Overview

Statoil is an integrated oil and gas company with headquarters in Norway, and branch offices in 28 countries. Since 1998, Statoil has deployed OpeniT for usage reporting on their multi-million dollar software investment, to manage software licenses used for exploration, reservoir management, drilling, production, business-decision analysis and data management.

Business Challenge

Annually, Statoil pays for a wide range of software licenses used in exploration, production, project management and many other work applications. Access, training and support are crucial for achieving optimal efficiency in the usage of these applications. Statoil searched for a license administration tool to aid these processes in the company. An overview was needed, not only of purchased and installed software, but also showing how software was being used: many technical applications were used intensively at times and rarely at others. Accurate software usage analysis was needed to allow Statoil to negotiate flexible license agreements.

OpeniT Solution

Payment for actual usage of software

OpeniT LicenseAnalyzer provided Statoil with the billing flexibility they were looking for and many of their applications are now paid for based on actual usage. OpeniT LicenseAnalyzer monitors the company’s software usage continually and stores statistics in a secure database, preventing the data from being manipulated with program vendors. Measurements taken from all of Statoil’s offices are stored in signed and encrypted read-only logs. The logs are then aggregated in reports and delivered to software vendors who use the reports for billing for actual software usage. Additionally, Statoil has realized significant savings by cancelling maintenance agreements and discontinuing excess licenses for software no longer in use.