Analyst Profile

Catherine Madden

Senior Research Analyst, Oil and Gas

Catherine Madden analyzes the fastest-growing information technology market in the oil and gas business – upstream – which includes exploration, upstream production, and upstream operations. Ms. Madden focuses on how technology can support business initiatives such as lean/six sigma, enhanced well production, reduction of non-productive time, collaboration, health and safety, and streamlining joint venture accounting.

Ms. Madden regularly contributes to the oil and gas blog in the IDC Energy Insights Community (http://idc-insights-community.com/energy) and tweets (@cvmadden) about oil and gas IT strategies, the digital oilfield, production optimization, and more.

Ms. Madden is an experienced market research analyst with over twelve years of experience in business and industry. She has advised executives of Fortune 500 companies, providing them with market intelligence based on qualitative and quantitative research. In particular, she has developed and refined research methodologies, as well as forecast models. Ms. Madden has been the chief analyst for numerous industry multi-client studies.

Ms. Madden's most recent experience is as a senior market analyst for Global Insight, Inc. (formerly Standard & Poor's DRI). She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Michigan.

Research Authored by Catherine Madden

IT Impacts from the BP Oil Spill Rick Nicholson, Catherine Madden, Jill Feblowitz Jul 2010 - Doc # EI224330      Perspective This IDC Energy Insights Perspective discusses the IT impacts from the BP oil spill. With the BP oil spill successfully capped, at least temporarily, and the completion of a relief well in sight, it's time to look forward and assess the ... purchase document

Technology Selection: ETRM in a Postrecession Environment Catherine Madden, Jill Feblowitz Jul 2010 - Doc # EI224023      Technology Selection This IDC Energy Insights report presents the results of the IDC Vertical Research Annual Survey of oil and gas companies. The economics for the market remain volatile and traditional metrics of market health remain out of alignment; howe ... purchase document

Accenture 2010 Industry Analyst Event Cushing Anderson, Mukesh Dialani, Gard Little, Catherine Madden, Shawn P. McCarthy, Henry D. Morris, Alexander Motsenigos, Lisa Rowan, Rebecca Segal, Ali Zaidi May 2010 - Doc # 223510      Event Flash This IDC Flash summarizes the key takeaway points from the Accenture 2010 industry analyst event, focusing on Accenture's ambition to exploit the current environment. We caught up with Accenture's senior leadership in Boston re ... purchase document

2010 Worldwide Revenue for the Top 50 IT Vendors in the Oil and Gas Industry Catherine Madden, Monika Kumar, Jill Feblowitz Apr 2010 - Doc # EI223030      Pivot Table This IDC Energy Insights Pivot Table provides our best estimates of the worldwide revenue for the top 50 IT vendors in CY08 for the oil and gas (O&G) industry. Although this document is intended to provide a macro view of IT ve ... purchase document

Vendor Assessment: Industry Short List for Hydrocarbon Accounting — Transactions to Field Operations Catherine Madden, Jill Feblowitz Mar 2010 - Doc # EI222017      Market Overview This IDC Energy Insights report looks at six vendors that provide hydrocarbon accounting applications for the oil and gas industry. The vendors evaluated are Merrick Systems, P2 Energy Solutions, Quorum, SAP, Tieto, and WellPoi ... purchase document

Audience Q&A Session: From the Worldwide Oil and Gas Industry 2010 Top 10 Predictions Catherine Madden, Jill Feblowitz Feb 2010 - Doc # EI222162      Perspective This IDC Energy Insights Perspective covers IDC Energy Insights' question-and-answer session with the audience during our publicly presented Worldwide Oil and Gas Industry 2010 Top 10 Predictions Webinar. The top 10 predictions ... purchase document

SaaS — Coming to an Energy Trading Desk Near You Jill Feblowitz, Catherine Madden Feb 2010 - Doc # lcUS22187910      IDC Link Aspect Enterprise issued another press release about a recent win at Tuscan Petroleum. Aspect, formerly OILSPACE.com, has witnessed a lot of wins across the globe recently with its energy trading and risk management (ETRM) software as a ser ...

Worldwide Oil and Gas Industry 2010 Top 10 Predictions Rick Nicholson, Jill Feblowitz, Catherine Madden Jan 2010 - Doc # EI221738      Top 10 Predictions This IDC Energy Insights' report presents the top 10 predictions for the worldwide oil and gas industry in 2010. For the oil and gas industry, the economic recession of 2009 certainly challenged the primary objective of extract ... purchase document

Worldwide Oil and Gas Industry IT Spending Guide, 2008–2013, Version 2, 2009 Catherine Madden, Jill Feblowitz, Rick Nicholson, Nina Bonagura, Giuliana Folco, Roberta Bigliani, Gary Koch, Pavel Roland, Roman Maceska, Renato Troya, Matias Berardi, Chin-Boon Lim Jan 2010 - Doc # EI221759      Market Overview This Energy Insights report provides a detailed description of Energy Insights' industry and technology taxonomy.: "Energy Insights and IDC take great care to ensure and document consistent processes and definiti ... purchase document

Best Practices: Shell's IT Strategy Supports "More Upstream, Profitable Downstream" Catherine Madden, Jill Feblowitz Dec 2009 - Doc # EI221327      Market Overview This IDC Energy Insights report presents key business, IT, and upstream highlights for Shell. It covers important technology areas that support upstream strategies at the company. Also, it provides a technology assessment of th ... purchase document

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