A Simplified Path to Forging Ahead in the Data Era

Energy and utilities industry is increasingly going digital. The pandemic has accelerated the need for companies to transform faster than ever before. To turn data-driven insights into actionable intelligence, organizations should modernize their IT foundations. The path to IT modernization in the data era lies on creating a flexible and scalable technology foundation and gaining better control of data from all sources

With the move to S/4HANA and new intelligent enterprise strategies, companies are seeking ways to simplify and accelerate their digital transformation journeys. This session will reveal how two vendors are working together to provide unique offerings that empower this transformation and speed up time to value while enabling modernization and new digital business innovations.

Asset management remains the most complex business process in asset-heavy industries like utilities and oil and gas. Simultaneously, asset management presents the biggest opportunity. Exploiting this opportunity is not rocket science as appropriate technologies exist. However, collaboration between diverse partners with often opposing perspectives – from IT back-office personnel to front-line operators, and from data engineers/data scientists to mechanical engineers— is required. This session will explore why it is important for CIOs to "grab the bull by the horns" and address asset management, particularly if they want to get their energy organizations ready for a brighter future