The UK IT market is already worth an exceptional €80 billion and according to forecasts by Forrester Research it will grow by 4.6 percent next year. The research showed that growth will in part be due to the importance of data mining and the increased investment in back-end technology to support this ongoing growth. By James Taylor, Level 3.
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