Intelligence firm IDC reports IT spending within the mining sector will outpace all other markets.

IDC have predicted that annual growth will increase by 3.8 percent by 2015, compared to an average increase of 2.7 percent in other sectors.

IDC research manager Emilie Ditton said in a statement: "IDC expects to see opportunities in technologies that deliver productivity improvements- such as mobile applications, remote application delivery, business intelligence (BI), predictive analytics and cloud computing".