Platts merges "Global Energy Business" and "Energy IT".Platts (New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ), the energy division of the McGraw--Hill Cos. (New York), has merged two of its magazines to form a new title. Beginning with the May/June issue, readers of Global Energy Business and Energy IT will begin receiving Platts Energy Business & Technology (PEB&T). The new title will have a controlled circulation of 37,000 and will be published monthly beginning in September. Global Energy Business was launched in 1999 as a bimonthly bi·month·ly adj. 1. Happening every two months. 2. Happening twice a month; semimonthly. adv. 1. Once every two months. 2. Twice a month; semimonthly. n. pl. with a controlled circulation of 23,000 executives at energy suppliers and utilities, energy service providers, energy marketers and related government, insurance, legal and financial service professionals. Energy IT, also published six times a year, had a controlled circulation of 22,000 managers, engineers and consultants at utilities, water and waste companies, government and public works public works pl.n. Construction projects, such as highways or dams, financed by public funds and constructed by a government for the benefit or use of the general public. Noun 1. agencies and industry suppliers. It was launched in 1995. Platts said it decided to merge the two titles because IT is "light-years beyond its original function: handling back-office data processing data processing or information processing, operations (e.g., handling, merging, sorting, and computing) performed upon data in accordance with strictly defined procedures, such as recording and summarizing the financial transactions of a . Information about energy has become virtually as valuable as energy itself." Editor-in-chief Jon Arnold noted that "because IT has become integral to all aspects of energy companies' activities, and is therefore growing in strategic relevance to corporate management, it makes perfect sense to provide both programs, business and technology coverage, on one platform." Editorial will cover corporate finance issues, industry trends, energy policy, and strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. . The first issue included features on replacing information systems, upgrading legacy systems, the relationship between market and credit risk, forecasting electricity prices, revenue management, vulnerability audits, and Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. applications. |
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