During the 1990s, a new category of enterprise software called enterprise resource planning (ERP for short) spawned several multi-billion-dollar stalwarts, including SAP, PeopleSoft and Salesforce.com. Early on, the market was fragmented, with several vendors fighting for dominance. Over time, the market consolidated as Oracle and SAP emerged as market leaders that bought competitors, integrated product lines and merged workforces.
The same thing is about to happen in the soft grid (Editor's note: 'soft grid' is GTM's terminology for the software layer of the smart grid) -- specifically, in meter data management, which pertains to software that automates billing by collecting and cleaning time interval power consumption data from millions of households, as frequently as every 15 minutes. All of this data must be processed daily within tight time windows. It's a keenly competitive software game where the ability to scale is assumed, and backup and security are table stakes.
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