Forrester has identified significant advances in overall industrial IT spending since 2004-up from an average of 21% of overall expenditure budgets to around 30% in 2007.Senior Vice President of the company,David Metcalfe,notes:We are at the beginning of a new period of innovation.'However,as more companies globally put IT technology right at the very heart of their operations,how are upstream oil and gas businesses performing in investing in the brave new digital world?
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