential, industrial and commercial consumer applications. 

IBM is involved in more than 150 Smart Grid engagements in mature and emerging markets. More about IBM's vision to bring a new level of intelligence to how the world works—how every person, business, organization, government, natural system, and man-made system interacts, can be found here: http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet

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Power Analytics is a privately held developer of software solutions for the design, simulation, deployment, and preventative maintenance of complex electrical power systems.  Its Paladin® family of products helps organizations to ensure that their electrical power infrastructure is optimally designed (Paladin® DesignBase™), performs precisely as intended in terms of reliability and energy efficiency (Paladin® Live™), and operates flawlessly as organizations make real-time transitions between public and on-premise power sources (Paladin® SmartGrid™).

Paladin SmartGrid is the first commercially-available software platform designed specifically for the on-line management and control of next-generation “hybrid” power infrastructure incorporating both traditional utility power and local generation, e.g. solar power, wind turbines, battery storage, etc.  It optimizes energy consumption in multi-energy source sites, whether they are focused on a single objective – such as minimizing the annual cost, carbon footprint, peak load, or public utility consumption – or a combination of objectives that vary by time, costs, energy source reliability, etc.

Sensus is making the smart grid a reality today with nearly 9 million smart endpoints connected and communicating across more than 225 electric, water and gas utility customers.  Our industry leading AMI technology, FlexNet™, is a robust, high-powered solution based on open standards that gives electric, gas and water utilities a dedicated communications network that is designed and built specifically for smart grid applications. Unlike networks that operate in the public spectrum and must share that bandwidth with unlicensed wireless devices, FlexNet operates over protected, licensed radio spectrum, ensuring a clear communications highway. This means no frequency sharing, no interference, and no problems – period. The FlexNet system provides security and reliability for utilities’ mission critical applications, such as distribution automation, SCADA, smart metering and consumer demand response programs. Sensus is the first AMI company to achieve overall cyber security certification, earning both the Wurldtech Achilles Communication and Process Certifications.

Sensus creates innovative and evolving technology solutions that enable intelligent use and conservation of critical energy and water resources.  Sensus has led the discovery, development, and implementation of technologies for the energy and water industries for more than a century. Water, gas, and electric utility customers around the world benefit from our open, flexible products and solutions to help them optimize their resources – today and tomorrow.

Sensus is headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., USA and serves customers from locations throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. For more information, visit www.sensus.com.

SISCO provides communication and integration solutions that supports IEC 61850 for substation automation and wide area centralized remedial action systems(C-RAS); ICCP-TASE.2 for intercontrol center communications, EMS/SCADA integration, and power plant dispatching; C37.118 with IEC 61850 for synchrophasor processing and wide area measurement systems for improved situational awareness; and the Common Information Model (CIM per IEC61970 and IEC 61968) in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for Smart Grid integration using Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).  SISCO's products and services include:

• Systems Integration Services
• Off-the-shelf OPC interfaces
• Protocol Source Code
• Technology and Product Training

Sparx Systems specializes in high performance and scalable visual modeling tools for the planning, design and construction of software intensive systems.

With customers in industries ranging from aerospace and automotive engineering to finance, defense, government, entertainment and telecommunications, Sparx Systems is a leading vendor of innovative solutions based on the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and its related specifications. A Contributing Member of the Object Management Group (OMG), Sparx Systems is committed to realizing the potential of model-driven development based on open standards.

The company’s flagship product, Enterprise Architect, has received numerous accolades since its commercial release in August, 2000. At present, Enterprise Architect is the design tool of choice for over 200,000 registered users world-wide.

Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ:TIBX) provides enterprise software that helps companies achieve service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) success. With over 4,000 customers and offices in 40 countries, TIBCO has given leading organizations around the world better awareness and agility–what TIBCO calls The Power of Now®.

TIBCO gives organizations The Power of Now by providing innovative software that helps them pursue initiatives in three important areas:

• SOA : Helping organizations migrate to an infrastructure made up of services that can be assembled, orchestrated and reused.
• BPM : Helping organizations better coordinate the process flows that control how their assets work together.
• Business Optimization : Helping organizations convert streams of data into meaningful information and deliver it to employees, customers and partners.