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Roberta Bigliani

Research Director, EMEA

Roberta Bigliani is the EMEA Research Director of IDC Energy Insights.

Mrs. Bigliani joined IDC in 2007 and in her role, she is responsible for EMEA research-based advisory and consulting services, which provide full coverage of the energy industry value chain including both utilities and oil & gas segments. Her area of expertise includes business and IT issues relevant to the utilities and oil and gas business, as well as sustainability, energy efficiency and clean technologies.

Mrs. Bigliani has over 18 years of experience in the gas and electricity industry. Prior to joining IDC Energy Insights, she worked for Accenture where she led consulting projects for all major Italian Utilities and Oil & Gas companies. Over the last four years, she joined Accenture's Integrated Marketing Practice where she was responsible for Utilities at the European level and for the Generation & Energy Markets at the global level.

Mrs. Bigliani is a regular contributor to the IDC Energy Insights blog on the IDC Energy Insights Community (http://idc-insights-community.com/energy) and tweets (@rbigliani) on business and IT issues relevant to the Energy sector.

In 2008, Mrs. Bigliani joined the European Commission DG Information and Society consultation group on Smart grids. In 2009, on behalf of the European Commission, DG Enterprise & Industry, she led a specific project on ICT in the European Utilities industry.

Mrs. Bigliani is one of leading analyst of IDC special study "How Global Usage of Information and Communications Technologies Impact on Sustainability" released in concomitance with the United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Copenhagen last December 2009.

Mrs. Bigliani is the author of several reports and a contributor on energy issues for specialist publications. She is also a regular conference speaker.

She is based in Milan (Italy), where she lives with her husband and her two daughters.

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Research Authored by Roberta Bigliani

Business Strategy: Capital Project Management in the Oil and Gas Industry
Rick Nicholson, Roberta Bigliani, Catherine Madden
Aug 2010 - Doc # EI224331      Business Strategy
This IDC Energy Insights report examines the benchmark study conducted by IDC Energy Insights regarding the maturity of information technology (IT) systems at oil and gas companies to manage large capital projects at an enterprise level. ...
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Worldwide Oil and Gas Industry IT Spending Guide, 2009–2014, Version 1, 2010
Catherine Madden, Jill Feblowitz, Rick Nicholson, Nina Bonagura, Giuliana Folco, Roberta Bigliani, Gary Koch, Roman Maceska, Renato Troya, Chin-Boon Lim, Milan Kalal
Aug 2010 - Doc # EI224516      Pivot Table
This IDC Energy Insights Pivot Table provides a detailed methodology and taxonomy for Energy Insights' Worldwide Oil and Gas Industry IT Spending Guide. Key points include::
  • The oil and gas industry is a dynamic and at times vo
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    Insights on Utilities: EMEA Edition — July 2010
    Roberta Bigliani, Gaia Gallotti, Rick Nicholson
    Jul 2010 - Doc # EIOS55S      Perspective
    Welcome to this issue of Insights on utilities, EMEA edition. We periodically distribute this document to share analysis of and opinions on key trends in the utilities industry. Please forward this newsletter to your colleagues or others ...
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    Eurelectric Conference Discusses "New Energy World"
    Roberta Bigliani, Gaia Gallotti
    Jul 2010 - Doc # lcIT22408110      IDC Link
    Eurelectric held its annual conference in Dublin on June 14–15, where it hosted many of the leading players from the utilities industry, mainly from Europe, but also from Asia, North America, and Australia. About 500 delegates gathered to d ...
    Western Europe, Utilities Industry IT Spending 2009–2014 Forecast
    Roberta Bigliani, Gaia Gallotti
    Jul 2010 - Doc # EIOS56S      Pivot Table
    This IDC Energy Insights report presents market sizing and forecast estimates for the utilities industry in Western Europe for 2009–2014.: The analysis is arranged by major technology, subindustry (e.g., electricity, gas, and water) ...
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    EMEA Clean Energy Quarterly Update: April–June 2010
    Roberta Bigliani, Gaia Gallotti
    Jul 2010 - Doc # EIRS55S      Perspective
    This IDC Energy Insights Perspective analyzes the EMEA clean energy sources sector and outlines the major merger and acquisition (M&A) activities, clean energy business unit reorganizations, new construction projects initiated by operato ...
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    EMEA Utilities Industry Quarterly Update, April–June 2010
    Roberta Bigliani, Gaia Gallotti
    Jul 2010 - Doc # EIOS57S      Perspective
    This IDC Energy Insights Perspective provides a quick one-stop-shop overview of the EMEA utilities industry in the second quarter of 2010, covering::
  • M&As, international agreements, company reorganizations, and business develop
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    Best Practices: Operationalizing Virtual Power Plants in Europe — RWE Collaborates with Siemens
    Roberta Bigliani, Gaia Gallotti
    Jun 2010 - Doc # EIRS01S      Best Practices
    This document provides an in-depth look at RWE's Virtual Power Plant (VPP) project, which seeks to demonstrate how the virtual power plant concept can become more than a theory or small-scale pilots, by aggregating large enough quantitie ...
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    Deploying Electric Vehicles in Europe: Updates from Italy
    Roberta Bigliani, Gaia Gallotti
    Jun 2010 - Doc # EIRS54S      Perspective
    On May 26, 2010, IDC Energy Insights held its fourth annual Energy and Utilities Forum. The first roundtable of the day addressed the hot topic of electric vehicles (EV) and their growing role in future sustainable and low-carbon economy ...
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    Energy and Utilities Forum 2010
    Roberta Bigliani, Gaia Gallotti
    May 2010 - Doc # EIRS53S      Perspective
    To download the Presentations and Speaker Biographies, please click on "View Full Document" on the left side tab.: This IDC Energy Insights Perspective includes p ...
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