Category: Energy & Resources
Energy & Resources market research reports by IDC
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IDC PeerScape: Practices for Developing Policies for Governance of Operational Data in Worldwide Mining
IDC PeerScape: Practices for Developing Policies for Governance of Operational Data in Worldwide Mining This IDC PeerScape explores four key practices that mining organizations worldwide should address when developing policies for the governance of operational data. Four best practices for mining co ... Read More
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Warding off COVID-19 and Preparing for a Resilient Future: EDF UK's Operating Model Transformation
Warding off COVID-19 and Preparing for a Resilient Future: EDF UK's Operating Model Transformation This IDC Perspective focuses on EDF UK's digital transformation journey around cloud, security, agile, digital workplace, and automation, and the stimulus COVID-19 provided for it to pick up the pace. ... Read More
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Iron Mountain: Leveraging Its World-Class Logistics and Asset Processing to Enable Secure IT Asset Disposition
Iron Mountain: Leveraging Its World-Class Logistics and Asset Processing to Enable Secure IT Asset Disposition This IDC Vendor Profile provides a summary of Iron Mountain's March briefing to IDC on the company's Secure ITAD (SITAD) program and updated portal that provides details for its clients abo ... Read More
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Managing a Mixed Energy Future
Managing a Mixed Energy Future This IDC Market Perspective analyzes the market conditions and external factors that are requiring energy companies to change at a much faster pace than ever before in the past. Solutions providers must keep pace and be prepared to deliver the technology of tomorrow. " ... Read More
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Utilities Smart Customer Operations Quarterly Update: January–March 2021
Utilities Smart Customer Operations Quarterly Update: January–March 2021 This IDC Market Perspective analyzes worldwide smart customer operations in the energy sector and outlines customer care and billing; customer engagement, smart metering, digital transformation, and emobility developments; and ... Read More
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EMEA Utilities Industry Quarterly Update: January–March 2021
EMEA Utilities Industry Quarterly Update: January–March 2021 This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of the utilities industry in 1Q21, covering M&As, agreements, reorganizations, and major business developments; new financing deals; major traditional infrastructure projects; major rene ... Read More
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Sustainability in Canada: Is Mainstream Adoption Imminent?
Sustainability in Canada: Is Mainstream Adoption Imminent? This IDC Market Perspective examines the perspectives of Canadian organizations on sustainability practices and the importance of corporate social responsibility as key business objectives. Sustainability is an emerging issue for Canadian co ... Read More
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Future of Connectedness Enablers: Accenture and AT&T's Joint Connectivity Priorities for the Energy Industry
Future of Connectedness Enablers: Accenture and AT&T's Joint Connectivity Priorities for the Energy Industry This IDC Market Note discusses AT&T and Accenture's efforts to target the energy industry with a comprehensive strategy for connectedness and business optimization, using a managed privat ... Read More
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Artificial Intelligence–Enabled Automation and Cybersecurity for Smart Meters
Artificial Intelligence–Enabled Automation and Cybersecurity for Smart Meters With the enforcement of carbon abatement policies and push for zero emissions and reduced carbon footprint, network operators are increasingly looking to take data from their energy assets and use algorithms and intelligen ... Read More
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Advances in Measurement Solutions
Advances in Measurement Solutions This IDC Perspective examines advances in measurement solutions and their importance to oil and gas companies. Measurement data is one of the most critical elements to a company's operational viability. Legacy software and processes create potential for business and ... Read More
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Dissecting the Electric Reliability Council of Texas' Power Outage Debacle and Lessons Learned
Dissecting the Electric Reliability Council of Texas' Power Outage Debacle and Lessons Learned This IDC Perspective dissects the Electric Reliability Council of Texas' (ERCOT's) power outage debacle and lists key takeaways/lessons to be learned that can help us prepare for and avoid a catastrophe li ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Practices for Asset Performance Management Implementation in Worldwide Utilities
IDC PeerScape: Practices for Asset Performance Management Implementation in Worldwide Utilities This IDC PeerScape explores three implementation projects of asset performance management products by three utilities: EDP, a diversified multinational utility with a large base of conventional generation ... Read More
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Mastering Unstructured Subsurface Data Management: bp's Knowledge Mining Project
Mastering Unstructured Subsurface Data Management: bp's Knowledge Mining Project This IDC Perspective analyzes how bp embarked on a subsurface knowledge mining project. bp intended to capitalize on the wealth of subsurface data it built over the years to boost the operational efficiency of its upstr ... Read More
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Worldwide CO2 Emissions Savings from Cloud Computing Forecast, 2021–2024: A First-of-Its-Kind Projection
Worldwide CO2 Emissions Savings from Cloud Computing Forecast, 2021–2024: A First-of-Its-Kind Projection This IDC study presents IDC's first global forecast of CO2 emissions savings from cloud computing."IDC has been tracking the server market and quantifying compute power for nearly all of its 50+ ... Read More
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Connecting the Dots in Field Service: Italgas Innovates with AR
Connecting the Dots in Field Service: Italgas Innovates with AR This IDC Perspective focuses on Italian utility Italgas' innovative usage of augmented reality (AR) in field service. Setting out on the innovation path it knew from its recent past, Italgas successfully implemented AR in its field oper ... Read More
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Mining Industrial IoT Platforms: Creating Value from Connected Assets
Mining Industrial IoT Platforms: Creating Value from Connected Assets This IDC Perspective provides an overview of the architecture and ecosystem of Internet of Things (IoT) platforms in use in the mining industry. This study also identifies key horizontal IoT platform providers and a host of use ca ... Read More
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Impact of IT-OT Integration on Oil and Gas Operations
Impact of IT-OT Integration on Oil and Gas Operations This IDC Perspective discusses IT-OT integration and its impact on O&G companies. European oil players that have already accomplished IT- OT integration have started to realize the business value the integrated business model brings to the ta ... Read More
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Good Practices from the Second Edition of IDC Europe and Central Asia Smart Cities and Communities Awards
Good Practices from the Second Edition of IDC Europe and Central Asia Smart Cities and Communities Awards This IDC Perspective highlights the winners of the second edition of IDC Europe and Central Asia Smart City Award invested in technology. These solutions could deliver value against tangible bus ... Read More
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Resources Sector Innovation: Ensuring Global Leadership for the Australian METS Sector
Resources Sector Innovation: Ensuring Global Leadership for the Australian METS Sector This IDC Perspective provides an overview of issues identified in a comparative assessment between the Australian, Canadian, Chilean, and South African mining, equipment, technology, and services (METS) sectors.“A ... Read More
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Computomics: Facing Climate Change by Delivering AI to Plant Breeders
Computomics: Facing Climate Change by Delivering AI to Plant Breeders This IDC Vendor Profile examines Germany-headquartered Computomics, a start-up founded in 2012 that has developed AI software systems to support the activities of plant breeders. Computomics aims to bring the power of advanced mac ... Read More
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COVID-19 Drives Contract Life-Cycle Management Investment, But Beware Implementation Pitfalls
COVID-19 Drives Contract Life-Cycle Management Investment, But Beware Implementation Pitfalls This IDC Perspective discusses how COVID-19 has driven investment in contract life-cycle management and the importance and benefits of implementing contract life-cycle management tools. This document also d ... Read More
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IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide Taxonomy, 2020: Oil and Gas — Release V2, 2020
IDC's Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide Taxonomy, 2020: Oil and Gas — Release V2, 2020 This IDC study provides a detailed description of the methodology and taxonomy for IDC's 2020 Worldwide 3rd Platform Spending Guide for oil and gas. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide 3 ... Read More
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Spearheading Climate Resilience in Future Cities Using Technology Solutions
Spearheading Climate Resilience in Future Cities Using Technology Solutions Asia is urbanizing faster than anywhere else in the world, and it is expected to have 21 out of 37 megacities worldwide in the next ten years. Although they are incorporating technology, infrastructure, and planning in city ... Read More
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The Race to the Future Utility — Run Like There's No Tomorrow: Highlights from the 2020 IDC European Utilities Executive Summit
The Race to the Future Utility — Run Like There's No Tomorrow: Highlights from the 2020 IDC European Utilities Executive Summit This IDC Perspective summarizes topics discussed at the eighth IDC European Utilities Executive Summit, hosted virtually by IDC Energy Insights, on October 19 and 20, 2020. ... Read More
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IFS Acquires Clevest: The Enhanced Service Experience Extended to the Utilities and Energy Market
IFS Acquires Clevest: The Enhanced Service Experience Extended to the Utilities and Energy Market This IDC Market Note highlights the recent acquisition of Clevest Solutions by IFS on November 2, 2020, which strengthens the IFS offering and domain expertise in key verticals such as utilities and ene ... Read More