What is bigger business for Telvent in the Middle East, water or power?
Traditionally, power projects have more volume in the Middle East, but due to the growth rhythm that we are facing in the GCC countries, there are water projects coming up with a considerable volume. Power will still have more volume because the capital investment is much higher than with traditional water projects, but we are looking at a very reasonable size of projects in the water sector. Has the role of SCADA systems in the utilities sector evolved? In former times the challenge was to obtain the data from the field in real time, nowadays the approach is how to manage that data, how to manage the huge information stream, and to spread it all over the departments of the utility. SCADA was very much related to maintenance, but it is not anymore. To market our product, we need to communicate with maintenance, of course, but also with the planning department, and with the corporate department, to set up key performance indicators, for them to set up a strategy for growth. So the chall
