The Oil & Gas industry needs to maximise operational agility as well as supply-chain continuity and transparency. Rapid and comprehensive strategic sourcing, acquisition and management of market and business intelligence and collaboration, controls and compliance in ever-expanding global networks for third-party relationships will be crucial in exploiting new market and technological opportunities.

Abilities to plan and execute long-term spend strategies and to mine and draw sense from vast quantities of data using intelligent engines will be key differentiators enabling rapid adoption of key energy sector innovations.