{"id":3378,"date":"2018-04-09T16:35:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T16:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.version1.com\/en-us\/?p=3378"},"modified":"2018-04-09T16:35:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T16:35:53","slug":"global-oil-firm","status":"publish","type":"case-studies","link":"https:\/\/www.version1.com\/en-us\/case-studies\/global-oil-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Oil Firm Saves Millions in Software Licensing Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our customer is one of the world\u2019s largest petroleum and petrochemicals firms \u2013 an amalgamation of numerous divisions focused on the exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas. They have 3 Datacenters; Europe, US and Asia and employ approximately 100,000 members of staff spread across 30 different countries, with just over 20,000 retail outlets.<\/h2>\n

Our customer deploys Oracle and Microsoft extensively worldwide on approximately 16000 servers and spend on average $10m per annum on each software vendor.<\/p>\n

Our Customer\u2019s Challenge<\/h2>\n

This organisation has been a major client of Version 1 since 2005 at which point, we were approached to carry out a small Oracle license consultancy engagement. They were in the process of migrating legacy Oracle license agreements into a new centralised structure. This coincided with a period of significant growth in the use of Oracle technology which was proving to be a significant challenge to manage centrally. Furthermore, the customer was subject to large unpredictable Microsoft license costs which had to be met by the central department every year \u2013 costs that they were unable to recover and reallocate to the departments installing the software.<\/p>\n

It was becoming apparent that as a business, they were unable to illustrate value for money on their significant Oracle and Microsoft investment. They had little opportunity to make considerable license procurement savings, no process to centrally manage or track license usage v entitlement, deploy license recycling or ensure license compliance globally.<\/p>\n

Our Approach to this Licence Management Challenge<\/h2>\n

Version 1\u2019s solution to this license management challenge was a global end-to-end Oracle and Microsoft Software Asset Management service \u2013 a license lifecycle methodology, from initial license request to end of life. Version 1 is the primary contact for all of their Oracle Database and Microsoft SQL Server licensing questions and provides day-to-day operational support for all their license management and procurement activity. Version 1\u2019s team of SAM experts handle on average 2000 queries a year from department contacts based all around the world. The team allocates and tracks licenses working on a \u2018just in time\u2019 licensing philosophy (no server, no software) which is confirmed at the time of the request. The SAM service includes some of the following activities:<\/p>\n