A leading energy supermajor with over 100,000 employees faced rising software costs and inefficiencies due to fragmented management and lack of visibility across its large digital portfolio. By adopting Open iT’s license optimization and harvesting tools after a proof of concept, the company centralized monitoring and improved governance. Over three years, it expanded tracking to 80+ applications and achieved significant savings, including $2–3M annually on subsurface modeling, 50% cost reduction in geological software, and $600K savings in drilling tools. License utilization improved dramatically, reducing idle time from 75% to 25%, while enabling better collaboration, compliance through anonymized reporting, and more efficient, scalable operations across global teams.

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