“Forced by necessity, we had to figure out how to embark on our own journey to modernize and adopt new technology to our business.”
Alex Philips
CIO, National Oilwell Varco
CIO, National Oilwell Varco
TRANSFORMATION JOURNEY
National Oilwell Varco (NOV) manufactures oil-well equipment. The company’s fortunes, not surprisingly, can ebb and flow with volatility in oil and gas commodities markets. When oil prices dropped a few years ago, CIO Alex Philips realized he had to do more with less.
Philips and team worked to reduce the burden of legacy technical debt, lower costs, build out more capabilities, and secure their globally-distributed organization. They took a pragmatic approach to the cloud: shifting to SD-WAN, deploying Office 365, and replacing security appliances with cloud-based inline security. NOV’s secure cloud transformation has led to lower costs, better security, and improved user experience.
COMPANY BACKGROUND
Company:
National Oilwell Varco
Sector:
Oil and Gas Manufacturing
Driver:
Alex Philips
Role:
CIO
Revenue:
$7.3 billion
Employees:
25,000 computer users
Countries:
65
Locations:
over 600
Company IT Footprint:
National Oilwell Varco is a globally distributed company with plants or operations in over 600 locations. Of its large computing workforce of 25,000 employees, 70% are mobile with laptops.
