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Distributed Energy Strategies
IDC Energy Insights’ Distributed Energy Strategies service provides exclusive market analysis and direct access to experts — helping subscribers better understand trends and developments related to distributed generation and energy storage. Through an integrated set of deliverables, subscribers receive the latest intelligence on the evolving distributed energy marketplace, enabling them to make better-informed business decisions and develop cost-effective strategies and tactics.
Intelligent Grid Strategies
The Intelligent Grid Strategies research and advisory program is dedicated to helping utilities and technology providers understand the complex dynamics of the rapidly evolving intelligent grid market. This service will explore the business and regulatory impacts of emerging intelligent grid technologies and provide innovative strategies such as distributed energy resources. Technologies covered will include sensors, smart metering, network automation and control, analytics, and communications technologies such as broadband over power lines (BPL) and WiFi/WiMAX.
European Clean Energy Strategies
The European Clean Energy Strategies service provides exclusive market analysis and direct access to experts – helping subscribers better understand trends and developments related to green power marketing, regulatory requirements, and emerging technologies. Through an integrated set of deliverables, subscribers receive the latest intelligence on the evolving renewable energy marketplace, enabling them to make better-informed business decisions and develop cost-effective strategies and tactics.
European Utility IT Strategies
European utilities face a variety of business and regulatory challenges. Climate change, security of supply, merger and acquisitions and new technologies are changing the European landscape. These organizations have to respond to demands for increased reliability, customer satisfaction, and safety, but they must do so amid growing pressure to reduce costs, improve operational efficiency, and overcome the twin issues of aging assets and an aging workforce. Information technology is playing an increasingly important role in allowing organizations to address these challenges. To that end, the European Utility IT Strategies research and advisory program assesses the impact of technology investments on business performance, through an integrated set of deliverables.
Renewable Energy Strategies
The Renewable Energy Strategies service provides exclusive market analysis and direct access to experts – helping subscribers better understand trends and developments related to green power marketing, regulatory requirements, and emerging technologies. Through an integrated set of deliverables, subscribers receive the latest intelligence on the evolving renewable energy marketplace, enabling them to make better-informed business decisions and develop cost-effective strategies and tactics.
Utility IT Strategies
The Utility IT Strategies service covers traditional IT infrastructure of utility companies, particularly as it applies to meeting the needs of the generation, transmission and distribution, and retail businesses at the utility, merchant generation companies and retail energy providers. The service focuses on business performance, business-related IT strategy, IT budget, and best practices in achieving efficiency. In addition, it covers serving customers and managing assets, carbon and the workforce.
Worldwide Utility Industry IT Spending Guide
The Worldwide Oil and Gas Industry IT Spending Guide is a semiannual analysis of the current status and projected growth of information technology spending in the oil and gas sector. This global five-year outlook on spending by oil and gas companies provides IT vendors with key information needed to develop effective market strategies. This service combines IDC's extensive technology forecasts with deep industry knowledge provided by IDC Energy Insights analysts and ongoing primary research in the oil and gas industry.
Middle East and Africa Oil and Gas Sector Overview
The Middle East and Africa Oil and Gas Sector Overview focuses on one of the most lucrative IT markets. This service provides comprehensive insight into the IT spending trends within the oil and gas sector in selected countries of the Middle East, quantifies the market opportunity, and helps understand the drivers and IT investment priorities within the sector. Intended for IT vendors, non-IT vendors, investors, and government organizations, the service delivers thought leadership, timely market sizing, and guidance for grasping current and emerging opportunities.
Oil and Gas IT Strategies
The Oil and Gas IT Strategies research advisory service provides insights and analysis on the impact of information technology investments and business process initiatives on business performance in the upstream and trading sectors of the oil and gas industry. Studies will include business strategy, best practices, technology selection and vendor assessment.
Worldwide Oil and Gas Industry IT Spending Guide
The Worldwide Oil and Gas Industry IT Spending Guide is a semiannual analysis of the current status and projected growth of information technology spending in the oil and gas sector. This global five-year outlook on spending by oil and gas companies provides IT vendors with key information needed to develop effective market strategies. This service combines IDC's extensive technology forecasts with deep industry knowledge provided by IDC Energy Insights analysts and ongoing primary research in the oil and gas industry.
