Entergy included several solutions powered by iFactor’s products at a recent Hurricane Expo. According to the press release: This included an exhibit showing Entergy’s Storm Center website, including the View Outages feature. The exhibit will also feature Entergy’s Outage Texting service, which texts information to cell phones. With storm season underway, and some forecasters predicting [...]
Archive for June 2010
Charts in Smallworld
June 22, 2010Creating graphical charts in SW has been a standing challenge for developers – drawing classes have long been available in the core system but the amount of custom code necessary has discouraged development. An alternative solution is to leverage freely available internet graphing tools. iFactor’s Graham Garlick has written a ‘google_chart’ class that [...]
Notifi’s Success at Entergy
June 17, 2010The popularity of Entergy’s My Account Anywhere service has been growing steadily since its introduction in 2009. Customer registration and text messaging continues to increase regularly, demonstrated in the graph below. My Account Anywhere, powered by iFactor’s Notifi product, allows Entergy to communicate with their customers through two-way SMS text messaging. Customers can subscribe to [...]
Radar weather layer available in Storm Center and Web Maps Connector
June 8, 2010The iFactor team has recently been working on the creation of the new iFactor Radar Weather Layer for its standard products Storm Center and Web Maps Connector. Hosted in an Amazon S3 Server, the new layer is created as a new Bing Maps Tile layer, using the current weather provided by the NOAA National Weather [...]
