| | Estimated reading time: 6 minutes | Asset Intensive, Business Agility, Business Technology, Creativity & Innovation, Digital Transformation, Energy, Utilities & Resources, Mobility, Research, Service, Strategy
The 4 trends lighting up the energy & utilities industry in 2017
2017 energy & utilities industry predictions

Changes in consumer demand and new opportunities in renewable energy production are leading energy companies to invest in alternative sources,…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Asset Intensive, Business Technology, Energy, Utilities & Resources, Finance, Mobility, Supply Chain
Delivering efficiency improvements through GIS integration – The story continues.
Delivering efficiency improvements through GIS integration – The story continues.

Earlier, I had blogged about how the investments and efforts we’d made into our GIS integration. And, these investments are…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Asset Intensive, Business Technology, Strategy
A step-by-step to asset management excellence
Asset Management

Back in October at IFS World Conference 2016, some delegates from William Grant & Sons explained their asset management journey…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Asset Intensive, Business Technology, Creativity & Innovation, IFS Applications, Strategy
EAM – Where does it sit in the Asset Performance Management (APM) landscape?

An enterprise asset solution will always be a constituent part of an APM strategy— the key is ensuring it sits…

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| | Estimated reading time: 5 minutes | Business Agility, Business Technology, Events, IFS Applications, Oil & Gas
The future of drilling contractors (without using a crystal ball): Lean, agile operations
drilling contractors

IADC brings together leading drilling contractors to discuss industry challenges around reliability and asset integrity in the dynamic environment of…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Asset Intensive, Business Agility, Business Technology, Service
SelectHub names IFS top CMMS vendor of 2016
CMMS

Based on 21 key functional business requirements, SelectHub names IFS the #1 CMMS vendor of 2016. SelectHub, a technology-selection management platform, recognized…

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| | Estimated reading time: 1 minute | Asset Intensive, Business Agility
A common-sense approach to modern asset and project lifecycle management

According to research from PwC, global capital project and infrastructure spending will exceed $9 trillion by 2025. Within asset-intensive sectors…

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| | Estimated reading time: 2 minutes | Asset Intensive, Energy, Utilities & Resources, Oil & Gas
IFS is a ‘Challenger’ says Gartner 2015 MQ
New IFS website

The publication of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Energy and Utilities Enterprise Asset Management Software reflects the huge investment we have made in specific industry functionality within our core product, IFS Applications. We believe that by showcasing IFS as the only ‘Challenger’ in this year’s MQ, Gartner have validated what we can offer to our customers in the energy, utilities, oil and gas industries: a deep breadth of functionality that can be successfully deployed in all sub-sectors of that market.

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| | Estimated reading time: 1 minute | Asset Intensive, Service, Strategy
Podcast — Corporate Culture, RCM and EAM Software

According to maintenance and reliability guru Carlo Odoardi, the primary barrier to successful enterprise asset management (EAM) software and reliability…

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