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Oil & Gas
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Business-Aligned IT Strategy
Understand the capabilities and focus areas required to meet your industry’s needs and enable value creation.
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Top Industry Trends
Identify resource, process, and environmental trends impacting your industry. Implement strategies to mitigate specific risks and take advantage of all relevant opportunities.
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Industry Benchmarking
Reveal the true state of your IT services, processes, spend, and staffing levels to align your priorities and resources. Benefit from peer data to get a reference point for how well you stack up.
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Arm yourself with everything you need to provide the right solutions to meet the needs of your business stakeholders.
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Business-Aligned IT Strategy
Strategy Alignment
Oil & Gas Business-Aligned IT Strategy
- Learn about the ecosystem factors that are impacting the Oil & Gas industry and how your IT team is set from a PESTLE and SWOT perspective, with expert insights and takeaways to update your IT strategy.
Strategy Alignment
Oil & Gas IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook
- With input from our research and analysts and your peers, identify new or updated initiatives for your IT strategy.
- Working with our team, update your IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook.
Strategy Alignment
Oil & Gas Industry Impacts on IT Strategy: Senior Management Presentation Template
- Once you’ve completed the IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook, it’s time to pull it all together and share with your organization’s leadership team.
- Use the Oil & Gas Industry Impacts on IT Strategy: Senior Management Presentation Template to highlight the key findings from the business-aligned analysis you’ve done.
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Top Industry Trends
Top Trends
Oil & Gas Automation and Remote Work Trend Report
- Improvements in automation both for wells and for facilities are allowing for leaner staffing while increasing the reliance on technology
- Remote work has been increasing both for corporate/head office employees and increasingly in the field, where a single technician might be remotely overseeing the operation of multiple wells.
- Learn about how automation and remote work affects both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.
Top Trends
Oil & Gas Data and Analytics Trend Report
- Data is crucial to developing insights to improving operations, reducing costs, and deriving greater value.
- Learn about how data and analytics affect both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.
Top Trends
Oil & Gas Low Oil Prices Trend Report
- With the decrease in prices, margins have come under pressure and many producers are operating at negative cash flow.
- Learn about how low oil prices affect both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.
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Industry Benchmarking
Peer Benchmarking
Benchmarking Report: A Cross-Industry Comparison of IT Stakeholder Satisfaction
- Every industry has unique characteristics that can hamper progress or facilitate success in satisfying IT stakeholders. Reimagine your strategy by shifting the definition of who your peers really are.
- Discover which industries achieve high stakeholder satisfaction across 13 core IT services.
- Learn the characteristics that different industries have that can help or hinder IT success.
- Understand what your industry has in common with others that you can leverage to improve stakeholder satisfaction and overcome your own institutional barriers.
Peer Benchmarking
Oil & Gas IT Stakeholder Satisfaction Benchmarking Report
- IT leadership needs to understand where their stakeholders are unsatisfied with the quality of service they’re receiving from IT.
- Understand important common focus areas to address, and gain insights into how your team aligns to other Oil & Gas IT teams.
Peer Benchmarking
Oil & Gas IT Staffing & Spending Benchmarking Report
- Many IT departments are already running lean, struggling to keep pace with never-ending demands from the business.
- By taking the IT Staffing Diagnostic and participating in our unique IT Spend Benchmarking, you will gain critical information to understand how to position your IT team to be more effective.
Peer Benchmarking
Oil & Gas IT Management & Governance Benchmarking Report
- Understanding your IT team’s perception of what’s important and how well they’re doing is central to identifying strengths, weaknesses, and potential misalignments with business priorities and expectations.
- Learn about how IT departments in your industry assess the importance and effectiveness of 45 IT processes to gauge your own alignment and identify select processes for targeted improvement.
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Core Industry Technologies & Software Selection
Core Industry Technologies
Oil & Gas Fracture Simulation Software Report
- In its infancy, the question of how to best develop an unconventional well through fracking was more art than science, relying on petroleum engineers' experience along with some back-of-the-napkin math.
- Learn about what fracture simulation software is, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space in order to understand how it can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.
Core Industry Technologies
Oil & Gas ERP Report
- The greatest challenge facing Oil & Gas IT today is that many enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors are ending support on their existing on-premises products, and they’re trying to force their customers into software as a service (SaaS) ERP solutions that result in greater lock-in and higher cost.
- Learn about what ERP is, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space in order to understand how it can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.
Core Industry Technologies
Oil & Gas Data Visualization Report
- Oil & Gas companies have vast amounts of data, often distributed across various disparate systems.
- Learn about what data visualization is, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space in order to understand how it can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.
Latest Oil & Gas Notes
Short, tailored research notes aimed at providing you with timely insights, relevant to your industry. Hot off the press, these notes will be published regularly and pair great with your morning coffee.
Meet the Utility, Oil & Gas, and Natural Resources Executive Services Leadership Team
November 6, 2023
The Utilities, Oil & Gas, and Natural Resources industries are critical to our day-to-day life. They are large industries, with some of the companies ranking in the top 100 as far as total revenue. Info-Tech’s dedicated industry research and advisory services team’s ambition: Ensure that our members receive exceptional value from their investment in their Info-Tech membership! We do that by providing material support across key IT initiatives and personal benefits in the form of professional development coaching, peer networking, and career advancement as members build an exponential IT mindset and embrace autonomization in the Utilities, Oil & Gas, and Natural Resources industries.
Are Your Industrial Control Systems Safe From Ransomware?
June 21, 2018
Recent nation-state attacks and proof-of-concept malware against industrial control systems demonstrate that ransomware is an emerging threat to the energy sector. Prepare now – before you find yourself scrounging for bitcoins to pay a ransom.
Build Better Budgets to Navigate Uncertain Times
June 1, 2018
Organizations in the primary sector face a boom-and-bust reality, as rapidly changing commodity prices can quickly change funds available for investment in IT. Develop budget scenarios to help you make better IT decisions and ultimately provide a more valuable suite of IT services to the business.
IoT and the Future of Oil & Gas
April 3, 2018
IoT has already added a great deal of value to oil and gas companies, but there remain a number of barriers to overcome in order to realize the full value of the technology.
Explore Blockchain in Oil and Gas
September 15, 2017
The oil and gas industry is no stranger to technological innovation in its upstream business. Since the first well was drilled for oil, there has been non-stop innovation to get oil out of the ground faster and more cheaply. This article explores the application of blockchain technology in the oil and gas industry.
Benchmarking Reports
Industry-specific benchmarking reports built on years of in-depth industry data, collected using our innovative diagnostic programs. We aggregate the data across hundreds of IT departments in your industry to give you tailored vertical insights, all packaged in professional boardroom-ready reports.
Oil & Gas Reference Architecture
Reference architectures built on years of industry expertise, honed by analysts working with real IT professionals in your industry. Leverage industry best practices so you don’t waste time and money reinventing the wheel.