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Murphy Oil
Murphy Oil Gains Competitive Edge by Reducing Global Software Expenses
"Murphy Oil Gains 32x ROI and Reaps Huge Savings within the First 2 years"
Highlights
- Murphy Oil needed to consolidate the IT assets of merged business units. The geoscience exploration portfolio included 250 applications and subscriptions costs of $6 million each year.
- LicenseAnalyzer Level 1 provided insights on who, how and where resources were being used.
- Using license usage reports, Murphy Oil gained a 32x return on investment by eliminating unnecessary software purchases and reducing annual M&S costs.
Business Overview
Murphy Exploration & Production (E&P) has five global offices in addition to its retail division, which includes more than 1,300 gas stations. When the company merged two of its large business units, including domestic and international interests, the IT department was tasked with consolidating technology assets and developing strategic goals to streamline business processes and reduce costs.
Read on to see how the company garnered a savings of $1.3 million with an initial investment of only $43K in the first year, by using Open iT LicenseAnalyzer.
Business Challenge
Most IT departments struggle with servicing the needs of the organization while staying within budget. Often IT is viewed as a cost center, rather than a strategic resource. The reorganization, which merged several domestic and international business units, created new challenges for IT including:
- Company-wide centralization and consolidation of all IT assets
- Executive-level support for IT strategies by appointing business “champions”
- Increased communication about how and where resources were being used
To achieve these new initiatives, a director-level position was created to support the Houston-based Upstream Exploration business unit. Jason Daigle was selected to oversee the entire Geoscience exploration application portfolio, which was comprised of more than 250 individual applications and data subscriptions totaling $6 million in annual maintenance and support.
As the newly-appointed director of this initiative, Daigle established a single-point-of-contact (SPOC) process to improve communications between software vendors and Murphy E&P internal contacts. There was still a need for internal stakeholders to understand and manage all software procurement, evaluation, implementation and harvesting of licenses.
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