Abstract

This IDC Survey Spotlight examines a portion of IDC's Worldwide IT and Operational Technology (OT) Convergence Survey carried out in July 2022. The research surveyed 284 energy and water utilities in Europe and North America, covering the following countries: Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Nordic countries, the U.K., and the U.S.

This report is the first of a series of documents unveiling how utilities across both sides of the Atlantic are progressively converging aspects of their organizations, processes, and technology across IT and operations. This includes IT-OT convergence strategies, drivers, challenges, use cases, business value, and partner ecosystems.

This document discusses what utilities expect regarding the prospective growth of their daily operational data throughput and where they expect this new data to be stored and processed. It also compares the 2022 results with those from the 2020 edition of this survey.

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