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New IDC Energy Insights Survey Reveals That Cybersecurity Is the Highest IT Solution Area of Investment for Utilities in 2016Today, even more than in the past, utilities are lamenting the rigidity and costs of running and maintaining their legacy IT solutions, putting CIOs in the spotlight. Utility CIOs are facing significant challenges in determining where to make the most effective budget allocations. At the same time, CIOs are expected to undertake new initiatives to ensure the most productive, effective, and efficient alignment between business process and IT. To understand which IT solutions will attract the most investments from utilities, IDC Energy Insights unveiled a new report, Business Strategy: Utilities IT Investment Priorities for Solutions: Results from the Western European Utilities 2015 Survey (Doc #EMEA40157816), based on the results of the IDC (News - Alert) Energy Insights Survey on Western European utilities.
The study sought to understand Western European utilities' plans to invest in enterprise and line-of-business (LOB) solutions, including: asset management; billing; customer care; cybersecurity; energy trading and risk management (ETRM); engineering and design; environment, health, and safety (EH&S); enterprise resource planning (ERP); grid maintenance; meter data management; network automation and control; plant maintenance; plant operations; project management; storage; supply chain management (SCM); and workforce mobility. IDC Energy Insights also released a complementary report in the series, What About Utilities IT Budgets? Results from Western European Survey 2015 (Doc #EMEA40813815), to understand the benchmark of ICT budgets versus revenues, IT budget spending and IT budget distribution, leading business initiatives to support IT decisions, and top information security priorities among utility enterprises across Western Europe. Key findings from the report include:
According to Gaia Gallotti, IDC Energy Insights Research Manager, "With smart meter deployments picking up again in countries such as France and the U.K., Western European utilities will focus their IT solution investment potential on adopting new MDM solutions and, to a lesser extent, on enhancing/upgrading their existing MDM solutions in the next 12 months. Interestingly, this applies to water utilities as well." For additional information about this report series or to arrange a one-on-one briefing with Gaia Gallotti please contact Sarah Murray at 781-378-2674 or [email protected]. Reports are available to qualified members of the media. For information on purchasing reports, contact [email protected]; reporters should email [email protected].
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