Weatherford International Ltd. Standardizes Applications to Support Rapid Business Growth
 
 

Weatherford International Ltd. Standardizes Applications to Support Rapid Business Growth

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Weatherford International Ltd. is one of the largest global providers of advanced products and services that span the drilling, evaluation, completion, production, and intervention cycles of oil and natural gas wells. The company operates in more than 100 countries with over 900 service bases, 106 manufacturing facilities, and 16 technology development and training facilities.

 
 

 
 

Challenges

A word from Weatherford International Ltd.

  • “Working with SYSTIME, we were able to quickly deploy Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne System applications. We have standardized our applications on a single, global instance to support our rapidly growing company—gaining greater visibility into our robust supply chain.” – Bill Droke, Director of IT, Weatherford International Ltd.

  • Integrate disparate manufacturing, distribution, and financial systems and ensure data consistency at on a global level—critical requirements in the capital-intensive oil and gas industry
  • Standardize applications to sustain rapid business growth and expansion resulting from several hundred acquisitions
  • Increase visibility into the supply chain by adopting global, single instance applications

Solutions

Oracle Product and Services

  • Worked with Oracle Partner SYSTIME to replace more than 65 disparate business and financial management applications with Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, supporting Weatherford’s application and infrastructure standardization efforts
  • Supported rapid business growth across the company, which is now seven times larger—an increase from US$1.5 billion to US$10 billion within nine years—due to a series of acquisitions and organic growth
  • Leveraged JD Edwards EnterpriseOne’s sophistication, flexibility, and ease of use, to gain seamless visibility into the supply chain across the enterprise, helping to streamline manufacturing and distribution of products, improve services provided at the customer well sites, improve visibility and utilization of asset base and consolidate financial reporting
  • Deployed JD Edwards EnterpriseOne in one global instance to 10,000 users—enabling users to utilize a single application and data set anywhere in the world
  • Realized a total cost of ownership of approximately 65% less than Weatherford’s SAP applications, when calculated on a per-user basis
  • Leveraged SYSTIME’s Global Deliver Model and IT expertise to support and accelerate global implementations

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