Interesting: IDC Energy Insights Builds the Case for SaaS in Utilities

In a new report, IDC Energy Insights addresses the utility industry’s software capex vs opex issue head-on with a financial model to highlight the quantitative as well as the qualitative nuances around this issue. The utility industry’s practice of providing a rate of return on capitalized investments provides a disincentive for the industry to invest in cloud solutions. (…) financial model to demonstrate the capex versus opex effects of typical customer information systems (CIS) for a utility with one million customers, deployed as a software-as-a-service versus on premise. (…) Read the full article >