asset-intensive industries
Asset Investment Planning, built for asset-intensive industries
When your business is its assets — power lines, pipelines, water mains, runways, hospitals, social housing — every euro of CAPEX has to defend itself. Simeo by Oxand turns 20 years of degradation, risk, and lifecycle expertise into multi-year investment plans you can present to a regulator, a board, and a community.
Trusted across
3 continents
EMEA · NA · APAC
By
100+
asset-intensive organizations
Managing
€25B+
assets under planning
Recognized
Gartner Market Guide
for AIP Solutions, 2024
One discipline. Six industries. The same recurring question : where to invest first, and why.
Asset-intensive industries share a hard truth — capital is finite, assets are aging, regulators are watching, and the consequences of getting it wrong are measured in lost service, missed targets, or worse. Simeo by Oxand exists for exactly this problem. The same simulation engine, the same library of 10,000+ predictive models and 30,000+ recommended actions, applied with industry-specific data and regulatory regimes.
Energy & Utilities
Power, water, and gas networks balancing grid investment, climate resilience, rate-case discipline, and net-zero targets.
Infrastructure
Roads, bridges, tunnels, ports, airports, rail. Risk-based, multi-year renewal plans built on field reality.
Real Estate
Commercial and institutional portfolios — extend lifespans, reduce TCO up to 30%, hit ESG targets.
Social Housing
Make housing investment-ready. Prioritize where impact is highest under tight public budgets.
Health Buildings
Hospitals and care facilities. Operational continuity, criticality-led investment, audit-ready compliance.
Cities & Regions
Diverse public asset portfolios — schools, civic buildings, libraries — governed across multiple stakeholders.
Five constraints every asset-intensive industry has to plan against.
Asset owners across these six industries tell us the same thing: budget season arrives, the data is in a dozen places, and they can’t defend their plan. Gartner’s December 2024 Market Guide for AIP put it plainly — the gap between asset-intensive organizations that have moved to modern AIP and those still working in spreadsheets is widening, and the cost of that gap shows up in lost regulatory approvals, deferred renewals, and missed sustainability targets.
Aging assets
Long-lived assets with heterogeneous condition. Decisions made today affect cost and risk for the next 30 years.
Capital under pressure
CAPEX has to be defended — to a CFO, a regulator, a public inquiry. "Best judgement" is no longer a defensible answer.
Fragmented data
Inventory in CMMS exports. Inspections in PDFs. Finance in ERP. Energy in spreadsheets. The data exists; the picture doesn't.
Regulatory scrutiny
ISO 55001, EPBD, CSRD, NIS2, PUC rate cases — the audit-ready paper trail is no longer optional.
Sustainability mandates
Net-zero pathways have to coexist with reliability, affordability, and service continuity. Trade-offs need to be modelled, not assumed.
Workforce reality
The senior asset experts who held the model in their head are retiring. The decision logic has to live in the system, not in their notebooks.
How Simeo applies across all six
Same simulation engine. Industry-specific data, regulations, and outcomes.
Without an AIP discipline
- Spreadsheets and one-off consulting reports
- Age-based replacement, no risk weighting
- Sustainability and CAPEX in separate conversations
- Master plans rebuilt from scratch every cycle
- No defensible link between field condition and budget
With Simeo by Oxand
- Single asset register fed by mobile inspections (Simeo GO)
- Risk-weighted, scenario-based prioritization
- Carbon and energy modelled inside every CAPEX scenario
- Living plans that update as field reality changes
- Audit-ready evidence aligned with ISO 55001
"We turned to Oxand because we needed a tool that would provide us with a predictive — not just corrective — view, and help us manage our investments more effectively. Oxand stood out for its risk management capabilities."
Head of Budget & Asset Valuation, In'li · Real Estate & Social Housing
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
An asset-intensive industry is one whose ability to deliver service depends on long-lived physical assets — power generation and grids, water and wastewater networks, gas pipelines, roads, rail, hospitals, public buildings, social housing. According to Gartner's Market Guide for Asset Investment Planning Solutions (G00781827, December 2024), these industries face the heaviest pressure to optimise capital trade-offs across the asset life cycle and are the primary buyers of AIP software.
EAM and CMMS systems (IBM Maximo, Infor EAM, SAP) manage work orders and execution. ERP systems manage finance and procurement. AIP sits above both — it ingests their data, models lifecycle risk and cost over a 5–30 year horizon, and produces the multi-year investment plan that drives CAPEX decisions. Gartner anticipates that composable AIP will increasingly act as the "single pane of glass" for asset investment decisions.
The simulation engine is the same. The data inputs, regulatory regime, and outcome metrics differ by industry — a power utility tracks SAIDI and rate-case alignment; a hospital tracks operational continuity and criticality; a social housing portfolio tracks tenant satisfaction and EPBD compliance. Industry-specific configurations live in the platform; the underlying logic is shared.
Most customers have a first multi-year scenario within 6–12 weeks. ROI typically lands within the first budget cycle thanks to predefined ageing models and turnkey integration with existing CMMS / ERP / GIS / BIM systems.
Oxand has offices in France (Paris), Switzerland (Lausanne), and the Netherlands (Utrecht), and delivers projects across EMEA, North America, and APAC. See our global delivery model.