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Three Key Considerations to Frame the Industrial Operations Software Architecture

Publisher IDC
Published Dec 15, 2022
Length 7 Pages
SKU # IDC17560468

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Three Key Considerations to Frame the Industrial Operations Software Architecture

This IDC Perspective poses three strategic considerations to help guide organizations to improve their software architecture for IT/OT convergence. Industrial enterprises today are chasing new business capabilities enabled by business, rightly with a focus on discrete use cases. Yet, in doing so, many organizations find themselves deeply mired in a complex and rapidly growing portfolio of platforms, applications, and resultant integrations. To achieve a strategically architected operations technology environment that is capable of management and extensibility at scale, organizations must apply principles of enterprise architecture to their strategy."A lot of companies I talk to struggle with data accessibility and usability, management of multiple platforms, and operationalizing analytics projects into business value," says Jonathan Lang, research director for IDC's Worldwide IT/OT Convergence Strategies research program. "If they take a step back and really think critically about the overall architecture, a lot of that pain can be avoided or resolved."

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7 Pages
Executive Snapshot
Situation Overview
Three Trends to Consider in Developing the Strategically Architected Operation
Moving from Hierarchies to Data Flows
Balancing the Platform and Solution Mix
Operationalizing Data into Value
Advice for the Technology Buyer
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