Three Key Considerations to Frame the Industrial Operations Software Architecture

Three Key Considerations to Frame the Industrial Operations Software Architecture

This IDC Perspective poses three strategic considerations to help guide organizations to improve their software architecture for IT/OT convergence. Industrial enterprises today are chasing new business capabilities enabled by business, rightly with a focus on discrete use cases. Yet, in doing so, many organizations find themselves deeply mired in a complex and rapidly growing portfolio of platforms, applications, and resultant integrations. To achieve a strategically architected operations technology environment that is capable of management and extensibility at scale, organizations must apply principles of enterprise architecture to their strategy."A lot of companies I talk to struggle with data accessibility and usability, management of multiple platforms, and operationalizing analytics projects into business value," says Jonathan Lang, research director for IDC's Worldwide IT/OT Convergence Strategies research program. "If they take a step back and really think critically about the overall architecture, a lot of that pain can be avoided or resolved."

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