Deep Smart Grid Technology Integrations Drive Added Value for Electric Utilities
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Deep Smart Grid Technology Integrations Drive Added Value for Electric Utilities

Space-Time Insight announces significant integration with global leaders in smart grid technology.

FREMONT, CALIFORNIA — May 19, 2010 — Space Time Insight™, the leader in visual, geospatial analytics applications software, today announced that its Space-Time Awareness Server (STAS) v. 3.1, has been validated for IBM’s Solution Architecture for Energy and Utilities (SAFE) industry framework, making it easier for energy and utility customers to adopt smart grid technology.

Space-Time Insight also today announced it has received validation for Ready for IBM Tivoli Software and will be included in IBM’s Open Process Automation Library (OPAL) catalog, based on successful integration with IBM’s Maximo Asset Management, WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Application Server, ILOG Elixir and DB2 Enterprise 9 software.

The Space-Time Awareness Server and Space-Time Composite Applications from Space-Time Insight are designed to bring the Smart Grid to its fullest realization and to advance the application of geospatial analytics and situational intelligence from energy & utilities, to oil & gas, to transportation and telecommunications.

Space-Time Insight captures and correlates multi-source data and displays the real-time status of assets, work-orders, people and events on interactive satellite images to provide full-context situational intelligence for more informed decision-making and fast action-taking from the same screen. Space-Time Insight’s geospatial, visual analytics specifically offer advances in context-aware, preventive and condition-based maintenance and field service.

Combined with IBM Maximo software, Space-Time Insight technology provides customers with:

‘We are delighted to announce the Ready for IBM Tivoli and SAFE validations,’ said Mark L. Feldman, PhD, CEO at Space-Time Insight. “This is a winning combination that helps users from the executive suite to the control room protect revenue streams and reduce cost, while leveraging all their existing investments in information and operational technology. These purpose-built visual, geospatial analytics applications are setting the standard for utilities and critical infrastructure organizations.”

Space-Time Insight also recently announced it has been included as a "Cool Vendor" in Gartner’s “Cool Vendors in Energy & Utilities, 2010” report co-authored by Gartner Vice President and Fellow Kristian Steenstrup and published March 31, 2010.

About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process

Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

About Space-Time Insight:

Space-Time Insight offers industry’s leading visual, geospatial analytics software platform and composite applications. Space-Time Insight’s Space-Time Awareness Suite, including the Space-Time Awareness Server and Space-Time Composite Applications, correlates, analyzes, and geospatially visualizes multi-source streaming sensor and device data with other enterprise data and web feeds (weather, events) on-the-fly, delivering real-time, visual, spatio-temporal analytics intuitively displayed on satellite images or maps. Space-Time Insight was selected as a finalist for the Platts Global Energy Commercial Technology of the Year award for 2009. Space-Time Insight currently serves the Energy & Utilities, Oil & Gas, and Transportation sectors. More information about Space-Time Insight is available at www.spacetimeinsight.com.



Contact:

Margot Rudell
Director of Marketing
Space-Time Insight
Tel.: 510-897-6763