BP has cut its IT suppliers from 40 to five in what it says
is a drive toward simplicity, standardisation and
efficiency.
The oil and gas company has consolidated its IT for application
development and application maintenance over the past 12 months. It
announced a series of contracts yesterday, which it claims will
save $500m over five years.
Accenture takes on a five-year contract to provide BP with
application development services - in particular, its SAP
system.
IBM was awarded a five-year contract to manage and run all of
the oil giant's enterprise applications and integrated service desk
responsibilities.
Wipro has entered into a five-year agreement with BP to provide
IT applications development and maintenance services for BP's fuels
value chain and corporate businesses globally.
TCS takes on BP's refining, manufacturing and corporate IT
maintenance work.
InfoSys will provide IT application development and maintenance
services for BP's integrated supply and trading and exploration and
production businesses.