ZURICH, February 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Hitachi Energy, a global leader in electrification, has been recognized as a leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Utilities Asset Performance Management (APM) 2025-2026 Vendor Assessment (Doc No. US53008225, November 2025). IDC’s study evaluated 12 APM vendors by qualitatively and quantitatively assessing their capabilities and strategies regarding their offerings in the energy and utilities sector.
“As utilities face the challenges of aging assets, clean energy integration and grid modernization, APM solutions have become essential to achieving operational resilience, reducing costs and achieving sustainable results within their organizations,” said IDC MarketScape.
“A modernized, data-driven approach to APM is now a strategic imperative for utilities,” said John Villali, senior research director at IDC Energy Insights. “Sophisticated APM solutions have become essential to utilities’ digital and energy transition strategies. With its heritage in the utility industry, AI-driven APM solution and global customer base, Hitachi Energy is well-positioned to guide and support utilities around the world in this important and evolving space.
According to IDC MarketScape: “Hitachi Energy has deep expertise in the utility sector, particularly in the transmission and distribution sub-segments. Its APM offering offers more than 175 predefined models covering transformers, circuit breakers and substation assets.
Additionally, the report notes: “Hitachi Energy can provide a fully integrated APM + enterprise asset management (EAM) + field service management (FSM) suite, which can provide a data-rich asset lifecycle management strategy that supports regulatory compliance for the regional utility sector across the globe.
“We are pleased to be recognized as a leader in APM by one of the world’s largest technology research companies,” said Andy Howell, Global Head of Enterprise Software Product Group at Hitachi Energy. “Hitachi Energy has the world’s largest installed base in power transmission and distribution utilities. These same utilities are now adopting our integrated software solutions. Ultimately, IDC’s recognition reflects what’s most important: the success of our customers.
Hitachi Energy APM is specifically designed for utilities, consolidating assets health, reliabilityAnd optimization in a single sequence. When integrated into enterprise asset management And work management systems, it enables a closed loop of asset lifecycle workflows.
Drawing on more than a century of experience building and maintaining critical power transmission and distribution infrastructure around the world, including a library of more than 175 predefined models for grid assets, Hitachi Energy APM enables utilities to prioritize proper maintenance, reduce outage risks, and optimize capital and operating expenses while meeting regulatory expectations.
Using AI-driven analytics and network-aware context, APM combines operational and historical data to strengthen reliability, safety and cost performance in transmission and distribution.
Hitachi Energy APM is part of the Asset & Work Management suite of solutions, which supports Hitachi’s HMAX Energy digital services portfolio. HMAX by Hitachi is a suite of next-generation solutions that bring the power of AI to social infrastructure.
To read the IDC MarketScape excerpt, please visit https://www.hitachienergy.company/qPC.
About IDC MarketScape
The IDC MarketScape Vendor Assessment Model is designed to provide insight into the competitiveness of technology and service providers in a given market. The research uses a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria which results in a unique graphical illustration of each supplier’s position in a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework within which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future success factors of technology providers in the market can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and potential suppliers.
About Hitachi Energy
Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader in electrification, powering a sustainable energy future through innovative digital-centric power grid technologies. More than three billion people depend on our technologies to power their daily lives. With more than a century of innovation in critical technologies such as high voltage, transformers, automation and power electronics, we are addressing the most pressing energy challenge of our time: balancing the growing demand for electricity while decarbonizing the power system. With an unrivaled installed base in more than 140 countries, we co-create and build long-term partnerships across the utility, industrial, transportation, data center and infrastructure sectors. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ more than 50,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of approximately $16 billion.
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About Hitachi, Ltd.
Through its Social Innovation Business (SIB) that brings together IT, OT (operational technology) and products, Hitachi contributes to a harmonized society where the environment, well-being and economic growth are in balance. Hitachi operates globally in four sectors: digital systems and services, energy, mobility and connectivity industries, as well as the SIB strategic business unit for new growth businesses. With Lumada at its heart, Hitachi generates value by integrating data, technology and domain knowledge to solve customer and social challenges. Revenue for fiscal year 2024 (ended March 31, 2025) was 9,783.3 billion yen, with 618 consolidated subsidiaries and approximately 280,000 employees worldwide. Visit us at www.hitachi.com.
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