How to Accelerate Transformational Results with SaaS Solutions

While digital transformation has been on the agenda for many years, in 2020 it went from being a five- or ten-year initiative to an overnight imperative. To remain competitive in today’s rapidly changing environment, organizations need to first digitize their manual processes through electronic data capture for subsequent digitization in a more holistic way, taking that captured data and turning it into useful information that can be made available to the right actors at the right time.

However, 70% of digital transformation projects stall or fail to meet their objectives. One of the main reasons, especially in the industrial environment, is that organizations often do not fully understand the short- and long-term objectives of this transformation process, and when that happens, it is difficult to see how to get the most out of SCADA systems, historians, DCS, or other existing or to be implemented.

In addition, many organizations choose to add a large number of completely independent services built from scratch on cloud platforms, which is a process that involves a high cost and start-up time, as well as a headache to maintain and scale them.

In these cases, the approach proposed by Aveva is based on industrial software solutions as a service (SaaS) “ready to use”, since we must bear in mind that the objective of the transformation is to accelerate technological convergence and create a single connected environment –from the edge to the cloud– for the entire organization.

This convergence provides a rich context for an organization’s data, empowering remote teams and teams from different Sites, since one of the keys to a successful digital transformation process is to provide contextualized and reliable data to the different teams / departments, regardless of their place of work, so that they can analyze, interpret and make decisions in an agile and simple way.

This connected environment not only allows sharing contextualized information within the limits of the organization, but also with suppliers and customers, thus creating a connected community and a supplier – organization – customer ecosystem.

The Four Pillars of the Connected Environment

Market patterns show that leading industrial companies have identified 4 pillars on which a successful digital transformation is based:

1. An adequate industrial IoT framework that provides the appropriate modules and integration capabilities to facilitate the collection of data from the different IoT devices, and their connectivity with Cloud services.
2. Operational Differentiation, based on an empowered workforce, and with the ability to access contextualized information, will allow the organization to make better and more agile decisions.
3. Identify new opportunities to improve the business supported by contextualized data from different sources.
4. Business Agility: To improve business agility, it is key to provide access to reliable information at scale, and ensure the availability of such information. In this sense, cloud environments can be of great help when it comes to facilitating collaboration between teams, and guaranteeing the availability of systems.

The Role of Aveva in the “Enterprise” Environment

To offer transformational results at scale requires a solid base of industrial data, software and knowledge, and that is where Aveva can add value, with a deep knowledge in the management of industrial data, a proven experience in the deployment of On-Premise, Cloud and hybrid architectures, and a wide range of SW solutions that enable the IIOT-OT-IT-ET convergence.

From Aveva we are aware that today architectures are no longer purely On-Premise or Cloud, but rather hybrid, and under this premise Aveva Connect, our Cloud platform, was developed, which provides:

• A single environment managed by the user.
• Multiple services from the Edge to the Cloud.
• An open and manufacturer-independent approach to enable, and facilitate IIOT-OT-IT-ET convergence.
• A harmonization of industrial data.
• Reduce the burden on IT teams.
• Facilitate collaboration between teams and agility in decision making.

One of the biggest challenges that stands in the way of digital transformation is the speed of implementation, adoption and value perception in it. Therefore, to help “accelerate” digital transformation processes, at Aveva we have the broadest and deepest portfolio of industrial software “as a service” solutions to optimize engineering, operations and performance through a single environment deployed in the cloud, from which it will be possible to:

• Ensure the integration and integrity of industrial data.
• An optimized storage of industrial data.
• Have industrial model applications.
• And ultimately facilitate access to contextualized information from a single environment.

In conclusion, indicate that a successful digital transformation is not about deploying On-Premise or Cloud solutions, but about aligning objectives, people, processes, operations and systems, among others, adapting the architectures and solutions deployed, in such a way that access to information, collaboration between teams and decision-making is favored and facilitated, not only within the limits of the organization, but also between the supplier – organization – customer ecosystem.

In this sense, the Cloud platform with SaaS solutions from Aveva can provide high value, and help organizations obtain sustainable transformational results over time.