Colin Beaney

Colin is a Key Account Manager at IFS, where he has worked for nearly 20 years. Colin has been involved in implementing and project managing IFS software into many project and asset-intensive organizations in Europe and worldwide. These cover many industries including energy, utilities, pulp & paper, aerospace and defense.

| | 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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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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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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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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4 Things your company should look for when selecting asset-intensive software

Do you know which four features to look for when evaluating asset-intensive software? As I mentioned back in June of…

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Selecting the right EAM product

An Enterprise Asset Management application that will flex and adjust to your evolving business during this age of digital transformation is…

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Diversity, integrity & greener portfolios are bringing change to the energy & utility sector

The Internet of Things really is here, so set your strategy now. But what must energy and utility companies do in…

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Implemented on time and within budget, another IFS Applications asset-intensive story
Brierty

Responding to evolving asset-intensive business and market demands was the primary driver behind a far-reaching decision by publicly-listed Australian mining…

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It’s not like the geography I was taught at school

I have to admit it is some time since I attended a geography lesson at school. The little I remember…

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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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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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Power to the customer

The energy and utilities sector has seen massive change over the past 20 years. Major growth has been spurred on…

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